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by markkat 1402 days ago
Works for heart disease and likely all cause mortality.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30486813/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35908583/

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This is almost certainly confounded with other healthful behaviours. Eg people who sauna also eat better, exercise, go to the doctor etc
Pretty well everyone I knew in Finland would sauna, regardless of how they lived the rest of their life, it was just part of the culture.