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PROMOTION OF HEALING PAIN RELIEF TYPE 2 DIABETES FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT
Hot water cleanses the body Just like having your own Proven to reduce blood sugar It’s just fun!
and accelerates natural personal masseuse! levels. Finally, if you’re still not
healing. convinced, possibly the greatest
A benefit of the buoyancy of hot Hot tubs are proven to provide benefit of all is that hot tubs
A known benefit of hot water and tub water is that it reduces body benefit to people suffering from provide an ideal place to relax a
massage is that it eases pain, weight by approximately 90%, Type 2 Diabetes by reducing
fatigue and soreness due to relieving pressure on joints and blood sugar levels1, improving
exercising or sports injuries. muscles and making it easier to sleep patterns and boosting an
perform exercises. individual’s general sense of well-
It also relaxes muscles and being.
stimulates the release of Heat warms up joints and
endorphins, the body’s natural decreases swelling. Then, as Also, by relaxing the muscles, hot
pain killers. A further benefit of the the body registers temperature water helps increase an individual’s
hot tub’s jet action is to promote change, the central nervous range of motion and is especially
healing by providing even more system becomes depressed, helpful to patients who find it hard
oxygen to the blood than is contributing to muscle relaxation to exercise on land. An independent
provided by warm water alone. and temporarily relieving chronic study2 of Type 2 diabetes patients,
pain. who were required to soak in a hot
The heat and pressure from tub for thirty minutes a day six days
the jets can also raise the level Regular use of hot tubs helps to a week for three weeks, showed
of antibodies and white blood keep joints moving, restores and that the patients’ blood sugar
cells, promoting the destruction preserves strength & flexibility, levels were reduced by an average
of toxins and stimulating the helps restore the full range of of 13 percent. Ref: New England
formation of new tissue. motion and protects joints from Journal of Medicine. September
further damage. 16, 1999.
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