About this show:
Do you use a sauna? A specific type of favourite sauna or temperature or frequency?
Never tried it but sauna curious?
This week’s show, we dive deep into the world of sauna. Dr Joy Hussain was a practising physician for many years before realising there was something very special about the sauna. She had Reynaud’s syndrome, which affects circulation, and noticed that using a sauna while living in Alaska improved her Reynaud’s. Moving to a warm climate next, she assumed that this would be the solution to Reynaud’s but a funny thing happened: It intensified. She reintroduced sauna, and just like that, it was better. This personal experience led her to doing a PhD studying them and here we are years later to discuss:
- Different sauna types and how the effects vary.
- What we know about resilience, immune systems and detoxification when it comes to sauna.
- The difference between men and women when you study something and how these differences played out in sauna research.
- The difference in women’s age stage and cycle timing.
- Temperature relevance in sauna therapy, depending on climate ‘norm’.
- Health conditions improved with sauna in the research so far.
- Time of day matters.
And? You can be part of sauna research: Answer this quick sauna survey to support Joy’s work: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8288364/sauna
Want to learn more about Joy?
Sauna Science – FB/Meta public group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1076273225822982/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joy-Hussain
https://healthwithjoy.com.au/research
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About Joy Hussain MD, PhD
Dr Joy is a U.S. board-certified family medicine doctor with 25+ years of experience. She recently attained her PhD from the RMIT University in Australia, researching multi-system health effects of sauna bathing, along with advancing clinical methods around the metabolomics analysis of human sweat. She currently runs Health with Joy, an integrative medical clinic based in Brisbane, Australia promoting wellness, wearables, and evidence-based sauna therapies. This involves adapting sauna-based experimental protocols for lifestyle medical applications, such as in cardiovascular disease prevention, cardiac rehabilitation in heart failure, and adjunct treatment for postmenopausal hot flushes. Dr Joy also moderates a public Facebook group called ‘Sauna Science’, with over 3.2K followers. She continues to contribute to clinical and laboratory-based research investigating how sauna bathing and frequent sweating can profoundly impact our health.
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Title show track, by LIOR.
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