What most people get wrong about detox and inflammation
We’ve been conditioned to treat inflammation like a switch we can flip. Pop a pill. Cut a food. Try another “cleanse.”
But chronic, low-grade inflammation builds slowly, and it’s linked to many long-term health problems. It builds silently, over years:
- Everyday exposure to chemicals in our homes, air, water and products
- Persistent low-grade stress that keeps cortisol high and repair low
- A lack of deep sweating in modern, climate-controlled life
The science-backed habit that targets inflammation
One of the oldest tools in human health, therapeutic heat, is finally getting the attention it deserves.
Frequent sauna users also had lower levels of C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation (Laukkanen & Laukkanen, 2018).
Sauna mimics some effects of exercise: your core temperature rises, your heart rate climbs and blood flow to your skin increases sharply as your body works to cool down. Heat also triggers heat shock proteins, part of the body’s own repair system.
What I recommend to my inner circle, and why
I don’t make broad recommendations lightly, especially about something as personal as your health.
But after working with athletes, executives, longevity physicians and hundreds of people navigating burnout or persistent inflammation, the tool I keep coming back to is this:
Clean heat therapy, done right. No fads. No shortcuts.
If I could only choose one wellness tool to support long-term vitality, it would be a clean, properly built sauna. I use it personally, I recommend it to almost everyone, and it’s the one thing I always tell friends and family to invest in.
Your decision point: which path will you choose?
Path 1
Keep managing symptoms
Hope that supplements and surface-level changes will undo years of stress and inflammation.
Path 2
Address the root factors
A simple, systematic daily heat routine that works with your biology, not against it.
If you’re ready to choose Path 2, I’ve put together something for you: the Sauna Detox Protocol my wife Kayla created and I personally use and send to friends and family who need their body and brain to perform now, not someday.
