Peer-reviewed research concerning sauna & heat, summarized and appraised in plain language with every source cited.
This study compared two ways of making sprint training harder: doing it in thin air, and doing it in the heat. Healthy men and women trained twice a week for…
This study looked at how the smallest blood vessels in the skin respond to a hot bath, and whether that differs by ethnicity. Thirty-one healthy young men (10 White-European, 10…
This study tested whether making training harder by adding heat, thin air, or both improves short-burst cycling power. Eighty untrained young men were split into five groups of 16: no…
This study looked at whether adding sauna sessions after exercise affects gut bacteria, intestinal barrier function, and inflammation in young men. Fifteen untrained men were split into two groups: one…