Heat shock protein

Yes, among so many other things, but kind of like go back one step.

So when your core body temperature raises, something called heat shock proteins are activated.

Real quick side note, with cold therapy, cold shock proteins are activated.

So they do slightly different things, but similar idea.

Cold, you're decreasing your body temp.

Cold shock proteins are activated.

With heat, when your temperature rises, heat shock proteins are activated.

They're the main piece tied to the various benefits that come detox, cardiovascular, nervous system, immune.

And that takes us to Finland, where people who sauna bathe four to seven times a week have been observed to have a 66% lower risk of dementia and a dramatically lower risk of sudden cardiac death.

We explore the role of heat shock proteins as at least some of the reasons for these benefits.

Then we go from very hot to very cold.

Cold water immersion can produce astonishing surges in norepinephrine and dopamine, explaining why people come out of a cold plunge in a better mood than when they went in.

That's a good association that tells you some of the fact of it.

There's a theory about, certainly in the dementia world, about why that is happening.

And that's because the sauna elicits in our body heat shock proteins.

Right.