What It Took To Beat Raynaud's Phenomenon (Cold Hands & Feet)
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- More details on treating Raynaud's in this article: renaissancehuma...
I got my first case of frostbite on my toes when I was a 15-year-old shoveling my parent's driveway in Connecticut. Cold hadn't been a problem when I was a kid, but suddenly my thick boots and socks were failing to keep out the winter chill.
My second case of frostbite came a few weeks later when I was again out shoveling my parent's driveway, this time with two pairs of socks and thick boots.
When my mom took me to the doctor, he told me I had Raynaud's Phenomenon disorder, which is a mystery condition where our bodies overact to cold, closing down blood flow to the the hands and feet and opening you up to numbness, reduced use of your fingers, frostbite, and pain when the blood eventually flows back in.
For most of my adult life I've tried out possible fixes, but none have worked. But last fall I started fooling around with a solution that's proved effective, and after more work with it this year confirms that it actually works.
In this video I tell you about my solution.
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Alright, so I watched this video months ago and was skeptical as hell. Last night I decided to try it and soaked my feet in ice water for probably 15 min. Yes it hurt like hell. It was miserable. This morning I took my mutt for a walk, 30f outside. Not that cold, but I knew my hands and feet would be freezing when I got back. My fingers were freezing , but my feet were not!!!! Toes were nice and warm with crocks and thin socks- this never ever ever happens! I’m soaking my hands tonight and will update how that goes
Andrew, a little follow up to my previous comment. I’ve been doing this for a few weeks now and it has absolutely helped. Unlike you though, I experienced great results immediately and have continued to do so. My feet are no longer painful and freezing. I can be outside with temps in the 30’s with thin socks and not have to worry about cold feet. Man this has absolutely helped me enjoy the outdoors when the temp drops. Best part about it, doesn’t cost anything! Thanks so much for making this video!
Wow how often did you have to do this? do you still have to immerse your feet ?
Hi! How did it work with your hands ?
Hello Andrew, my husband is suffering from this phenomenon too. For years and years we have been searching for a solution and now I think we've found it. Sinds a few weeks he's been taking a fluid magnesium supplement every day and putting some magnesium oil on his fingertips before he goes to bed. He hasn't had it anymore sinds he started this. Our conclusion is that has something to do with magnesium deficienty. Magnesium relaxes the muscles in the veins.
hello, I was looking into supplementing with magnesium, but I'm unsure on which kind to purchase.
What type of magnesium did your husband take? and how much? how long before he noticed it helping?
thanks so much.
Hello Scarlesia, We are taking 2 different supplements now. In the morning he takes one glas of water mixed with liquid drops (1ml) of magnesium chloride and in the evening he takes one glass of water mixed with magnesium citrate powder. I think they both work very good. He noticed the difference within one week. The magnesium oil he puts on his fingers and his toes is also helping very good.
Do you happen to speak Dutch?
@@jacquelinesmeets Is this still working? I am looking at getting magnesium hydroxide supplements. Ive seen various places people mentioning always magnesium. Does it matter which form as long is it is magnesium?
@@fezzer5315 I wouldn't take magnesium oxide. For the rest I don't know. There are some triggers jou could avoid like alcohol and coffee right before you go outside in the cold. And he also started with CBD oil. Last year he started working as postman and it goes very good but I must say that it didn't completely go away. When he goes cycling with his friends and they drink coffee or a beer, the white fingertips show up again.
Using this approach my father got me past a dairy allergy when I was young.
Introducing dairy in very small amounts and instead of slowly over time got me over the allergy.
I have raynaud and i noticed the origin of the problem lies more in the change in temperature vs the temperature itself. For instance, when summer has ended and the temperature drops down from 25 to 15 degrees celsius, my hands are cold as hell. But when winter is ending and the average temperature rises from like 5 degrees celsius tot 15 degrees, my hands and feet are glowing with bloodflow.
So your method actually makes sense, you force your body to adapt to more brutal conditions, so the regular conditions seem to be above average.
I m going to give yout method a try, thanks!
So I tried this....and it works!!! I soaked my hands in a bowl of cold water for about two minutes. They warmed up quickly after drying them completely. Thank you for this wonderful information!! Hands still warm after two hours! Wow. I thought I tried it all. From blood pressure meds to warm water...thank you again!
move to a tropical country? 😂 we have 2 seasons: hot and really fucking hot
cheshire doge lol , and wht location is that
I used to live in the caribbean then i moved to florida and now i got diagnosed with stupid raynauds sigh i need to go back to the tropics
cheshire doge yeah I live in Canada and I have raynauds and I went on a trip to Australia and I never felt better. I was never cold except for air conditioning and the aches went away! Till I came back 😭
The reaction can also be caused by stress, anxiety, etc.
yes that is the truth, we shouldn't be living in cold places. I want to move back to Brazil where its hot all year.
For anyone wondering, he got his first case when he was 15, he isnt 15 years old. Read the caption
I've started doing this in the past week and am noticing improvements already! I fill a bucket with ice and water and immerse my hands for 2min the first two days and 3min so far on the third and take deep breaths trying to remain as calm as possible. At about the 2min mark, I feel a wave of mind euphoria wash throughout my body and the pain in my hands from the cold disappears. I've read that it's best to not go over 8min as that can cause damage but training and slowly building up to the 8min mark helps to train the vascular system to deal more efficiently with the cold exposure.
are you still getting reynauds attacks?
Cold shower exposure might help with this as well. Its hard to get used to at first but I heard that the exposure to the cold makes your body produce chemicals that warm you up in the same way your body tries to keep warm in the winter.
I did cold showers for a year. It did nothing for my Raynauds symptoms.
look into the Wim Hoff Method.
it involves cold exposure and deep breathing exercises
I've had Raynaud's since I was 16 and have tried practically everything. I will certainly give this a try, thanks!
You're welcome. You may want to read about some of the published interventions that didn't work for me but might for you: renaissancehumans.com/raynauds-phenomenon-disorder/
Thank you for sharing!!! I had the same experience with frostbite as a child living in the State of Michigan. My dad has Raynaud's disease, had one of his legs amputated from complications of an injury that wouldn't heal. I'm fighting to completely heal my problems before it's too late .. This week I'm trying high amounts of vitamin C (pineapple, oranges, lemons). Also an extreme amount of garlic added to cooked spinach, or cooked turnips. ~Please join me in this fight~
Hi, is it working?
Even at 18° celcius i get it depending on humidity in the air
I ball my hands to a hard fist for around 90 secs several times a day and it works for me
@@douglasag7952 I'll try
Do you guys think that taking extremely hot showers could possibly cause Raynaud's too? I did that a lot and I got Raynaud's about a year ago. Maybe taking hot showers could have messed with blood flow. Idk. Let me know if anyone relates.
penelope orellana I also thought that, I was taking extremely hot baths and got raynauds within the last 7 months. And sometimes too aspirin before which I found out could be dangerous.
I'm beginning to think this too. For the past 3 years, I've been taking extremely HOT baths and showers. I've noticed over time, my body has become more and more accustomed to heat. Maybe that's why I have just now been experiencing Raynaud's type symptoms all of a sudden for a few months. It's really freaking me out. I made my Dr. do all the blood work, (ANA, thyroid, SED rate test etc.) to rule out any scary underlying diseases or autoimmune diseases, b/c I'm 34 years old, and just got this. My Dr. is NOT concerned one bit, and all my tests came back as HEALTHY as a horse. I now have a feeling that I have ALTERED my bodies response through an "accidental biofeedback" to extremely hot baths.
cold showers are excellent
penelope orellana Cold showers are a fantastic way to tone the vascular system and improve your range of temperature comfort. Check out the 20 day Cold Shower Challenge from the Wim Hof Method.
It just clicked!! I used to take cold showers to better my bodies response to cold. However, recently I have been taking really hot baths as a way to improve my bodies heat response and that's when I started noticing my hand losing circulation. Weird!
Taking cinnamon capsules and cold/warm/cold/warm shower therapy helps tremendously.
*PLEASE TRY THIS IT REALLY WORKS*
I have been suffering from this phenomenon for the last couple of years.I tried many medicines,gloves etc,but it didn’t works. So I tried this method it really works.Thank You,thank you very much for posting this ......
I have found two things that have helped with my Raynaud's - I went to a doctor years ago who sent me to a biofeedback practicioner. He had me imagine warming my hands and feet, for example, by thinking of a nice fire. I was living in upstate New York at the time and this definitely helped - partly too, I suppose, since there is also a stress component to the condition. The other thing that helped was a variation of what you are doing. I went to a natural hot spring where they had warm, hot, and freezing cold pools. I spent a day basically going back and forth between the boiling hot and freezing cold pools, and didn't have a Raynaud's episode for the rest of the winter. The boiling hot soak made the ice cold soak a bit more bearable (and vice versa).
Try cinnamon bark. According to Chinese medicine it helps blood flow to the extremities. I’ve noticed significant improvement since I’ve started supplementing with cinnamon bark along with alternating cold/hot showers and baths
I've read a couple interesting cures, first is get your body freezing cold and plunge hands in super hot water (over many days), supposed to train body to circulate to hands when core is cold. Second is breathe with more exhale and willfully oxygen starve yourself on the edge of discomfort as a daily practice. CO2 is natures strong vasodilator, and the parasympathetic nervous response needs strengthening for people with cold hands. There's vids on this site about that!
I wonder if because it's a disease in which your body thinks it's hypothermic, when it is not and pulls blood into your organs and cuts off blood flow to the extremities, the reason why you're able to do this is because your body is warm. You're inside, warm, while your hands are cold, so your body isn't freaking out. I remember looking it up before, finding a cure they used for the military, and their strategy was exposing your body to the freezing cold, semi naked. While your body was freezing, they'd put their hands and feet in warm water, thus pulling blood to their hands and feet with warmth. This in turn trained their body that when it was cold, it still would send blood flow to the hands. Apparently, from what I remember reading, it worked. I would imagine military wouldn't screw around. You'd need to be able to rely on your guys to pull the trigger in Russia in - 40. I've never tried it, though. Thanks for this video because I have followed you for a while, and you definitely put things to the test and have great information that I can trust. Take care!
This makes logical sense. We are all living in this same field, and some people are more sensitive to stresses on our vehicle, or body. Having worked outdoors in Wisconsin for over 25 winters, and suffered with Raynaud's Syndrome, I've used a variation of this technique in coping with symptoms. It is on way to get a reaction and a fast reward physically. Revel in the pain of relief when the blood flows again into the affected appendages. Alopecia Areata is a similar sympathetic reaction, though not permanent, which I believe Raynaud's to be. I'm not a doctor, but a learned patient. Drink more water not less when in cold climates!!!!
Straycat Annie... very interesting! I have both Raynaud's and Alopecia, and I also live in Wisconsin so winter's suck, lol. I've recently found Wim Hof and have been experimenting with his techniques for a few weeks now. This video lines up pretty well with his findings too.
Most people ARE hypothermic. Hardly anyone has a body temperature of 98.6F anymore. Metabolism in decline.
Read the book Eat for Heat. It gives a pretty thorough explanation of body temperature regulation, blood circulation, sympathetic nervous system activation (which causes shunting of blood away from the extremities), and how to use simple dietary and lifestyle changes to increase your resting body temperature significantly in a short period of time (sometimes just a few days).
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I have this too, when I shake hands with new poeple I can usually see the shock in their eyes from touching hands as cold as Satan's heart.
I have seen that look a few times myself.
Same :(
Cold hands warm heart i say. Makes them look bad then. 😉
when you mentioned visualizing blood flowing to your fingers you were actually bringing up a medically recognized practice called biofeedback!
Biofeedback is a technique you can use to learn to control your body's functions, such as your heart rate. With biofeedback, you're connected to electrical sensors that help you receive information (feedback) about your body (bio).
This feedback helps you focus on making subtle changes in your body, such as relaxing certain muscles, to achieve the results you want, such as reducing pain. In essence, biofeedback gives you the power to use your thoughts to control your body, often to improve a health condition or physical performance.
Victor Zimbardi excellent advice, thank you...
That is very interesting. I have heard about Biofeedback before in a clinic but this is the first time I see it been mentioned online . I have to research about it.
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I got cold intolerance in my hands a few years ago as a result of botched blood draw from my veins by an unexperienced doctor's assistant. Even worse, they managed to inflict damage to both of my arms (they either damaged median nerves or veins or both). After 5 years one of my hands went about 70-80% back to normal, but another one still gets cold as soon as the ambient temperature drops below 70 degrees F.
Some time ago I did a lot of googling regarding cold intolerance and found an interesting article describing an opposite technique that cured Raynauld's (I believe, it was discovered in UK a few decades ago): in winter, go outside with no or little clothes and submerge hands into a tub with warm water for a few minutes. 60 repetitions were enough to cure Raynauld's.
I tried doing so a couple of times, but the procedure is complicated because you have to bring warm water outside, and the water cools down quickly. But I am thinking about buying a pair of heated gloves (thy cost about $60-100) and trying this technique.
I eat a mostly green raw plant diet with a little cooked beans and rice. It has greatly helped my Raynauds
Which medicine u taken to cure it plz tell 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏??
@@btstopshorts4848 I just eat a vegan plant based diet. The low cholesterol diet improves blood flow
@@04dram04 no medicine?
@@btstopshorts4848correct, no medicine
also, run an experiment with supplementing iodine. People who are deficient in thyroid hormones have cold hands and feet.
Previous experimented with this. No effect.
How long and how much did you supplement with iodine. What kind did you use?
I have been taking 138 mg of Lugol's solution a day for 3 months now and have had a huge difference in cold resistance. I am noticing detox symptoms that are just now showing up after 3 months and at this dose.
holy crap 138 mg per day? That is a massive amount! You have most likely saturated your body by now. Maybe, consider taking a maintenance dose. hold on is it MG or MCG?
RAW FOOD PHILOSOPHY
Yes, 138 mg per day. I may go up to 200. I don't think I'm even close to saturation yet. I just now begun to show signs of bromide detox. I've heard estimates of 6 months to a year. But if you are fearful of doing such a experiment you are right to stay away from it. I haven't had a reason to stop.
This is interesting, I too have a bit of this albeit not as bad as you but even with wool socks my feet will get cold unless I add an actual heat source to them. I was worried that I had bad circulation but my blood tests come back stellar, I have no blockages, stress test all good and I'm vegan and very athletic on top of this all. A friend of mine, she too gets this in her hands mostly and she's extremely fit able to run marathons. While I wouldn't wish this on anyone I feel a bit better knowing a fit person such as yourself can have something like this going on. I wonder if enough stress can actually give longer term improvement, keep us posted if you keep on the regimen. This stress concept reminds me a bit of how some nutrition studies are saying actually not flooding your body with "ideal" levels of every vitamin may actually make you live longer because when the body is in short supply of something it uses it more efficiently under that stress. That's not to say malnourishment is good but for those that go on chronometer and make sure every single day they meet every requirement to 100% or better that may not be the healthiest thing to do.
I went to my doctor this week for pain, swelling, and discoloration in my toes. My doctor thinks I have Raynards disease. I'm still waiting for the results of my lab tests but I wanted to find out more about this disorder. Thanks very much for making this informative video.
What kind of lab tests did you have ?
You should look into the Wim Hof method. It has helped me deal with cold as well as my stomach and stress and sleep...pretty much everything but it takes some dedication. About 10-15 minutes of breathing exercises each day and cold showers that eventually turn into ice baths. His website and app have enough free material to help you figure out if it’s for you or not.
I have this since I was eleven. Doctors are clueless about this. Thanks for the vid.
Low b vitamins can cause it. Your body being low in sodium, magnesium, or phosphorous can cause it also.
Love your video! I've been doing WHM for 7 months now and love it. It's made me FAR less sensitive to both cold and heat. You can also do face dunks in ice water for cold adaptation. I don't know if that will help the ears/nose coldness.
You're a nice guy and I admire your persistence and heroism in fighting Raynaud's on your own. I'm dealing with it too and have recently become hopeful to learn that Traditional Chinese Medicine claims to offer a genuine, permanent cure...
What I find promotes circulation to the extremities is cayenne pepper. It’s incredible. Organic Cayenne powder in ginger tea is one way to ingest it. Also you can get a circulation formula product by Kyolic with garlic, cayenne and hawthorn in capsules. These helped my daughter alleviate these symptoms.
when i do dishes with cold water, my hands feel numb and seem more harder to flex. My fingers become more thicker than normal.
Cheers mate have to try this had Raynauds for over 50 years and as a railroad track side technician it made wiring jobs a nightmare hands in pockets hands out splice a joint in 4 minutes hands back in pockets repeat and try to keep smiling through the pain.
I'm retired now but just clearing snow off my windshield will send the white for half an hour
I haven’t been diagnosed with Raynauds.. I’ve suffered cold hands and feet for as long as I can remember (I’m 34 now) today my finger turned white while I was wearing leather gloves. It was numb and felt of a strange sensation. My hands do gradually warm up after being in the house about 3 hours but my feet do not warm up until my heart is the same level as my feet ( laying down in bed) I just live with these freezing feet no matter what shoes of socks I wear they’re always cold 🥶
Mine went into remission after I relocated from Seattle to Tucson in 2004. Unfortunately, it's recently returned with a vengeance due to lupus and RA. It sucks but prednisone helps.
You need to try supplementing w nitric oxide or L arginine. This helps to temporarily widen blood vessels leading to better profusion to hands and feet.
Found out about mine at 13 while skiing. I was lying down under a table in the lodge crying very very loudly
Same! I went skiing without gloves (I'm an idiot), and I went for "ow my hands are cold" to literally thinking I couldn't make it to the lodge and I wanted to die. Worst pain of my life. I stumbled to the bathroom and washed my hands with hot water and that was another mistake. I passed out from the pain and woke up on the bathroom floor.
Its problem in the upper back and neck vertebrae,you have to fix it,also stomach and thyroid can trigger it too
Yes, im curious. I have this and have been experiencing neck issues
I share your problem and noticed that when I drank wine or any alcoholic drink I would be normal and would keep my hands and feet warm. So because I didn't want to be drinking I tried with cayenne pepper pills and it worked as well keeping me safe under the cold weather. Try it!
This is because alcohol is a vasodilator (it opens up your veins) quite dangerous if you are exposed to freezing temps as now your core will drop in temperature rapidly.
I have had this problem since college. One weird thing I discovered at that time was that when I would use cannabis, I didn't have this problem. Not necessarily suggesting this as a treatment, but there may be something to it.
Cold hands or fucked head, which is worse?
I can deal with the pain, the most annoying thing is that my legs and hands go blue, its really bad
Exactly. It makes me look like a zombie. F raynauds I wish I had better hands
Though my Raynaud is not as serious (I rarely feel severe pain) but my whole hand will turn blue and sometime even gray and my hands will feel funny, it's the only way I can describe it. I live in Wisconsin and my school district doesn't cancel school until -30 F if you can see my problem so I'll try this thank you!
Thank you, Andrew Perlot! I appreciate you making this video and trying to help people.
Reynauds in my case attacks both my toe nails leaving them bruised and sometimes bruises the tips of my fingers
Hey Everyone, Raynauds is often a vitamin B deficiency. Have him take Metagenics phytomulti which is high in b vitamins. Mine has gone away. Sometimes if I forget to take them it comes back. Hope this helps!
You might also try natural vasodilators.
Early each morning I take one 500 mg of L-Arginine plus one 500 mg of L carnosine.
About twice a week I take L-lysine in the afternoon to counterbalance the Arginine.
I need to try this! I'm a bricklayer and the Irish winters are brutal to get thru with raynauds
I use battery operated gloves during winter. It really helps.
I do believe that cold affects the hand and that at a certain point in the disease it is extremely important to keep the hands warm. But, if the problem lies with the veins shrinking...it may not be the total answer. We still need to answer why the veins are not supplying the blood that is needed. The gangrene I have not totally accepted that it is caused just by the cold. Purines seem to build up with diet so we don't eat beef. But, what if the stomache is sending out too much acid to break down other things like raw vegetables? So, I try to eat cooked vegetables and stay away from meats that need a lot of acid to break down into mush. I had spagetti last night and this morning have an ulcer on my tongue and an ulcer inside the wall of my mouth. So, I eliminated wine and now spagetti sauce. I worked in a factory for a summer and noted that after the tomatoes are dropped into the can, a pellet of hard salt is added...like is that ice salt that melts ice? So, it mite not be just the tomatoes. I remember the pellets hurting my fingers. So, is salt shrinking the veins in the hands? So, many things to think of these days. I ate a lot of cinnamon and it seemed to increase my heat in the body. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!! I have the same do to my autoimmune disease. Going to try it.
I live in Connecticut right now, all my life, funny I was shoveling this winter and I came inside and my pointer finger in my left hand felt numb and was whiter then the other, every once and awhile it will just turn cold, my friend even noticed it. I'm going to try this. What your doing is teaching your body tolerance.
I ate a banana at room temperature once and the coolness of the banana caused me to get the cold shakes uncontrollable for ages. The same thing can happen just walking into a different room because of the breeze made by walking and maybe slightly different room temps and also when people walk past me causing a breeze. My toes freeze up moreso than my fingers.
I have the same problem with room temperature bananas and any room with the slightest breeze.
I also have Raynauds. My hands, legs and feet constantly look like a corpse’s. Although, I am glad that it is not nearly as bad as many have it.
Do you, or anyone else watching this (men, primarily, although I'm curious as to women) experience the same blood flow restriction in genitals? My Raynaud's affects the usual suspects, fingers, toes, ears and nose, but I've always noticed severe blood flow restriction to my genitals and have suspected a correlation. I'm fit, eat well and lead a healthy lifestyle (personal trainer) so there is nothing I can point to dietary-wise that would be contributing to my issues. It's embarrassing and difficult to explain to a partner, and I've recently considered trying Viagra or a vasodilator to see if it remedies the issues.
Great video and I'll give the polar hand bath a shot!
Nope...I have this but only in my fingers and toes.
I tried this and I can report it hurts as m"#% f#¤ from like 20 seconds until a couple of minutes. I dont understand how he is able to talk that normal when in such agony and pain. How many times does this have to be repeated until feeling any progression?
Heycel I didnt continoue consistently so I cant tell unfortunately.
This works, and breathwork works too (Wim Hoff)
I live in the south. It doesn't get that cold here. But when it does get down to the 20s or 30s, if I'm standing outside my eyes start watering like Niagara Falls.
If your fingers turn white in the cold, get your ANA levels checked. You could have scleroderma or limited scleroderma (formerly known as CREST syndrome). Not sure biofeedback will prevent your body from turning to stone.
My dad used to say bathing on a cold water on winter will make you feel less cold throughout the day.
This makes me think of Wim Hof and his work with ice-water baths.
i always wondered if i gave myself Raynauds or if i made it worse by trying to stay warm sigh so annoying
Another excellent video.
I have Raynaud's also and it has always been very painful during the winter times. It would make winter just miserable.
What worked for me was using the same method you are using with the only difference of increasing the amount of time every day. It is very effective.
I took this practice from the book Becoming the Iceman, about a guy would has broken all types of records related to withstanding the cold.
Cool. So glad you've had success with it.
Thanks! I am glad you have too! And thanks again for all your videos and your excellent book Raw Foods: Weight Loss and Vitality. They have been a great inspiration.
so, this helped you with the raynaud's?
btetschner thanks for sharing. I don't know if I have raynauds but my feet and hands both got very cold in 65 degree weather with wool socks on. My hands don't turn blue or pale white like others though. Going to try this
I showered in freezing cold water for over 6 months to see if it would help but it did nothing. Actually when you're under the freezing cold water your hands stay fine. It's not until you go out and dry them and warm them very slightly do they turn white and go numb. Then you have to dip them in hot water for 5 min or blow them with a hairdryer for 5 min to get the blood flowing again. Tried ginkgo biloba as well and it did nothing. The only thing that helps slightly is wearing gloves preheated with a hairdryer.
Andrew, Thanks for sharing this! I have Raynaud's too - It totally sux. Definitely going to try this! My fingers are going white even in summer sometimes :(
You're welcome. Hope it helps. Also, I mentioned a few other possibilities published in research in this article that might work if this doesn't. They didn't work for me, but they did for the participants in the studies: renaissancehumans.com/raynauds-phenomenon-disorder/
This helps me; put on my feet plastic bag, sock, plastic bag, sock, then put on boot, go out in winter and my feet are so warm, due to recycle heat, try it and let me know if this helps you to keep feet warm, also what helps me is iodine, kelp, good salt, there's good healthy salt, I digest that, either in water or food; I too had dealt with cold hands and feets, these things is what had help me so far, and I'm still learning, as far as hands mittens helps a lot, yet gloves don't help at all cause separates fingers. now with mittens can also use plastic bag in mittens and sock in mittens, layers to recycle heat, it'll recycle heat, when going out in winter, I wonder what would happen if put plastic bag on head and then a hat, oh about face, that's the most difficult area such as nose cause can't use plastic cause needtobreathe, but what are your thoughts about recycle heat that plastic does?
Win Hoff
That's 'Wim' not Win.
@@anasmrright Wim Hof
I can remember when I was 18 and 19 years old being on the beach with friends after we had been swimming in the Atlantic Ocean.. if we got any cloud cover at all and the slightest Breeze I would start shivering and my hands and feet would feel so icy... my friends would scream and point and tell me that my lips were sort of purplish... it was painful and I only have very very mild Raynaud's.
We had a family friend an elderly woman who suffered horribly with it and on a very late winter day I ran into her and she took off her gloves and said we're going to have to continue this conversation in one of these stores here... her poor hands , oh my God... they were the worst color imaginable on a Caucasian : purplish blue in some areas and other parts kind of look like yellowish white candle wax... she had tears in her eyes and told me she was in horrible pain... it was awful ,really awful .
According to Chinese medicine Raynaud Syndrome is actually a dysfunction of... now I can't remember if they said the adrenal system or the endocrine .
Is it possible that it’s a dysfunction of the lymphatic system?
I have this, and It HURTS SO BAD!!! I have had botox injections into my hands, and I felt a difference in 5 minutes.
Read Eat for Heat. Problem solved.
Yes, injecting a poison into the body will tend to have a warming reaction. A bee/wasp sting would do the same. Read Eat for Heat like the author suggests. I once was vegan in my late 20s (our tiny kids physically suffered that restriction with me) and also just plain not eating enough on every diet I tried after that over the last 50 years. Finally, I am warm and don't have a problem staying properly warm....all day and all night. Before stopping diets and restrictions to food my temps were always in the 97s. Since stopping diets and eating for heat, my temps now range in the mid to high 98s during the day and creeping into 99s. Since veganism also doesn't provide Vit D3, get in the sun and look into supplementing it and the complimentary vitamins and minerals. Ruminant animals are vegans (except when the females also eat afterbirth), and bugs/insects on the plants....we are not ruminants. Even fish eat other fish.
I get cold hands feet
Stress
Anxiety
Lack of sleep
And not eating enough through the day
Seem to make it worse
I notice when I haven’t ate in hours and I’m stressed and angry
It gets cold
Very true man, not eating or fasting causes a kind of adrenal response which makes it worse for me. Caffeine does it for me too. I have Peyronie's disease, a fibrotic disorder, and I just got Raynaud's at 31 out of the blue. Oddly enough, I got it right after losing an extreme amount of weight.
I have the same symptoms !!
I will definitely give this experiment a try..I have been suffering from Raynaud's since I was a child as well.
I would try liquid magnesium remag works fantastic. That brand can get past leaky gut.
Hello, thank you for the video. I have Raynauds syndrome too, I got it after travelling by a frozen train where there was a broken heating system. I thought I would freeze completely as it was a several-hour journey. And suddenly I started to notice my middle finger got all white and numb. And since then I always have middle fingers white and numb (on both hands) whenever I get too cold. So thank you for your tip on how to overcome the syndrome. I am going to try it today! You have a new subscriber. Have a nice day.
Any luck?
This is really interesting Andrew. Thanks for sharing. I get this mildly in my hands but I get it badly in my feet and it's incredibly uncomfortable. Even when the weather is quite mild i suffer. I will have to try this out when the weather gets colder here in Australia.
I think the SAS in the UK do cold training, this lasts for about two weeks before they have to repeat the training, after where they are able to jump into freezing's water
i got my fingers blue , simple cold light . i dont know you did not answer how long and take finish with water colder
I have Reynauds and I have found that it all depends on my core temperature. The first time I got it was after having used an electric rotary tool for a long time while finishing some jewelry pieces as I am a jeweler. I went to the market right after and it was super cold in there but I was dressed for summer. I noticed that my hands were white and numb and I went into the restroom and ran them under very warm water. After I got back home I looked my symptoms up on the internet and discovered that I have Reynauds. Now I know that as long as I am being active enough to keep my core warm, I don’t get the problem. I discovered this one day while I was working super hard, trying to protect my chicken coop from flooding in a cold, hard, torrential rain.I had no gloves on and I noticed that my fingers were pink even though my hands were very cold and wet. That is when I realized it was not about cold hands but more about my core temperature. Now I do whatever it takes to control that.
It is more about keeping my whole body warm rather than being concerned about my hands. Now when it happens I realize that I need to warm my body and I do that by exercising vigorously to warm up but if not possible I use a heating pad to get my core warmed up if I am inactive, after doing windmills to get the blood back into my fingers. Or I get into a hot shower. If I swim it needs to be in a heated pool.
So that’s my story and I hope it helps anyone who has this. This is not a total cure of course but having the awareness is quite helpful. Even in summer, I always take a wrap with me in case of a cold market etc. Yes it’s true that often gloves will only make it worse.
I will give the ice water a try but I will make sure my whole body is warm while I do it. Thanks for the advice.
I forgot to mention that I eat a paleo diet which is what people in very cold climates must eat if the big trucks are not rolling up to deliver food while creating huge greenhouse gasses and depleting the oil supply. growing veggies is impossible here in winter without a double pane greenhouse. I eat humanely raised grass fed beef, free range chicken, local pork, lamb and occasionally wild caught fish and lots of eggs. (Note that most laying chickens are fed vegetarian feed which is the wrong diet for them. My free range chickens’ preferred food was bugs and worms and the chickens were happy and the eggs superb! I cannot keep chickens any more or have a year long garden as I did in California, unfortunately, as I have moved to a suburban area where the climate is much colder in winter and the growing season is only 8 weeks. I am able to get local, amish, free range eggs at the natural food market here though. They still get veggie feed as stated on the label which basically means corn. Commercial chickens get very little exercise which makes them fat and unhappy but the ones I buy also must get to forage a bit as the eggs are pretty good and are supposedly free range.
Please note that I don’t wish to get into arguments with vegans but just so you know I am not one. I eat a warming diet which includes high quality protein from humanely raised local animals and lamb from New Zealand. I also eat tons of organic fruits & veggies. I even eat certain cheeses as I don’t seem to have a problem with them. I am a very vigorous 73 year old.
I hope my posts help anyone who has reynauds as it can be so irksome.
Helpful advice x my son has it and yes, it kicks in more after a day sat at his desk in an aircon cooled office then going outside into a cold environment. Thermal undershirt for him! Exercise and warm core x
Isn't this just from adrenaline diverting blood from your internal organs to your extremities? After a while this could cause burn out.
What does that mean ?
I have this too. Also grew up in CT. :) . I would be afraid to try this as i cant even move things around in the freezer without gloves.
I live in CT too. Freezers are a killer. I also use gloves in my own freezer. Also, most weeks during the summer my husband has to do the shopping because the stores are too cold (too much AC). The the frozen food section is the worst. I drove all the way to Meriden each week (Stop and Shop) because they were the only store in miles that did not over AC. Unfortunately, they closed.
God is teaching me.. I believe the discolourations are messages of our body... I believe red and dark spots and patches generally mean a lack of Vitamin C, a daily water-soluble essential... As I look at my fingers and toes and face I remember the glow... I used to do lots of massage because I have had bell's paresis too... It is like really our bodies are >>like
I am 66 And it just start at 63 before that lots of work out side all my life as a carpenter in the Yukon and north BC ..
So yes in the morning I have problem but as I freeze...not really...but very cold in the evening I can tolerate cold better...
I think it worth trying is method....
Hi I have been cold as long as I can remember even though I always lived in hot countries , I can’t have cold showers or too hot It needs to be in the between. When I moved to England that’s when it gone worse because I used to play football and after training I would get in to the changing rooms where they have the heating on which would bring me a worse pain for 10 minutes and sometimes even more.
It would go to the point I wouldn’t feel my toes but I would feel the pain every time I walked and I got like lumps on the sides of my knuckles in all my fingers.
I’m dying of my cold
I have Raynaulds too. I also get pains in my feet when I've been sat at my desk at a lot too - a numb feeling. I took up Tough Mudders last summer and I felt amazing the day afterwards - my hands felt less stiff and painful.
If you're having Raynaud syndrome ask your doctors to get tested for Scleroderma (with a Scleroderma panel) and ANAS.
Scleroderma symptoms is Raynaud too. 😢
Andrew, i am.so glad i found your video, this worked for me as well, 2 to 3 mins, twice a day and my fingers are useable again.
Still doing it?
it's amazing to me , how your conditions mirror mine - could it be that the headaches , the intestinal problems and the lack of circulation are all one problem ? my body temperature is lower than average and I freeze to the point of pain ( even just in a supermarket frozen foods aisle ) I also have found that exposure to cold can be helpful ( but made the mistake of pouring ice cold water on my lower legs and feet , while in the cold - did that for a winter and really caused some problems ) could you make more videos about this subject ? thanks ! and thank you for this video , feel bad for your problems - never-the-less wonder how many people this happens to and why ? if when I'm really cold and not covered with an electric blanket , I feel as if I'm buried alive ! but when covered enough I start to revive !
Raynauds is associated with a lot of autoimmune issues, gut bacteria quite a possibility
I have lupus and it gives me reynauds ocassionally. Did your doctor rule lupus out?
yes you said
My middle finger tip gets this occasionally. It freaked me out at first, but it's rare that it happens
You are 15 ! dude i'm 23 you look a lot older than me !
He's not 15. Listen to it again.
I thought he meant that too but he was referring to an older story of himself
When I quit sugar and wheat products, mine goes away.
Thank you for sharing this.
I too got frostbite as a child in England which became Renauds. Only permanent solution is to live in a warm climate. I've lived in hot climates for 40 years & not had Renauds since unless there is a really cold spell.
which country/city is the best go?
I'm curious as to what warmer area did you move to?
Deep breathing with the Wim Hof Method brother
I heard that doing this but switching between hot and cold water every 5 minutes works, Hope that’s useful for someone, not tried it myself tho
WimHof breathing method also work’s fantastic
wim hof methode --> it is quicker, if you expose your core to the cold too
Wim Hof Method, oxygenating the blood, cold water exposure, meditation all help me with white finger tips and toes especially the deliberate breathing exercises of WHM.
This is me. I'm also from Connecticut. I'm pretty sure I gave myself frostbite a couple days ago, very itchy and red.
You would benefit from shamanistic breathing, fire breathing or Wim Hof method. Great training keep it up. The body is a miracle
Cold showers helped me, took about 10 cold showers for 10 days.