Mihail Pautovmedic, IC Fundeni · Doctor Mihail - Medic specialist în chirurgie generală, Educator de sănătate

Expunerea la cald sau frig, au rezultate bune pentru ameliorarea starilor depresiei. ☝🏻👨🏼‍⚕️

19 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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A single-speaker YouTube monologue arguing that depression is a metabolic condition and that behavioral interventions—particularly exercise and temperature exposure (cold-water immersion, sauna/heat, and contrast therapy)—can improve mood and depressive symptoms. The speaker attributes benefits to increased endorphins (heat), noradrenaline and dopamine (cold), raised pain threshold, energy, and motivation, and suggests contrast therapy may help even clinical depression.

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If you have a depression, if you have anxiety, that's going to affect what you are doing. So it's going to have a huge effect on your behavior. If you are not in the mood for the right healthy behavior, then your physical health is going to go down as well. Right. And that's going to affect your brain as well. So what we are realizing today is that depression is actually a metabolic disease. When people start to exercise or they start to do well, cold water emotions or going to the saa sauna is important here as well. The heat is impressively doing well on depression. So whether it's very cold or whether it's very hot, it is increasing our endorphins. Endorphins is our, you can say natural painkiller in the body. And that increases when you go into the heat. It's not the same pathway when you go into the cold water. It seems that this is no adrenaline. Noradrenaline is our pathway, pain pathway. And that works on your mental health because it increases your pain threshold. And when you increase also noradrenaline, you have that energy, that drive and you have that dopamine rush. You also work on your mental health. So I think depression from doing the contrast of cold and heat is that, that is, that is a good cure for having any bad mood or even maybe clinical depression.