Salma Hayek convinced us to follow in her footsteps after recommending the lifestyle change (sauna time) she has made for herself as she enters her fifties. The sauna makes it far too easy to sweat without doing much of any activity but breathing.
You see person after person hopping on the current wellness focus: sauna or infrared sauna into an ice bath to shock the nervous system for over-the-moon health benefits. Energy and immunity boosting, relieves pain, relaxes each muscle and organ (including the brain) by stimulating blood flow, more and more benefits seem to appear day by day.
Andrew Huberman, host of “Huberman Lab Podcast”, spoke with Susanna Søberg, decorated with a well-deserved PhD from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
Elaborating on the benefits: improved metabolism, healthier cardiovascular system and brain, balances hormones, and again, decreases inflammation.
Dopamine increases in the body and allows for enough energy to hopefully substitute for caffeine sources you may find yourself relying on twenty-four-seven like coffee or energy drinks.
Dr. Søberg refers to her book on winter swimming multiple times and how the “Nordic Way” for all things health may lead you to live a longer, less worrisome life. Swedish people are known for their slowness; the turtle always wins the race!
Alo Moves is also an advocate for participation in this activity. Their gyms include it all as we see from musician, Alexa Lieberman, who is not afraid to sweat everything out in the famed infrared sauna. Madelyn Cline made her way over to get in a weight lifting session before her recovery therapy. Kendall Jenner was in good company with Lauren Perez for some moral support in their time spent at an Alo gym in Los Angeles, California.
Salma Hayek looks at it as “healing” and a “stress reliever”.
During #WorldWellbeingWeek in the first week of July, she preached about the sauna and has remained true to her words since then.
Summer is a time when get-togethers are filling up your calendar. Alcohol mixed with many classic summer food staples are likely to be involved in these types of events, so it is the way you balance your fun with your health that speaks volumes to where you want to be as you age. These toxins include far more factors like pollution, sweat, oil, sunscreen, germs and chemicals from bodies of water, and probably everything you digest or touch.
While it is not realistic to ignore all of these parts of life, there are ways to be more secure in your short-term and long-term wellbeing.
Making a trip to your local gym may be your way of making this happen, or maybe you are in the market for an at-home sauna such as the one we have our eye on, on Amazon.
Allowing the toxins to exit your body is the first step.
Let the sauna do the work is Hayek’s greatest piece of advice to remaining just as youthful as she was in her twenties as she is in her fifties today.