The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
the pioneering study where um people with major depressive disorder were exposed to this this device where they're heating heating up their core body temperature by about two degrees and they had an antid-depressant effect that lasted six months compared to a sham control which was also heating people up but not
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when you’re really sick, when inflammation is activated, one of the things it does is induce a fever. We’ve known for many years that if you take medically healthy depressed people, they have chronic elevations in their body temperature. And it follows the same sort of diurnal pattern as you see in sickness.
So you see more of this elevation at night. There’s some very interesting data actually done up the road in Los Angeles, at UCLA in the 90s, that if you measure core body temperature of people that are not depressed versus people that are, the depressed people’s body temperature is higher. Then if you treat them, in this case they used electroconvulsive therapy, which is, you know, very, very rapidly acting powerful treatment, you treat the depressed people, you measure the body temperature again, bang, it goes right down to the level of control people.