I’ve come across a fascinating new study published in Scientific Reports that explores the potential of heat therapy as a treatment for depression. This research opens doors for a potentially drug-free approach.As you know, depression is a debilitating condition affecting millions worldwide. Standard treatments often provide only partial relief, and medications can come with side effects. Interestingly, the study highlights the historical use of heat therapy by ancient physicians like Galen and Hippocrates, who believed in its ability to alleviate “melancholia,” the ancient term for depression.
The Body Temperature-Depression Link
The University of California, San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences study, the largest of its kind, examined data from over 20,000 individuals across 106 countries. They found a surprising correlation: people with major depressive disorder (MDD) had higher body temperatures compared to those without depression. The severity of depression also corresponded with higher body temperature increases. This finding challenges our assumptions. While it seems counterintuitive to “heat up” someone already experiencing elevated body temperature, the study suggests a potential benefit. Lead author Ashley Mason proposes using hyperthermia – briefly raising body temperature to trigger the body’s natural cooling response (sweating) – as a treatment option.
Heat Therapy: Ancient Practice, Modern Potential
For millennia, cultures around the world have utilized hot springs and spas for their mood-boosting effects. Several recent studies support this anecdotal evidence. One study linked hyperthermia’s positive impact on depression with reduced inflammation through changes in cytokine levels, signaling proteins that regulate inflammation. Another study found hot yoga, practiced in a heated room, significantly reduced depression symptoms in participants. Even hot baths, as demonstrated by a 2020 study, showed promise in alleviating depression symptoms.
A Return to Tradition with Modern Insights
Traditional spa therapies took a backseat to the rise of psychotherapy and medication in the 20th century. However, this research reignites the potential of heat therapy as a complementary approach to depression treatment. While further research is needed to fully understand the mechanisms at play, the potential for accessible and drug-free options like hot baths, saunas, or even hot yoga is exciting. And, of course, far infrared therapy, like our Charmed FIR Mats, can play a major role in supporting this new exploration into handling depression naturally. This is just a glimpse into the exciting world of heat therapy and its potential role in depression management. I encourage you to explore the studies mentioned in the email for a deeper dive. What are your thoughts on this new revelation?
Sincerely,
Barbara Carmichael
CEO
Charmed FIR Mats
Ions are molecules that have gained or lost an electrical charge. A negative ion is an atom that has an extra electron. Negative ions are actively generated by falling and moving water, sunlight, and the earth’s radiation, as well as by the healing crystals found in most infrared mats, such as our Charmed FIR Mats.
You may have experienced the power of negative ions when you were on the beach, in the mountains, or near a waterfall.
The air circulating in the mountains and the beach is said to contain tens of thousands of negative ions — much more than the average home or office building, which contains dozens or hundreds, and many register a flat zero. Positive ions are typically found in airborne toxins and allergens.
People have long known that being around and in nature puts you at ease and has a healing effect, but what most don’t know is that it isn’t just the peacefulness of nature you’re experiencing. The unseen benefit of being in nature and surrounded by sunlight, air, water, and the earth’s radiation is an excess of negative ions in your surroundings.
Do Negative Ions have any benefits?
Negative ions are completely necessary for human health and vitality. Humans evolved living in nature surrounded by negative ions. It’s only in modern-day society that we have built mega cities with concrete and steel structures that have cut down contact with nature and negative ions. The only real place within our homes where we can find negative ions is when taking a shower. The falling water and steam generate a multitude of negative ions, like being outside just after a thunderstorm.
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The application of heat to treat certain conditions, including possible tumors, has a long history. Ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians used hot stones, wrapping them in hot blankets or immersing them in hot water or sand, to treat breast masses. Twenty-four hundred years ago, the Father of Western medicine, Hippocrates, noticed tumor shrinkage after a fever and came up with the idea of inducing fever to cure diseases.
Medical practitioners in ancient India used regional and whole-body hyperthermia (raising the body temperature) for healing purposes and anti-aging. Asians heated by the sun, using handmade mats with Amethyst, Tourmaline, and Jadeite stones to accumulate the thermal healing power of the sunlight, which was transferred to the body while sleeping on the mat. Turkish baths, Russian banya, and Finnish saunas are other examples of traditional heat therapy treatments.
Modern scientists consider that hypothermia (low body temperature) may be the cause of many diseases, including cancer. Even a 1.8° increase in body temperature may improve immune function by 40 percent, can enhance the production of enzymes and hormones by up to 50 percent, and stimulate metabolic processes by up to 12 percent by increasing calorie burn and fat loss.
Modern medicine uses many types of local and whole-body hyperthermia therapies for cancer treatment and other medical conditions, such as focused ultrasound, microwave heating, induction heating, magnetic hyperthermia, and infrared sauna.
If you would like to experience far infrared therapy for yourself, then it’s time to try our mats!
Bio: Indicating or involving life or living organisms.
Far Infrared (FIR): Part of the light spectrum from natural sunlight. It is a safe form of energy that heats objects by a process called direct light conversion, producing radiant heat. As warm-blooded animals, we also emit far infrared heat, or radiant heat, which is a very beneficial and essential form of energy that can penetrate, refract, radiate, and reflect.
Radiant heat: The heat energy emitted from a warm element, such as a floor, wall, overhead panel, or FIR Mat, which warms people and other objects rather than directly heating the air in the room.
EMF (electromagnetic field): An electromagnetic field is a physical field produced by electrically charged objects. It affects the behavior of charged objects in the vicinity of the field. Our Mats are designed to be EMF-free.
Negative ions: Oxygen atoms charged with an extra electron. Negative ions are created naturally by evaporating water, ocean surf, waterfalls and ionic minerals, such as amethyst and tourmaline. In contrast, our homes and offices are full of harmful positive ions produced by air pollution and electromagnetic fields generated by cell phones, electronic wires, and modern construction materials. Positive ions make us feel ill, and they depress our nerves. They suppress the immune system and cause headaches, tiredness, anxiety, poor mental performance, sleep disturbances, eye problems, and many real diseases. The healing effects of negative ion therapy were discovered almost 100 years ago by Russian scientist, Tchijevsky, a biophysicist who founded “heliobiology” (the study of the sun’s effect on biology) and “aero-ionization” (the study of the effect of ionization of air on biological entities). Tchijevsky invented the first negative ions generator. The negative ionization of the air now is mandatory in Russia and many European hospitals and workplaces. The FIR Mat’s negative ions are delivered directly to the body by conduction through the skin, and they regulate the body’s pH while rapidly increasing cell function and the flow of oxygen. This differs greatly from the ambient air ions produced by popular negative ion generators used for air cleaning.
Amethysts: Amethyst crystals have been known for centuries for their healing effects and calming properties, and they naturally emit negative ions. Amethyst crystals have an inherent wavelength that enhances cellular activity. The unique feature of Amethyst is that the Infrared Light produced or refracted by the amethyst crystals which generates the most bioavailable and biocompatible heat, thus easily and deeply penetrating into the human body. When the amethyst mat is used at any temperature setting, even lower temperatures, the far infrared accelerates the negative ion production.
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