88. The incredible benefits of sauna on brain performance and health
Do You F*cking Mind?
Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach
4.9 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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This episode is all about the benefits of sauna on the brain and body. It covers what neurotransmitters are increased, how it reduces stress, depression and anxiety, improves focus and reduces chances of neurodegeneration. There is just so much info packed in here and so much to learn!
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, hello, beautiful people and welcome to today's episode. I've really lost track. I think it's like 88 or something. |
| 0:07.0 | Today I'm going to be doing more of like a kind of a brain fact, more of a deep dive about the benefits of heat, kind of extreme heat treatment and in particular saunas. |
| 0:19.6 | And the saunas that I'm talking about specifically |
| 0:22.4 | most of the studies that I'm going to be referring to and all the information that's come out of it |
| 0:26.2 | are the steam saunas where you've got the hot rocks and you pour the water on it and you get that kind of |
| 0:31.3 | dry steam however a lot of there is a lot of new studies also going on with infrared saunas where they're saying |
| 0:40.5 | a lot of benefits as well. But I'm referring in particular to kind of that more old school kind |
| 0:45.1 | of sauna style, which is really typical in kind of Nordic countries and a lot of the studies |
| 0:50.8 | were done in Finland and things like that. So really exciting episode. |
| 0:54.7 | It's not, it's probably not going to be, I mean, you guys will fucking see when you're |
| 0:58.1 | playing the episode. |
| 0:59.0 | It might not be as long as the other ones are, just because it's more like the facts. |
| 1:02.8 | So you're probably going to have less of me rambling on about what to tell some dud in your |
| 1:07.0 | life and how to tell people to get fucked. |
| 1:09.1 | But anyway, I'm, yeah, let's see. |
| 1:11.1 | I'll see how long this takes. |
| 1:12.7 | But it is very interesting. |
| 1:14.5 | And I, yeah, I did mention a few weeks ago, or maybe even last episode, to be honest, |
| 1:19.9 | that I was going to be doing an episode in particular about this heat therapy and why it is so |
| 1:25.8 | good for you. |
| 1:26.2 | So I thought, what better time than now. I've just |
| 1:28.4 | signed up at a gym where I'm doing saunas literally in the last week. I've probably had five |
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