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The Science & Health Benefits of Deliberate Heat Exposure
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Similarly, we’ve evolved with another type of exercise: thermal exercise. We are great at changing our environment to suit our comfort levels, but the relative lack of variation in temperature we experience on a daily basis may undermine our peak brainpower and resistance to disease.
conducted a twenty-year study of middle-aged men who used a sauna regularly and found that the men who sat in the sauna for twenty minutes at least four times a week decreased their risk of sudden cardiac death and experienced a 40 percent reduction in all-cause mortality during the period of the study. The sauna fanatics also had a markedly lower
... See more“Two 20-minute sauna sessions at 80°C (176°F) separated by a 30-minute cooling period elevated growth hormone levels two-fold over baseline.