Bill Gifford
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And then at a deeper level, you start activating certain stress resistance mechanisms in our cells that essentially are there to protect us from heat, but also may have potential health benefits and longevity benefits.
It kind of depends where you're starting from, but it mimics some of the things that happen during exercise.
Not, crucially, not the muscle activation, right?
So that's a big part of exercise and it's a whole other conversation.
But it does accelerate heart rate and it does create, you know, you sweat just like you do when you're exercising.
It's not a substitute, but, you know, you feel like you did something if you sit in a sauna, for example.
That's a tricky question.
A lot of people out there are kind of prescribing a certain protocol.
And I think if you talk to the people who actually are deep into the sauna research, that's a big question that they haven't quite answered.
There are some studies from Finland, the famous Finnish observational sauna studies that everybody talks about,
where they found that the guys, it was men originally, who went every other day or every day and spent 19 minutes or more in 175 degrees or hotter sauna did the best across heart attack risk, stroke risk, all-cause mortality, even Alzheimer's disease, and some other things that we can talk about.
But...
that was based on a one-time questionnaire that these guys filled out as part of a bigger cardiovascular risk study studying every aspect of their lives so there's one page of sauna questions and they answered them once when they were like 40 50 and then they were followed for 20 years but you know i don't think you have a a habit from 20 years ago that you're performing exactly the same way right so
You know, it's not super solid.
It's suggestive.
But, you know, other studies have found that there are some, like, for example, they found an increasing growth hormone in people who use sauna.
That sounds great.
But the people in this study, I think they did two or possibly three 30-minute sessions in a very hot sauna.
So that's a commitment, right?
That's an intense hot day, right?
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