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Building Your Weekly Protocol
TempRx Series | Part 12 of 12 You’ve made it through the science. Heat shock proteins. Cold shock proteins. Brown fat activation. BDNF. Cardiovascular conditioning. The Søberg protocol. Contrast therapy. Finnish mortality data. Neurochemical cascades. Now comes the question that actually matters: what do you do with all of this? Knowledge without application is just…
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Contrast Therapy — Hot + Cold Together
TempRx Series | Part 11 of 12 So far, we’ve treated heat and cold as separate interventions. Sauna for cellular repair and cardiovascular health. Cold for neurochemical activation and metabolic boost. But what if you did both? Contrast therapy — alternating between hot and cold — isn’t a modern biohack. It’s ancient practice. Roman baths…
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Steam Rooms & Hot Tubs — Do They Count?
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Finnish Sauna — The Gold Standard
TempRx Series | Part 5 of 12 If you want to understand heat therapy, you go to Finland. Not because the Finns invented the sauna — humans have used heat for millennia. But because Finland turned sauna use into a population-wide natural experiment, then let researchers study it for decades. The results are hard to…
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Heat Shock Proteins — What They Are and Why They Matter
TempRx Series | Part 2 of 12 You’ve heard the term. Maybe from a podcast, maybe from that guy at your gym who times his sauna sessions with a stopwatch. Heat shock proteins. It sounds technical. Scientific. The kind of thing you nod along to without really understanding. But here’s the thing — heat shock…
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Why Temperature is Medicine
TempRx Series | Part 1 of 12 You already know exercise is good for you. Sleep too. Maybe you’ve even accepted that vegetables aren’t optional. But temperature? Most people think of heat and cold as things to avoid. We climate-control our homes, our cars, our offices. We’ve engineered discomfort out of daily life. Which is…