Heat exposure from sauna may mimic some aspects of exercise stress, impacting the cardiovascular system and potentially offering benefits beyond growth hormone elevation.

“I do think that there's something to the heat exposure probably outside of growth hormone that, you know, at the local level, we're beginning to appreciate the stress of the sauna. So it is stressful. It's a thermal stress but, I mean, it sort of, recreates, "mimics some aspects of exercise." And we talked about, you know, hot yoga is one of this great sort of not only relaxing therapeutic, but you're physically active. You're stretching muscles, but you're doing it in the heat. So there's a big thermal stress, and your cardiovascular system absolutely is like, "Wow, we're under siege here."”

“So my my idea here is like is this is using the sauna also potentially you know helping your tendons because of that growth hormone pulse that you're you know getting from from doing exercise also does right elevates growth hormone as well”