Dr. James Fitzsimmons

That's wild.

Yeah.

And so you get a bunch of guys and they go in there and it's like, ah.

And what happens is you drink a whole bunch of water, you go in, you hang there as long as possible and you come out and the jungle's air conditioned for like...

20 seconds, because it's like blazing hot in there.

And you get out and it's like air conditioned for like 20 seconds.

And then usually some guy will like throw water on you or something like, ah, and you drink a bunch of water and you go back in.

That's sort of what it is.

So these sweat baths were designed as basically places for sort of building, you know, breaking the person down and bringing them back up.

They were actually healing places for healing.

Um, and, um, I don't know how much healing properties it actually would have.

Right.

But, um, what I would say is that at the time of the conquest, when, um, you know, the Aztecs do have these as well, when the Spanish come along and then the diseases come along, the first thing that people do is they crowd everybody in the sweat baths and that just kills huge numbers of people because they go in there and they got smallpox.

Oh no.

Yeah.

And so the indigenous healing stuff, that idea basically just destroyed a lot of people.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

So, yeah, I don't know if you can do that anymore today.

I mean, we had the governor of Guatemala with us, like folks from the officials doing this.