May 20, 2024 • 33 mins
In this episode, Kelly and Tiffany chat about why they personally love sauna and discuss the benefits of saunas for women's health such as:
-stress reduction
-improved mental health
-better sleep
-heart health
-improved circulation
-skin health
-pain relief
-respiratory health
00:00 Introduction to Sauna Benefits
17:20 Detox and Drainage Pathways Support
17:43 Stress Reduction and Mental Health
19:07 Improved Circulation and Heart Health
26:43 Skin Health and Benefits
28:26 Respiratory Health and Wellness
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Welcome back to at home withKelly and Tiffany.
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I am your podcast.
Host Kelly Pappas.
And I am just a little sidekick.
TIFF.
TIFF with.
And today we're talking aboutbenefits of sauna for women's
health.
We have want us to talk aboutthis for a while because we love
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our sauna.
I know you guys have heard ustalking about it a lot.
I know we mentioned it.
But we've never unpacked it in away that's like, Under, we want
women to understand why it's sogood and.
We don't.
We just want more people sauna,bagging with us.
I feel like if everybody justupped their amount of time, they
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spent in a sauna, the worldwould be a better place.
Oh, that is 100% true.
Yep.
My home is a better place justbecause I Sama.
Yes.
My whole body is a better placebecause I sauna and we'll talk
about all of the reasons.
As to why that is how to sauna.
It's not complicated.
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And what it does for you beforewe jump into that, we wanted to
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Okay.
So I mentioned, we are talkingabout sauna for women's health
today, before we fully get intothat.
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I'm going to shout something outthat we've shared before, but it
connects to what we've beensharing today because I've
actually been using it in likeconjunction with all this other
things that I'm doing to supportmy system after doing a heavy
metal detox to like, kind of getmy foundation.
Right.
And then as a, like, you know,just moving forward everyday
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kind of support thing here.
So we've shared about earthlywellness before.
That company is just amazing.
I actually went back on in orderto you know, make another order.
And was like, dang, there's evenmore stuff on here than I really
even realized before.
So they've got a ton of stuff,super dedicated to what I feel
like we're dedicated to here aswell.
Just.
Equipping people to take controlof their health from home.
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And that was just a beautifulthing.
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But they have a liver toniccalled love your liver.
I use it daily now, like Imentioned, my husband's been
using it as well.
He takes these certainmedications that like basically
clog his liver up and cause likemetabolic things and whatever.
And so he's been on it to, tohelp support that system.
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And we're chatting about saunatoday and it correlates so much
to just liver and detox support.
So this is a really greataddition, whether you're
committing to sauna after thisor not.
To just support this reallyvital organ for your overall
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With code beautiful one.
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Okay.
And I also want to say that wehave a few episodes back, or I
don't know, a handful ofepisodes back.
We did.
A whole.
Episode on lymphatic drainageand dry brushing support.
And that would be somethingreally good to stack on with
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this.
Sauna topics.
So just keep that in mind thatas you're listening to this.
That there those two can besisters.
Sisters.
So the episode, sisters podcast,sisters hasn't related somehow.
Yes.
And so those are habits thatI've been stacking together more
and more, but especially when myperiod starts, I have realized
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that like day one, I'm like, Iam doing all of the things and
it just feels so good.
It helped me realize, or like,remember kind of that
menstruation is a bit of a, youknow, a cleansing like drainage
situation.
And I was like, ah, this feelslike really great.
Yes.
In fact, You inspired me tonever miss a day one in my
sauna, either.
Because once you reported that,that was like your absolute
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sweatiest session, I'm like,well, I want some of that now.
I always make sure I can get onmy son on cycle day one.
Is it your sweatiest day?
I CA I don't know.
I can't say for sure that it'smy sweatiest day.
Cause I don't track it thatwell, you've got some other,
you've got some other tracking.
Abilities that I'm just like, Idon't understand.
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I'm not really sweaty.
I don't know.
Yeah.
But it is always very sweaty.
Yep.
It feels good.
It feels good.
Okay.
So as I was prepping thisepisode, I just thought it was
funny.
And like we're talking aboutsauna and I was like, I should
probably share like what a saunais, but everybody knows what a
sauna is, but it's some kind ofenclosed area.
Right.
We have sauna bags that we willmention.
There's actual like saunas thatyou can go to at the gym or.
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You know, locations that offersaunas and steam rooms and cold
punches and all those kinds ofthings.
And so just some area that youare going into that will cause
you to sweat from.
The heat, depending on what kindof heat it is.
So.
We're going to talk about healthand benefits, but it's helpful
to talk about like time spent inthem, because I feel like we can
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talk about like, oh, there'sthere's benefits for this thing.
And then people are like, well,how long do you have to do the
thing?
To actually get the benefits.
And there's actually amazingresearch out there that really
points out to you like 20minutes for this thing, 40
minutes for this thing, you canget all the benefits of the 20
minute thing if you're going for40 off all kinds of cool stuff.
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So what I will say is that it'sgoing to depend right on your
health conditions on your age,on your comfort level.
So you don't have to blindlylisten to any of these numbers
or like general recommendations,just because, especially as
you're starting out, because.
I know when I started signing, Ithink I lasted 30 minutes and it
was like, oh, I gotta get outtahere in my sauna bag.
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And now I'm at an hour.
And I mean, I'm ready to getout, but that's a substantial
more amount of time that I wasable to work my way up to.
It's kind of like when you takeon anything, that's going to be
physically intense, like,getting back to exercising
again, like zero to 60.
That's not going to worklong-term because it's going to
take you more time to recoverthan it would if you had just
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gone.
If you would just pace yourself.
Yes.
So there's a few different typesof saunas also, right?
So they're like thosetraditional saunas you go in,
there's like, it's heated by,you know, like wood or gas, I
suppose.
And so those are hot, but lowhumidity.
And so the generalrecommendation for those as
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you're going in is about 20minutes at a time, you can
leave, take a break, go back in.
If you need to, if you'reworking on something in
particular, I can not last 20minutes in a regular sauna.
Yeah.
Can we also talk about the factthat like the times when I've,
when I've been like in a placewhere there's like a facility
where I can enjoy a sauna, Ilove the idea and it's, it's
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good.
I really, I, I know that it'sgood.
And.
And good.
And I know it's good.
But when I'm in there.
I have to talk myself downconstantly the entire time I'm
in the sauna.
I have to tell myself.
I'm safe.
That door's probably doesn'teven have a lock on it.
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I'm not going to pass out andfry like an egg in here.
You know, like I.
I am taking breath.
See, I'm taking nice deepbreaths and they're very warm,
but I'm still circulatingoxygen.
There's just some it's theirs.
It's a cost or phobia finger,something I'm certain, every
time I go into one of those inlike a public place.
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That somebody is going to.
Run over and lock the doorsomehow.
Yeah.
Or like switch out the heat forlike gas and it's a plan to kill
me.
There's too many things goingthrough my mind when I'm sitting
in those places.
I except I will say last year wewent, we had a spa day at a
winery and that sauna I wastotally fine with because you
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were there with.
I felt safe.
We got to talk and I wasdistracted.
You didn't mind.
I wanted to sit by the door.
But the, the half of it wasglass.
And so it didn't feel like therewas just one.
You know, so there's some, thatone I felt very safe in, but all
the other ones, I mean, like myhusband is talking about wanting
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to get like a sauna and like putit in our backyard or something.
And I'm like, I don't know if I.
I would use it.
I think it would from freakmyself out and in this even
smaller.
Enclosure where.
There's just so manypossibilities.
I sorry, I really derailed usthere, but I just know there's
someone listening whounderstands.
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Yes.
I mean, the fact that I wonderhow many of our listeners are
like, yeah.
That's my main issue with sauna.
Yep.
I don't want to go inside those.
Death.
Dev ops, right.
Probably not.
You never hear about peopledying in saunas?
No, there, but there's somethingmentally there that makes it not
okay.
Which we'll get to the saunabag.
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That is the joy of the saunabag.
Agreed agreed.
You can unzip yourself.
So those are traditional saunas,right?
Super hot, low humidity.
Infrared saunas.
Our lower temperature justoverall, you can stay in there a
lot longer, like 45 minutes,plus for some people.
And so, helpful to understandwhere your, what kind of sauna
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you're going into, where it is,all of that, you know, kind of
good stuff.
And then there's steam roomsalso.
Right?
And so those are really, reallyjust wet heat versus dry.
And so temperatures are slightlylower, but the humidity is
basically like a hundred percentin there.
Which side note my brother livesin Hong Kong humidity was a
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hundred percent there the otherday.
What I was like, how is that?
Even?
I mean, I think it was like 99,right.
But she sh.
I was like guys.
Oh my goodness.
So the general recommendation inthat, because of those crazy
high humidity levels is like 10to 20 minutes before you can
take a break and.
I don't know.
Your husband likes to go intosteam rooms.
Yeah.
He loves it for like opening uphis sinuses and he's got some
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weird, you know, septum issuesand stuff like that.
Or if he has a head cold, heloves to be in there.
Just feel, I mean, steam is goodfor some things.
Yeah.
It's not the same as sauna.
Really?
No.
No, but I think it's helpful tosee, like there are different
options depending on what youlike.
It's better to go into the steamroom and sweat than to not do
the sweating.
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Agreed.
Right.
Does he stay in there for long?
No, it's usually shorter.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I can imagine.
So the amount of time is alsogoing to be just generally
impacted, like I mentioned, withwhat your health goals are.
And so I'll actually put a linkin the show notes for some of
those like research backedrecommendations, like, oh, I'm
really working on.
My heart health.
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I'm really working on my liverstuff.
I'm really working on XYZ.
And so that'll link you to whatthe research shows for how long
you should be staying in there.
So we have mentioned this many,many times we have a different
type of sauna, basically.
It's basically a sleeping bag,right?
So you can imagine getting intothe bag, zipping it up.
And you, we lay.
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In it, but your head is out ofit just again, like a sleeping
bag that.
That whole setup is like freeingin every way, because I can
breathe regular air.
Right.
But you can spend a lot moretime in it.
The kind that we have isinfrared.
And I think you do too, but Ispend an hour in there when I do
it has been the best healthrelated.
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Good investment.
That I have.
Ever made.
I mean, besides like buyingnourishing food.
And to eat daily kind of thing.
This is like the investmentpiece of like, piece of
equipment.
I mean, I got it a couple ofyears ago and I'm using.
At four to five times a weekconsistently, still, which was a
concern when I first got it.
That.
Like I was going to like it andthen it was going to take her
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off, but it keeps me coming backfor more.
It does because a part of theprocess is an endorphin release,
really similar to exercise andit, it just reinforces the habit
for you.
And so it's like, you know, Iused to have this affinity for
like, at the end of a stressfulday, like I want to go get in
the bath.
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And just feel nice and toasty inthe water relaxes me.
And this has a very similareffect, but so many more
benefits.
Yeah, absolutely.
So, that's, that bag itself willbe linked below to, in the show
notes for you guys to check out,but either way, if sauna is new
to you, this idea of trying itout, or you've been doing it for
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a while, I noticed somethingthat that when I started doing
it more consistently each timeeach week, that I was starting
to get some symptoms of beingmineral depleted, I could sense
in my being that my full systemwasn't supported despite the.
I'm like I'm hydrating so well.
But the actual minerals that Iwas consistently sweating, like
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pouring sweat out and notrestoring them.
So that's my little side notehealth tip for you.
Yeah, you should definitely havetrace minerals or electrolytes.
At any point in the same way youwould like take care of yourself
if you were doing.
Longer cardio session orsomething like that, like
pushing your body and sweating alot.
Yeah.
And it's, it kind of messes withyour brain though, because
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you're like, well, I was justlaying down.
Right.
But all of the things that arehappening, right.
Your heart rate is increasing.
You really do get a very similarExperience to working out.
So just because you are.
Laying there.
It doesn't take the place ofworking out, certainly.
But as you are laying there,your body is still working very
hard as it is sweating.
Yeah.
I.
I mean, there, there is somemarketing around, it's just like
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a, whatever, a 30 minuteworkout.
And I mean, no, you didn't workyour muscles that way
necessarily, but what you did tochallenge your system,
metabolically, you are.
The same benefits happen in thesauna.
Yes.
Which is amazing if you thinkabout it, so, okay.
Why are we signing?
Why is it so wonderful?
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There are again, A ton ofdocumented research back
benefits.
Of sweating consistently and ofsauna use in particular, I find
it really fascinating that a lotof the research was done in
those Nordic countries that lovethe sauna so much, but there's a
ton just all over the world.
So it's not just one like peoplegroup that it has been.
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Shown to be supportive of.
But it supports detox anddrainage pathways in our body,
which is why TIF was mentioningthe other episode and how
interwoven these pieces trulyare.
R.
So we're not going to go throughan exhaustive list, but we have
a handful that we will.
Share with you first one, upbeing one of our favorites and
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kind of like what TIFF mentionedat the end of a long day sort of
thing, reduced stress levels andimproved mental health.
So that's a mix of a lot ofthings, right.
It's very calming to like, youknow, be in it.
And unless you think that you'regoing to die.
That's not calling.
Very calming spending the timedoing it, especially in your
sauna bag that breath workthat's needed to do hard work
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and your body.
But there's cortisol balancingalso that helps kind of decrease
that emotional, physical stressthat's happening.
There's a massive increase ofserotonin.
That's just a feel good hormone.
And then there's the sweatitself also.
That just feels good.
It's really a cumulative effect.
That the hormones have on yourbody and on your brain.
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Right?
And so your circulation is upmore stuff is going into your
brain.
More of those hormones that arecoming out into your body.
It's this wonderful feedbackloop that your body really
appreciates.
So, that piece of it also isleading to the fact that sauna
use is correlated with bettersleep as well, just because of
that calming effect that it doeshave on your body.
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That increased circulation thatis happening.
So anything that we can do tohelp improve that.
Is a win for me.
And I can attest to that forsure.
I definitely sleep better aftersauna.
Yeah, for sure.
And I, I feel like if I'm reallystressed out.
And I have the time, or I feellike I can carve the time.
I want to go into my bag.
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Yep.
That's like how I can cope withsome things.
Agreed.
It also is great at improvingblood pressure readings.
It makes weight loss easier, andit also stabilizes cholesterol.
And these are all metabolicmarkers for overall metabolic
health and only like a measly20% of us adults are
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metabolically healthy.
So this is a regimen that couldbe implemented by the majority
of adults and decrease the mainrisks for heart disease and just
overall disease.
And probably save us billions ofdollars as well as create longer
and more thriving lives.
Ah, just throwing that out thereas a possibility for being
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preventative and health.
One idea.
And that's the end of ourepisode.
Cause what else do you need?
All of course, this is alllinked back to the support of
the liver, clearing out ourbodies of stagnation and toxic
burden.
You guys know that that.
Inflammation process.
With liver stagnation and toxicoverload is a part of what
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starts to build a diseaseprocess in the body.
Almost every single majordisease, like, heart disease or
cancer or diabetes, or, youknow, all of these major
diseases that are at the verytop of why.
People die in the U S.
These are all linked back toinflammation and toxic burden in
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the body.
Yeah.
As we were creating themetabolic health for our course
for our membership.
Sonnet kept coming up.
And so many things have youknow, kind of foundational root
cause healing of some of thesethings, which was pretty cool.
We sort of touched on thisalready, but it can, it's been
supported for healthier heart,healthier and stronger.
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Heart functioning.
And so time in the sauna createsthat increase in your heart
rates, similar, like wementioned to working out.
Right.
So that feeling that you getwhere you're like.
Oh, man, my body's doing thiswork right now.
It truly is giving your heart agood workout as that is, you
know, as that is happening.
So research shows that sauna usehelps reduce the risk of heart
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attack stroke and cardiovasculardisease.
That's massive, right?
Especially.
It's the number one cause ofdeath in our country.
Yes.
So again, plug for adults usingthis.
But it also shows that sameeffect over cumulative years of
use as well.
So over the course of a 20 yearstudy, the risk for cardiac
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death and cardiovascular diseasecontinues to go down.
Which is.
Really cool to think about.
Yeah.
Incredible.
And like, I will attest to theincrease in heart rate.
I mean, cause you get notconfused, but you're kind of
like, oh, interesting.
How I'm just laying here.
Yep.
And you feel the sweat happeningof course, but towards the end
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of your session, There is a bit,I mean, you guys can tell I'm
preowned maybe to like a littlebit of anxiety, right?
But towards the end of thesession, I have to talk myself
through a bit of that time oflike, Yes, your heart rate's
increasing, but it's not becauseyou're in danger.
It's just which I don't get withexercise, I think because I'm
participating in it.
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But a heart rate increased whileyou're resting it kind of, your
brain just automatically islike, huh?
What is what's that about?
It's very confusing, but I mean,easily have a heart rate over a
hundred, just laying there.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
And maybe higher, I should takeit.
So I should take my pulse nexttime.
I'm feeling, you know, In it.
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Yep.
Yeah, I I will have to likeheavy breathe.
Very similar ways.
Like, it sounds like I'm doinghard work and I am laying there,
but it is.
But again, that just goes backto like, it is doing hard work
in your body, which is a greatthing.
Another thing that sauna isgreat for is improving
circulation, which of course, aswe've described it, that just
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makes sense.
The heart rate increases,sweating, dilates your blood
vessels and raises your coretemperature was which is going
to cause blood flow.
To just more freely flowthroughout your body and
increase circulation.
And that helps so many functionsin our bodies.
I mean, similar to exercise,right?
It's a huge reason that many ofthe benefits on the list are on
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the list in the first place,including an improved immune
system and white blood cellsupport.
And it really comes down toreinvigorating the system, kind
of like jump-starting it helpingthe oxygen needed blood make its
way around.
And also as a side note, if youare finding that you have a hard
time sweating, just keep workingat it because you should be
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sweating.
It should be fairly easy for youto work up a sweat just in daily
life.
And it's a good goal to have,and if it takes some time and
consistency, that is a worthything to work towards also
because every once in a while,we'll hear from a client or a
friend or something, and they'relike, Hey, just don't sweat.
And there's like, that's justweird moving on.
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And we're like, actually, that'ssomething that we do need to
work on, or we, you.
As a collective, we need to workon our body's ability to.
You know, detox and drain inthat particular way, because
it's an important function inour bodies.
Yeah, that'd be like saying Ijust don't poop.
It's fine.
I have.
Other things that my body does.
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Okay.
No, we got to, we got to work onit.
And a piece of that is thatcontinuing, just to try it to
the improve, continue to improvethat circulation, open up those
kinds of things.
So, back to circulationimprovement, the next one to
talk about brain health.
So not only will saunas relievethat stress improve overall
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mental state, but the actualbrain.
It's insane.
The studies that have been shownthat show that sauna use is
helping to decrease the risk ofdementia.
And Alzheimer's.
That he increases right in yourblood flow, all of that's going
to your brain and helps decreasesome of that cognitive decline.
So I have people in my life whoare in that space.
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Of getting older or showingsigns of certain things that I
have been like.
Not that we're like, this issomething that would be worthy
to implement, mess around with.
See how you feel.
Yeah, absolutely.
Next one I list is reducing painand muscle tension, which is
just another tick for thatimproved circulation here.
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The increased blood flow helpsheal and soothe pain and
soreness, and many athletesenjoy the benefits of sauna
after strenuous activity orpractices or games or whatever,
just to help soothe muscles andjoints as well as speed up the
healing process of injuries.
And non-athletes of course canuse this for the same benefit.
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So after a hard workout orlonger days, or like even birth
workers who just are feelingthat toll on their body after
being up or supporting.
People physically.
This is the absolute jam forrecovery and I've used it for
that multiple times.
In fact, you're the one whotaught me get in it.
When you first start to comedown with what seems like is
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going to be like a cold orsomething like that, or you're
just feeling a little bit offand just sweat that sucker out.
And I have, I, I believe that Ihave prevented illness from
progressing or at least helpedit along many times because of
that tool.
Yeah, absolutely.
Again, that circulation it'sreminds me of the episode that
we did just a little bit agoabout red light therapy.
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And really we come back to likethe fact that it's.
Reinvigorating the cells andmaking your blood do a thing.
So beneficial.
One of the, maybe, maybe it'slike a bit more vain or
something, but sweating isactually really good for your
skin.
So a lot of people think like,oh, if I sweat, I'm going to
actually break out.
It's going to clog my pores.
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But because of that circulationthat is happening in your body,
it actually is correlated tomuch more.
Like softer, more even tone inyour skin.
The sweating is actually helpingto cleanse the skin from
bacteria that is going to clogthe pores, and it's going to
open up blood vessels toincrease the blood flow to your
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skin.
And so, it's I feel like.
I can, I don't know necessarilyif I like notice a difference,
but I do think that when I don'tdo sauna for like a while I can.
I can sense or like, sort of getan idea, like in my own face
where I'm like, ah, There'ssomething that's kind of
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stagnant.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
And one of the reasons that Ilove the sauna bag option so
much is that while I'm kind ofdealing with a bit of this like
rash situation on my face, whichof course is like much improved
at this point.
But as I continue to care forthat piece, it's really
sensitive to heat.
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And so being able to keep myhead out of it is pretty helpful
because then I can get all thebenefits of everything I'm still
sweating my head, my face.
I mean, we've talked beforeabout.
Sweat getting in your eyes andears, which apparently is
completely fine with Kelly.
I can just enjoy it.
Satisfying.
But I'm able to stay compliantwith things that will not
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trigger some of that skininflammation and still support
my system.
Beautiful thing.
The last one on our listimproves respiratory health.
So it all kind of comes back tocirculation again.
It's somewhat similar to we'veshared before this cold wet sock
idea, right?
You're putting cold, wet sockson your feet.
And then I have shared that onthe podcast before.
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Nah, probably because I rememberI was so sick over the summer.
Yes.
We probably did three episodeswhile it was still safe.
It's the idea of it's anothercirculatory body temperature
kind of supportive thing.
We shared about it innewsletters.
If you're not on our newsletter,jump on there cause we'll chat
about it.
I'm sure again, soon.
But it's the same idea to helpimprove circulation in the body
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when you're sick.
And so, sinus discomfort,congestion allergy is those are
some things that you can likeget in and actually do like some
supportive things for, butbecause of that shift in your
heart rate, because of the goodworkout that your heart is
getting, and because of thatcirculation that's happening in
your body, there arecorrelations research with.
Like improved respiratory healthin terms of people like with
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asthma or, you know, those typesof struggles.
And so, that's pretty amazing.
Like, What a great tool to havein your back pocket.
Absolutely.
And like, if you're interestedin learning more about this,
there is just so much goodresearch that is backed by.
Just tons of Nat, thepharmaceutical company is just
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people who are interested inthis and like, Hey, you can kind
of get into like a weird littleBiohacking space that may or may
not resonate with you.
But you can still just locatereally good sauna.
Benefits and information.
There's, there's someone in oursmall group who likes to talk
about controversial things withme, because he knows that like
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I'm into all of it.
So he'll just be like, so whatabout.
Eating your placenta.
Okay.
So what do you, what about thesauna?
And, and he was like, oh, well,I looked up the sauna.
There's actually realinformation about the benefits
of sonnet.
This one I can get behind.
Because the information is realthat's I think that that feels
good for some people to be like,I don't just go off my own
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anecdotal, Hey, this makes mefeel good.
But actually this is a worthyinvestment of my time or my
money, depending on, you know,the situation that because.
There is just so much tangible.
There's so many tangible resultsfrom it.
Yes.
And I love it.
And so I hope the women who arelistening today are inspired by
that, knowing that you can kindof tailor the sauna use to your
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own needs and goals, you canfeel good doing it.
It's just so much good windsthat we know it's going to add a
ton of value to your life.
Again, we'll link this on a bagthat we have.
I don't have a lot of inputabout some of the other sauna
bags that are out there.
I know there's otherpractitioners who use other
sauna bags and they're happywith it.
So I would say, just look atreviews and look at word of
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mouth of other people before youbuy one.
If it's going to be differentthan the higher dose one that we
recommend.
If my, if something happenedwith my sauna bag and it like
broke or a part needed to bereplaced, or it wasn't working
correctly or something likethat.
I would, without a question,jump online and just buy another
(31:39):
one.
Oh, yeah.
I wouldn't want to mess aroundwith anything else because I
love what I have and I wouldn'twant to be without it.
No, exactly.
So.
It would be, it's like ano-brainer to me that like in, I
also wouldn't be mad at theproduct for failing after
serving me for hundreds ofhours.
I mean, these are the things Ithink about when I'm in there.
I'm like, I wonder how long thisSusan will last.
(32:00):
I mean, it's just, it's, it'sjust, it's just one to ticking
time.
Yes.
And then I'll just have to buyanother one.
That's fine.
I'll just get the next one.
Everything's gonna be fine.
Actually, our neighbors had toreplace theirs and so it, they
went without it for like a week.
And, but the company, which.
They have the same one that wedo higher dose.
I replaced it for them becausethey were like, oh, that's like
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a faulty part and sent them abrand new bag.
Perfect.
Yeah.
Great customer service too.
So we have that linked in theshow notes.
We'll also have our Amazon listfor all things, kind of
lymphatic detox support.
Again, the sun will be in thereand you can also check that link
for specific time of likeresearch back time to be
spending in the sauna, all thatgood stuff.
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Hopefully we leave you excitedto go.
Get sweaty.
Yep.
If everyone is excited to go getsweaty.
I am leaving here, going to eatdinner and go get sweaty.
That's my plan too.
All right, ladies, we will seeyou next week.
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Right.
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And I also want to say that wehave a few episodes back, or I
don't know, a handful ofepisodes back.
We did.
A whole.
Episode on lymphatic drainageand dry brushing support.
And that would be somethingreally good to stack on with
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this.
Sauna topics.
So just keep that in mind thatas you're listening to this.
That there those two can besisters.
Sisters.
So the episode, sisters podcast,sisters hasn't related somehow.
Yes.
And so those are habits thatI've been stacking together more
and more, but especially when myperiod starts, I have realized
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that like day one, I'm like, Iam doing all of the things and
it just feels so good.
It helped me realize, or like,remember kind of that
menstruation is a bit of a, youknow, a cleansing like drainage
situation.
And I was like, ah, this feelslike really great.
Yes.
In fact, You inspired me tonever miss a day one in my
sauna, either.
Because once you reported that,that was like your absolute
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sweatiest session, I'm like,well, I want some of that now.
I always make sure I can get onmy son on cycle day one.
Is it your sweatiest day?
I CA I don't know.
I can't say for sure that it'smy sweatiest day.
Cause I don't track it thatwell, you've got some other,
you've got some other tracking.
Abilities that I'm just like, Idon't understand.
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I'm not really sweaty.
I don't know.
Yeah.
But it is always very sweaty.
Yep.
It feels good.
It feels good.
Okay.
So as I was prepping thisepisode, I just thought it was
funny.
And like we're talking aboutsauna and I was like, I should
probably share like what a saunais, but everybody knows what a
sauna is, but it's some kind ofenclosed area.
Right.
We have sauna bags that we willmention.
There's actual like saunas thatyou can go to at the gym or.
(07:42):
You know, locations that offersaunas and steam rooms and cold
punches and all those kinds ofthings.
And so just some area that youare going into that will cause
you to sweat from.
The heat, depending on what kindof heat it is.
So.
We're going to talk about healthand benefits, but it's helpful
to talk about like time spent inthem, because I feel like we can
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talk about like, oh, there'sthere's benefits for this thing.
And then people are like, well,how long do you have to do the
thing?
To actually get the benefits.
And there's actually amazingresearch out there that really
points out to you like 20minutes for this thing, 40
minutes for this thing, you canget all the benefits of the 20
minute thing if you're going for40 off all kinds of cool stuff.
(08:24):
So what I will say is that it'sgoing to depend right on your
health conditions on your age,on your comfort level.
So you don't have to blindlylisten to any of these numbers
or like general recommendations,just because, especially as
you're starting out, because.
I know when I started signing, Ithink I lasted 30 minutes and it
was like, oh, I gotta get outtahere in my sauna bag.
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And now I'm at an hour.
And I mean, I'm ready to getout, but that's a substantial
more amount of time that I wasable to work my way up to.
It's kind of like when you takeon anything, that's going to be
physically intense, like,getting back to exercising
again, like zero to 60.
That's not going to worklong-term because it's going to
take you more time to recoverthan it would if you had just
(09:05):
gone.
If you would just pace yourself.
Yes.
So there's a few different typesof saunas also, right?
So they're like thosetraditional saunas you go in,
there's like, it's heated by,you know, like wood or gas, I
suppose.
And so those are hot, but lowhumidity.
And so the generalrecommendation for those as
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you're going in is about 20minutes at a time, you can
leave, take a break, go back in.
If you need to, if you'reworking on something in
particular, I can not last 20minutes in a regular sauna.
Yeah.
Can we also talk about the factthat like the times when I've,
when I've been like in a placewhere there's like a facility
where I can enjoy a sauna, Ilove the idea and it's, it's
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good.
I really, I, I know that it'sgood.
And.
And good.
And I know it's good.
But when I'm in there.
I have to talk myself downconstantly the entire time I'm
in the sauna.
I have to tell myself.
I'm safe.
That door's probably doesn'teven have a lock on it.
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I'm not going to pass out andfry like an egg in here.
You know, like I.
I am taking breath.
See, I'm taking nice deepbreaths and they're very warm,
but I'm still circulatingoxygen.
There's just some it's theirs.
It's a cost or phobia finger,something I'm certain, every
time I go into one of those inlike a public place.
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That somebody is going to.
Run over and lock the doorsomehow.
Yeah.
Or like switch out the heat forlike gas and it's a plan to kill
me.
There's too many things goingthrough my mind when I'm sitting
in those places.
I except I will say last year wewent, we had a spa day at a
winery and that sauna I wastotally fine with because you
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were there with.
I felt safe.
We got to talk and I wasdistracted.
You didn't mind.
I wanted to sit by the door.
But the, the half of it wasglass.
And so it didn't feel like therewas just one.
You know, so there's some, thatone I felt very safe in, but all
the other ones, I mean, like myhusband is talking about wanting
(11:14):
to get like a sauna and like putit in our backyard or something.
And I'm like, I don't know if I.
I would use it.
I think it would from freakmyself out and in this even
smaller.
Enclosure where.
There's just so manypossibilities.
I sorry, I really derailed usthere, but I just know there's
someone listening whounderstands.
(11:35):
Yes.
I mean, the fact that I wonderhow many of our listeners are
like, yeah.
That's my main issue with sauna.
Yep.
I don't want to go inside those.
Death.
Dev ops, right.
Probably not.
You never hear about peopledying in saunas?
No, there, but there's somethingmentally there that makes it not
okay.
Which we'll get to the saunabag.
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That is the joy of the saunabag.
Agreed agreed.
You can unzip yourself.
So those are traditional saunas,right?
Super hot, low humidity.
Infrared saunas.
Our lower temperature justoverall, you can stay in there a
lot longer, like 45 minutes,plus for some people.
And so, helpful to understandwhere your, what kind of sauna
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you're going into, where it is,all of that, you know, kind of
good stuff.
And then there's steam roomsalso.
Right?
And so those are really, reallyjust wet heat versus dry.
And so temperatures are slightlylower, but the humidity is
basically like a hundred percentin there.
Which side note my brother livesin Hong Kong humidity was a
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hundred percent there the otherday.
What I was like, how is that?
Even?
I mean, I think it was like 99,right.
But she sh.
I was like guys.
Oh my goodness.
So the general recommendation inthat, because of those crazy
high humidity levels is like 10to 20 minutes before you can
take a break and.
I don't know.
Your husband likes to go intosteam rooms.
Yeah.
He loves it for like opening uphis sinuses and he's got some
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weird, you know, septum issuesand stuff like that.
Or if he has a head cold, heloves to be in there.
Just feel, I mean, steam is goodfor some things.
Yeah.
It's not the same as sauna.
Really?
No.
No, but I think it's helpful tosee, like there are different
options depending on what youlike.
It's better to go into the steamroom and sweat than to not do
the sweating.
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Agreed.
Right.
Does he stay in there for long?
No, it's usually shorter.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I can imagine.
So the amount of time is alsogoing to be just generally
impacted, like I mentioned, withwhat your health goals are.
And so I'll actually put a linkin the show notes for some of
those like research backedrecommendations, like, oh, I'm
really working on.
My heart health.
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I'm really working on my liverstuff.
I'm really working on XYZ.
And so that'll link you to whatthe research shows for how long
you should be staying in there.
So we have mentioned this many,many times we have a different
type of sauna, basically.
It's basically a sleeping bag,right?
So you can imagine getting intothe bag, zipping it up.
And you, we lay.
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In it, but your head is out ofit just again, like a sleeping
bag that.
That whole setup is like freeingin every way, because I can
breathe regular air.
Right.
But you can spend a lot moretime in it.
The kind that we have isinfrared.
And I think you do too, but Ispend an hour in there when I do
it has been the best healthrelated.
(14:29):
Good investment.
That I have.
Ever made.
I mean, besides like buyingnourishing food.
And to eat daily kind of thing.
This is like the investmentpiece of like, piece of
equipment.
I mean, I got it a couple ofyears ago and I'm using.
At four to five times a weekconsistently, still, which was a
concern when I first got it.
That.
Like I was going to like it andthen it was going to take her
(14:51):
off, but it keeps me coming backfor more.
It does because a part of theprocess is an endorphin release,
really similar to exercise andit, it just reinforces the habit
for you.
And so it's like, you know, Iused to have this affinity for
like, at the end of a stressfulday, like I want to go get in
the bath.
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And just feel nice and toasty inthe water relaxes me.
And this has a very similareffect, but so many more
benefits.
Yeah, absolutely.
So, that's, that bag itself willbe linked below to, in the show
notes for you guys to check out,but either way, if sauna is new
to you, this idea of trying itout, or you've been doing it for
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a while, I noticed somethingthat that when I started doing
it more consistently each timeeach week, that I was starting
to get some symptoms of beingmineral depleted, I could sense
in my being that my full systemwasn't supported despite the.
I'm like I'm hydrating so well.
But the actual minerals that Iwas consistently sweating, like
(15:54):
pouring sweat out and notrestoring them.
So that's my little side notehealth tip for you.
Yeah, you should definitely havetrace minerals or electrolytes.
At any point in the same way youwould like take care of yourself
if you were doing.
Longer cardio session orsomething like that, like
pushing your body and sweating alot.
Yeah.
And it's, it kind of messes withyour brain though, because
(16:14):
you're like, well, I was justlaying down.
Right.
But all of the things that arehappening, right.
Your heart rate is increasing.
You really do get a very similarExperience to working out.
So just because you are.
Laying there.
It doesn't take the place ofworking out, certainly.
But as you are laying there,your body is still working very
hard as it is sweating.
Yeah.
I.
I mean, there, there is somemarketing around, it's just like
(16:36):
a, whatever, a 30 minuteworkout.
And I mean, no, you didn't workyour muscles that way
necessarily, but what you did tochallenge your system,
metabolically, you are.
The same benefits happen in thesauna.
Yes.
Which is amazing if you thinkabout it, so, okay.
Why are we signing?
Why is it so wonderful?
(16:57):
There are again, A ton ofdocumented research back
benefits.
Of sweating consistently and ofsauna use in particular, I find
it really fascinating that a lotof the research was done in
those Nordic countries that lovethe sauna so much, but there's a
ton just all over the world.
So it's not just one like peoplegroup that it has been.
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Shown to be supportive of.
But it supports detox anddrainage pathways in our body,
which is why TIF was mentioningthe other episode and how
interwoven these pieces trulyare.
R.
So we're not going to go throughan exhaustive list, but we have
a handful that we will.
Share with you first one, upbeing one of our favorites and
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kind of like what TIFF mentionedat the end of a long day sort of
thing, reduced stress levels andimproved mental health.
So that's a mix of a lot ofthings, right.
It's very calming to like, youknow, be in it.
And unless you think that you'regoing to die.
That's not calling.
Very calming spending the timedoing it, especially in your
sauna bag that breath workthat's needed to do hard work
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and your body.
But there's cortisol balancingalso that helps kind of decrease
that emotional, physical stressthat's happening.
There's a massive increase ofserotonin.
That's just a feel good hormone.
And then there's the sweatitself also.
That just feels good.
It's really a cumulative effect.
That the hormones have on yourbody and on your brain.
(18:21):
Right?
And so your circulation is upmore stuff is going into your
brain.
More of those hormones that arecoming out into your body.
It's this wonderful feedbackloop that your body really
appreciates.
So, that piece of it also isleading to the fact that sauna
use is correlated with bettersleep as well, just because of
that calming effect that it doeshave on your body.
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That increased circulation thatis happening.
So anything that we can do tohelp improve that.
Is a win for me.
And I can attest to that forsure.
I definitely sleep better aftersauna.
Yeah, for sure.
And I, I feel like if I'm reallystressed out.
And I have the time, or I feellike I can carve the time.
I want to go into my bag.
(19:03):
Yep.
That's like how I can cope withsome things.
Agreed.
It also is great at improvingblood pressure readings.
It makes weight loss easier, andit also stabilizes cholesterol.
And these are all metabolicmarkers for overall metabolic
health and only like a measly20% of us adults are
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metabolically healthy.
So this is a regimen that couldbe implemented by the majority
of adults and decrease the mainrisks for heart disease and just
overall disease.
And probably save us billions ofdollars as well as create longer
and more thriving lives.
Ah, just throwing that out thereas a possibility for being
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preventative and health.
One idea.
And that's the end of ourepisode.
Cause what else do you need?
All of course, this is alllinked back to the support of
the liver, clearing out ourbodies of stagnation and toxic
burden.
You guys know that that.
Inflammation process.
With liver stagnation and toxicoverload is a part of what
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starts to build a diseaseprocess in the body.
Almost every single majordisease, like, heart disease or
cancer or diabetes, or, youknow, all of these major
diseases that are at the verytop of why.
People die in the U S.
These are all linked back toinflammation and toxic burden in
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the body.
Yeah.
As we were creating themetabolic health for our course
for our membership.
Sonnet kept coming up.
And so many things have youknow, kind of foundational root
cause healing of some of thesethings, which was pretty cool.
We sort of touched on thisalready, but it can, it's been
supported for healthier heart,healthier and stronger.
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Heart functioning.
And so time in the sauna createsthat increase in your heart
rates, similar, like wementioned to working out.
Right.
So that feeling that you getwhere you're like.
Oh, man, my body's doing thiswork right now.
It truly is giving your heart agood workout as that is, you
know, as that is happening.
So research shows that sauna usehelps reduce the risk of heart
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attack stroke and cardiovasculardisease.
That's massive, right?
Especially.
It's the number one cause ofdeath in our country.
Yes.
So again, plug for adults usingthis.
But it also shows that sameeffect over cumulative years of
use as well.
So over the course of a 20 yearstudy, the risk for cardiac
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death and cardiovascular diseasecontinues to go down.
Which is.
Really cool to think about.
Yeah.
Incredible.
And like, I will attest to theincrease in heart rate.
I mean, cause you get notconfused, but you're kind of
like, oh, interesting.
How I'm just laying here.
Yep.
And you feel the sweat happeningof course, but towards the end
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of your session, There is a bit,I mean, you guys can tell I'm
preowned maybe to like a littlebit of anxiety, right?
But towards the end of thesession, I have to talk myself
through a bit of that time oflike, Yes, your heart rate's
increasing, but it's not becauseyou're in danger.
It's just which I don't get withexercise, I think because I'm
participating in it.
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But a heart rate increased whileyou're resting it kind of, your
brain just automatically islike, huh?
What is what's that about?
It's very confusing, but I mean,easily have a heart rate over a
hundred, just laying there.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
And maybe higher, I should takeit.
So I should take my pulse nexttime.
I'm feeling, you know, In it.
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Yep.
Yeah, I I will have to likeheavy breathe.
Very similar ways.
Like, it sounds like I'm doinghard work and I am laying there,
but it is.
But again, that just goes backto like, it is doing hard work
in your body, which is a greatthing.
Another thing that sauna isgreat for is improving
circulation, which of course, aswe've described it, that just
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makes sense.
The heart rate increases,sweating, dilates your blood
vessels and raises your coretemperature was which is going
to cause blood flow.
To just more freely flowthroughout your body and
increase circulation.
And that helps so many functionsin our bodies.
I mean, similar to exercise,right?
It's a huge reason that many ofthe benefits on the list are on
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the list in the first place,including an improved immune
system and white blood cellsupport.
And it really comes down toreinvigorating the system, kind
of like jump-starting it helpingthe oxygen needed blood make its
way around.
And also as a side note, if youare finding that you have a hard
time sweating, just keep workingat it because you should be
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sweating.
It should be fairly easy for youto work up a sweat just in daily
life.
And it's a good goal to have,and if it takes some time and
consistency, that is a worthything to work towards also
because every once in a while,we'll hear from a client or a
friend or something, and they'relike, Hey, just don't sweat.
And there's like, that's justweird moving on.
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And we're like, actually, that'ssomething that we do need to
work on, or we, you.
As a collective, we need to workon our body's ability to.
You know, detox and drain inthat particular way, because
it's an important function inour bodies.
Yeah, that'd be like saying Ijust don't poop.
It's fine.
I have.
Other things that my body does.
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Okay.
No, we got to, we got to work onit.
And a piece of that is thatcontinuing, just to try it to
the improve, continue to improvethat circulation, open up those
kinds of things.
So, back to circulationimprovement, the next one to
talk about brain health.
So not only will saunas relievethat stress improve overall
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mental state, but the actualbrain.
It's insane.
The studies that have been shownthat show that sauna use is
helping to decrease the risk ofdementia.
And Alzheimer's.
That he increases right in yourblood flow, all of that's going
to your brain and helps decreasesome of that cognitive decline.
So I have people in my life whoare in that space.
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Of getting older or showingsigns of certain things that I
have been like.
Not that we're like, this issomething that would be worthy
to implement, mess around with.
See how you feel.
Yeah, absolutely.
Next one I list is reducing painand muscle tension, which is
just another tick for thatimproved circulation here.
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The increased blood flow helpsheal and soothe pain and
soreness, and many athletesenjoy the benefits of sauna
after strenuous activity orpractices or games or whatever,
just to help soothe muscles andjoints as well as speed up the
healing process of injuries.
And non-athletes of course canuse this for the same benefit.
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So after a hard workout orlonger days, or like even birth
workers who just are feelingthat toll on their body after
being up or supporting.
People physically.
This is the absolute jam forrecovery and I've used it for
that multiple times.
In fact, you're the one whotaught me get in it.
When you first start to comedown with what seems like is
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going to be like a cold orsomething like that, or you're
just feeling a little bit offand just sweat that sucker out.
And I have, I, I believe that Ihave prevented illness from
progressing or at least helpedit along many times because of
that tool.
Yeah, absolutely.
Again, that circulation it'sreminds me of the episode that
we did just a little bit agoabout red light therapy.
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And really we come back to likethe fact that it's.
Reinvigorating the cells andmaking your blood do a thing.
So beneficial.
One of the, maybe, maybe it'slike a bit more vain or
something, but sweating isactually really good for your
skin.
So a lot of people think like,oh, if I sweat, I'm going to
actually break out.
It's going to clog my pores.
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But because of that circulationthat is happening in your body,
it actually is correlated tomuch more.
Like softer, more even tone inyour skin.
The sweating is actually helpingto cleanse the skin from
bacteria that is going to clogthe pores, and it's going to
open up blood vessels toincrease the blood flow to your
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skin.
And so, it's I feel like.
I can, I don't know necessarilyif I like notice a difference,
but I do think that when I don'tdo sauna for like a while I can.
I can sense or like, sort of getan idea, like in my own face
where I'm like, ah, There'ssomething that's kind of
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stagnant.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
And one of the reasons that Ilove the sauna bag option so
much is that while I'm kind ofdealing with a bit of this like
rash situation on my face, whichof course is like much improved
at this point.
But as I continue to care forthat piece, it's really
sensitive to heat.
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And so being able to keep myhead out of it is pretty helpful
because then I can get all thebenefits of everything I'm still
sweating my head, my face.
I mean, we've talked beforeabout.
Sweat getting in your eyes andears, which apparently is
completely fine with Kelly.
I can just enjoy it.
Satisfying.
But I'm able to stay compliantwith things that will not
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trigger some of that skininflammation and still support
my system.
Beautiful thing.
The last one on our listimproves respiratory health.
So it all kind of comes back tocirculation again.
It's somewhat similar to we'veshared before this cold wet sock
idea, right?
You're putting cold, wet sockson your feet.
And then I have shared that onthe podcast before.
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Nah, probably because I rememberI was so sick over the summer.
Yes.
We probably did three episodeswhile it was still safe.
It's the idea of it's anothercirculatory body temperature
kind of supportive thing.
We shared about it innewsletters.
If you're not on our newsletter,jump on there cause we'll chat
about it.
I'm sure again, soon.
But it's the same idea to helpimprove circulation in the body
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when you're sick.
And so, sinus discomfort,congestion allergy is those are
some things that you can likeget in and actually do like some
supportive things for, butbecause of that shift in your
heart rate, because of the goodworkout that your heart is
getting, and because of thatcirculation that's happening in
your body, there arecorrelations research with.
Like improved respiratory healthin terms of people like with
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asthma or, you know, those typesof struggles.
And so, that's pretty amazing.
Like, What a great tool to havein your back pocket.
Absolutely.
And like, if you're interestedin learning more about this,
there is just so much goodresearch that is backed by.
Just tons of Nat, thepharmaceutical company is just
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people who are interested inthis and like, Hey, you can kind
of get into like a weird littleBiohacking space that may or may
not resonate with you.
But you can still just locatereally good sauna.
Benefits and information.
There's, there's someone in oursmall group who likes to talk
about controversial things withme, because he knows that like
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I'm into all of it.
So he'll just be like, so whatabout.
Eating your placenta.
Okay.
So what do you, what about thesauna?
And, and he was like, oh, well,I looked up the sauna.
There's actually realinformation about the benefits
of sonnet.
This one I can get behind.
Because the information is realthat's I think that that feels
good for some people to be like,I don't just go off my own
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anecdotal, Hey, this makes mefeel good.
But actually this is a worthyinvestment of my time or my
money, depending on, you know,the situation that because.
There is just so much tangible.
There's so many tangible resultsfrom it.
Yes.
And I love it.
And so I hope the women who arelistening today are inspired by
that, knowing that you can kindof tailor the sauna use to your
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own needs and goals, you canfeel good doing it.
It's just so much good windsthat we know it's going to add a
ton of value to your life.
Again, we'll link this on a bagthat we have.
I don't have a lot of inputabout some of the other sauna
bags that are out there.
I know there's otherpractitioners who use other
sauna bags and they're happywith it.
So I would say, just look atreviews and look at word of
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mouth of other people before youbuy one.
If it's going to be differentthan the higher dose one that we
recommend.
If my, if something happenedwith my sauna bag and it like
broke or a part needed to bereplaced, or it wasn't working
correctly or something likethat.
I would, without a question,jump online and just buy another
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one.
Oh, yeah.
I wouldn't want to mess aroundwith anything else because I
love what I have and I wouldn'twant to be without it.
No, exactly.
So.
It would be, it's like ano-brainer to me that like in, I
also wouldn't be mad at theproduct for failing after
serving me for hundreds ofhours.
I mean, these are the things Ithink about when I'm in there.
I'm like, I wonder how long thisSusan will last.
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I mean, it's just, it's, it'sjust, it's just one to ticking
time.
Yes.
And then I'll just have to buyanother one.
That's fine.
I'll just get the next one.
Everything's gonna be fine.
Actually, our neighbors had toreplace theirs and so it, they
went without it for like a week.
And, but the company, which.
They have the same one that wedo higher dose.
I replaced it for them becausethey were like, oh, that's like
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a faulty part and sent them abrand new bag.
Perfect.
Yeah.
Great customer service too.
So we have that linked in theshow notes.
We'll also have our Amazon listfor all things, kind of
lymphatic detox support.
Again, the sun will be in thereand you can also check that link
for specific time of likeresearch back time to be
spending in the sauna, all thatgood stuff.
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Hopefully we leave you excitedto go.
Get sweaty.
Yep.
If everyone is excited to go getsweaty.
I am leaving here, going to eatdinner and go get sweaty.
That's my plan too.
All right, ladies, we will seeyou next week.
Bye.
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