Short YouTube spoken segment explaining that sauna use mimics exercise and confers cardiovascular benefits: regular sauna bathing (from ~2×/week up to daily) is said to improve heart health, lower risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, and premature death, and to improve mental health. The speaker also claims brief sauna exposures act as a short ‘healthy stress’ that increases mitochondrial function in cells, improving cellular efficiency and adaptation.
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The main benefits of using a sauna is that it mimics exercise for the body. And we know all the benefits from exercise. And you would actually get that extra exercise for your heart. And that is heart health. So if you can do two times per week, that is great. And it even shows that you will have a better cardiovascular health, lower risk of cardiovascular diseases, less risk of stroke, even mental health is improving. And also you will have a lower risk of dying early if you can go more than two times. But if you can go three to four times or even every day, so seven times per week, it also shows that you, even you, you decrease the risk of cardiovascular diseases. But it also increases mitochondria in the cells because it pushes the cells. So it needs to be more efficient. And the mitochondria is our little fabric in, in the cells that needs to work very well for, for the body to adapt. And that is what we want to do. We want to push those cells to. On the healthy stress part. So it's very short. What we are talking about, the timing is short. And that pushes the cells just enough to repair itself, to make it prepared next time.