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I can definitely turn my shower up for a hotter body experience than any sauna I've ever been in, and obviously it's nowhere near 150-195 which would be lethal.

Because the water is making direct contact with my body for much more heat transfer. The dry air of a sauna is vastly slower, plus you're sweating which provides evaporative cooling which isn't happening in the shower.

So I too really don't see how saunas are appreciably different from hot showers here.



You simply have not had a proper sauna before. It can get your body way hotter inside and out than a shower ever could


You're sweating long after a sauna way more than any hot shower i've taken... so there is def something different going on


You said one difference yourself already: sweating.

Also in sauna you breathe the hot air in.




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