What can heat therapy actually do for my health?

Heat therapy is an age-old remedy that’s been growing in popularity. Whether it’s hot springs, hot tubs, saunas, or steam rooms, there are plenty of claims about how heat therapy can improve your health — but what does the research say? Brock University kinesiology professor Stephen Cheung explains how heat therapy can boost cardiovascular health and may even support mental well-being. Want to learn more about cold plunges? Click here! For transcripts of The Dose, please visit: lnk.to/dose-transcripts . Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. For more episodes of this podcast, click this link.

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What can heat therapy actually do for my health? is an episode from The Dose by CBC.

This episode is 00:26:10 long.

This episode was published on Feb 12, 2026.

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