In this episode, Dr. Paul Anderson explores the benefits of hydrotherapy, heat therapy, and other complementary therapies for improving health and wellness. He covers:
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- Hydrotherapy:
- What is Hydrotherapy?: An overview of hydrotherapy and its various forms, including immersion baths, contrast baths, and steam rooms.
- Benefits: How hydrotherapy can aid in relaxation, improve circulation, reduce pain, and support recovery from injuries.
- Techniques and Applications: Practical advice on using hydrotherapy at home or in a clinical setting, including the use of hot and cold water treatments.
- Heat Therapy:
- Types of Heat Therapy: Different methods such as heating pads, warm baths, and saunas.
- Health Benefits: The role of heat therapy in relieving muscle tension, improving flexibility, and promoting blood flow.
- Usage Guidelines: Tips on applying heat therapy safely and effectively, including duration and temperature considerations.
- Cold Therapy:
- What is Cold Therapy?: Explanation of methods like ice packs, cryotherapy, and cold baths.
- Benefits: How cold therapy can reduce inflammation, numb pain, and speed up recovery after acute injuries.
- Best Practices: Guidelines for using cold therapy, including application time and precautions to avoid cold-related injuries.
- Other Complementary Therapies:
- Massage Therapy: Benefits of various massage techniques for muscle relaxation, pain relief, and overall well-being.
- Acupuncture: Overview of acupuncture’s role in pain management and holistic health.
- Essential Oils: Use of aromatherapy and essential oils for relaxation, pain relief, and enhancing mood.
- Integrating Therapies: How to combine these therapies with other health practices for a comprehensive approach to wellness, including lifestyle adjustments, exercise, and nutrition.
- Personalized Approaches: Recommendations for tailoring hydrotherapy, heat, and other therapies to individual health needs and conditions.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good Dan, Welcome back to Medicine Health doctor Paul Anderson.
I'm doctor Paul, and we are doing how to prepare
yourself best for cold and flu season natural addition, so
we've done sections on supplemental vitamins and minerals, We've done herbs,
We've done lifestyle modifications, and the fourth section that I
(00:22):
want to talk about here on Medicine Health would be
heat therapies and hydrotherapy. Now, this obviously is a really
long topic, so we're going to shorten it up to
just a few minutes just so you get a flavor
for things. We've talked about these things before on other programs,
but just to start out with. Most people are aware that,
(00:46):
of course heat would be like one of the oldest
medical interventions that we know about. There are quotes from
Hippocrates about heat and all of that, and obviously, you know,
we know that our body does a lot of biochemical
and immune activity to create fevers when we're sick, and
(01:06):
part of the fever is to get the immune system
kind of worked up ready to fight things, and part
of it is to put us biochemically in a position
where we're more likely to fight well and heel and
all that. So a lot of times what people would
say and look at even and you know, even and
older and ancient times would be all right, well, if
(01:28):
I get a fever and I'm sick, what if I
heated myself up? Would that be helpful? Now, I do
always like to say on these things, you know what
I'm talking to you about. These are ideas from the
world of medicine. There's research for these things, etc. But
this is not medical advice. So before you go out
and do something like heat yourself up or whatever, please
(01:50):
talk to a healthcare provider. Is there are certain types
of underlying conditions, and there's other things where you might
have to be very careful with raising your body temperature.
Being said, it can be very useful. Now there We've
done another program just on hyperthermia, the science and the
medicine of raising the core body temperature, and that we
(02:13):
would do with people and we would actually have internal
probes in their body and we would watch to see
how much their core body temperature rose, not by the mouth,
but actually internal temperature probes. And there's four different levels
of heating the body up, but one that's really available
to folks and is very doable. A lot of times
(02:36):
can be sauna. And while probably the infrared saunas are
going to be a little bit more activating to your
cellular milieu, to some of the enzyme systems and other
stuff because of the way the infrared saunas work. Really,
anything that heats your body up will cause many of
(02:59):
the good pos that it affects. So let's say you
don't have an infrared sauna, but you could do a
dry sauna. Let's say you do not have a dry sauna,
but you could do a steam room. Let's say you
don't have that, but you do some other way to
heat your body up. There used to be well, still
are types of hydrotherapies we're going to talk about where
they would just be basically a hot, hot bath that
(03:22):
warm the body up. So anything that heats your body
up will do it. Now I've had people say, well,
you know, I can't afford or don't have access to
any type of a sauna, but I would like to
eat myself up. Now, if there were mobile what I
would recommend that they would do would be when they're moving. Okay,
remember movement is another way to say exercise, but it
(03:44):
sounds a little bit better. I would have them put
one extra layer on to what they would normally wear
and go and do their movement until they started to
sweat at least and that's actually enough heat generation to
help out. Now, the more the better, but you also
have to be careful dehydrated and other stuff with heat
type therapies. So with heat, the first thing is it
(04:07):
will not only speed up immune system activity, it'll speed
up certain side kind and enzyme activity in the body,
but also it will trigger your cells to turn over,
to have cell respiration and to have the cell energy
process that goes through which also ejects a lot of toxin.
(04:27):
So you want to make sure when you're heating yourself
up or you're doing hyperthermia, etc. You've got enough hydration
so that the fluid around your cell states well hydrated
and you move all that junk out because sauna heat
hyperthermia therapies are going to help you detoxify. And this
usually leads to other questions where people say, well, what
(04:48):
about hydrotherapy. I've read about that. Now, hydro therapy has
been around a long long time and there are different
traditions of hydrotherapy, but one of the commonalities off is
that there's a heating up portion to the body and
then a cooling down portion. And so I've done different
types of these, like in the French tradition or the
German tradition, or even the American tradition that borrowed from
(05:13):
everybody else where. You get really really hot, say through
an infrared sana, and then they have a cool down tub,
or you get hose off, or there's other things that happen.
There's also constitutional type hydrotherapies where we'd have people in
a room a very stable situation, and we would have
(05:33):
ways to heat them up front and back on the
core over their chest, and we get them hot to
a certain level and they would change out and put
cold towels on, and believe it or not, when you
get that hot, the cold actually kind of feels good.
And we would then wrap them back up and they
would heat the cold towels up and change the towels out.
(05:53):
And the idea is try and get the body through
the hot and the cold action to kind of have
basically a pumping action of the circulation. But there's also
a lot of other things that happen when the heating
and cooling go on. I mentioned shifts in immune chemistry
and enzyme activity and many other things. A lot of
(06:14):
the same benefits we get from movement and exercise, like
getting the blood moving and getting it filtering through the organs,
getting the limp circulating, those are helped out by heat
therapies and or hydro therapy. Again, like I would say,
you know, find a practitioner who's trained in these things.
Not going to be as many trained in these things,
but you're more traditional practitioners, some of your Chinese medicine practitioners,
(06:40):
any licensed in board past nature pathic physicians, a lot
of people in the chiropractical community. This sometimes physical therapy,
sometimes a whole number of other groups that do this. Now,
if you're looking at hyperthermia, you know, as we use
it say in the oncology world, it depends on what
(07:03):
country you're in right now. Hyperthermy the United States is
done via studies that are going on basically it will
get two more specific than that. In Canada there are
clinics that already have it and they don't have to
be under any particular study guidelines. If you're in a
(07:23):
different country, it may be done right alongside your other
therapies in the hospital, but looking at immune function and everything,
you know, working out to the point of heating yourself
up regular types of sauna if you can do it.
And then if you're looking at doing hydrotherapy, find somebody
who knows how to do that and that can be
very effective as well. All of those are really really useful,
(07:46):
and we've got other programs on them. If you want
to find all the links, you can just go to
doctor noow dot com, d r A n ow dot com.
As far as the pod burners and the YouTube, please
like share. We love to subscriber. Being a lot more subscribers,
that's great. And also do the notifications because sometimes the
(08:06):
algorithm shoves you order to his side and no one
knows what you're doing and we go from thousands of
views to fifty views and all that. If you have
notifications that helps out with that too. But I'm doctor
Paul Anderson. We're out of time for today and I
will see you all on the radio next week.
Good Dan, Welcome back to Medicine Health doctor Paul Anderson.
I'm doctor Paul, and we are doing how to prepare
yourself best for cold and flu season natural addition, so
we've done sections on supplemental vitamins and minerals, We've done herbs,
We've done lifestyle modifications, and the fourth section that I
(00:22):
want to talk about here on Medicine Health would be
heat therapies and hydrotherapy. Now, this obviously is a really
long topic, so we're going to shorten it up to
just a few minutes just so you get a flavor
for things. We've talked about these things before on other programs,
but just to start out with. Most people are aware that,
(00:46):
of course heat would be like one of the oldest
medical interventions that we know about. There are quotes from
Hippocrates about heat and all of that, and obviously, you know,
we know that our body does a lot of biochemical
and immune activity to create fevers when we're sick, and
(01:06):
part of the fever is to get the immune system
kind of worked up ready to fight things, and part
of it is to put us biochemically in a position
where we're more likely to fight well and heel and
all that. So a lot of times what people would
say and look at even and you know, even and
older and ancient times would be all right, well, if
(01:28):
I get a fever and I'm sick, what if I
heated myself up? Would that be helpful? Now, I do
always like to say on these things, you know what
I'm talking to you about. These are ideas from the
world of medicine. There's research for these things, etc. But
this is not medical advice. So before you go out
and do something like heat yourself up or whatever, please
(01:50):
talk to a healthcare provider. Is there are certain types
of underlying conditions, and there's other things where you might
have to be very careful with raising your body temperature.
Being said, it can be very useful. Now there We've
done another program just on hyperthermia, the science and the
medicine of raising the core body temperature, and that we
(02:13):
would do with people and we would actually have internal
probes in their body and we would watch to see
how much their core body temperature rose, not by the mouth,
but actually internal temperature probes. And there's four different levels
of heating the body up, but one that's really available
to folks and is very doable. A lot of times
(02:36):
can be sauna. And while probably the infrared saunas are
going to be a little bit more activating to your
cellular milieu, to some of the enzyme systems and other
stuff because of the way the infrared saunas work. Really,
anything that heats your body up will cause many of
(02:59):
the good pos that it affects. So let's say you
don't have an infrared sauna, but you could do a
dry sauna. Let's say you do not have a dry sauna,
but you could do a steam room. Let's say you
don't have that, but you do some other way to
heat your body up. There used to be well, still
are types of hydrotherapies we're going to talk about where
they would just be basically a hot, hot bath that
(03:22):
warm the body up. So anything that heats your body
up will do it. Now I've had people say, well,
you know, I can't afford or don't have access to
any type of a sauna, but I would like to
eat myself up. Now, if there were mobile what I
would recommend that they would do would be when they're moving. Okay,
remember movement is another way to say exercise, but it
(03:44):
sounds a little bit better. I would have them put
one extra layer on to what they would normally wear
and go and do their movement until they started to
sweat at least and that's actually enough heat generation to
help out. Now, the more the better, but you also
have to be careful dehydrated and other stuff with heat
type therapies. So with heat, the first thing is it
(04:07):
will not only speed up immune system activity, it'll speed
up certain side kind and enzyme activity in the body,
but also it will trigger your cells to turn over,
to have cell respiration and to have the cell energy
process that goes through which also ejects a lot of toxin.
(04:27):
So you want to make sure when you're heating yourself
up or you're doing hyperthermia, etc. You've got enough hydration
so that the fluid around your cell states well hydrated
and you move all that junk out because sauna heat
hyperthermia therapies are going to help you detoxify. And this
usually leads to other questions where people say, well, what
(04:48):
about hydrotherapy. I've read about that. Now, hydro therapy has
been around a long long time and there are different
traditions of hydrotherapy, but one of the commonalities off is
that there's a heating up portion to the body and
then a cooling down portion. And so I've done different
types of these, like in the French tradition or the
German tradition, or even the American tradition that borrowed from
(05:13):
everybody else where. You get really really hot, say through
an infrared sana, and then they have a cool down tub,
or you get hose off, or there's other things that happen.
There's also constitutional type hydrotherapies where we'd have people in
a room a very stable situation, and we would have
(05:33):
ways to heat them up front and back on the
core over their chest, and we get them hot to
a certain level and they would change out and put
cold towels on, and believe it or not, when you
get that hot, the cold actually kind of feels good.
And we would then wrap them back up and they
would heat the cold towels up and change the towels out.
(05:53):
And the idea is try and get the body through
the hot and the cold action to kind of have
basically a pumping action of the circulation. But there's also
a lot of other things that happen when the heating
and cooling go on. I mentioned shifts in immune chemistry
and enzyme activity and many other things. A lot of
(06:14):
the same benefits we get from movement and exercise, like
getting the blood moving and getting it filtering through the organs,
getting the limp circulating, those are helped out by heat
therapies and or hydro therapy. Again, like I would say,
you know, find a practitioner who's trained in these things.
Not going to be as many trained in these things,
but you're more traditional practitioners, some of your Chinese medicine practitioners,
(06:40):
any licensed in board past nature pathic physicians, a lot
of people in the chiropractical community. This sometimes physical therapy,
sometimes a whole number of other groups that do this. Now,
if you're looking at hyperthermia, you know, as we use
it say in the oncology world, it depends on what
(07:03):
country you're in right now. Hyperthermy the United States is
done via studies that are going on basically it will
get two more specific than that. In Canada there are
clinics that already have it and they don't have to
be under any particular study guidelines. If you're in a
(07:23):
different country, it may be done right alongside your other
therapies in the hospital, but looking at immune function and everything,
you know, working out to the point of heating yourself
up regular types of sauna if you can do it.
And then if you're looking at doing hydrotherapy, find somebody
who knows how to do that and that can be
very effective as well. All of those are really really useful,
(07:46):
and we've got other programs on them. If you want
to find all the links, you can just go to
doctor noow dot com, d r A n ow dot com.
As far as the pod burners and the YouTube, please
like share. We love to subscriber. Being a lot more subscribers,
that's great. And also do the notifications because sometimes the
(08:06):
algorithm shoves you order to his side and no one
knows what you're doing and we go from thousands of
views to fifty views and all that. If you have
notifications that helps out with that too. But I'm doctor
Paul Anderson. We're out of time for today and I
will see you all on the radio next week.
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