Literally the most potent healing tool in medical history - one that Soviet balneologists, German and Austrian doctors, Czech physiologists, and even early American clinicians considered foundational. Entire resort-hospitals, state-funded institutes, and regional infrastructures were built around it. Today, it survives only in a few privileged European enclaves and the post-Soviet world.

A warm alkaline bath. That you can recreate at home. Today.

Documented to reduce sympathetic dominance, open peripheral circulation, improve bile flow, lower inflammatory sensitivity, and restore metabolic softness - across four separate scientific traditions.

Soviet balneologists measured the effects in clinics: sympathetic tone drops, peripheral circulation opens, smooth muscle relaxes, bile starts moving, and inflammatory sensitivity falls. You feel it immediately. Heat + alkalinity pushes the body back into the state where healing is actually possible.

Central Europe built entire hospitals around bicarbonate-rich waters for liver stagnation, biliary dyskinesia, stress disorders, circulatory rigidity, and inflammatory skin. Early American physicians documented the same autonomic shift: lower vascular resistance, lower lactate, calmer nerves, deeper sleep.

People wonder why a simple bath hits harder than half the supplements they take - this is why: you’re lowering spasm, lowering prostaglandins, softening the biliary tree, raising CO₂ availability, restoring warmth, and shutting off a sympathetic system that’s been stuck “on” for years. RUQ tightness dissolves, digestion improves, skin clears, PMS symptoms ease, estrogen clearance improves.

To recreate a true alkaline therapeutic bath at home:
Base Formula:
• 1 cup baking soda
• 1 cup sea salt (Dead Sea, Mediterranean, or plain kosher - all fine)

Temperature:
• Hot, not warm - as warm as you can comfortably tolerate.
Heat is what opens circulation and drops sympathetic tone.

Duration:
• 15–20 minutes
Optional Add-On (Stronger Effect):
+ 1 cup magnesium chloride flakes
Magnesium deepens smooth-muscle relaxation, improves bile flow, and softens tension.

Do it 2-3 times a week or even daily.

It costs almost nothing.
It works because it’s built into the design of the human body.

If you want the historical background and the science, I wrote a full article on it. It has scientists names, facts, history, beautiful pictures and many more.
If you are too lazy to read it all, I implore you to at least try this easy hack today.
Pic is just for fun Mitochondria thrive when:

CO₂ is high

blood flow is robust

lactate is low

temperature is warm

vasoconstriction is minimal

parasympathetic tone is dominant

A warm alkaline bath gives mitochondria exactly this environment - even if only for 20 minutes. But a 20-minute correction can shift an entire 24-hour cycle: better sleep -> lower inflammation, better circulation -> better digestion, better bile flow -> improved hormones, lowered sympathetic tone -> lower cortisol, reduced skin inflammation -> fewer systemic flare signals.

10 Proven Ways to Reverse PUFA Damage.
Long-term accumulation of polyunsaturated fats (especially linoleic acid contained in vegetable and seed oils) in liver membranes blunt its detoxification, bile secretion, and steroidogenic capacity (your ability to synthesize steroid hormones from cholesterol). PUFA peroxidation depletes NAD⁺, damages mitochondria, and suppresses thyroid-dependent energy production. But the damage is reversible if you act systematically.

Here is what you can do to offset the damage:

1. Supply carbohydrates – to refill glycogen and raise CO₂
2. Replace seed oils with butter, tallow, and ghee
3. Support pregnenolone & progesterone (Progest-E)
4. Avoid nuts & seeds (except macadamias)
5. Restore thyroid function
6. Use vitamin E + niacinamide for anti-peroxidation defense
7. Keep a high calcium : phosphate ratio
8. Add taurine + glycine for bile and liver protection
9. Eat real cholesterol (eggs, shellfish, dairy)
10. Build CO₂ & light exposure to improve redox balance

Explanation in comments 👇👇 1. Carbohydrates
PUFA toxicity is amplified in a glucose-deprived, fat-oxidizing state. Carbohydrates restore glycogen, raise CO₂, and shift the liver back to glucose oxidation protecting mitochondria from peroxidative stress.