The Benefits of Saunas for Cardio

Sauna mimics many aspects of endurance exercise and just using the sauna absent any exercise can increase cardio respiratory fitness. People who use the Sauna more have less cardiovascular disease over time and dramatic reductions in dementia too. There's some interesting work on something called whole body hyperthermia which is heating the body but not heating the head so people will wear these funny suits that just keep the torso and the limbs heat those parts of theBody but not the head. And when people use that repeatedly over the course of several weeks you see reductions in depression or measures of depression.

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