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Understanding Sweat - a conversation with author Justin Glaser
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Justin Glaser is the author of the bestselling book, Sweat: Uncovering Your Body's Hidden Superpower.
After facing health challenges in his early twenties, that conventional medicine was not resolving Justin Glaser decided to investigate other solutions. Almost by accident he discovered a sauna and found a remedy that worked for him.
His focus shifted from trying to find a solution to trying to understand why a sauna provided the remedy.
In this episode of the Abeceder podcast Fit For My Age Justin explains to host Michael Millward what he discovered about saunas and how regular use can have a positive impact on health.
Their discussion covers the history of sweating, and how different cultures have used sweat for to mange health, as a bonding or initiation experience.
Justin explains how the natural process of sweating acts to both manage temperature and remove toxins from the body.
He explores the attitude of the medical profession to sweat based therapies.
Michael and Justin discuss the different types of saunas, and Michael describes the wide range of sweat experiences available at the Harrogate Turkish Baths.
Justin explains how to use a sauna and how it is possible to identify regular sauna users.
Find out more about Michael Millward and Justin Glaser at Abeceder.co.uk.
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Introduction and Podcast Overview
00:00:05
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Made on Zencastr. Hello and welcome to Fit for My Age, the health and well-being podcast from Abysida. I am your host, Michael Millward, the Managing Director of Abysida.
00:00:18
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Today, my guest is Justin Glazer, the author of the best-selling book, Sweat, Uncovering Your Body's Hidden Superpower. As the jingle at the start of this podcast says, Fit for My Age is made on Zencastr.
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Zencastr is the all-in-one podcasting platform on which you can make your podcast in one place and then distribute it to the major platforms like Spotify, Apple, Google and Amazon.
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All the details are in the description.
Meet Justin Glazer and Sweat's Superpower
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Now that I've told you how wonderful Zencaster is for making podcasts, we should make one. One that will be well worth listening to, liking, downloading and subscribing to.
00:01:14
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Very importantly, on Fit For My Age, we don't tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think. Today, my guest is Justin Glazer, the author of the best-selling book, Sweat, Uncovering Your Body's Hidden Superpower.
00:01:31
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Justin is from New York, New York. So good they named it twice, which makes it even more surprising for me that I've never actually been to New York. I've traveled through parts of it on the way to other places, but never actually got out of the car.
00:01:45
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and rarely visited. One day I will visit and I will be sure to make my travel arrangements with the Ultimate Travel Club. It is where I will get trade prices on flights and hotels etc.
00:01:57
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You will find a link and membership discount code in the description. So now no sweat.
Justin's Health Journey and Discovery of Sauna
00:02:04
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Hello Justin, how are you doing? I'm good, Michael. Thank you for having me. It's a great pleasure. Thank you very much. I'm looking forward to ah understanding more about sweat and my hidden superpower.
00:02:15
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But so the sweat of the title, what does it refer to? It literally refers to sweating. So our body's ability to sweat. You know, I wrote this book after going through my own health challenges that counterintuitively led me to sauna specifically.
00:02:31
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While going through that healing process, going very deep into the research on sweat is actually an essential tool for healing and disease prevention. And so this book is kind of the result of that investigative research and becoming sort of a journalist for it and putting these ideas together in a way that no one has yet.
00:02:48
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So sweat is a natural bodily function and it can have a contribution towards our health. Before we investigate that a little bit more, could we just get a little bit of your backstory and explain the history which resulted in in the writing of sweat?
00:03:05
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Absolutely. So I grew up in the tri-state area, New Jersey, just outside of New York. Growing up, it's perfectly healthy, never had any challenges. You know, I wasn't really turned on to like a health conscious lifestyle.
00:03:17
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But by the time I hit college, I felt like every year my health was just getting a little bit worse and worse in the sense that I was experiencing brain fog, anxiety, depressive symptoms, fatigue, extreme fatigue, nothing that anyone would send me to the hospital for, but that I knew was really impacting my quality of life.
00:03:35
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And so by the time I graduated college, I really felt like my back was against a wall and and I needed to figure out why this was happening and figure out how to be healthy again, feel like I was a kid again. It sounds like you're describing the sorts of things that people might say, oh, that's just because he's a teenager, he's young.
00:03:53
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It's just those sort of people would be quite dismissive of those types of things at certain ages. And so though it's nothing to worry about. It's just growing up. It's just being a teenager type of thing. Yeah. so this was, you know, this was after college, which in the States I was about 22 and lasted until my mid twenties.
00:04:11
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And so, you know, this, this was, you know, definitely teenagers experiencing kind of like growing pains and things like that. This was like, brain fog, fatigue, just not feeling as mentally sharp as I felt like I could, just not having a light in the eyes.
00:04:27
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And again, not not like you need to go to the hospital, but you know, my subjective ah experience of life just wasn't great. I became obsessed with figuring it out. Western doctors, Eastern doctors, diet changes, exercise, meditation, supplements, Reiki, acupuncture, you name it, I tried it.
00:04:43
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In that process over the but course of a couple of years after college, nothing was really making
The Detox Benefits of Sweating
00:04:47
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a dent. I stumbled into a sauna. And did a really 30-minute session for the first time. Took a shower and felt more relief from that than anything else.
00:04:56
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And I had no idea why. Why why to that sweating session help me so much? I kept doing it. And while doing it over the course of the next 18 months, I was joining online communities. I was reading books. I was talking to sauna experts, toxin experts, health experts.
00:05:12
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And coming to this kind of counterintuitive philosophy, really, around health that in retrospect, to me, at least, and to lot of the readers and people in this space is kind of undeniable, but was counterintuitive from the way been programmed to think about my health.
00:05:27
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And so afterwards, I went from feeling like a, you know, two or three out of 10 in terms of how I'd feel on a daily basis to like a nine out of 10, I felt like a kid again. And this book explains why.
00:05:38
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it explains why it's not some unique use case for me, but actually applies to everyone, no matter what you're dealing with. If you have some brain fog, if you your moods swing during the day, if your energy levels aren't where you want them to be, if you want to make sure you're preventing disease down the line, the crux of the ideas in this book explain how it applies to you.
00:05:58
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Sounds really interesting. And I'm thinking like sweat is something that we do when when our body temperature rises. I suppose a large part of that is then, oh, that's something that you don't want. You don't want to get too hot. You don't want to sweat your clothing, all this sort of stuff.
00:06:14
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But going back over time and in different cultures around the world, sweating is part of a healthy lifestyle. Yeah, so Hippocrates said, ah give me a fever and I can cure any disease.
00:06:28
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So you know for thousands of years, it's been used for different purposes. ah The first chapter of the book is sauna history, sweat lodge history. So looking at Native Americans using sweat lodges, Russian banyas, Japanese uses, African uses, Peruvian uses.
00:06:44
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All over the world, all these different cultures had some sort of rituals regularly ingrained in the culture around sweating through sweat lodge, sauna, banya, whatever you want to call it.
00:06:55
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That's just fascinating to me because it just shows that it's not some new hack, but it's something that humanity has understood the value in intuitively pretty much forever. And so that kind of sets the stage that this isn't some new hack.
00:07:08
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And then showing the benefits, both mental health, ah bonding, ah rituals, um initiation rites, all different purposes. So it's been used forever.
00:07:19
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And then now with sort of the chemical revolution over the last 60 years, it has this new, massively important use, which hasn't been really talked about. I've been in lots of saunas, at the gym, at the pool, um at the hotels that I've been staying in all over the world. And I've never really understood why the room was there, what it was that I was supposed to do in it other than you just sit there and hopefully someone will talk to you, but otherwise you're just sitting there and it's, um I'm wondering, i suppose, the the number of people who don't understand the purpose of a sauna and the purpose of
Misconceptions and Benefits of Sauna Use
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sweating.
00:07:57
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right hope I'm not alone in that, but i'm so I'm sure there are lots of people who don't understand right why is that the sauna is good for you and and the process that it goes that it goes through.
00:08:09
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Yeah, i I had no idea. I mean, I'd go into, a like you said, like a hotel or a gym there'd be sauna there. like but I guess I'm going to go torture myself for 30 minutes and get really hot and sweat. Like, whats why do why do we do this?
00:08:21
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Once you get through the ideas in my book, it becomes very clear why you do it. There's a clear intentionality to why you're going in there. In the use case of history, there's other purposes, right? Like, you know, ah an adolescent transitioning from boyhood to manhood might go through a ritual in a sauna in a sweat lodge.
00:08:40
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Or you might have community things like in and Germany, they have something Aufguss, where it's like a spiritual experience with like a sauna meister leading it in there. And so there's all these different use cases.
00:08:51
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But on the individual level, the real crux of the idea is, and took me a while to believe this, but became self-evident after a while, is massive underestimation of toxins as an issue and root cause of health challenges.
00:09:04
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And sweat, the research the last 20 years proving that a lot of these substances are preferentially excreted through sweat. So it's really a detoxification component. That's the focus of my book and kind of gives a clear rationale to why you do it in the first place.
00:09:20
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From that perspective, I suppose you say the brain fogs, the low levels of energy, lethargicness, all of those types of things, there are illnesses that the medical profession doesn't quite know what causes them.
00:09:37
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Removing the toxins from your body, you have to be hydrated. You have to drink enough water that helps to cleanse your system out. But also the sweating helps the body to get rid of the toxins that are sitting around the body.
00:09:51
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The sweat helps take those away from your body. You're at a massive disadvantage for health if you're not sweating regularly because of how powerful it is for detoxification. So the skin's the largest detox organ, if you think of it that way.
00:10:04
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And I show research in the book, first painting a picture of just how massively underestimated this toxin issue is. So defining a toxin first, right? It's a substance that reliably, predictably causes harm in the body.
00:10:18
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And the last 60 years, we've introduced tens of thousands of chemicals, manmade chemicals with varying effects, most of which haven't been studied. But the ones that have, it's just disastrous. They're linked to every single health thing you could name. There isn't something you could list that really doesn't have some sort of link.
00:10:33
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autoimmune issues, mental health issues, energy levels, carcinogens, cancer relations, diabetes, like there's links to all of it. And I lay that out very clearly in the book.
00:10:44
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There's also the research showing, proving really that sweat gets these substances out in a way that the, because the body is simply just overrun and isn't even able to get it out oftentimes through the other pathways through urine, excretion, et cetera.
00:10:58
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And so sweat is really this, we're incredibly fortunate to have this capacity to get this stuff out of our body. Yes. Just most people aren't aware that that's what, that's a use for it.
00:11:09
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Obviously we we were designed and I talk about how, you know, when you go running, you're sweating to cool down, but the body also uses sweat to detoxify. And the the research is pretty ironclad on the Yes.
00:11:20
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Yeah, I can see the sense of it. And I, know, thinking about when you talk about Greeks, ah Roman baths, I live near Harrogate in North Yorkshire, there is a spa bath there with all the sort of different type of levels of heat in the in the different places.
00:11:37
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And then the the sweat lodges of the indigenous people of North America and other parts of the world. can see that having the sweating, sweat the fever out is there's an awful lot of logic to why you do it when you start to talk about the actual processes and and the benefits of detoxifying the body is sweat it out.
Why Aren't Saunas Widely Recommended?
00:11:59
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What sort of response does the medical profession have to this sort of idea? Is it something that the doctor might prescribe, go go to a sauna and have a half hour session on a regular basis?
00:12:11
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Is that something that your doctor might suggest to you? There's a virtually a 0% chance that they will, unless they're quite open-minded. So when looking at it through that lens of like, why haven't I heard this perhaps is like a good question to ask if you're kind of new to the health world is there's just incentive structures that are misaligned.
00:12:28
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And so let's say the entire medical community embraced the research behind this and it shows that saunas do this. Their North Star is treating patients. It's not making the most healthy, vibrant people.
00:12:40
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So it's not root cause based. And so they're going to treat the symptoms of people who come in. They're not going to start with preventative care, you know, at least in a broad stroke, that's kind of how I would look at it. So I have doctor friends.
00:12:53
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They've read the book. Ironically, through a year of deep research as a not from as a journalist versus a non-medical background, I have a more in-depth knowledge of this than they do, because when they went to medical school, they don't study this.
00:13:05
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So it's just it's just kind of like a different. Right. You're not going to be taught how to live the most healthy, vibrant life from your doctor. Unfortunately, you're going to have to go empower yourself on your own. So you hopefully don't have to go to your doctor later down the line.
00:13:17
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Yeah, that's a really important point is that you go to your doctor when you're ill to be cured. Perhaps one of the better health management strategies is to make sure that you never really get to know your doctor because you've done the things to maintain a good level of health throughout your life.
00:13:32
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And one of the things that can help with that, like you're saying, is to use your body's natural mechanisms. So you drink enough water. you water helps to cleanse your body from the inside through natural processes. But also if you are going to a sauna and sweating, that also helps to cleanse your body.
00:13:52
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Now, as someone who know who's been into various different types of saunas, but and never purposely, I don't think is that is the way to describe it. It's been something that has been there. So I've used it sort of thing in the hotel, in the gym, et cetera.
00:14:06
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If I make the decision that I'm going to go and I'm going to spend half an hour in this environment, what should I be looking for in picking the right type of sauna? What should what are the key things to look out for?
00:14:19
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Sure. So it's kind of two major buckets. There's public saunas and private saunas. So typically when you go somewhere, so like a hotel or a gym, it's going to be a public sauna. um You could buy your own sauna to have in your home.
00:14:32
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That's a whole separate conversation. ah When you go somewhere, there's three types typically that you can potentially use steam room, which is you go in and it's like a fog and there's water in the air, a dry sauna or an infrared sauna. So a dry sauna is typically what you'll see in kind of a group sauna session.
00:14:50
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Maybe there's like rocks you can pour water on. And then an infrared sauna is a newer technology where you'll see you'll see these black panels emitting infrared waves. And that'll that's also very good.
00:15:02
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I actually advise people not to use steam rooms. Mold grows in dark, damp places. That's what a steam room is. You're also breathing in the water vapors, which are typically tap and contaminated.
00:15:13
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So I advise against steam rooms um preferentially. And then dry saunas and infrared saunas are great. And if you're in public, it's less of an issue. But you know when you think of like a hot box, if you think of like a car where you put a plastic bottle in the car on like a summer day,
00:15:29
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and you come back and drink it, it tastes like plastic. That's because toxins migrate with heat. And so, especially if you're buying your own sauna, you want to make sure that it's not made with toxic materials because that'll get heated. And then you're breathing that in an enclosed environment, which is the opposite reason of why you're in there.
00:15:45
Speaker
But with public saunas, It's a little bit less of an issue because they're on, say, like 14 hours a day for years. And so a lot of that's been off-gassed already. The seats that people sit on are ah usually wooden as well, aren't they?
00:15:58
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A wooden sauna is better than ah that's something that's made with ah man-made materials. Yeah. Yeah, they're typically all wooden. Some people won't know better and they'll put like ah like a plastic mat in there.
00:16:09
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But that's a problem because you're heating it up and then you're breathing it in.
Sauna Usage: Tips and Advice
00:16:13
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So you also want to go in ideally in just white, a hundred percent organic towels, no clothes, no plastic, nothing because all that stuff heats in there and then you're off gassing it.
00:16:24
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So really you want to go in naked with a towel and then wipe down the towel. So don't take in any jewelry, don't take in any flip-flops, they're made of plastic or rubber generally. Anything that you take in is going to heat up and that will give off toxins which you are then going to breathe in.
00:16:40
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I'm a bit disappointed about what you just told me there about steam rooms. they are um I prefer the steam room to the sauna in many ways, but i yeah, you're breathing in the water vapors, which will contain all of the things that you're actually trying to get out of your body and the the dry heat will get that out.
00:17:01
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The ideal period of time to be in there is about half an hour. It's really, you know, when you're starting out with this, you your goal is to make it tolerable. So you want to push yourself like you would a little bit in the gym. So, you know, if you set like a 30, 25 minute target and you get woozy in 10 minutes, step out, drink a little water, relax, then go back in. It's no problem with that.
00:17:20
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Over time, you can get that up to 45 minutes, an hour in the sauna. But again, the idea is to... is to Really, like if your primary goal is to sweat, it's okay. You don't have to make it hard on yourself.
00:17:32
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So just kind of keep pushing yourself to be able to tolerate it more and you can work up to it. You do want, like if if you were to set like a minimum dose, once you buy into these ideas, you're trying to do essentially, you're trying to sweat heavily for 20 minutes, at least three times a week.
00:17:51
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That's kind of like a bare minimum. So that's three visits to the sauna yeah every week. And that might take, you might take 10 minutes to get the sweat going. So it might be a 30 minute session, but you're getting that 20 minutes of, you know, sweating towel wipe and five seconds later, new sweat appears because you're sweating so heavy.
00:18:08
Speaker
That's the goal. It's not just the case of sitting there, it's actually adapting the amount of time you spend in the sauna to your body type. Do skinny people sweat less or more than average weight people, have you heavier people, or is it is it just down to the individual?
00:18:25
Speaker
Well, that's an interesting question. no one's No one's asked me that yet in terms of size. It seems to be down to the individual. One of the interesting components of this toxin issue is a lot of them are fat-loving, so they're lipophilic, so they'll actually store in the fat cells.
00:18:41
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There's a process I think ah we maybe we could talk about called the niacin sauna protocol that actually allows the fat cells to open and detox even deeper. But there doesn't seem to be any correlation to size and sweating amount.
00:18:53
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And even individually, you'll notice like some days you're like, huh, I'm sweating right away or huh, it took me 15 minutes to start sweating. There's not really clear data as to what that could be related to. There's a lot of potential factors. This may sound like a really strange question, but I'm wondering, you know, when I go to the gym, I see people who are lifting weights and all this sort stuff. And sometimes when and I'm out, I can be introduced to somebody and I think like he lifts type of thing. You can tell by the way in which somebody stands that somebody is a regular in the gym or they're regularly involved in physical activity of some type, some sport or something.
00:19:29
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If you were at to at a function at a party and you were introduced to someone, are there any sort of signs that you would say, yeah, that person probably uses a sauna? I think so. So that's ah that's a great question.
00:19:41
Speaker
i um I was just in ah Miami, actually, and met with someone who was potentially going to do some work with. And I felt that way. i was like, I said, I could tell you're into health stuff. I'm guessing you do sauna a lot. He said, all my friends call me the sauna guy. I've been doing it since I was two years old. Wow.
00:19:58
Speaker
And the reasoning there, Michael, is what I think it is. And I mean, it it seems pretty obvious to me at this point. I feel like you could see it in people is everyone's dealing with this toxin issue and we don't know it. And so let me think of a good metaphor for this. so This toxin issue is essentially causing energy depletion. It's it's like a weight loss.
00:20:16
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holding you down that's affecting your body's ability to function optimally. And so when you get that back by getting this stuff out of your system, there's a brightness in the eyes. There's a like a vividness, not to say there aren't people who don't sauna who have this, but it's more common in people who sauna because they're regularly getting this stuff out.
00:20:34
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And so their vitality is just stronger. You could see it in their eyes. You could hear it in their voice. And so I think it's noticeable. You know, there's other factors with health, but Because of that, I think it's noticeable.
00:20:46
Speaker
I can definitely tell you, i can meet people and say, you definitely don't sauna. I can see, like, if you did, I would be able to tell. I think, yeah, there are some people, you know, they've never been in a gym. They've never done anything. It's like, you know, all this sort of stuff.
00:20:59
Speaker
But I'm getting the feeling that you're telling me that people who regularly sauna are likely to yeah look younger.
Infrared vs Traditional Saunas
00:21:05
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110%. And part of the issue is living in your own body, you don't have a reference point for what feeling good could be.
00:21:14
Speaker
And so you have to kind of do this weird thing where you look at other people. You could choose to do this. And I did this. And that's part of why I became obsessed with getting healthier is i I'd see people who seem to have so much vibrancy.
00:21:26
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And it was like, I imagine being in their body. i'm like, I think that's just a different experience of life in terms of their mental clarity, their energy, their vibrancy. And I want to figure out if there's something common to these people.
00:21:38
Speaker
And so a lot of these people were um health influencers I'd follow. And I'd look for common patterns. I'd try different things. And one of those was sauna. And so it became clear to me that that was potentially whether they knew it or not, because maybe they were doing 12 different things for their health.
00:21:54
Speaker
That seemed to be a common thread. You know, the rationale makes a lot of sense looking at it backwards, but there was no placebo effect because I was doing it and then learning why it was helping after it already helped me, if that makes sense.
00:22:05
Speaker
Yes. Yes, it does. Yeah, mean, you've mentioned the different types of sauna that exist around the world. It's all the same basic principle, but it happens in different ways in different parts of the world. And I'm imagining that you've experienced quite a lot of those different styles of sauna. Is there one that like sticks out as like, that's that's your go-to style of sauna?
00:22:27
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Well, I think there's something really nice about doing it with other people. I personally have my own infrared sauna at home. um Infrared is an interesting experience because you actually sweat, you detoxify better, at least in the couple research studies around this. I would love to see more.
00:22:45
Speaker
But you actually detoxify heavy metals and other substances better in an infrared. Plus, it actually doesn't feel as hot because it's raising your core body temperature. So the air around you doesn't feel hot.
00:22:57
Speaker
So it's less of a battle like you might feel in like a dry sauna. So it's different. You know, the other issue there is the industries on the infrared sauna industry is unregulated. So you have to look out for that toxin in the build and also yeah EMFs, which is a major issue.
00:23:11
Speaker
um which is like radiation that could be hitting you. And a lot of these companies lie. Yeah, it sounds a little bit like an infrared sauna is ah is a bit like how I understand a microwave to work. yeah It heats from the core yes of the of the food and an infrared sauna operates in the same sort of way, but can be more, what you what I think you're saying is if if it's if it's a well-made infrared sauna and it's managed well, yeah then it can be a more pleasant experience than the profuse sweating that you might get in a dry sauna.
00:23:44
Speaker
Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. And they're both they're both great. um In terms of like in your home sauna, a lot of times it's going to be an infrared. So yeah, personally personally, I do infrared. And then if I'm traveling or I'm at a place where there's a dry sauna, I'm happy to do that. I just tend to avoid steam rooms. Right.
00:23:59
Speaker
I've learned a lot. I mean, I'm um realizing that there is value in sweating and it's not just the case of ah being in the gym or being for a swim or or whatever it is. And let's just put it on the end of the session to fill time.
Conclusion: Importance of Sweating for Health
00:24:16
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There is very much a a purpose to the sweating process and it can have an impact on your health in terms of getting rid of things which are going to damage your health, which no matter where we are in the world, being in a position where we don't have to visit a doctor is the way to maintain our health. We don't need to, we don't want to cure it, we want to prevent it.
00:24:40
Speaker
And this is the sort of thing that is a good step forward in making sure that we're a little bit further away from having a visit to a doctor because we're taking care of ourselves.
00:24:52
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But it's really interesting. Thank you very much, Justin. I really appreciate your time and explaining to us a about sweating and the and the value that it can deliver for us. Thank you very much.
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You're welcome. Thank you. Very interesting episode of Fit for My Age. Thank Great. I am Michael Millward, the managing director of Abbasida. And in this episode of Fit for My Age, I have been having a conversation with Justin Glazier, the author of the bestseller, Sweat, Uncovering Your Body's Hidden Superpower.
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You can find out more about both of us at abasida.co.uk. There is a link in the description. I must remember to thank the team at matchmaker.fm for introducing me to Justin.
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If you are a podcaster looking for guests, or if like Justin, you have something very interesting to say, matchmaker.fm is where matches of great hosts and great guests are made.
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There is a link to matchmaker.fm and an offer code in the description. At Fit for My Age, our aim is proactive positive aging. Knowing the risks early is an important part of maintaining good health.
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You can access easy to understand results and guidance to help you make effective lifestyle changes anytime via your secure personal wellness hub account. There is a link and a disco discount code in the description.
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The description also includes links to Justin's website and opportunities to buy sweat, uncovering your body's hidden superpower. It's going to be a description that is well worth reading, I think.
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Remember, the aim of all the podcasts produced by Abbasida is not to tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think. Until the next episode of Fit for My Age, thank you for listening and goodbye.