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What can heat do for your health?

A few months ago, I explored the benefits and applications of cold therapy.

Today, I'm going to talk about the benefits and applications of heat therapy,

one of the most ubiquitous and ancestral therapies in the history of

mankind. You name a culture, and as long as they didn't live in perpetual tropical heat, they

probably had some form of heat therapy. Native Americans had the sweat lodge, those of Central

America, the Tomascaul. The Romans had the thermi, which they

picked up and refined from the Greeks. Other famous traditions include Finnish saunas, Russian banyas,

Turkish hamanams, Japanese santo, or the natural spring-fed onsen, and the Korean Jimjibong.

People really like the heat. Right off the bat,

that's one major benefit to heat therapy compared to cold. It's an easy cell. You can luxuriate

in a sauna for half an hour or lower your naked body genitals first into a bathtub filled with ice water.

Your choice. People are far more likely to sit in the

hot room for 20 minutes than they are to sit in an ice bath for three minutes or even take a cold

shower. Short-term heat exposure is generally regarded as pleasant. Cold exposure is generally regarded as

torture. If heat therapy offers legit health

benefits, this is a major point in its favor. So does it? Oh yes. In a recent review of the

available observational studies, controlled trials, and interventions, Researchers found evidence that sauna usage has an

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