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Saunas are somehow different, because their effect for health is entirely positive. Dry and wet. Many Finns sit in wet saunas at 70-100C for 10-30 minutes ever
by darthrupert 3y ago
Saunas are somehow different, because their effect for health is entirely positive. Dry and wet.
Many Finns sit in wet saunas at 70-100C for 10-30 minutes every week.
- raydiatian 3y ago100C? Where we boil water? ;)
- KeplerBoy 3y agoIt's not an issue. The dry air insulates fairly well, so your body heats up slowly and you can last a few minutes.
- wongarsu 3y agoAlso in dry air evaporation cooling is very effective, so sweating gets rid of a lot of the heat before it can build up in your body
- throwaway290 3y agoIf you are talking dry air, then how does this apply to wet saunas at 100 degrees?
- KeplerBoy 3y agoafaik there are no humid saunas nearly that hot. You'd have a miserable time in there and even breathing would hurt like hell.
- throwaway290 3y agoExactly, so here we are talking about dry 100C saunas in replies to someone claiming that Finns sit in wet 100C saunas every week. I find it hard to believe. Humidity makes a massive difference.
- MobiusHorizons 3y agoYes. Actually 100C. The sauna i usually go to goes up to 240F (115C). The reason this doesn’t immediately scald you is that air has a tiny fraction of the specific heat of water, so the energy being transferred to the skin is at a much lower level. You can reject a large portion of this heat by sweating
- jks 3y agoThere used to be a Finnish sauna endurance competition where the temperature was 110℃. It was canceled in 2010 after one contestant died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sauna_Championships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sauna_Championships
- MobiusHorizons 3y agoThis is a big sauna, most of the air is not at that temperature. And I would certainly not attempt endurance in it, but the thermometer on the wall usually is between 235F and 245F
- Podgajski 3y agoThey are not positive for me. Not at all. I feel worse during and after both wet and dry saunas. But then again I have Finnish and Inuit heritage so...
- klyrs 3y agoI agree, saunas are different. People working outside don't have the luxury to do so for only 10-30 minutes a week. And, not all positive: in Finland, a study found that there's around a 1 in 100k death rate per capita where heat exposure was the culprit. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18471223/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18471223/
- coffeebeqn 3y agoInteresting but you can’t really draw any conclusions on the healthiness of proper sauna use. We also don’t have any data on if people in general are living longer/healthier because of the sauna. Some people die from drinking water too > Overall, 50% of all cases were under the influence of alcohol. The main conclusion is that death in the sauna is a rare event even in Finland where the frequency of sauna bathing is high.
- klyrs 3y agoI was responding to the claim "their effect for health is entirely positive." If you want to shift the goalpost from there, I'm not here for that debate. I love saunas myself, wet or dry.
- kadoban 3y agoThere's nothing magic about saunas. The only thing different is you can choose when you leave.