A recent study has thrown a slightly on the creepy connection between depression and the rising body temperature.
Researchers from the University of California San Francisco conducted a study to understand the intrinsic relationship between body and brain.
The research, published in Scientific reportsIncluded more than 20,000 participants from all over the world and started in 2020 and was carried out for seven months with data from 106 countries.
It proved the rather speculative link between the mental health disorder and an increased temperature of the body. However, it remains unclear whether depression itself contributes to a higher body temperature or whether increased temperature leads to depression.
According to the main author of the study and associate professor of psychiatry at the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Ashley Mason, PhD, which causes your body to start the process of self-cooling through various methods, such as the use of hot tubs and saunas, can help reduce depression.
“Ironically, heating people can actually lead to a fall in the rebound body temperature that takes longer than people just cool down immediately, such as via an ice bath,” she explained.
“What if we can follow the body temperature of people with depression to make up for heat -based treatments?” The clinical psychologist suggested.
Although revolutionary, there are still different aspects that ask doubts about the current study and raise more questions than answers for researchers; However, it opens doors for further exploration in the complex relationship between body temperature and depression.
“Insofar as we know, this is the largest study to date to investigate the association between body temperature with the help of both self-reporting methods and portable sensors and depressive symptoms in a geographically wide sample,” Mason added.
“Given the climbing rates of depression in the United States, we are enthusiastic about the possibilities of a new path for treatment.”
