How Sauna Changed My Life During Chemo

During my leukemia treatment, I had to go to the hospital five days a week for eight months. Every single visit started with vitals — blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen levels — all logged by hospital-grade equipment. That gave me a real-world record of how lifestyle choices like diet, short walks, and regular sauna sessions affected my body, even while I was on chemo and arsenic.

Over time, the numbers told the story. My blood pressure dropped. Resting heart rate improved. I had less brain fog, better mobility, and more energy. These weren’t just feelings — they were measurable changes recorded in my hospital charts.

Now just to be clear, I’m not a medical doctor, and this isn’t medical advice. I’m just sharing what actually happened in my life and what the data showed during my treatment. This is my personal experience — nothing more, nothing less.

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When you go to the hospital every day for treatment, as soon as you walk in the door, they will not see you until they take your vitals. So we have five days a week, off and on for eight months of data, where you could see a direct correlation to my diet, my lifestyle choices, my exercise, my sauna use, and we could see the metrics change.

So I could tell you about my own experience. Big disclaimer is I’m not a doctor, this is not medical advice. If you need any type of medical advice, please see a licensed physician. But personally, I could tell you what I’ve experienced.

The most valuable thing, I think, instead of what I think are benefits, would be to tell you about what I saw over the course of going to the hospital five days a week for eight months while I was in leukemia treatment. Through the duration of this thing, they’re giving me arsenic, I’m on other drugs.

Even though all that stuff was happening, as long as I did my little 10-minute walks after meals and I used the sauna regularly once I was able, once I learned how to walk again, got my mobility and energy back, we could see, because when you go to the hospital every day for treatment, as soon as you walk in the door, they will not see you until they take your vitals.

So we have five days a week, off and on for eight months of data where you could see a direct correlation to my diet, my lifestyle choices, my exercise, my sauna use, and we could see the metrics change in regards to blood pressure, fatigue, energy, and we could see it on a daily measurement, not me just taking it, but using high-end equipment.

So we saw a reduction in blood pressure, reduction in resting heart rate, even though I have a little white coat syndrome when I go to that place, because who wants to be there? Less brain fog, more energy. You get an EKG every week too, because they’re giving you arsenic, which can drag out the space and time of your heart rate. It can become irregular.

So doing stuff to improve that is also noted, it’s marked in your chart. We saw improvements in a lot of those areas. Now, obviously, I can’t say that everyone is going to experience this, I’m not a doctor, but personally, I’ve experienced a lot of benefits. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t still be doing it, wouldn’t be passionate about it.