In today's session, let's take a deeper dive into the health benefits of sauna and hot

tub therapy and focus on heat shock proteins.

These are intracellular proteins that actually initiate many of the ascribed health benefits

linked with thermal therapy or heat therapy, i.e. going in the sauna, whether it's infrared

or a finished sauna, going in a steam room, a hot bath, a hot tub, any form of heat as an

adaptive stress actually has some benefits and part of those benefits are linked to activation

of these intracellular proteins called heat shock proteins and because we've talked so

much about sauna therapy in the past, all the benefits we haven't really done a deep dive

into these heat shock proteins and it turns out that the heat shock proteins are key mediators

into all these health benefits and i'm talking about improved blood flow,

relaxation and dilation of the vessels that lead to a reduction in blood pressure

that lead to actually get this and enhancement in fat loss, an upregulation and metabolic

rate, an improvement in blood sugar handling. A lot of people don't know and this paper dives

into all the nuances here friends about the reduction in glycosylated hemoglobin, also known as

as the hemoglobin A1c. Just several weeks we're talking three weeks of going in a hot tub can drop

your hemoglobin A1c by a full percentage point so you can go from pre-diabetic to normal glycemic

in literally three weeks friends by just going in a hot tub several days a week so we're going to dive

into the details and i just want to share with you the big picture overview. So as you can see here

there's an individual this person is in the sauna they're getting hot as you can see here

part of the mechanisms that lead to these adaptations are an increase right in the middle here

HSP 70 that's what we're going to focus in on today because it turns out that heat shock protein 70

activates or all sorts of beneficial processes that are linked with the many health benefits linked

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