As anyone who has used a sauna has experienced, the time spent in the hot, steamy sauna results in a rise in the bathers internal body temperature. While many benefits of sweating are well recognized, the health benefits of this rise in body temperature, known as artificially induced hyperthermia, are less well known but equally important.
More than two thousand years ago, Hippocrates, the founder of modern Western medicine, said, Give me the power to create a fever, and I shall cure any disease. Often misunderstood as simply another uncomfortable symptom of illness, fever is actually the bodys natural method of fighting infection. When a body runs a fever, the higher internal temperature both stimulates the function of the immune system and inhibits the growth and spread of bacteria and viruses. White blood cell production is increased and the production of antibodies speeds up. Also, the creation of interferon, an anti-viral protein which has powerful immune boosting substance, is increased.
Fever also creates an inhospitable environment for bacteria and viruses. Most microbes can only live and reproduce within a fairly narrow temperature range. Once the...
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