The Optimal Time For Ice Bath & Sauna - Andrew Huberman

Dr Andrew Huberman explains how to do sauna and ice bath exposure. How does Andrew Huberman say that can you use cold exposure and heat exposure for longevity? How long should you spend in the sauna? How long should you spend in the ice bath?

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[Bobsonomatic]

The more I learn about being healthy, the more important it is that I become a multimillionaire and retire ASAP. Need to do cardio in the morning, sauna and ice baths throughout the day, lift at night, 5-6 small meals daily, daily meditation and prayer, and a minimum of 8 hours of sleep at night (and upwards of 10-11 is ideal) for mental health and to maximize muscle protein synthesis.

[DrAAAli]

Ideally eat 75 small meals a day, sleep in the snow and wash with coconut husks.

[maggalee]

Thing is, everybody can try to optimalize as much as possible; bottom line is that 10 minutes of sauna 2-5 times a week is still great, and everything above/below is also really good. Find your own balance. It could be working out 2-3 days a week with sauna/cold exposure after. Everything is better than nothing - remember that!

[KH]

I deal with anxiety. General anxiety started in my 40s. When I do 15 minutes of sauna at 190 degrees, then 30 minutes workout in pool, 10 minutes in whirlpool, 5 minutes in pool, I feel totally relaxed and set myself up for success all day long.

[Philipp_-cpxw]

Workouts are stressing the body so I love doing Sauna afterwards to relax, doing it at 9 pm and then going to sleep is freaking awesome.

[jbulletc]

I save time by combining the heat from the sauna with the cold from the ice baths. I do so by spending the majority of my day in a sort of medium temperature. It's great. I call it hot/cool or "Hool".

[craigdavey]

I sauna daily 20 mins infrared at 60 degrees. After which I cold plunge at .5 to 1 degree for 8 to 10 mins.
At 60 I feel alive and stronger than ever.
Cold plunging daily for 12 months before perhaps a couple of times a week. Sauna is new, a month and loving this transition.

[PumaTomten]

In Scandinavia and Finland we hit wood fired sauna of 80-200kg stones around 70-90 Celsius for 20-120minutes several times/week goin out in snow, cold water o just cold shower a few times when the sauna gets too warm.

[antonkomulainen]

Its crazy to read these comments as finnish person when literally everybody has a sauna, your parents, all your neighbors + maybe you have second cottage sauna somewhere, even small studio apartments have saunas and there is public sauna in most condos. Its so ingrained to just casually sauna for any reason any time whatsoever, never really though about it being that healthy or anything, just relaxing physically and mentally(underlooked aspect of it imo).

[ethanoptimized]

I’ve been keen on morning workouts that end with a 10 min sauna and a cold shower when I get home. As long as I hydrate enough it’s a fun routine

[freerangejames]

When I worked as a Dog Musher in Arctic Norway the temperatures sometimes went as low as -30C. I got used to the cold so we felt warm until it went below -20. After a full season I was just wearing a T-shirt in -5. I would also use the sauna about 3 times a week. I've not been as fit or healthy since I left Norway. The Beer was fecking expensive so we didn't drink much either which would have improved my health also.

[TaranakiGreenfields]

Super interesting. I could listen to that dude for hours. Easy to follow easy to understand. Loved it

[TheGreatLeslie]

I climb trees all day at work then after i do 20 mins sauna and 5 mins cold shower x2 then a long swim. the feeling after the first cold shower gives me insane euphoria. i dont know about all the science involved in it i just know it makes me feel real good

[Andrewwashere]

Awesome talk loved it lol. I'm getting a 100 gallon rubbermaid tank. Using plastic salad bowls to freeze and a pull up and dip station. Once a week work out upper body and abdominal and have the ice bath ready for a 5 minute dip. Followed by a warm shower for 5 minutes, and go back out for another 5 minute dip and NO work out for 7 days. Body must heal.

[CilbraxGaming]

Idk who needs to see this. but i use reusable ice blocks for my bathtub to get the cold water immersion. for those of you who dont feel like using bags of ice all the time. i found it works great. be sure to figure out how many you need, my 2 person jacuzzi tub needs at least 5 big blocks haha.

[krisfox]

As the leading expert on sauna use in Australia, the continuous increase of people using ice bath/sauna therapy is great to see. It is important to mention that everyone using this particular process will indeed be at different stages or levels of tolerance for hot to cold or cold to hot sessions. The information coming from people's experiences on this topic is very interesting to read.

[HH-hbuy]

When i did ice bath and sauna, i would start with a fast dip in cold water, then 10-15minutes in sauna, then back into the cold and stay as long as possible and then back to the sauna, i would do this 2-3 times back and forth.

[ryang]

I workout 3x a week and on the off days I do sauna for 20min followed with cold shower

[mescudic]

I almost passed out in the Sauna yesterday, went in dehydrated learned my lesson .

[pipersmitty]

He touched on hydration, if you are doing low carb especially, you NEED to supplement hydration and electrolytes even if you are doing cold immersion only. or even keto only