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Inside the very hot, very cold cryotherapy trend

September 23, 2016 | 4:22 AM GMT
What does whole body cryotherapy do, exactly? Washington Post editor Kerry Lauerman braved temperatures of -215 degrees Fahrenheit inside an "unearthly" cold cryotherapy chamber to find out.
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