Research has found that balneotherapy treatments of 38-42 degrees Celsius decrease our C-Reactive protein (CRP levels) — which are inclined to increase in due to inflammation. This allows for a soothing our hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis (that triggers our fight-freeze or flight state).
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