Deliberate heat exposure activates heat shock proteins, which prevent protein aggregation and plaque formation in the cardiovascular system and brain.

“protein aggregation is found in cardiac diseases such as heart failure in a sclerosis and cardiomyopathy and is also commonly found in neurod degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease”

“And also heat shock proteins. We'll talk about biomarkers for heat shock proteins, which are proteins that are, you know, classically known to be involved with...you know, they're stress response proteins. So heat is a form of stress, and they get activated with many types of stress, but heat is one of them. And they basically protect proteins inside of your cells from aggregating and becoming misfolded and forming plaques and disrupting things. They also help prevent muscle atrophy. They play a role in preventing your muscles from atrophying. And they play a lot of neuroprotective roles and neurodegenerative...”

“another really important adaptation that happens when you're engaging in deliberate heat exposure for something like the sauna also a hot bath is the increase in something called heat chock proteins and these are pro this is an Adaptive response so as you're elevating your core body temperature you're getting hotter these heat Chu proteins are activated and they are the main role that they the main function they serve is to prevent proteins from aggregating and forming plaques in your cardiovascular system in your brain”