A short interview between Robert Whitfield MD and a guest exploring non-pharmacologic approaches—particularly cold therapy—to manage symptoms that are frequently treated with medications (antidepressants, sleeping pills, steroids). The discussion contrasts patients’ experiences being offered drugs with attempts to use cold therapy and other strategies to understand and address underlying causes (including a mention of breast tissue–biofilm interactions).
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So if you can't turn it off, which we know from research that's coming out now, that there are certain interactions between the breast tissue and if there's biofilm that contributes to it. So I think more and more evidence is showing up to both validate, you know, your experience and my patients experience where they have these symptoms. Instead of it being written off as being postpartum or having anxiety and. Or depression and being offered an ssri, being offered something then because you can't sleep and your cortisol levels are high, being offered Valium or whatever the sleeping drug is, because nobody really wants to be drugged up. But I feel like all my patients either get offered steroids and antidepressants or sleeping pill or all the above.
Yes, I was offered. Was I offered antianxiety medication from my doctor to solve it? And that's when I was like, no, not for me. Not to say that people don't need that, but it was not for me. And so that's why I started doing cold therapy. I started doing all these other things because I just wanted to figure out what was going on with me.
And did you do sauna or just cold?
I did sauna. And then I had my consultation with you, and you told me not to sauna. So once I had my consultation with you, which was almost a year ago, I didn't sauna for till a few weeks ago.
