After meeting many founders, I’d say the ones who live in integrity as defined by @naval are the happiest and most successful.

RT @AlchemySprings: We’re not building community for people. We’re building it with them. Every conversation. Every piece of feedback. Eve…

Most people underestimate how large the market for in-person connection will become. We started with a pop-up sauna garden experience to build with community and learn what people wanted. The response exceeded expectations. Now we’re building Alchemy Springs...a new model blending wellness, hospitality, and community. So cool to see posts like this sharing the vision and excitement. It's great to feel the demand for this in SF. Thank you @AustinKlar

i think we just hosted SF's hottest event (literally) thx @AlchemySprings @JMstein @ArnaudAuger @fortwearable @paulschneider_ @rhobusiness @getmiora

AI agents are about to run our emails, calendars, and companies. But who is running our health? Next week we’re hosting a small event on the future of health, wearables, AI agents, and why IRL community matters more than ever. Super hyped for this panel discussion with @JMstein Stein (@AlchemySprings), @ArnaudAuger Auger 🇺🇸🇫🇷 (@Cathayinnov Innovation) & @paulschneider_ (@fortwearable) ! DM for the link :)

super excited to be hosting this next week with @JMstein & @AlchemySprings & @getmiora DM for invite x

A mentor once told me this: Life will test you with the same challenge until you learn the lesson. The same fight in every relationship. The same burnout in every job. The same regret in every missed chance. Until you do the inner work, the outer world won’t change.

We have a couple spots left tonight’s gathering at @AlchemySprings in the center of San Francisco It is a truly magical place Starts at 7pm Pop me a DM

RT @JamesClear: Many situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking. You don't need all the an…

In 2016, I quit my job and told people that I wanted to dedicate the next chapter of my life to bathhouses. I didn’t know how that would work. I didn’t know where it would lead. I just had a deep, intuitive belief that communal bathing was inevitable, and that modern society in the US desperately needed it as an antidote to the digital age that brought on loneliness, stress, and disconnection. As Steve Jobs famously said: you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. Over the years, the path was anything but linear. I worked on bathhouse projects that didn’t make it. I stepped away from others before they launched. I went back to work at @Summit. Later, I joined @PeterDiamandis and @Abundance360. And eventually, I found myself trying again, this time with more patience, clarity, and humility. What did remain constant throughout all of it was one of my favorite things in the world: visiting bathhouses, learning from the people building them, and connecting the innovators who believed in this work long before it was trendy. Along the way, I met my business partner, @annenickel -someone who grounds my ideas and helps turn vision into reality. At some point, she did something deceptively simple but powerful: she put many of the bathhouse founders and operators we’d met into a WhatsApp group. That group became a living organism. A place to share lessons, failures, ideas, and encouragement. A quiet but growing Social Bathing Movement. Through a web of relationships, I helped Will Mayo fundraise for his company, which led to an introduction to Robbie Hammond. That connection ultimately opened the door to working with @ThermeGroup and together, helping bring the Culture of Bathing community into a more intentional gathering. This year marked our second Culture of Bathing convening. Seeing THERME GROUP take it to the next level, launching a Sauna Village in my hometown of New York, was deeply special. Getting to speak about community-building in saunas, and to represent @AlchemySprings, even more so. And sitting in the heat with some of the most thoughtful sauna founders and bathing innovators on the planet? That felt like the dream made real. Yes, it’s a little unconventional to sauna with current or future “competitors.” But to me, that’s the evolution. Proof that we can build something bigger than ourselves, together. Watching the bathhouse movement come to life in the U.S. has been nothing short of priceless. I genuinely believe this is just the beginning. That sauna and social bathing can become as culturally embedded as yoga-helping heal people, one moment and one nervous system at a time.

SF friends - does anyone have a connection to @chrislarsensf? We’re building something special at @AlchemySprings in the Tendernob focused on healing, community, and downtown revival. Feels deeply aligned with the work he cares about. Would love an intro if so 🙏🏽

The world will reward you in proportion to your courage, not your intellect.

Joe Rogan: "If you do the sauna 4x per week for 20 minutes at 175 degrees it’s a 40% decrease in all cause mortality… It’s great for reduction in inflammation & increase in red blood cells."

I’m increasingly convinced that the willingness to change your mind is the ultimate sign of intelligence. The most impressive people I know change their minds often in response to new information. It’s like a software update. The goal isn't to be right. It's to find the truth.

I’ve been impressed with Jetty as well. Excited about this team and vision.

Popups are the new startups. And IRL is the new URL. balajis.com/p/popups-are-the…

This vision for Sutro Baths is incredible… and yeah, something like this would take years and a heroic amount of capital to pull off. In the meantime, we’ve been busting our ass to build a smaller version of this right now in SF. @AlchemySprings is months away from fully opening: multiple pools, steam room, indoor outdoor saunas, thermal greenhouse, treatment rooms, tea lounge, sound lounge… a modern bathhouse for SF that is almost ready for the city. Been seeing a lot of interesting people comment on this post…If there are any passionate San Franciscans (or a billionaire with a soft spot for the city) who want to help accelerate this and be part of bringing back SF’s social bath culture, my DMs are open. Here.we.go.

Sauna is one of the most effective health protocols I've done. Here is everything I've learned; it's the most robust characterization ever produced. Results: 1) Fifteen sessions of sauna dramatically reduced environmental toxins in my body: 65% drop in 2,4-D 100% drop in MEP 15% drop in MBP 100% drop in MEHP (undetectable post sauna) 56% drop in NAPR 56% drop in HEMA 100% drop in Perchlorate (undetectable post sauna) 2. Sauna eliminated 85% of microplastics from my ejaculate. Nov 2024: 165 particles/mL July 2025: 20 particles/mL Nearly identical drop in my blood same time period: Oct 2024: 70 particles/mL May 2025: 10 particles/mL 3. Sauna, without ice on the boys, devastated my fertility markers. Total Motile Count: –56% Concentration: –30% Motility: –50% Morphology: –48% Count: –9% 4. Sauna coincided with my fertility markers being at an all-time high. I have more total and motile sperm than 99.6% of men of any age, including men under 25. total count: 600 M concentration: 162 M motility: 55% total motile count: 330M morphology (normal): 10% We do not know what to make of these improvements. Was it the sauna? Sauna ice? Ice only? We don't know but we did not identify any other protocols or lifestyle changes during this interval that would plausibly account for the change. 5. My vascular function improved by a ten year reduction in age. Now I have the vascular age of an elite 18-early 20s. Central Systolic Blood Pressure: 96 mmHg Central Pulse Pressure: 20 mmHg Pulse Pressure Amplification: 160% SEVR: 227% Augmentation Pressure: 1 mmHg Augmentation Index Wave: 3% Traditional blood pressure: 107/75 mmHg 6. What type of sauna? Use a dry sauna with high temperatures between 80-100°C (176 to 212°F) and 5-20% relative air humidity. Aim for the lower end of this spectrum, especially as a beginner. Higher temperatures closer to the boiling point can cause side effects like headaches and severely dried nose and eyes. Note: Steam baths, hot tubs, and infrared saunas fail to replicate the same effects because they do not allow you to safely reach the required high temperatures and do not induce the same level of sweating, the necessary inverted (skin-to-core) temperature gradient, and the massive re-direction of blood to the skin with resulting vasodilation. Dry sauna is unique, and very likely superior to wet (steam bath) and infrared saunas. By heating up your skin way faster than your core, dry hot sauna flips your core skin temperature gradient, eliciting the following hormetic benefits: enhanced blood flow: the heart pumps up to 70% more blood, similar to intense aerobic exercise (zone 2- increased sweating for detoxification: to maintain a stable core temperature, the skin produces 0.6-1 liter of sweat per hour, facilitating significant detoxification. improved heat tolerance: the body becomes better at handling heat, leading to a lower core body temperature (offering metabolic advantages) safe activation of heat shock proteins: the skin experiences substantial heat shock protein activation, while a modest 1°C increase in core temperature is sufficient to activate these proteins without the risk of hyperthermia. extended Exposure at higher temperatures: dry saunas are more tolerable for longer durations and at higher temperatures, maximizing the benefits. 7. Sauna protocol and frequency Type: hot dry sauna Temperature: 176–212°F ( I do 200°F) Relative air humidity: very low, 5-20% Duration: 20 min Frequency: 4–7x a week 8. Heat Protection If you'd like, you can protect your head from the heat by wearing a sauna hat or wrapping it with a towel (use only cotton or other 100% natural material). You can breathe through a towel or cloth if needed to protect your nose. I am personally fine not doing this. Most importantly, ice the balls. Icing the testicles is absolutely required to prevent heat from damaging fertility markers. Ice the testes during the sauna session. Use a non-toxic, reusable ice pack material. Wear cotton boxers and shorts. Place ice packs in between the boxers and shorts. Keep them in place for the entire session. Men should care about preserving fertility markers even when they are not trying to conceive. Sperm quality is tightly coupled to testicular function, which governs testosterone production, metabolic health, and long term endocrine stability. When fertility parameters decline, the same upstream dysfunction often drives lower testosterone, higher inflammation, and increased cardiometabolic risk. 9. Hydration Dry sauna induces sweating as part of its beneficial mechanism. Be sure to hydrate properly. In general, you might need to rehydrate with up to 16–32 oz (0.5–1 L) of fluid after a sauna session. Be sure to add electrolytes. If you want to be precise, measure your sweat amount and electrolytes (saltiness) using a patch (e.g., from Gatorade) to quantify your liquid and electrolyte loss, and rehydrate accordingly. Some people have saltier sweat than others and must ensure they replenish electrolytes as well as water. My results: my body sweats 18 oz during a 20 min sauna at 200 °F, with a sodium concentration of 25-39 mg/oz. A single sauna session flushes 450–700 mg of sodium out of my body. # I wish you all the best in life my friend. A new era or being human is here. One where existence is the highest virtue. Prioritize sleep, daily exercise and eat well and you'll be in a strong position. Try to avoid the bad stuff. Anything that takes away your agency. Be a warrior and caretaker of existence. Don't Die.

This is why we need more bath houses..

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