Traditional Finnish saunas are preferred over infrared saunas because they feel better and are hotter.

“preferably a true finish sauna infrared doesn't it warms the skin but not the core we want thank you for saying that I'm not a big fan of infrared sauna cuz it doesn't get hot enough no yeah you can bring an infrared light into a traditional sauna if it can tolerate the heat yeah but finished sauna would be what something between 185 degrees Fahrenheit and maybe 210 if you're really heat adapted”

“On the sauna, if you had to choose if you were going to be doing it, would it be traditional? We pour some water on the rocks. I like that. Over infrared. Yeah, I like that. reason why just feels better. It's hotter, you know.”

“Um, yeah, but I think that infrared light is valuable for humans and but you are getting a lot of infrared light even in a hot rock sauna because it's heat and so that there's a huge amount of infrared in there. So, one of the cool things about being in Costa Rica is we're getting a ton of infrared light because we're outside. I did a podcast with my buddy Tristan Scott and he really opened my eyes to this idea of infrared light deprivation and infrared light deficiency in humans. I did not know until I talked to him that the mitochondria in our whole body, not just in our eyes or our brain, use infrared light to make melatonin and use that as sort of a systemic store of an antioxidant in our body. And so you can think one of the probably the most damaging things that we could do for ourselves is sit indoors in an office behind glass all day. You're getting no infrared light. So it would be interesting to compare the amount of infrared in an infrared sauna versus an actual finished sauna. But just personally, I prefer the finished sauna.”

“for sure personally I'm not like I've used infrared saunas before and I have to stay in there like an hour to to get my heart rate what it gets you know in about 30 minutes of a really hot Sun in fact Finnish saunas are even hot because they're hotter because the steam makes it feel hotter the humidity right as people that are in Little Rock in the summer no humidity feels it makes it feel a lot we're you know hotter so but infrared saunas are convenient they're cheaper and they're less of a fire hazard risk so I mean I certainly see the you know the why people like infrareds on us but it's my personal I think that the dry saunas are in a Finnish sauna would be ideal”

“Finnish saunas are even hot because they're hotter because the steam makes it feel hotter the humidity right as people that are in Little Rock in the summer no humidity feels it makes it feel a lot we're you know hotter so but infrared saunas are convenient they're cheaper and they're less of a fire hazard risk so I mean I certainly see the you know the why people like infrareds on us but it's my personal I think that the dry saunas are in a Finnish sauna would be ideal”