The Radiant Debate

Episode 78 - Sam, Risto, and Eero tackle the radiant question. Is radiant heat bad in the sauna?LINKShttps://www.theupperbench.comhttps://www.instagram.com/upper.bench.podcast/https://www.facebook.com/theupperbench

CONTENT

00:00 Intro & Sauna Updates

11:21 What Is the Radiant Heat Debate?

13:50 How We Debate Matters

26:16 Radiant Heat: Good, Bad, or Personal Preference?

40:52 Rocks, Steel & Heater Design

50:09 Sharp vs. Intense Radiant Heat

Episode 77 - Dan Sarya of Michigan Sauna joins the Upper Bench crew. Dan's passion is to share the "smile" of his Finnish cultural heritage with the rest of North America. We hear how he started his mobile sauna business in Traverse City, Michigan and what his sauna trips to Finland are like.LINKShttps://www.michigansaunas.comhttps://www.saunaexperience.fihttps://www.theupperbench.comhttps://www.instagram.com/upper.bench.podcast/https://www.facebook.com/theupperbenchEpisode photos from: https://visitjyvaskyla.fi/en/experiences/ and https://www.virtualtampere.com/rajaportin-saunaCONTENTS00:00 Intro02:16 Dan's Finnish heritage06:32 Traveling to Finland and the birth of Dan's sauna company09:55 A sauna FIRE!12:10 Sauna 2.0 and nuances that makes for a great sauna13:41 Trips to Finland37:25 Nature, the sauna boom, and sharing sauna culture42:25 Growing sauna culture slowly... the long game47:54 Sauna saves lives and a hyperthermic river accident51:58 Tradition and the seven generation rule53:36 Robust sauna and the importance of resting between rounds

Bill Gifford, author of Hotwired, and sauna fanatic joins us to discuss the science of sauna and how a trip to Finland totally transformed his perspective on health.

LINKS

https://www.instagram.com/billgifford/

https://lnk.to/Hotwired

https://www.theupperbench.com

https://www.instagram.com/upper.bench.podcast/

https://www.facebook.com/theupperbench

CONTENTS

00:00 Catching-up and news

03:31 Introducing Bill Gifford & growth of sauna scene in Utah

08:57 Hotwired book

09:45 Why humans sweat and the orgins of sauna

14:42 How Bill started writing about sauna

15:24 "Never a heat person" - how Bill got into sauna

17:08 Why Eero sweats so quickly

18:45 Heart health and other studies

28:57 Sauna and Alzheimer's

36:16 Hydration and electrolytes

41:34 Rest and cooling down

44:26 Heat adaptation

54:45 The importance of Finnish culture