Rhonda Patrick prefers to use the sauna after exercise because it is exhausting and she believes it helps with repair by increasing growth hormone and IGF-1 post-workout.

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

“And so I started using the sauna every morning before I would going to the lab and do my experiments. And I noticed that I felt really good after, and I was able to handle stress better.”

“from personal experience I prefer to do the sauna after exercise uh because one the sauna is also exhausting so I try to do the sauna before I workout my workout won't be as good um and also I think that you know after the workout I like doing it because it's increasing the growth hormone and igf1 and so these things are you know right after you're working out it's it's helping repair that some of that damage that's been done from the workout too”

“And what I started to notice was for whatever reason, the sauna, using the sauna, really, really lowered my anxiety, and my ability to deal with the stress.”

“I did publish a review last August where I talked all about the heat shock proteins being responsible for preventing and, you know, much muscle atrophy with. There's been animal studies that I cited, you know, many years ago, and they've been sort of redone in a sense in some local applied heat therapy studies where they're preventing, you know, atrophy disuse.”