TweetAfter last year’s tragedy at the Sauna world Championships that left one competitor dead and another seriously injured, the City of Heinola Finland announced they would no longer hold their competition. Others, however have stepped in to keep sauna endurance championships active. This past Friday a group of 16 men competed in the Saimaa Löylycup in Rautjärvi. [...]

Tweet In the upcoming issue of The American Journal of Physiology – Heart and Circulatory Physiology, a team of Japanese physicians is publishing that regular sauna use may be a recovery method for heart attack victims. The team induced heart attacks in two groups of rats. One group was allowed to recover normally. The other group [...]

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Tweet Some people say they just can’t stand being in the heat. Heat saps your energy and makes it impossible to work hard goes the conventional wisdom. As usual, it looks like science has proved conventional wisdom wrong. A new study in the European Journal of Applied physiology shows that people, if deceived about the [...]