Cryotherapy is the latest craze in celebrity-land but in the real world, it’s been around for hundreds of years. And this week, Today show host Sylvia Jeffreys agreed to give it a go.
Cryotherapy is meant to help with pain and weight loss, as well as help heal injuries and promote better sleep. Being the good sport that she is, Jeffreys agreed to “freeze her backside off” to try and figure out if it’s all it claims to be.
Famous U.S. athletes are fans of the method including basketball player LeBron James as well as Real Housewives star Yolanda Hadid. This is Us star Mandy Moore has also tried it.

Jeffreys was put in a cryotherapy chamber at minus 130 degrees. Yikes. Immediately Jeffreys felt a cold blast go into the machine and with fingers and toes protected by gloves and ugg boots, the rest of Sylvia was left to freeze. Soon she said it was "stinging".
Cryotherapy works using liquid nitrogen that blasts the body, causing it to go into survival mode which sends your blood to your heart. After three minutes you step out and that freshly oxygenated blood gets pumped through your body with its magical healing powers.
Jeffreys said the therapy has been around for a long time. "Cold therapy was used back in ancient Greece. The Japanese the modernised it in 1978." And now, it's back.
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Here's me thinking cryotherapy was what I do in the shower when the Blues lose yet another Origin.