Heat Up Your Health Routine: Why Sauna Sessions Are a Game-Changer
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I’m Brandon Wilson. I am constantly working toward improving my mind, body, and spirit using various ancient techniques and cutting-edge biohacking tools and devices. I want to be healthy, but not at the expense of being happy. This simple idea is what it means to be wellthy.
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Long-time subscribers might remember I wrote about visiting The Wellness Bar in February. I called it Biohacking Nirvana because it offers many different modalities in one place:
Infrared sauna
Cryotherapy
Red light therapy
Halotherapy
Dry float
Whole-body vibration
Compression
IV therapies
Manual therapy
That’s way too much to cram into one newsletter, so I will spotlight one of these modalities, starting with the sauna.
The sauna concept is straightforward—you sit in an enclosed space and get hot. The practice is becoming more popular in the US, but we are far from catching Finland, which has a population of 5.5 million and 3.3 million saunas! It’s no surprise that most of the scientific studies about saunas have come from Finland.
The usual set-up is a heater that heats the ambient air to about 174 degrees F (79 degrees C). Some saunas have heated rocks where they pour water to create 10-20% humidity. The studies showed sauna sessions lasting at least 20 minutes and done 4-7 times per week offer numerous benefits.
