Comment by gjulianm
15 hours ago
The first study shows a 0.37 hazard ratio for frequent sauna use. That’s better than a lot of the HRs reported for physical activity. It’s even better than not smoking. It just doesn’t really fit.
Also, the fact that there are practically no sauna related studies outside of Nordic populations is suspicious too. I bet that with those hazards ratios a lot of people have tried to study the effects more, it’s suspicious there’s practically nothing out there.
There's more research for you to explore if you're interested, but you sound more closed than curious if I'm honest. Maybe looking more into it will change your mind, maybe not!
I explored quite a bit because I was curious to see how it was possible that sauna had these great effects and why no one used it outside of Finland. But to this point I haven’t seen anything that really supports the idea that sauna is such a massive health protector as claimed. It’s probably beneficial, yes, but the real benefits are probably far lower than claimed.