pimg class=” size-full wp-image-54856 alignright” src=”http://cdn.marksdailyapple.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sauna.jpg” alt=”” width=”320″ height=”208″ /We#8217;ve explore the health benefits of a title=”Cold Water Therapy” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/cold-water-therapy/”cold (water) exposure/a. What about heat?/p
pI decided to explore the health benefits of acute heat exposure in the form of saunas, baths, and steam rooms for one main reason: the sauna is a near-universal human tradition, and I#8217;m always curious about those. Indigenous peoples of North America had the sweat lodge, those of Central America the temazcal. The Romans had the thermae, which they picked up and refined from the Greeks. Other famous traditions include Finnish saunas, Russian banyas, Turkish hammams, Japanese sentó (or the natural spring-fed onsen), and the Korean jjimjilbang. Are all these many billions of people across time and space sitting in heated rooms for the heck of it?/p
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pAs popular as it is to deride traditional wisdoms or practices as outdated, irrelevant, or the delusions of superstitious primitives, traditions don#8217;t arise out […]

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