7 Sauna Benefits Doctors Say Will Change Your Life

Saunas aren’t just about sweating — published research and doctors in Japan have documented real, life-changing benefits. In this video, I’m walking through medical studies, including the Waon Therapy protocol that doctors have used with patients to improve heart health, reduce blood pressure, and even support long-term survival.

I’m not a doctor and this isn’t medical advice, but the scientific studies speak for themselves.

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If you don’t know, when I was in leukemia treatment, I had to go to the hospital five days a week for almost a year. And before they would hook you up to an infusion chair and treat you, they were required to have the nurses do full vital diagnostics.

Walking and doing light sauna kept my blood pressure in check when I was on drugs that caused an elevation. Now you’re not just relaxing, you’re tapping into the same principles the Japanese doctors use to help their heart patients live longer and healthier lives. So guys, I have a special video for you today on some infrared sauna research, actual documented studies, specifically on far infrared.

I’ve got a bunch of stuff pulled up here. In a second, I’m going to read you some actual studies and where you can find them. I’ve got the Facebook group pulled up here. We’ve got the YouTube and everywhere else.

I’m going to upload this for you in the Facebook group first so that the members get their questions answered. But very specifically, a lot of detailed studies are kind of lacking in the industry for various types of heat therapy. And you have everyone jumping on the bandwagon saying that if you’re not in a traditional sauna that’s over 200 degrees, you can’t make heat shock proteins and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And as you’ve seen in my other posts or in other videos that I’ve done on YouTube, that’s kind of a fallacy because there’s documented PubMed studies that clearly illustrate that you can make heat shock proteins from hot bath, jacuzzi, some other method of heat delivery, right? So it’s really about hitting the threshold that triggers that response in the body, not so much being in a 200 degree room versus a 185 degree room or something like that.

So you have to take into account that infrared sauna is not just going to work off of convection. Yes, there’s some convection in the sauna itself, but I want you to really look at these studies that I’m about to tell you about. I have some notes. I want to read you a couple of things and you can decide for yourself after you see the actual research.

So up until now, you know, we’ve talked about, especially here in the Facebook group and over here in the YouTube comments, we’ve talked about how infrared saunas, you know,

you know, increase circulation and activate protective proteins and mobilize toxins. It’s kind of the same story every single week because I’ve been doing this for so long, but let’s take this to the next level by looking at real world medical protocols that prove these aren’t just theories, right?

These effects, they’ve been tested and used in hospitals, just not here. So to start with, most of the stuff that I’m going to read you today is from a therapy called Weyon therapy developed in Japan. We’ve talked about it a couple times before. The word Weyon though literally means soothing warmth.

Let me explain exactly what their protocol is. I’m going to read you some bullet points and then I’ll get right to the studies. So the protocol itself for Weyon therapy is very structured. Patients sit in a far infrared dry sauna set at 60 degrees Celsius or 140 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes.

Afterward, they lie down, rest, and they stay wrapped in blankets to retain the heat for a longer period of time for about 30 minutes to keep the body warm and allow the effects to continue. Now that’s it. It’s simple. No extreme heat, no ice baths to cool down in a rapid rate afterwards, just controlled warmth and rest.

Now why is that? You’re going to see in just a second. What’s remarkable is that this has been adopted in Japan as a formal treatment for chronic heart failure and other cardiovascular conditions. Now I’m not a doctor.

I don’t make medical claims, especially for any particular saunas or protocols or things like that. But we do have a Facebook group with over 30,000 people in it and there is anecdotal evidence of tons of people being able to help themselves with various health challenges. So let’s talk about some documented benefits.

First I want to read you some of this stuff specifically. Cardiac and vascular function. Now let’s talk some of the results first. In patients with chronic heart failure, Weyon Therapy improved heart function across the board.

Their left ventricle ejection fraction, and I’m not, you know, a cardiologist.

cardiologist and stuff so that that’s a measure of how well the the heart pumps blood though it went up Okay, they’re BNP levels. That’s a biomarker for heart strain went down All right Patients could walk farther in six-minute walking tests and they also reported better mental health and quality of life If you want to look this one up The study is specifically called way on therapy improves cardiac function and clinical symptoms in patients with chronic heart failure And you can find it on PubMed more documented benefits.

These are on long-term survival I don’t want to put this in my own words I really want to specifically read to you the results of the actual study This is kind of you know more impressive in a long-term follow-up study tracked patients for five years Those those who used way on therapy had about half the rate of cardiac deaths or hospitalizations compared to those who didn’t Now there could be a couple discrepancies or the way that they set this study up It wouldn’t make it definitive for all, you know populations around the world considering their you know Difficulties and things like that, but let me repeat that half the rate of cardiac events or deaths over five years That’s not a marginal benefit.

That’s kind of life-changing right and from where I come from That study is titled if you want to look it up way on therapy reduces incidents of fatal cardiac events in patients with chronic Heart failure. You can also find that on PubMed Next is blood pressure now. I talked about this a lot if you don’t know when I was in leukemia treatment I had to go to the hospital five days a week for almost a year and Before they would hook you up to an infusion chair and treat you they were required to have the nurses do full vital diagnostics once a week you had to do EKG like you’re basically put through the ringer or they won’t treat you because They’re riding really tight on the edge of hey We’re starting to bring your heart out of rhythm with all this arsenic and oh by the way, you’re fine So they ride that line pretty hard point being walking and Doing light sauna kept my blood pressure in check when I was on drugs that caused an elevation.

I got my attention now I’m not suggesting that some sauna thing

or, you know, my protocol specifically could treat or end some particular disease. Not a doctor don’t make health claims like that. What I am suggesting is that you look into this, right? So it’s not just heart failure patients, right?

For the way on therapy, people with hypertension, just one week of daily way on sessions significantly reduced both systolic and diastolic blood pressure. The results were especially strong in non-smokers. So imagine seven days, 15 minutes per day at a comfortable 140 degrees. It’s not too stressful.

And blood pressure dropping measurably. If you want to look this study up, it’s called blood pressure, lowering effect of repeated way on therapy in patients with hypertension. Now, my experience is really, really, you know, close to this. So I don’t know if, if, um, I would highly recommend you look into this research.

Let’s move on to vascular repair and autonomic function. Way on therapy has been shown to improve endothelial function, and that’s the health of the inner lining of your blood vessels. Healthy endothelium means better vasodilation, lower resistance, and less strain on the heart. It even mobilizes CD 34 positive progenitor cells.

Couldn’t tell you what those are. I’m just reading you the bullet points, uh, though, which are like stem cells that repair and regenerate blood vessels. That’s cutting edge biology happening from something as simple as sitting in gentle infrared heat. This I concur.

Um, it also doesn’t talk about endorphins, uh, sometimes heat therapy, especially stress related or people getting better sleep or seeing their HRV go up, all of these things are tied together and related. If you’d like to look at this study, it’s titled way on therapy, mobilizes endothelial progenitor cells and improves vascular function in patients with heart disease.

Now, why does this stuff even matter to us? Right. There’s tons of info out there, but not specifically this, this is not mainstream information. Because way on therapy basically proves that what we’ve been talking about, the anecdotal evidence of infrared sauna, isn’t necessarily just about sweating.

It’s also about improving circulation.

supporting vascular repair, reducing cardiac strain, and improving survival in real patient populations. When a country’s medical system integrates sonotherapy into cardiovascular care, that should make us all stop and rethink how powerful the practice could be if we implemented that into our daily regimen over the next decade or two.

So, and remember, the power of weigh-on therapy isn’t just heating up randomly. It’s also kind of the structure. They’re not in 200 degree heat, super taxing the body where you wake up tired the next day, kind of like if you did a super set of squats or you did your max reps or max weight and you’re working out the same muscle groups multiple times per week and you never actually recover.

So it’s the same thing here. It’s the temperature, which isn’t too taxing. It’s the timing. They’re not overdoing it.

It’s the rest period allowing the body to re-acclimate and it’s all carefully controlled in a way. That’s what makes it therapeutic, I think, and just recreational. Just my opinion, not medical advice, but look this stuff up and see what you think. Let me know in the comments.

If you like this, you want to talk more about it. The next time you sit in an infrared sauna, know this stuff. You’re not just relaxing. You’re tapping into the same principles the Japanese doctors use to help their heart patients live longer and healthier lives.