Heat stress, including sauna use, provides anti-depressant benefits through mechanisms such as endorphin release and the regulation of opioid pathways.

“I looked in the literature and found, you know, that using, that heat stress in general, increases...you dump a bunch of beta endorphins.”

Whole-body hyperthermia protocols are distinct from standard sauna use because they involve more intense, continuous heating and strict control measures to reach specific core temperatures, making the

“Whole-body hyperthermia protocols are a little bit more intense. So if you ask someone who went into one of the saunas, in one of the studies that I'm sure we're going to talk about today, they might just not tell you it was a spa-like experience. It's very intense, there's a lot of sweating, and yo”