00:00let's talk about some amazing benefits of simply taking a hot bath and i'm talking about temperature 40 degrees celsius or a 104 degree fahrenheit for 30 minutes the biggest benefit is anxiety and depression there's several studies that i'm going to put down below that back this up but if you have anxiety or depression this simple thing can greatly help you and that is because number one it's going to lower cortisol cortisol is a stress hormone less stress less anxiety number two higher levels of serotonin serotonin is the happy hormone it's a hormone that helps you feel calm it gives you a sense of well-being and if you have that you're gonna have less anxiety and definitely less depression number three it's gonna improve your sleep you're gonna get a much deeper sleep so what happens is this heat actually relaxes you so when you sleep your melatonin
01:00actually causes your body to get a little cooler and so by raising the heat before you go to bed you get a rebound effect or a resetting effect and you actually become a little colder and your body will get a much better sleep when it's on the colder side try to sleep when you have a hot flash it doesn't work right all right number four your muscles are going to feel very relaxed one thing that i recommend is taking epsom salts magnesium to your bath and lemon balm oil which is very very relaxing and calming people take this as a t or a supplement it will help you decrease chronic pain and stiffness now one contraindication would be if you have acute pain let's say you're in a recent injury and you have swelling taking a hot bath might not be the best thing to do you want to put cold on that injury like a cold pack ice would be best
02:00but for chronic pain stiffness great you're gonna have more flexibility number six it can help you lower your blood pressure because it increases nitric oxide which actually is a vasodilator now on the flip side if you have heart pain like angina pain or chest pain not a good idea to take a hot bath and one more contraindication if you if you get lightheaded easily and you take this hot bath right and let's say for example the heat increases all the circulation you have blood in the muscles and then you stand up and you get really dizzy because you don't your body isn't adapting to that that well so you don't want to be fainting and then injure yourself number seven it has the ability to potentially help stabilize your insulin levels i found some interesting research on that i put a link down below and number eight it can enhance your immunity because you're in inducing a fever if you have an infection a viral infection or even a bacterial infection and you keep your body really really warm to the
03:00point where you're sweating or you take a hot bath you're going to help kill off pathogens so inducing a fever is a very good thing and then you climb in bed and you wear a lot of clothes and you just sweat all right there you have it the eight benefits of a hot bath a decrease in anxiety and depression being number one hey before you go real quick i have a course entitled how to bulletproof your immune system it's a free course i want you to take it and here's why here's you here is your environment everyone is focused on this over here avoiding your environment but what about here what about strengthening your immune system that's what's missing this course will show you how to bulletproof yourself and so you can tolerate and resist your environment much better by strengthening your own immune system i put a link down in the description right down below check it out and get signed up today