From the Daily Mail: It’s certainly not your standard doctor’s prescription.
But a new study suggests that bathing in hot water after eating yogurt could bring a multitude of benefits, from boosting cognition to fighting off colon cancer.
Yogurt, especially varieties with live and active cultures (probiotics), can help maintain a healthy balance and more diverse spread of good bacteria (the microbiome) in the digestive system.
The more diverse those microscopic colonies are, the better our immunity to a host of diseases from cancer to heart disease.
Maintaining a balanced microbiome through diet, particularly with probiotics such as yogurt, can also reduce inflammation, which is linked to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, and may help slow cognitive decline.
The report explains the unique combination researchers have discovered, of eating yogurt and then bathing in hot water.
The yogurt contains healthy bacteria which can help break down food molecules and keep it moving through the intestines.
Hot baths also aid digestion by promoting a widening of the blood vessels, which improves circulation to the digestive organs, helps relax abdominal muscles, reduces cramping and bloating, and stimulates the muscle contractions that propels food and waste through the digestive tract.
Researchers at Kyushu University in Japan conducted a study of 47 people over a four-month period and concluded that “combining two lifestyle interventions – yogurt intake and hot spring bathing – may contribute to better health, and could potentially applied as a treatment in preventive medicine.”
The study was published by Frontiers in Nutrition.
New Research: Dietary and environmental modulation for the gut environment: yogurt promotes microbial diversity while chloride hot springs improve defecation status in healthy adults https://t.co/wybb6q3Rgf #FrontiersIn #Nutrition
— Frontiers – Nutrition (@FrontNutrition) July 7, 2025
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