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Byline: Photographed by Steven Klein.
Lured by the hope of supercharged workouts, flawless skin, and a rush of euphoria, Sarah Mower spends three minutes in a cryotherapy chamber chilled to 275A[degrees] below zero.
I'm standing in a pair of baby-blue terry shorts and a crop-top, as if dressed for the beach on a very bad-taste day, but there's no ocean in sight. In fact, quite the reverse: I'm steeling myself to step into a giant freezer. The air inside the wood-paneled contraption is chilled to -275A[degrees] Fahrenheit, which, just to compare, is way colder than the freezer in your kitchen (0A[degrees] F); colder than the top of Mount Everest ...