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Sauna and Myeloma

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As you can read from the posts linked below, I’ve written about sauna and myeloma many times before. This post focuses on the broader health benefits outlined in the study linked below.

I am linking the video below to explain the far-reaching health benefits of regular sauna use.




If you are a myeloma patient going through chemo, radiation or surgery or you are a myeloma survivor struggling with short, long-term or late stage treatment-induced side effects, I will bet that regular sauna use will improve your quality of life.

I am the latter example. I am a long-term myeloma survivor struggling with many different side effects. My regular sauna use helps manage my pain, chemotherapy-induced cardiomyopathy, chemobrain and more.

Email me at David.PeopleBeatingCancer@gmail.com with any questions you may have about saunas for your MM.

David Emerson

  • MM Survivor
  • MM Cancer Coach
  • Director PeopleBeatingCancer

Sauna bathing in northern Sweden: results from the MONICA study 2022

ABSTRACT- Frequent sauna bathing has been associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and proposed as a mediator for improved health. Therefore, the aim was to describe and compare sauna bathers with non-sauna bathers in northern Sweden based on their demographics, health and life attitudes, and to describe sauna bathers’ sauna habits…

Increased sweating during sauna bathing is accompanied by an increase in body temperature [Citation1] and subcutaneous blood circulation [Citation8], with similar acute effects in heart rate and blood pressure as moderate intensity physical exercise [Citation9].

Indeed, a recent review suggested an overlap in effects between aerobic exercise and heat therapy modalities such as sauna bathing [Citation10]. Moreover, Lee et al. [Citation11] found that sauna bathing improved arterial compliance and lowered systemic blood pressure after one session…

According to the literature, sauna bathing:

  • accelerates the process of muscle recovery after physical exertion [Citation12],
  • improves quality of life and well-being [Citation13]
  • and reduces the risk of CVD [Citation14].

Furthermore, sauna bathing is an effective complementary therapy for rehabilitation of patients with

Indeed, a recent study found beneficial long-term adaptations in cardiorespiratory fitness and blood pressure via a combination of regular exercise and post-exercise sauna bathing [Citation19]. These encouraging results demonstrate the potential of sauna bathing as a viable therapeutic tool…

Participants sauna bathing 1–4 times a month and 2–7 times a week scored their mental health and energy levels statistically higher than participants who used the sauna less than once a month.

However, mental health and energy levels did not increase with more frequent bathing than 1–4 times a month. There was an increase in happiness scores among participants using the sauna one to four times a month as compared to less or more frequent sauna bathing. Frequency of sauna bathing was not associated with sleep pattern satisfaction or general health ()…

Regular sauna bathers in our study reported less moderate to severe pain. This is in line with a study where participants with back/musculoskeletal pain, reported the greatest improvements in their conditions with sauna-bathing [Citation28].

Another study from Korea also showed that sauna therapy may be useful to reduce pain and improve quality of life in patients with low back pain [Citation17].

Sauna therapy has shown efficacy in the treatment of pain in patients with other diagnosis such as fibromyalgia [Citation33] and rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis [Citation34]. Pain shares an inverse relationship with quality of life and less reported pain often leads to better quality of life [Citation35,Citation36]…

 

 

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