Construction Got You Tired, Sore, and Worn Out? Do This

Construction work beats up your body. From paint fumes and adhesives to concrete dust, petroleum, and insulation, you’re exposed to toxins every day. Even though you sweat on the job, it’s not the same as the deep detox and recovery you get from a proper sauna session.

I know because I used to ignore it myself. My labs showed I needed sauna, but I thought it was nonsense. When I finally gave it a shot, the health benefits were immediate — something I wish I had done years earlier. If you’re tired, sore, and worn out after long days on the job site, this is one of the best tools you can use to recover faster, protect your health, and extend your career.

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So if you work construction, your body takes a beating, right? Asana might not be something the job site provides, but it might be one of the best investments you ever make for your longterm health. I was the biggest skeptic ever. I wouldn’t buy a sauna when a functional medicine doctor was staring at my labs and saying, Matt, your labs indicate you need to be in a sauna like yesterday.

And I was not willing to do it because I didn’t believe in it. So I wasted months and months of research years, not doing the right stuff. And when I did the right things, I got immediate health benefit. So, um, in response to a video we recently put out about golfing, um, it has opened up a whole slew of questions from viewers talking about different industries that could really use sauna or that needs sauna like now, and they don’t understand or realize it.

I think it should be supplied to them as an option that comes with their job because they’re exposed to a lot of stuff. The first one we’re going to do is, uh, the construction industry from roofers to tile workers to concrete guys, construction workers are exposed to all sorts of toxins during the day and they don’t realize it.

And then they do it on a daily basis. And while they’re sweating out in the sun and they are getting a sweat going, those toxins are still floating around their body. Let’s go over a few details as to why that would even be plausible or like a decent idea for someone.

And then let’s identify some of the industries where you have the biggest, you know, chance of gain or have health benefit because not all can like a framer isn’t necessarily exposed to the same compounds or toxins that, uh, like a painter or a concrete guy or anything that deals with petroleum or adhesives or things like that, especially on the scale.

And then I have a real life story.

When I used to work in a little mini factory milling MDF with CNC machines, which is terrible for you to breathe in and sauna would help me immensely when I was in my early twenties. If I had known better, take any of the examples, I have your email here, paint fumes, insulation, uh, concrete dust, petroleum, wood treatment, like chemicals, especially adhesives, things that can be on your skin, stuff that you can breathe in.

If I worked construction, I’d be like, dude, I sweat all day. There is a difference though in the sweat, correct? Sure. Yeah, very much.

Look at the concentration of the sweat emitted from an infrared sauna versus sweat from exercise. There is a difference. Yeah. I mean, we try to keep it layman terms in the videos, but the reality is mobilizing things stored in the adipose tissue is what you’re getting from an infrared sauna.

You have to build incredible core temperature from long distance training in order to mimic anything close to that from exercise or work induced sweat. The body’s a giant filter. So when you have an intake of some type of substance, compound, um, whatever it is, food, it works the same way.

It can only filter so much stuff. The things that it can’t filter at any given time are stored away for later processing. Sometimes that later processing never comes because we have health issues. We age, we have a degradation of systems.

We have all kinds of things that can happen. And so when you’re storing more compounds or toxins than you can eliminate, then you start to have triggers for health issues. So if you’re running a maintenance program that includes sauna and some other things, detox binders being one, you can help and assist the body on that removal on a continual basis instead of letting it sit there and build up until you have a health trigger.

That actually kind of leads me into something else I wanted to talk about. I’ve done a lot of labor jobs and at no point during those things, was I concerned about my body? Back pain. So you’re tired, worn out.

As time went on though.

I started feeling it. Like I started feeling overly exhausted. I started feeling like even after a good night’s sleep, I was not rested. Can you talk a little bit about the signs of, you know, you’re being exposed to toxins, you’ve been overexposed to toxins, and now your body is having trouble kind of like handling all of those things that are circulating it.

Yeah. I mean, let’s have a disclaimer first, right? This isn’t about pushing expensive solutions or scaring anybody. Um, you know, I’ve done numerous jobs for decades that are including all the, the environmental stuff that you’re talking about.

So this is about just respecting the physical environmental toll. This, this kind of work takes offering real tools to support, you know, the people doing it and then put out some tips on recovery. So just a quick disclaimer for, for doing labor jobs. I grew up doing labor.

I’m still doing labor. I’m standing there. I’m sitting in a structure right now that we built and it’s still not done as you can see on the video. So what we’re talking about is very real, both past and present for most of us in daily life.

So it’s not about demonizing some particular industry, some particular job. We’re just using them as examples. But the foundation is toxins are a daily reality for a lot of people. And so a lot of industries, especially construction, you know, this is just one example, things build up, you don’t always feel it right away, but you know, eventually what’s the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

So when you say, what are some key signs? I mean, it’s kind of hard for me to like being tired and worn out from physical labor is one thing. But when you start, when you start having systems inside the body that are degrading, you have health issues that pop up.

That would be your number one, you know, marker. Obviously we want to test and do labs and have a protocol to catch things before it gets to that point. But for most people, that’s the point that they start to notice it. You know, what, what are some signs so that they can catch it before it gets too far to where they’re actually impacting their, their body.

Instead of just giving an example.

I can give you something from my own life when I used to do that work in my 20s early 20s I used to think that I had bad, Florida seasonal allergies in hindsight in reality What was happening is we were CNC milling MDF, which is medium-density fiberboard It’s basically a sawdust resin board Which is absolutely terrible for you to be covered in and breathing in every single day Especially without a respirator when you have you know daily exposure to this stuff It was basically building up in my body giving me chronic like sinusitis.

So I didn’t I didn’t have allergies I had I had an overexposure to MDF dust because I was cutting it on a table saw ripping sheets every single day to feed into the CNC machine and so, you know, this would lead into Sinus infections where I would also have some dental issues from constant You know post nasal drip and things in the throat tissues the lymph nodes and all that kind of stuff I Didn’t know this at the time.

Nobody did you know? We were just trying to build high quality AV equipment and home theater stuff But it was basically a cabinet making, you know position. A lot of people are exposed to way more You know severe conditions than I was but it was enough to kind of like start giving me ongoing Long-term issues sauna helps flush out stored toxins that can’t be removed through diet or exercise alone To say that, you know some guy working in one particular industry is you know in Critical condition or approaching it after a year and some other guy after 20 years or something is a little bit a little bit Farsighted we were not there.

We don’t know The biggest thing is have a maintenance protocol We know these tools work implement them and there’s gonna be a huge difference between Somebody like a firefighter versus a painter right one one mask or helmet drop

You know, for those guys, an inhalation and then, you know, consequently a smoke inhalation treatment is not even comparable to like a house painter per se, right? Very different. And then there’s people that are gonna argue the opposite. They’re gonna say, well, what about house painters that use lead paint?

Well, okay. So you could just take my point and shove it, render it completely useless. So a lot of it is, you know, what are the compounds that you’re actually applying in these construction jobs? What are you, what kind of vapors are you exposed to?

And are you like us where you worked with them for, you know, years and years with no respiration, no protective clothing, no nothing. You’re just, you know, open airing it the whole time in shorts and a t-shirt and flip-flops. I don’t know. Yeah.

So that’s kind of why we started doing these videos because we saw that it’s not just one industry, not one job. There’s variations of this and that you’re exposed to all types of compounds. And we didn’t realize in the beginning that a lot of people aren’t putting, you know, two and two together, just like we didn’t when we were younger.

So trying to pay it forward, if we knew then what we know now we would do things differently. So trying to provide that information for others. I don’t want to leave the person watching this video empty handed and say, well, you know, you should be worried about this.

You should probably do this on a good luck. You know what I mean? So what are, what are three or four actionable steps that they could take, you know, some steps forward to improve their life? So the biggest takeaway is not about any particular product, not about pushing anything or an idea onto someone.

It’s if you walk away with only one thing from this video, walk away with the awareness of how some of these recovery tools can support your body’s ability to detox. You know, sauna is one example. It increases blood flow, promotes faster recovery, helps reduce long-term damage and supports the body’s own excretory pathways, especially when they’re impaired.

So if you can help yourself and extend your ability to do the work that you love and recover from it faster, you’re going to have a better life. That’s the takeaway from this.

If you don’t have a huge budget, just learn about this stuff. Understand why you might want to build a DIY sauna for $300 or $400. Understand why you might want to get a portable sauna for $500 to $1,000. Understand why you might want to do a dome sauna from $900 to $1,500.

Or spend $2,000 to $5,000 on a permanent long-term forever wooden sauna. There’s something for everyone, but the takeaway is not exactly what the equipment you choose to do this with. It’s just having the awareness of, oh, wow, there’s tools and protocols out there to help me with this. Number one is start with heat exposure either at home or a local spa.

If you have to and you’re, you know, look, I was the biggest skeptic ever. I wouldn’t buy a sauna when a functional medicine doctor was staring at my labs, looking at me from across the desk just like I’m staring at you and saying, Matt, your labs indicate you need to be in a sauna like yesterday.

And I was not willing to do it because I didn’t believe in it, right? And so I wasted months and months of research, years not doing the right stuff. And when I did the right things, I got immediate health benefit. Well, I’ll never get that time back.

So the number one thing that I would recommend to everyone is don’t listen to crazy people on the Internet. Go spend $40 and rent an hour session a few times a week. If you don’t think sauna is for you and just try it. And once you do that and you see the benefits, I would recommend implementing, you know, heat exposure at home, whether it’s buying a portable sauna, building a DIY, splurging on a wooden one, anything that helps you break a sweat, especially with infrared, is a step forward.

We’ve been construction workers when we were young. We still are. I mean, look at this building. It’s something that I’ll never get away from.

So near and dear to my heart, much like, you know, we have people in the family who were injured firefighters. So that’s also on the list. So if you were construction, your body takes a beating, right? A sauna might not be something the job site provides, but it might be one of the best.

you ever make for your long-term health.