What You and Your Doctor May Not Know about Sauna
In this episode, Dr. Dawn Lemanne and Dr. Deborah Gordon discuss the potential benefits sauna and how exposure to very hot, and to very cold can benefit your health – and your mood.
We start with the remarkable story of a man with an inherited mutation that gave him an extraordinarily high likelihood of developing early Alzheimer’s dementia, yet decades, decades after he should have become ill, he hadn’t.
Next, to Finland, where people who sauna bathe 4 to 7 times a week have been observed to have a 66% lower risk of dementia.