Mayim Bialik Opens Up About Trying 'Crazy Hollywood Trend' to Address Health Issues
As an actress who also happens to be a bonafide neuroscientist, Mayim Bialik is known for using her platform—and her podcast, Mayim Bialik's Breakdown—to raise awareness about mental and physical health. Now she's opening up about an unusual wellness treatment that she's trying out to address her own ongoing issues.
On August 11, Bialik, 48, posted a series of photos to her Instagram account where she posed in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, smiling widely.
"What on earth!? ?? ?? This is me in the Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber which now lives at my house!" Bialik wrote in her caption.
"Yup. I’m using it for the next six months as it has been recommended by many people I trust - including several of my doctors- to address inflammation and autoimmune issues which are making me feel like this: ??… I know it might seem crazy and like some Hollywood trend, but I’m choosing to cultivate (fancy way to say it!) an open mind ?? about the numerous health benefits this chamber can provide. I’ll report back over the course of the next six months while this (surprisingly roomy and actually not claustrophobia-inducing!) chamber is my roomie. Thank you so much @iha_usa for giving me this opportunity to heal my gut and hopefully transform my health! ?? ?? ?????"
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In 2022, Bialik spoke to the analytics platform SAS about her years-long struggle with an autoimmune condition.
"I’ve had Graves' disease for about 20 years," she said. "That's an overactive thyroid. I’ve been learning a tremendous amount about the role of nutrition and the gut, in the epidemic of autoimmune diseases in particular in this country, but all over the world. I recently read Dr. Gabor Maté’s book, The Myth of Normal, which covers all of that and more. So that's really been a big focus for me and Jonathan [Cohen], who I have my podcast with."
Bialik also talked about her own approach to trying new things.
"It's funny because I don't really consider myself a brave person, meaning I have a lot of insecurity, I have a lot of fear, as I think a lot of humans do. I have been told that bravery is having fear and doing it anyway, whatever the 'it' is. I think that holds for all realms of life, but particularly in the field of innovation, where so much fear and doubt, and often kind of going out on your own, especially with a new idea arises. And that really is, you know, the purpose of bravery is to push you through that."
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