Rhonda Patrick

Nothing has changed other than I'm going to the sauna every day before I go and do all my failed experiments.

And that's kind of what got me into the whole sauna was actually the effect on my mental health.

So it's kind of fun to go full circle and team up with Ashley on some of this research as well.

And she's amazing, by the way.

And she's got some new studies coming out in this whole field of sauna depression.

I think just

She's opening the door.

So that said, the effect on the head, if you think about like hot tubs, jacuzzis, we're all sitting with our head out as well.

We're in there.

And it's a good question because I agree with you when I'm in a hot sauna and I'm also on the top and it's the same deal.

I want to get out in 20 minutes.

If I stay in too long, I will get a headache.

I know my threshold now.

I know the temperature and the duration and the amount of water.

I know all those variables.

So the interesting thing is, is that talking about dementia risk, I talked about heat shock proteins, and I kind of went off on this tangent, sorry.

But the heat shock proteins, what they do is they prevent proteins from misfolding and forming aggregates.

And so obviously, when you're getting into a hot sauna, you are denaturing some proteins.

And so your heat shock proteins are a stress response that's activated to help with the proper folding of those proteins that were kind of denatured somewhat from the heat that you were exposing yourself to.

Well, it turns out the heat shock proteins stay active for a long time.