Reduce heating costs: cold trick ensures a plus in the wallet

Created: 01/26/2022, 13:25

By: Anika Hinz

If you are at home a lot in autumn and winter and don't move much, you will freeze quickly.

A simple trick can help, but it takes a little courage.

Germany – Since the outbreak of the corona pandemic, many people have been working from home and sitting at their desks all day.

That means you move little or not at all.

A fatal affair, especially in winter, because the lack of movement makes you freeze much faster and you have to turn up the heating, as RUHR24* reports.

And you want to avoid that in view of the high heating costs.

A common trick is to turn off the heating at night.

But what does that do?

High heating costs in autumn and winter: We freeze much faster in the cold season

When the temperatures drop in autumn and winter and it gets colder and colder in our own four walls, we usually automatically turn up the heating and dress warmly.

Tea and blankets are also popular ways to stop feeling cold.

But sometimes nothing helps and we still freeze.

In view of the high heating costs that accompany us in this year's cold season, we actually don't want to turn the heating up too high.

And anyway: less heating saves energy and is good for the environment.

A curious trick ensures that we freeze less in autumn and winter

So what to do?

Winter jacket on and off under the covers?

No, it doesn't have to come to that this fall either.

Because there is a simple trick so that you no longer freeze so easily, even under the influence of the cold.

Accordingly, in order to prevent freezing, we have to expose ourselves to the cold more often!

This would train our own sensitivity to cold, which would then enable us to deal better with low temperatures.

A kind of hardening, so to speak.

Anyone who regularly irritates the cold receptors on the skin and, above all, exposes them to very low temperatures, reacts less sensitively to cold in the long run.

One way to train the whole thing particularly well and to increase your own cold tolerance are ice baths.

High heating costs are with us this autumn and winter.

Reason enough to keep warm differently.

(Iconic image) © Bildagentur-online/Schoening/dpa

Train your sense of cold: With these simple tricks it works and you freeze less

If that's too much for you, you can start small.

The following options are good for beginners who don't yet have a high tolerance for cold:

• Daily contrast showers, alternating between hot and cold.

• Quick walks in the fresh air (even when it's particularly cold!)

• Outdoor sports such as jogging or hiking

• Sauna sessions with alternating stays in the fresh air

Contrast showers and outdoor sports are good for strengthening the immune system

The tips not only get your metabolism going, but also your blood circulation.

As a result, the body gets used to the cool temperatures over time.

By the way: contrast showers, walks in the fresh air and outdoor sports are not only good for increasing tolerance to cold, but also for boosting the immune system.

Another advantage, especially in the cold season: because annoying cold viruses have less chance of settling in the body and you get less sick.

It doesn't get any better than that, does it?