Hooray for Hormesis!

Hormesis? Huh?

This is where a little bit of stress on the body makes the body stronger.

Exercise is one of the best hormetic therapies for everyone.

Besides exercise, some hermetic therapies that have been effect for some kids with ASD are hyperbaric oxygen therapy, near infrared sauna treatment, and near infrared light therapy.

For example, with resistance training, we can see how a muscle responds to weight, adapts, grows, and improves our metabolism.

Hormesis tells the body to make adaptations from the stress exerted on it.

With hyperbaric oxygen theraoy (HBOT), oxygen is applied under pressure in a chamber to increase neuroplasticity, improve mitochondrial function, and reduce neuroinflammation in our kids with some success.

This is used off label and there’s not anything typically in a kid’s history that will tell us if they’re going to be a responder.

With infrared light and infrared sauna therapies, the near infrared wavelength is stimulating our mitochondria to grow bigger, multiply, and become stronger.

Infrared lights can be purchased online relatively inexpensively with near infrared saunas being more expensive.

The additional benefit of the sauna is detox.

There are national companies like Restore Hyper Wellness that provide all of these hormetic therapies, so you can try one without the expense of a purchase.

In most cases, our kids have some degree of mitochondrial dysfunction and neuroinflammation.

These are tools that we have in our toolbox to improve energetics and reduce inflammation as options to potentially help our kids.

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