Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan

Re:Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan by bitL on Sunday October 02, 2022 @12:45PM (#33057637)

Try to restrict the stay in the hot to around 10 minutes followed by 2 minutes immersed in cold water, repeating that 4-5x in a row with multivitamin/multimineral water in-between. That resets my brain and I feel like a newborn.

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Re:Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan by fasteddie31003 on Sunday October 02, 2022 @01:03PM (#33057837)

Yep I do this too. I have an outdoor shower that cools me off pretty fast. I gotta wait another couple months before there is snow on the ground to roll around in.

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Re:Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan by bitL on Sunday October 02, 2022 @02:20PM (#33058687)

Cold shower is great, immersing yourself fully in cold water is like one notch more intense as body has no parts that are still hot anywhere. I basically see all my veins when I get out of the cold water, like after an intense 2h bike ride.

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Re:Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan by benjaminwootton on Sunday October 02, 2022 @01:32PM (#33058176)

1 hour of sauna is quite the commitment.

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Re:Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan by heavenlyblue on Monday October 03, 2022 @09:32AM (#33067270)

There's no commitment: you get cold enough that you are freezing, then hot enough you are... well, boiling. The cycle is what makes it fun and I guess, if it does, then this is where the health benefits come from.

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Re:Sauna use as a lifestyle practice to extend healthspan by bitL on Sunday October 02, 2022 @02:18PM (#33058663)

Try it once, then evaluate ;-)

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