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A few months ago, I explored the benefits and applications of cold therapy. Today, I\u2019m going to talk about the benefits and applications of heat therapy\u2014one of the most ubiquitous and ancestral therapies in the history of humankind. You name a culture and\u2014as long as they didn\u2019t live in perpetual tropical heat\u2014they probably had some form of heat therapy.\xa0Native Americans had the sweat lodge, those of Central America the temazcal. The Romans had the thermae, which they picked up and refined from the Greeks. Other famous traditions include Finnish saunas, Russian banyas, Turkish hammams, Japanese sent\xf3 (or the natural spring-fed onsen), and the Korean\xa0jjimjilbang. People really like the heat.

(This Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Leaman)