Exercise is an alternative to sauna for vascular improvement, activating similar mechanisms like heat shock proteins, core body temperature increase, and BDNF.

“So in terms of like activating heat shock proteins, increasing core body temperature, like increasing BDNF, a lot of like really almost every single one of those list of mechanisms that we went through that sauna is activating, exercise also does.”

“Mhm. Are there other things that would be competitive with sauna that so if if we didn't do sana we wanted a similar vascular improvement what therapies would we look at or does sauna hold a pretty unique position in terms of its ability to generate these heat shock proteins to uh work on the endothelia function increase blood by 70%.”

“so you know if you want to sit in the sauna every day that's great I think there are enormous benefits to sitting in the sauna and we could sit here and talk about you know BDNF and heat shock proteins and vascular endothelial factors and I love all that stuff and it's almost assuredly not hurting you to suggest for a second as helping you is irresponsible”

“both of those you know forms of heat stress have been shown to increase um you know heat shock proteins which is sort of a biomarker of heat stress and um both of them also been shown to increase brain Drive neurotrophic Factor as well”

“They do for other biomarkers like heat shock protein activation and BDNF activation.”