Here’s what you need to know about heating up the sauna👇🏻🔥 🔸 Use dry wood 🔸 Be careful - the door is hot! 🔸 Don’t throw the things you need in the fire 🤣🤣 Do you prefer an electric or a wood-burning sauna?🔥 Let me know! #Finland

Tryna hit 4-5x a week of sauna

Mentally here… physically catching up on life. captured at the Lumeira Wellness Complex in Nuanu City, Bali during the @collective_eth summit post sauna, post cold plunge (my first ever) and into the sacred flower cauldron… all before being introduced to Parenia — a Slavic steam ritual 😌

Is sauna worth the hype? There's evidence that sauna is a potential detox and longevity intervention with benefits to heart, metabolism, brain health, and skin. We’re going to put it to the test. Here’s what you need to know…🧵

Weekends in Russia = banya time! A banya is a traditional steam bath/sauna and it’s a huge part of Russian culture. Most Russian houses have one, my grandfather built this one himself! Have you been to a banya before?

100%! All those Finnish "sauna" studies are actually "sauna and cold plunge" studies in reality

Is an ice bath too stressful for women? Women who won't cold plunge are missing out on great benefits: - regulate thyroid function - boost sex satisfaction & fertility - increase insulin sensitivity, resolve PCOS - support pregnancy for better birth outcomes - reduce menstrual cramps - boost mood & the brain

COLD PLUNGE THERAPY CAN CURE DEPRESSION Some people who fail to respond to traditional talk therapy and anti-depressant medications have resolved their major depression with the benefit of whole-body cold-water immersion. In the Summer of 2024, I convened a panel of subjects who have each experienced significant relief from mood disorders in as little as one session of cold plunge therapy: - One man confided that he had tried supplements, therapy, and everything he could think of... yet nothing was helping until he tried a Morozko ice bath. Cold plunge therapy became his stabilizer--like a rock that he can depend on, when nothing else was working. - Another man was diagnosed with anxiety, OCD, and Tourette's syndrome when he was nine years old. His entire life since has been a struggle with mental health disorders. He discovered that swimming in a 38-degree cold river brought him relief from his anxieties and that all of the difficult thoughts and emotions he had been carrying went away. - A third man described how his attempt at suicide by drowning was interrupted by the cold Baltic Sea. Once he plunged into the water, he found new sense of perspective, and he realized that he wanted to live. There are several mechanisms, the most important of which are metabolic and neurochemical. Metabolic Cold therapy stimulates mitobiogenesis--i.e., creation of new mitochondria--that resolves metabolic disorders. Mitochondria convert blood glucose, lipids or ketones into ATP to power & provide energy for almost all processes in the body. This energy can be used to move muscles, repair tissues, or fuel growth. When mitochondria are rejuvenated through cold exposure, insulin sensitivity improves, energy improves, and overall health benefits. However, when mitochondria are defective, and insulin resistance is high, brain function suffers. Neurochemical Hormones and neurotransmitters are released into the bloodstream in response to cold stimulus. These include the feel-good neurochemicals like dopamine and norepinephrine, and also bonding and attachment hormones like vasopressin and oxytocin. It is impossible to be in a bad mood when there is three times the levels of normal dopamine coursing through your bloodstream.