Can the sauna cure depression? #sauna #depression

work by Dr. Charles Raison. You know, this was back in about 2016. He published a paper with people that have major depressive disorder, and they were sort of resistant to typical treatment, so like SSRIs, serotonin reuptake inhibitors, which is a very common one. And so he took these individuals and separated them into two groups. One group got what's called whole-body hyperthermia, which is kind of like a sauna. So there's a machine. It's an infrared type of sauna where you basically, you know, are warming the person up via infrared radiation. And so they were getting that active treatment. And then there was a placebo group that was getting just a little bit warmer, like enough to think they were getting the treatment, but it wasn't. And the people that were getting the actual treatment, they actually were in a feverish state. So their core body temperature, I mean, they were at about 101.3 degrees Fahrenheit, which is a little bit feverish. So they were really getting hot. And after just one treatment, they had an antidepressant effect that was not found in the placebo group that lasted six weeks.