"In conclusion, sauna bathing is generally recognized as safe and has emerged as a practical intervention to improve the overall health of individuals serving in an HSO (High-Stress Occupations). The physiological benefits that sauna bathing offers are observable at the cellular level and in the whole organism, and these benefits can already be experienced after a single sauna bathing session."
"Although data which demonstrates a clear link between heat stress and beneficial cellular mechanisms are lacking, the potential of sauna bathing to mitigate metabolic risk factors is of clinical importance and offers clinicians a low-risk, robust, and innovative treatment approach for combatting CMD often observed in individuals with HSO. Future research should focus on the use of sauna bathing as an intervention for these individuals and examine the effects of both acute and chronic exposure to saunas on physiological responses and, possibly, performance measures."
"Regular infrared and/or Finnish sauna bathing has the potential to provide many beneficial health effects, especially for those with cardiovascular-related and rheumatological disease, as well as athletes seeking improved exercise performance. The mechanisms for these effects may include increased bioavailability of NO (nitric oxide) to vascular endothelium, heat shock protein-mediated metabolic activation, immune and hormonal pathway alterations, enhanced excretions of toxicants through increased sweating, and other hormetic stress responses."
"This study provides prospective evidence that sauna bathing is a protective factor against the risk of SCD, fatal CHD, fatal CVD, and all-cause mortality events in the general male population. Our results suggest that sauna bathing is a recommendable health habit, although further studies are needed to confirm our results in different population settings."
"In this study, the beneficial effects of sauna bathing were corroborated by both physiological data and a subjective emotional evaluation, which allowed us to characterize the “totonou” state as one of physical and mental relaxation, clarity of mind, and happiness and/or positive emotions. We further observed increased theta and alpha power as well as decreased P300 and increased MMN amplitudes. This manifests in objective physical changes (decreased HR) and cognitive responses (shorter RT). Finally, the average accuracy of classifying brain states using our AI decoding algorithm was 88.34%, having potential for future application."