talking about the brain. It's something that is
essential for well being.
If you try living one day without a brain, you might find you don't feel really well. So what we're going to be talking about specifically is
how the infrared sauna or even regular saunas have been shown to benefit the brain over the course of one's life. We're looking today at
a Finnish study that was done including over 2300 participants. So this is a big serious study and not only was it
including a lot of people but it was also studied over the course of 20 years.
So this isn't just a study that was done over the course of say two weeks but this was an extensive study done over a long period of time. And what they found when they looked at these people is they took two groups, one group took saunas just once a week. The other group took saunas between four to seven times a week. And the individuals in the four to seven times a week
group actually were shown to have 65% less chance of Alzheimer's and 66% less chance of dementia.
Now there's a 1% difference there and it's extremely important
and very significant but not to us, right? So the real take-away- here is there's a significant drop in incidents of Alzheimer's and dementia when you're taking saunas four to seven times a week as opposed to just once per week. Now of course you're probably curious why is this happening. Well the doctors that performed the study, identified a few possible root causes. There wasn't one definite reason that was specified but they identified some possible causes and
it's quite probable that these are all contributing.
The first was that your cardiovascular health improves from using the sauna. Your heart is pumping more blood, it's moving more blood through the body, your circulation is improving. So when you have better circulation, it means more blood
also going to the brain. More blood going to the
brain means more oxygen going to the brain, more nutrients carried to the brain.
More things that are toxic being carried out of the brain. So this is fantastic for long term cognitive health. The other reason that they looked at, was that it's bringing down stress. The infrared sauna is great at helping you to relax and bringing
down stress and anxiety and in our modern world we are so stressed all the time.
In our ancestral situation, maybe you had to run away from a large predator and you were stressed for a little while but then your stress came back down. And for most of the time you were pretty chilled out. In our modern world we are in a constant and perpetual state of stress, which just overworks our brain, overworks our nervous system and we just get fried,
from constantly having too much activity going on, in our body, in our nervous system, and in our mind. So when you can use
something like a sauna, to help bring down that stress and re-regulate your nervous system, it's amazing for getting things back under control and it is been shown to have real long time cognitive benefits.
And the third reason which actually wasn't specified in the study, but that I feel is really
worth while mentioning, and I think you'll agree, is the detoxification effects. In our modern world, we're exposed to toxins all over the place, from the air we breathe
to the food we eat, to the household products we're using. And lots of these toxins are what are called mitochondrial toxins. They inhibit your cell's ability to produce energy.
Less energy means everything is not gonna be working as
well throughout your body including your brain. So if we're in the sauna sweating out these toxins and also getting them out through the other channels of elimination, we're gonna have a lower
toxic load in the body. That's going to allow
everything to be working at a higher level. So thanks so much guys for going us and I hope you will consider using a sauna as a part of your regular
program to make sure your cognitive health is protected well into the later years of your life.
Thank you for going us. We'll be back here next week, same time, same place
and I hope you come take a sauna with me. Thanks so much..
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