The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
Basically, cardiorespiratory fitness, which is a marker of, it's a marker of health. Cardiorespiratory fitness is improved in people that do exercise and sauna compared to exercise alone or sauna alone. So, for those healthy, fit people out there already exercising, there's a synergistic effect by also adding a sauna into that routine.
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for those healthy fit people out there already exercising there's a synergistic effect by also adding a sauna into that routine
Frequent sauna use offsets the increase in all-cause mortality associated with low socioeconomic status.
@gravorn1 The exercise + sauna group improved their aerobic fitness by around 3 ml/kg/min versus the exercise-only group, which was about a 30% increase.
Aerobic exercise combined with frequent sauna use had a synergistic effect on lowering mortality risks. The combinations were more strongly associated with lower mortality outcomes compared with the separate associations for each exposure.
People who exercise and use the sauna can experience a synergistic health benefit—with a nearly 70% reduction in mortality risk among fit frequent sauna users.
There were also greater improvements in blood pressure and total cholesterol levels when sauna was combined with exercise.
although we have adjusted for the level of fitness, yeah, there are also independent associates between the use of sauna and outcomes.
And in the best case, of course, we can combine these positive effects in, like, exercise and sauna.
there's been observational data showing people that exercise and use the sauna have a lower all cause mortality than people that exercise
and he has published just numerous studies on how this sauna affects cardiorespiratory Fitness how it's affecting blood pressure cardiac compliance arterial compliance just a lot of different cardiovascular health parameters and his research has shown in a couple different ways so there's been observational data showing people that exercise and use the sauna have a lower all cause mortality than people that exercise and don't use the sauna but he's also done some Interventional studies where he's taken two groups of people and put them on an exercise protocol aerobic exercise on a stationary bike and then only half of that group then went into a sauna after the exercise and he measured cardiio respiratory Fitness and found that people that use the sauna in addition to aerobic exercise improve their card cardiorespiratory Fitness even more than people that uh only did the exercise and there were other cardiometabolic parameters that were also improved cholesterol was improved blood pressure was improved more as well so it seems as though adding the sauna in addition to an exercise routine is another way to improve some cardi metabolic end points and also cardiorespiratory Fitness
4–7 sauna sessions per week, 20 minutes at 80°C+, reduce cardiovascular mortality risk by 40% over a decade.
Regular sauna use raises BDNF and improves verbal memory in older adults.
Sauna protocols only generate the longevity effect when sessions exceed 30 minutes.
Hot-tub bathing yields cardiovascular benefits comparable to traditional Finnish sauna at matched core-temp dose.