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Permanently Cold Hands? Try This Penguin Warm-Up Hack

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27.01.2025

Cold hands? Try this penguin-inspired warm up.

A professional life hacker has opened up about the one trick that helps warm up her perpetually cold hands.

Chelsea Anderson (@chelseaexplainsitall) lives with Raynaud’s disease, which causes reduced blood flow to the fingers and toes. As a result, she often has ice-cold hands.

In a TikTok video with over 2.3 million views, Anderson shared a tip which she says she was shown by a professional skier.

“This is going to feel so weird to you the first time you do it, but it’s like magic,” said Anderson.

How to warm up your hands

“You stand with your elbows locked and your hands flexed up like this [with your palms face down, forming a right-angle away from your body], and shrug your shoulders up and down,” Anderson explained in the video, while demonstrating how to do it.

“You will feel it, you will feel blood shoot into your fingers – and it will warm them up, it keeps the circulation going,” she added.

Anderson added that because of Raynaud’s, her toes tend to look white from October through to April. “They are numb, they hurt,” she said. “Same with my fingers.”

“I don’t know the toe version,” she continued. “If I knew the toe version I’d be........

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