OAN’s Brooke Mallory
4:21pm – Wednesday, February 7, 2024
recent research Researchers, who looked at data from more than 20,000 people around the world, proposed a unique relationship between depression and elevated body temperature.
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The results of this study reportedly showed that body temperature increases when symptoms of depression become more severe, and although the causal relationship is not yet clear, it may open up new treatment options.
By using wearable technology to assess temperature, this study found that heat treatments such as saunas may be effective against depression because they can cool the body through processes such as sweating. Suggests.
This study highlights a new way to tackle the rise in depression worldwide, by enabling the possibility of investigating temperature management as a treatment for depression.
“Key Fact: This study observed a correlation between increased severity of depressive symptoms and increased body temperature in participants from 106 countries. investigated the potential of heat-based treatments (such as saunas) to reduce depression by inducing This is one of the largest studies examining neurosciencenews.com.
However, other related studies published in 2016 scientific reportThe peer-reviewed, open-access scientific giant could not conclude whether depression causes an increase in body temperature or vice versa.
It is also unclear whether the increased body temperature seen in people with depression is due to a decreased self-cooling capacity, increased heat production from metabolic processes, or both.
“Ironically, actually warming a person can cause rebound hypothermia to last longer than directly cooling the person, such as with an ice bath.” ashley mason saida clinical psychologist at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health.
“What if we could track the body temperature of depressed patients and time their heat therapy appropriately?” Mason added. “To our knowledge, this is the largest study to date examining the association between body temperature and depressive symptoms, assessed using both self-report methods and wearable sensors, in a geographically broad sample. is.”
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