Alzheimer's 11: Sauna use three times weekly may reduce your dementia risk by 67%
Sauna Use as an Exercise Mimetic for Heart and Healthspan
Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D. gives a 45-minute presentation at the heart summit 2019 in Little Rock on how sauna use has emerged as a means to increase lifespan and improve overall health, based on compelling data from observational, interventional, and mechanistic studies.
“Seeing how sauna bathing protects and improves heart and vascular health and lowers your risk of Alzheimer’s, it’s no major surprise to find that it also increases longevity. In fact, it’s precisely what you’d expect”.
Summary of article at Epoch Health - Read more here; (article carries advice on the best types of sauna):
Compared to once-a-week sauna use, those who have four to seven sessions per week have a 61 per cent lower risk for stroke. Heat stress from sauna bathing has also been shown to lower your risk of high blood pressure.
Saunas may lower your risk of Alzheimer’s by 65 per cent and dementia by 66 per cent
Sauna bathing also helps modulate your autonomic nervous system, which governs your stress responses.
Many of the life-extending benefits of sauna bathing are related to the workings of heat shock proteins, which protect protein structures and prevent protein aggregation [protein aggregation is a feature of dementia and also of clot formation and stroke].