Sauna use can mimic moderate-intensity aerobic exercise, providing benefits for individuals unable to perform traditional exercise.

“So again, the sauna like this heat stress, there's something about it that really mimics this moderate intensity aerobic exercise, which is really great for people that can't go for a run, that can't even get on a bike.”

“Sauna Use for Cardiorespiratory Fitness”

“What the sauna has in common with exercise”

“sauna use may be an exercise mimetic for heart health and healthspan.”

“There is an increasingly robust literature now in favor of the fact that sauna use does mimic certain qualities of aerobic exercise.”

“your heart rate starts to elevate, as if you were doing cardiovascular work. In fact, I think it's something like 100... [Jari]: Twenty or 150. [Rhonda]: 150 beats per minute. [Jari]: Yeah. It is quite high actually. It's something like a moderate level of physical activity.”

“people are much more likely to be compliant in terms of if you have a person that has a lifetime of being sedentary and they're they have risk factors for cardiovascular disease or they may even have it it's really hard to get them to to go out and be physically active it's very very difficult but when you tell them about the amazing you know things that the sauna the studies that have shown that the sauna has you know positive effects on a variety of different cardiovascular rated you know diseases and it's good for prevention people think the saunas like a spa treatment so they want to go sit in the sauna and and little do they know that it's really me sitting the saunas you know mimicking in many ways moderate aerobic activity”

“So the sauna, it's not only, like, you know, more applicable in the sense that people are more compliant, because it's easier to go sit in something than it is to go for a run.”

“I think a lot of it comes down to that the the improvements in cardiov in respiratory Fitness and cardiovascular improvements um also the heat shock proteins as well so um the heat proteins are playing a role in the muscle they're playing a role in the immune system and they're also playing a role in the brain”

“And with the sauna, um, that's also a really good place to start and to bring it in, you know, combination as well because it is easier to go sit in a sauna and they do kind of feel like they're getting a spa treatment and there are beneficial effects from that as well. But I really think it should be paired with exercise because exercise is the king.”

“deliberate heat exposure through sauna through hot baths we are you're mimicking moderate intensity cardiovascular exercise doing in conjunction with exercises is better than exercise alone. You're improving your cardiovascular health. It improves endothelial function and it improves arterial compliance.”