Whole-Body Hyperthermia for Depression: IL-6 Heat Genes
Whole-body hyperthermia looks less like generic relaxation and more like a timed biological stressor: in a small depression substudy, a single session was followed by early Hamilton Depression Rating Scale improvement, heat-shock gene activation, and immune-process enrichment that included interleukin 6 production. Research Highlights Depression scores improved early: in the 18-person RNA sequencing substudy, whole-body …