A few years ago, America excitedly discovered a brand new trend that other countries had already been doing for thousands of years: sauna.
Largely popularized by Joe Rogan, The benefits of sauna became enough endorsement on their own. While Rogan’s routine is extremely rigorous, I found that it doesn’t have to be that way. And, unfortunately, I’m sensitive enough to this sort of thing that I feel like I’m in a pretty good position to make that call – getting it wrong can make a big splash for me.
In short, I have a generic Costco infrared sauna (Dynamic) that is almost certainly just a rebranded Chinese one – and I love it.
If I’m feeling off, or internally injured: @135f for ~25-30 minutes
If I’m robust: @150 for 30-45 minutes
In both cases, I also have a generic $10 red light bulb that I have hanging on a hook on the sauna ceiling that I bring down and shine on my feet, and also my stomach (especially if I’m injured). (*I install an extra outlet inside the sauna)
A few interesting observations: I found that if I’m itchy, that indicates detox or illness – where is important. if my liver area is itchy, I will sweat like a waterfall; if my armpits or my entire torso is itchy, that usually indicates that I’m fighting some kind of virus or something, even if I don’t know it (or, like right now, that I just got glutened).
The beauty of the sauna is that it essentially allows your body to “breathe” – it allows comprehensive and uniform blood flow to every part of your body, in effect, reconnecting areas that are getting “weak signal,” so to speak, due to poor blood flow. The poor blood flow is typically caused by inflammation – probably inflammation that you may not even realize you have. In this sense, sauna doesn’t “do” something specific for you, like a pharmaganda drug or something; rather, it literally just enables your body to do what it’s already trying to do by letting things flow again.
