Friday, 28 October 2011

How Sauna Bathing Aids With Pain and Melancholy

By Caroline Dean


As each and every one of us gets older we discover new and different pains stalking us. For some people, it will be lower back pain. For yet others, it may come in the form of arthritis, or just mysterious pains. Pain can be an extraordinarily difficult thing to put up with for drawn out stretches of time, and can greatly decrease an individual's overall well-being. Pain is known to contribute to many different varieties of depressive conditions, which may can induce a loss of employment, leading into a spiral.

Both depression and pain are the cause for an enormous amount of drugs taken around the planet. The financial toll of true depression is not to be underestimated. The side effects from these pills can vary from side-effects like habituation, especially in the case of the pain killers, to weight gain in the case of pharmaceuticals known as anti-depressants. As a consequence of this, even people dealing with real depression or pain frequently try to avoid taking pharmaceuticals completely.

Natural treatments come in many shapes and forms to supposedly treat these conditions and problems like them, but most of them do not have mainstream credibility. Acupuncture is just one tiny example of this. This does depend on the culture you're in, however. Many place in the world have very fundamentally different ideas on how to deal with many decidedly modern diseases. One interesting alternative or adjunct that is worth mentioning and used by many men and women throughout the planet, particularly the country of Finland, is use of sauna bathing.

The vast majority of doctors is likely to recommend exercise for all sorts of conditions, because it's for the most part considered to be all around good for you. The sauna, however, here in the United States, is not brought up as frequently. The habit of sauna bathing is useful for a number of reasons. For one, it's passive in its use. You don't need to possess excellent levels of mobility to necessarily enjoy its benefits. The ways in which use of the sauna helps in both pain and depression involves two brain chemicals: noradrenaline and endorphins.

Use of the sauna creates a powerful release of beta-endorphin and noradrenaline both. Beta-endorphin is the compound which most painkillers are designed to mimic. It is completely naturally found throughout the body and releases from both strenuous exercise, and sauna use. Sauna bathing induces a strong release of this naturally occurringpeptide. Additionally, norepinephrine has been the target of some drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and depression as well, and it is also enhanced by sauna use.




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