The 9 Benefits of Heat Therapy | DrEricBergDC

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let’s talk about the nine benefits of

heat therapy now the big

contraindication of using heat as a

therapy is for acute injuries if he

recently created an injury where there’s

inflammation and you put heat on it it’s

gonna make it worse you want to use cold

heat is really good for chronic

conditions especially chronic injuries

so here’s some examples a hot shower

steam room sauna jacuzzi

infrared this is a certain wavelength

using light

there’s infrared a which is the deepest

B and C so B would go one millimeter and

C is only going to penetrate the the

first lining of cells on your body so

they’re used differently for different

conditions

there’s a lot of data on this right here

I’m not gonna get into that in this

video I will do a more detailed video

just on that because there’s a lot to

talk about contrast

bath therapy where you’re alternating

from cold to heat now I really like

doing a hot shower cold shower alternate

back and forth because it’s really

simple to do and you don’t need any

special equipment you just need a shower

so the nine benefits would include

decreasing inflammation in your joints

as an arthritis especially chronic old

injuries decrease muscle spasm usually

compensating for an old injury

decreasing pain decreasing pain in

general but again if it’s acute injury

use cold

number-6 it reads the waste out of the

area and it decreases co2 because you’re

driving in blood flow in oxygen with

cold therapy you’re pushing the blood

out of an area and if you alternate with

ithi repair you put it back in and if

you’re doing it alternately for an

injury for example I recommend keeping

the cold on until it goes through

certain stages of intense pain and then

numbness and then apply the heat for

about you know ten minutes and then we

apply the cold go back and forth number

eight decrease stiffness number nine

increases your recovery especially after

a workout so let’s talk about why it

works

certain genes in your body that kick in

and are expressed when you add heat or

cold and they do different things

there’s one protein called the heat

shock protein that I want to talk about

and basically the response to stress

heat and other things as well

oxidative stress heavy metals infection

so it’s a protein that responds to a

certain shock in the body or a certain

amount of stress that then causes your

body to adapt and do better but this

specific protein is very interesting

because it protects the cell against Mis

folding and that’s what I want to talk

about briefly because this is very very

important if you take a look at a lot of

the chronic diseases out there all

Simon’s Parkinson’s even diabetes you

have a situation where you have an

accumulation of certain proteins in the

neurons in the cells that are the

endocrine gland cells they can cumulated

in the organs and these aggregates or

these accumulation of these proteins can

are non-functional and they clog up the

function normally what happens is you

have you the blueprints of the cell are

copied into something called the RNA

which are basically a code for making

proteins in the body I’m not just

talking about hair nails and skin I’m

talking about all the enzymes the

machinery that actually makes up the

body and so this genetic code goes into

a factory okay it’s called a ribosome

it’s a little protein factory that is

read and then turned into a certain

protein so this comes out and then it’s

activated or folded okay so this protein

is folded in a certain shape to make it

functional and it looks pretty wild

because it’s all over the place it’s

like that and so now this protein is

activated and it can go and do its work

whatever that function is there are

proteins that do a lot of different

actions they can even they can sometimes

they contract

sometimes they relax sometimes they spin

sometimes they pump sometimes they can

walk and move they do all sorts of acts

in the body but when you actually add

stress in this area and especially heat

think about when you heat up food it

destroys that enzyme and it makes it

very inactive because enzymes are

sensitive to heat but if we’re adding

just a little bit of heat we turn on

this protein right here and we can

prevent the Mis folding of this folded

protein miss folding is basically going

to make this protein and active it’s

gonna clump it up more and get it all

sticky and things like that so this

protein can prevent this from happening

which is very very cool just as long as

you don’t heat your body up too much I

mean you don’t want to put your body in

boiling water that would be very very

bad and one last thing I’m going to talk

about is that when you add fasting okay

or in a min of fasting your body goes

through a condition called a Toph Ajit

and Netaji what it does is it cleans up

old damaged proteins as in miss folded

proteins that’s what it’s cleaning up

it’s taking these miss folded proteins

and stuff that’s creating all these

problems and it’s breaking it down into

amino acids that you can use as brand

new raw material to make tissue alright

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