The broader heat shock response, which underlies many benefits of sauna use, is conserved across different heat sources including hot baths and wet or dry saunas.

“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”

“Triggering beneficial homeostatic cellular responses like heat shock response”

“I think hot bath can be very similar in terms of provoking a useful heat stress response.”

“However, the broader heat shock response, which underlies many benefits of sauna use, is conserved across different heat sources such as hot baths and wet or dry saunas.”

“However, the broader heat shock response, which underlies many benefits of sauna use, is conserved across different heat sources such as hot baths and wet or dry saunas.”

“I believe the benefits of a sauna, primarily driven by activating the heat shock response, are likely replicable in steam rooms and even hot baths.”

“The 'heat shock response' is pretty accessible to most people, even if their gym doesn't have a strictly traditional sauna...”

“HSPs are robustly increased after sauna & also increase lifespan in worms/flies/humans.”

“hot baths have also been shown to increase some of these biomarkers like heat Shack proteins that sauna has and I really think that's a really a good um you know the fact that it's able to increase some of the same biomarkers to me signals that maybe hot baths or any sort of modality that's really increasing your heart rate that's making you hot is something that's going to be beneficial as well”

“Part of the adaptive response is an increase in something called heat shock proteins.”