{"id":228178,"date":"2026-01-01T21:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T03:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/cold-showers-and-dopamine-what-the-science-shows"},"modified":"2026-01-01T21:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T03:02:46","slug":"cold-showers-and-dopamine-what-the-science-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/cold-showers-and-dopamine-what-the-science-shows","title":{"rendered":"Cold Showers and Dopamine: What the Science Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cold-showers-and-dopamine-what-the-science-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cold showers can boost catecholamines, shift mood, and even change brain connectivity in minutes. New studies explain how and when they help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold showers can boost catecholamines, shift mood, and even change brain connectivity in minutes. New studies explain how and when they help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}