#048 Sauna Use as an Exercise Mimetic for Heart and Healthspan
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Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.
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🗓️ 16 September 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This podcast is the audio from a presentation Dr. Rhonda Patrick gave on how the sauna may be an exercise mimetic for heat health and healthspan. Sauna use has emerged as a means to increase lifespan and improve overall health, based on compelling data from observational, interventional, and mechanistic studies. Listen in to find out more.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- 00:00:00 - Introduction
- 00:03:01 - Clinical research shows that sauna improves cardiovascular health
- 00:09:19 - Finnish sauna vs Waon infrared therapy
- 00:12:35 - The mechanisms of sauna use mimic exercise
- 00:15:58 - Heat shock proteins mediate the benefits of sauna use
- 00:23:42 - Sauna use reduces inflammation
- 00:25:54 - Sauna use is enjoyable and safe
- 00:28:55 - Crowd questions and answers
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my fellow sauna lovers. As many of you know, I love the sauna, and I love to talk about |
| 0:05.4 | the sauna. This episode features me doing one of the things I love to do, talking sauna science. |
| 0:11.6 | In this case, I focus a lot on the heart effects of the sauna, but I also talk quite a bit more |
| 0:16.4 | about other things as well. The reason for the focus on heart health is because the audio I'm about |
| 0:21.1 | to share with you is from a recent talk I gave at the Healthy Heart Conference in Little Rock |
| 0:25.3 | Arkansas about how sauna use may be an exercise mimetic for heart health and health spanned. |
| 0:31.1 | I feel passionate about this topic. That's why I really don't mince words to this roomful of |
| 0:36.1 | cardiologists that were listening to this presentation when I said to them that I think in the next 10 |
| 0:40.8 | years, sauna bathing may very well become part of the standard of care for the prevention and |
| 0:45.3 | treatment of heart disease and a variety of heart conditions and for overall longevity. |
| 0:49.6 | I feel that way in a large part due to the utterly crucial research coming out of a lab based |
| 0:54.3 | in Copio Finland led by Dr. Yari Laukinen. I have a previous podcast with Dr. Laukinen, which you |
| 0:59.8 | can find on the episode list on my website or right on iTunes. It is not Yari's work alone, |
| 1:05.4 | however, that convinces me of this fact. It is also the molecular research that has established |
| 1:10.1 | aspects of the heat stress response as a regulator of aging in genetic studies in humans, |
| 1:15.1 | but also studies in worms and flies, so-called lower organisms, where the real fundamentals of |
| 1:20.7 | aging biology can be teased apart and help us get a better sense of the big story surrounding what |
| 1:25.6 | I believe to be the healthful and adaptive practice of sauna bathing. All of that said, it's still |
| 1:30.8 | early, even now when it comes to clinical research on the subject, especially in the context of heart |
| 1:35.2 | disease. It is important we exercise due caution. Please don't take my word for any of this. If you |
| 1:40.2 | are suffering from a heart-related condition, please consult your physician to ask them if it's |
| 1:44.0 | appropriate to use the sauna. It's always good to exercise good, common sense. Big thanks to |
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