Using a sauna post-exercise can provide cardiovascular benefits through increased core temperature.
“but getting hot or getting exposed to something that increases core temp post exercise results in an appreciable increase in urethropoetin which is something your body makes also something you may remember from the Lance Armstrong Floyd Landis days as something they would illegally inject to get new”
Ben Greenfield Life · Feb 2026 · 1 episode · 1K views on this topicInfrared sauna use is an effective way to shift the autonomic nervous system from a sympathetic fight-or-flight state to a parasympathetic rest-and-digest state.
“there's not a lot of things there's not a lot of modalities that can so quickly take the body from that fightor-flight sympathetic state where that your your autonomic nervous system is overcharged into the rest and digest you know, parasympathetic state.”
Ben Greenfield Life · Feb 2026 · 1 episode · 1K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.