Ben Greenfield discusses vaginal steaming, an ancient practice used for recurrent infections, PCOS, endometriosis, and early cervical dysplasia. He recommends it mainly for patients who'd otherwise need hormonal birth control or surgery, though the exact mechanism remains unclear.
The vast majority of women who I recommend steaming for are people who have the common women's health issues that their doctor is recommending either pharmaceuticals, especially birth control, or surgery to fix. So this goes from recurrent infections in the vagina or bladder, cervical infections, STIs, early cervical dysplasia, which. Which can lead to cervical cancer. If that viral message isn't fully integrated into your corpus, it can help to improve blood flow to the ovaries. So a lot of my PCOS clients, they actually find that they can start ovulating again. In addition to the steaming, we're doing a lot of lifestyle modification, but the applications for this are far ranging. Endometriosis is a huge thing for women in our country. So this steaming practice has a number of ways that it works. I think the mechanism is a little bit unclear still, but this is an ancient practice, Ben, that predates modern medicine by thousands of years.
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