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mcv 7 hours ago

No idea. How hot is and was your sauna? Is it possible that it's hotter than it used to be? Maybe try one that's slightly less hot?

I've got the opposite problem: saunas don't seem to be able to make me sweat anymore, so I'm looking for the hottest saunas I can find.

storus 7 hours ago | parent [-]

The usual 95"C, nothing extraordinary. Sweating after covid got impaired, I might have some thermoregulation issue.

mcv 7 hours ago | parent [-]

95 is pretty hot. At commercial spas I see them start at 70, and rarely above 90.

storus 6 hours ago | parent [-]

95 is normal where I live for Finnish saunas. Then there are other types of saunas that start lower, but Finnish are always around 95.

jampekka 6 hours ago | parent [-]

95 is high for Finnish saunas in Finland at least. Public saunas are very rarely so hot here, and few like it that hot.

Edit: to put it into some numbers, per one study[1] Finnish sauna sessions were on average at 75.9°C with SD 9.9°C. If we assume normal distribution, that means that more than 97 % of sauna sessions are at < 95°C.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6262976/

mcv 32 minutes ago | parent [-]

I actually like them that hot. I look for 90+ saunas, and once was in one that claimed to be over 100. Although I have no idea how accurate that is. They're very bearable to me. But if they're not bearable, of course you should look for a sauna that's not quite as hot. Or at least stay low; the higher you sit, the hotter it is.