#014 Sauna Use and Building Resilience to Stress with Dr. Rhonda Patrick
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Heat Shock Proteins Help Repair Damaged Proteins
Heat shock proteins have also been shown to protect against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease. These heat shock proteins are very important because they're maintaining a certain, maintaining the structure of your cells. Another one that's robustly activated by heat is a pathway called FOXO3. And FOXO3 is the so-called longevity gene. Humans with a polymorphism that make more of FOXO3 have up to a 2.7-fold increased chance of living to be a centenarian.
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