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Two to three sauna sessions a week, 5 to 20 minutes each, at 176 to 212 degrees Fahrenheit. He cites Finnish data where people going two or three times a week were 27% less likely to die of a cardiovascular event than people going once a week, and says the benefits climbed further at higher frequencies.
The temperature range is settled. The frequency and the session length are not. Patrick reads the same Finnish data and lands on a stricter floor on both.
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Frequency 2-3 sessions a weekthe point where the mortality curve separates from once a week
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Session length 5-20 minutesfive minutes counts if the heat is high enough for you
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Temperature 176-212°F80 to 100 degrees Celsius, the range the Finnish studies used
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The temperature and duration he works from · 2022-04-25
“20 minutes can also be beneficial, but 80 to 100 degrees Celsius, meaning 176 degrees Fahrenheit to 212 degrees Fahrenheit is the general range that this and most studies use”▸ Andrew Huberman, on the record @ 29:58
The frequency finding, with the number attached · 2022-04-25
“What they observed was that people who went into the sauna two or three times per week were 27% less likely to die of a cardiovascular event than people that went into the sauna just once a week”▸ Andrew Huberman, on the record @ 30:22
Two to three sessions a week, 5 to 20 minutes each, at 176 to 212 degrees Fahrenheit. He notes that five minutes can be enough if the heat is high enough for you, and that the benefits continued to climb at four to seven sessions a week.
176 to 212 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 80 to 100 degrees Celsius. Huberman uses that range because it is what the Finnish studies used. Rhonda Patrick works from about 174 degrees, effectively the same heat.
Huberman points to two or three times a week, citing a 27% lower risk of dying from a cardiovascular event compared with once a week. This is the line the panel splits on: another of the five reads the same Finnish data and sets a higher floor.
By Huberman's protocol yes, if the heat is high enough for you: he gives the range as 5 to 20 minutes. Not everyone on the panel accepts the short end, and the disagreement is specific enough to change what you do.
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