04/06/2026
For more than a dozen years we’ve known, as a result of studies conducted by top researchers, what our DNA looks like through microscopes. But now we’ve found a way to influence that DNA at will.
It’s called hormesis (or hormetic stress), which describes a phenomenon in which a substance or environmental agent known to be harmful in larger doses has stimulating and beneficial effects on living organisms when the quantity of the harmful substance is small.
Living cells actually adapt in response to these substances (or stressors), positively affecting their condition and functionality.
This is something we can do consciously and, as a result, alter the structure of our primordial cells with specific intent.
The human body is well-equipped to endure gradual exposure to ice water. The water offers us a way to handle stress, mental or physical, of any kind. Hormetic stress in this form is exhilarating and beneficial.
And it helps to protect the body on a cellular level from other stressors. Whatever they might be: bacteria, viruses, emotional stress, work stress...
It’s not abracadabra, it’s genetics. It’s science.
