Rhonda Patrick
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She's established the heat bed as a safe way.
To answer that question, it'll take me in a whole other direction.
Should I go there right now or should I finish?
All right.
So basically, the only point I was getting at was the pioneering study where people with major depressive disorder were exposed to this device where they're heating up their core body temperature by about two degrees.
And they had an antidepressant effect that lasted six months compared to a sham control, which was also heating people up, not single treatment, single treatment.
Now, Ashley has gone out and she's done four to eight treatments, depending on the person, whether or not they've completed the whole study.
And she didn't have a sham control, but she's got just phenomenal.
So what he did in his study was he had the same device that just got people a little bit warm enough where they were thinking they were getting the active treatment, but it was not.
Yeah, raising their core body temperature by two.
It was a phenomenal study.
And this is, by the way, Peter, what got me interested in the sauna back in like 2008 when I started doing it like every day.
I lived across the street from OYMCA.
I was going into the sauna in the morning.
It was freezing in Tennessee.
And I was going to the sauna in the morning before I would go into the lab to do my experiments.
I was going every single morning and staying in a long time because I was like, go hard, go home kind of thing.
And I love the heat.
And it was incredible the effect it was having on my mental health and my ability to deal with stress and anxiety so much that I was like, this is insane.
What's going on?