Fire and ice is a very hot — and then very cold — health trend
Symmetry client Nick Changnon takes part in a “fire and ice” wellness class March 19. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Sixty-year-old Dena Dodson is known — in at least one particular circle — as “The Ice Queen.”
Dodson is a devotee of contrast therapy, in which participants alternate between time in a sauna and time in an ice bath. But it’s the ice bath she really likes.
“I maximize my minutes every time I’m in the ice tub,” she said. “What I’ve learned is that I can handle different types of stressful situations by focusing on my breathing and relying on others to help me through instead of thinking I can do it all myself.”
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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