The benefits of sauna on your health

All The Good Things

We know how good sauna bathing makes us feel here at SWEAT X WONDER but it’s nice to see it backed up with research and supported by people in the know like Sara Gottfried, a doctor and New York Times best-selling author whose passion is precision medicine Sara recently shared five important benefits of sauna bathing:

🧡 Activates the longevity gene called FOXO3, which turns on the genes for stress resilience, antioxidant production, protein maintenance, DNA repair (prevents mutations), and tumor killing. Most of these genes decrease their genomic expression with age.
🧡 Increases insulin sensitivity (more glucose receptors on muscle cells), resulting in a striking reduction of 1 percent unit in the glycated hemoglobin, fasting glucose, and body weight in people with diabetes.
🧡 Enhances heart rate variability and balance in the nervous system.
🧡 Improves athletic performance (endurance, less muscle atrophy, more plasma volume).
🧡 Increases capacity for stress tolerance by reducing the sympathetic nervous system, as measured by reduced adrenaline and cortisol in just seven days.

And It Doesn’t Stop There…

Saunas also create the ‘runner’s high’ Saunas also generate “runner’s high” and boost growth hormone and testosterone.

Bonus: sauna bathing is relaxing; it eases stress while adding to your healthspan. Making saunas a regular part of your wellness toolkit can bring about a real shift in how your body functions in a more optimal way.

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