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OPINION - Lucy Spraggan: Ice baths helped me heal from trauma — and they could change your life too

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I first took a cold plunge about three years ago. I had seen the hype on Instagram; I’d heard the countless podcast soundbites talking about; I had seen countless videos of people filling wheelie bins with water and and going for a prolonged dunk. And honestly when I saw the cold-water propaganda I thought “What a load of bollocks”. Yet, here I am, three years later with a Lumi ice bath in my garage, unable to resist the call of the cold water whether it be a lake, the sea

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