The increase in growth hormone from sauna use is likely due to increased activity of hypothalamic neurons that regulate heat and stimulate growth hormone release.

“And there are now many studies like this. This was described a few years ago, but since then, there've been a number of other studies that have pointed in the direction of deliberate hyperthermia, but not too hot that you kill yourself in order to increase growth hormone.”

“But entering environments where it's very hot for short periods of time, anywhere from 20 minutes to 30 minutes, where the temperature is 80 degrees Celsius to 100 degrees Celsius or 175 degrees Fahrenheit, more or less, to about 210 degrees Fahrenheit, more or less, has been shown to increase growth hormone release 16 fold.”

“But it appears that getting into, I'm not saying getting the body up to 212 degrees Fahrenheit, I want to be very clear, I'm not talking about getting the body up to 100 degrees Celsius. That would be terrible. You would die. But entering environments where it's very hot for short periods of time, anywhere from 20 minutes to 30 minutes, where the temperature is 80 degrees Celsius to 100 degrees Celsius or 175 degrees Fahrenheit, more or less, to about 210 degrees Fahrenheit, more or less, has been shown to increase growth hormone release 16 fold.”

“Last episode, I talked a lot about how sauna, controlled safe hyperthermia can cause huge increases in growth hormone release anywhere from 300 to 500, even 1600% increases in growth hormone release.”

“If you're interested in getting growth hormone release, well then hot sauna. And I offered some other tools if you don't have a sauna in the episode on growth hormone and thyroid hormone is going to be the way to go.”

“You will experience a growth hormone release from sauna, hot bath, and hot shower, provided they're done for sufficient duration and sufficiently high temperature.”

“it can also increase growth hormone, increase vasodilation, improve one's ability to sweat, which can be very beneficial in a number of contexts.”

“We've talked about the use of sauna to increase growth hormone.”

“these increases in growth hormone are tremendous and what they probably stem from are increased activity of neurons within the hypothalamus that stimulate growth hormone release from the pituitary and that's probably because the growth hormone releasing hormone neurons in the hypothalamus sit very closely and may even be intermixed with some of the neurons in the hypothalamus that regulate heat and body temperature”

“however there are really strong data pointing to the fact that sauna AKA deliberate hypothermia not too high however that sauna can increase the release of growth hormone and other hormones”

“you go in a sauna for 20 minutes that's gonna change your growth hormone level significantly”

“A natural means of "cycling" GH may be 30-60 min. sauna , which causes a transient but really high spike in GH.”

“there are a couple of ways you can effectively increase your growth hormone levels strenuous exercise has routinely been shown to boost growth hormone levels however we can become acclimated to to strenuous exercise and not release as much growth hormone over time sauna therapy a 30 minute sauna session has been shown to cause a rapid and robust boost in growth hormone levels”

“the sauna also affects growth hormone levels these effects depend on the temperature time spent and the frequency of sauna use”

“So the exercise sort of primes that IGF-1 that's released downstream of growth hormone from the sauna to go into the brain, where it plays a role in actually helping BDNF, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, in growing your neurons.”

“I know there is a bunch of endocrine factors that increase quite dramatically upon just even a single sauna session, like, for one, growth hormone. [Jari]: Growth hormone, yeah, it is, yeah. [Rhonda]: Growth hormone goes up, like, 200% or 300%, like, even after a”

“The heightened growth hormone levels typically last a few I would say more like a couple hours after sauna use. They really after about two hours they start to go down close to to to baseline levels.”

“growth hormone is elevated when you're getting the sauna and that can have aspects for Recovery as well”

“So like the longer you do the sauna, the more hot without going above, you know, 200° Fahrenheit, you're going to get a a more robust response with growth hormone.”

“So we know that sauna, deliberate heat exposure does increase growth hormone. So growth hormone does respond to a stressful type of you know stress right? [...] And the effects of growth hormone, particularly on like tendons, making them stronger. I believe that's that's something that's you know known.”