Dept
Health
ESSENTIAL Naples
Salt Cave Therapy
By Dr. Diane Hayden and Andrea Geresdi of Salt Cave Naples
SUMMER 2020
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“Salt therapy helps with strengthening the immune system and improving lung function to build an inhospitable terrain for COVID-19.” - Andrea Geresdi
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n 2009, Andrea Geresdi had a dream (the kind you have while sleeping). In her dream, she was standing in a beautiful salt cave. The dream was so powerful, she woke up and immediately woke her husband and said to him, “We have to build a salt cave!” A week later they had ordered twenty tons of Himalayan Salt. Her story is one of belief, persistence, and laser beam focus. At first, they couldn’t find anyone who would lease space to a couple that wanted to haul twenty tons of salt in and build a salt cave in an office building. Understandable. But Andrea didn’t give up. “Sometimes, I feel like life tests you to see how bad you really want something,” she said. I couldn’t agree more after trying to launch this magazine during COVID-19! We also agreed that when something is supposed to happen, then things will eventually fall into place. And so it happened that she did find a space, twice the size she was looking for, which allowed her to expand into providing more treatment rooms to offer Biofeedback, massage therapy, light therapy, far-infrared sauna and a lovely shop with crystals, jewelry and salts for purchase. It all happens exactly as it should and Andrea and Peter opened the first salt cave in the US in 2009.
DH: What are the health benefits of salt cave therapy?
AG: Some of the respiratory system benefits are anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, thinning and clearing of mucus, improving lung capacity and lung function, helping to alleviate and diminish the symptoms of allergies, asth-
ma, bronchitis, colds, Cystic Fibrosis and sinus conditions. The skin benefits from salt cave therapy include decrease of itching, reduction of edema on post-surgical scars, reduction and clearing of inflammation of the skin. Psychological and emotional benefits include reducing stress, relaxation and rejuvenation. Research shows salt cave therapy normalizes certain levels in the brain, improving a person’s positive outlook and mood. Negative ions also help you sleep by regulating your serotonin secretion, reduce headaches and sickness and increases the flow of oxygen to the brain resulting in higher alertness, decreased drowsiness, and more mental energy.
DH: What can clients expect at Salt Cave Naples?
AG: I want my clients to feel at home when they come here. They have two options on how they can use our center: 1. Spa services: Clients can pick and choose what they feel they need from our menu of many amazing spa services like massage, sauna, detox foot bath, or spiritual healing. 2. Wellness clinic: Clients can start with a non-invasive bioenergetic body scan with our EPFX/QXCI Biofeedback System.
DH: Tell us more about Biofeedback, it sounds fascinating!
AG: Biofeedback is a new field of energy medicine that addresses the electrical properties of the body through stress reactivity testing of the entire energetic body field. It’s a non-invasive
