Mihail Pautov compares dry, steam, and infrared saunas. Wet saunas raise body temperature faster and stress your cardiovascular system more, while dry saunas let you stay longer and feel more comfortable. Steam saunas work like HIIT for your body.
You have dry sauna. Yeah. With those rocks you can throw water on. You have wet sauna, and you have infrared sauna. If you have these three options, which one would you choose?
Think about sauna and wet sauna versus the dry sauna as a continuum. Right. So you have this increase in heat response or heat shock in your body. You can you shock your cells as well?
Yeah.
And the more wet it is, the faster you, you would actually activate that. When you get warm, you want to dump the heat and the body tries to dump the heat, but it cannot really dump the heat as fast because there is also, there is too many water molecules in the air. And because that is on your skin, it's difficult for, for the body to get rid of that because the difference is too small.
Yeah.
And when you're in a dry sauna, you can dump the heat better because you have the ability to actually sweat better.
Yeah.
So the, the, the building up of your temperature happens really, really fast when the, there are many molecules of water in the air. Say wet sauna.
Yeah.
A hammam.
Yeah.
But a dry, completely dry sauna only with the rocks and 80 degrees Celsius. Let's say that then you can stay a little bit longer, but it's not pushing your cardiovascular system as hard as the wet.
So wet one is better for the cardiovascular.
It's, it's definitely like a hit training. Like it's, it's more efficient so you don't have to stay that long.
Okay.
But it's efficient.
Okay.
And the dry sauna, you can sit a little bit longer and relaxing and, and feeling that heat building up over the next 10, 15 minutes.