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In other words, just because, for example, a poor person can afford to go to sauna 4-7 times a week it doesn't mean that there's no correlation between income level and sauna usage.

If you use the sauna a lot, maybe it means you have more friends?

In Finland going to a sauna is often a social activity.

Given that the study was conducted in Finland, it's unlikely that wealth is a confounding factor in sauna usage.

Martin Pall hypothesizes that sauna therapy increases the availability of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) through multiple mechanisms [1].

Sleeping on ondol room seems to be like sleeping in sauna, except you are lying down comfortably on a think blanket...

A hard cardio workout, followed by a 20 min sauna, followed by a healthy meal...

Could it be that it's breathing the hot air in the sauna that's beneficial rather than a general increase in body temperature?

I can't dress down from my t-shirt because you set up a fucking sauna in the office.

Do men who sauna bathe take a more general interest in their health?

I have also been in the conference sauna for PyCon Finland, with about 50 other attendees.

People do walk naked on German beaches though, or in the sauna.

It's based on a 30-year long longitudinal study of Finnish men, not a miniature people-in-the-sauna "study".

According to the abstract, the effect was significant only at a "dose" of 4 to 7 sauna visits per week in the 20 years of follow-up.

The abstract states that "significant inverse associations were also observed for fatal CHDs and fatal CVDs (P for trend ≤.03) but not for all-cause mortality events." So going to a sauna 4-7 times a week for these middle-aged Finnish men decreased their chance of dying from a heart attack.

That's why the title was specifically constructed to use the phrase "association between" (rather than "causes" or "is caused by.") What kind of person can financially afford, or make time for, 4 to 7 sauna visits per week?

Supercell) and our team is a bunch of experienced startup veterans (founders of Startup Sauna, worked previously in SF etc.).

Good, I live in a Sauna, 8 degrees north of the equator.