Short video by Aaron Hartman, MD presenting saunas and hydrotherapy as accessible biohacks that may promote anti-aging, longevity, reduced cancer risk, and improved athletic performance by raising core body temperature and inducing beneficial physiological responses.
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I like to talk about a few basic cutting edge elite athlete high end biohacks that are anti aging, that improve longevity, that decrease your cancer risk and improve performance overall. Saunas the idea behind far infrared saunas is that you heat your core body temperature. Heating your core body temperature improves your cell function. If you get your body core temperature up you can cause a low grade fever which is actually good. The the idea behind sauna therapy or hydrotherapy or other therapies that increase your body's core temperature is that they're actually improving your body's ability to fight off infections and cancer. The other thing that happens they increase these things called heat shock proteins that help your mitochondria function better. This is something that's available to the average person whether it's in a gym sauna, far infrared sauna or even doing hydrotherapy which is where you use hot tub water to increase your core body temperature. One of the things that happens when you do these sauna hydrotherapies is actually longevity effect.