Episode description

Find out how sauna and exercise and nutritional supplements have been used to help people who suffer from an environmental illness termed Gulf War Illness.  This builds on what we know about the potential benefits of sauna for both firefighters and people who are dealing with symptoms attributed to mould illness and having spent time in water damaged environments. Also, we'll cover how sauna might work?  Does it operate my reducing inflammation or by affecting oxidative stress?  We'll also place sauna bathing into the 4-element model of mental health.  Finally, we'll talk about some basics of the use of niacin in combination with sauna.  Next week in Part 3, I'll be covering what the literature says about how sauna can help in neurodegerative disorders like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's and I want to touch on what the literature says about Multiple Sclerosis.

REFERENCES:

Longitudinal associations of sauna bathing with inflammation and oxidative stress: the KIHD prospective cohort study. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...

Harnessing the Four Elements for Mental Health. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...

A Detoxification Intervention for Gulf War Illness: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/21/...

A hot topic for health: Results of the Global Sauna Survey.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...