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If a pill reduced your dementia risk by 66%, you'd take it every day without question. That pill exists. It's not a pill...
07/06/2026

If a pill reduced your dementia risk by 66%, you'd take it every day without question. That pill exists. It's not a pill. 🧵

2,315 Finnish men. 20.7 years. 204 dementia cases tracked. The KIHD cohort didn't study a drug. They studied a sauna.

The result: 4–7 sessions per week → 66% lower dementia risk. 65% lower Alzheimer's risk.

Here's what nobody talks about. The dose-response isn't linear. 2–3x/week = 22% protection. 4–7x/week = 66% protection. One extra session crosses you from modest protection to near-total protection.

Every major Alzheimer's drug trial in the last decade failed to clear 20%.

A wooden room at 80°C hit 66%.

The protocol: 4 sessions. 20 minutes each. 80 minutes a week. Less time than most people spend scrolling before bed on a single night.

The barrier isn't willpower. It's access.

Laukkanen JA, et al. Age and Ageing. 2017;46(2):245–249.

Huberman vs Bryan Johnson. Who would win in a fight?We're calling it. Huberman. Easy.Round 1 — Bryan fears the sun. Avoi...
07/06/2026

Huberman vs Bryan Johnson. Who would win in a fight?

We're calling it. Huberman. Easy.

Round 1 — Bryan fears the sun. Avoids UV like a vampire. Huberman opens every day with 10 minutes of direct AM sunlight. The sun is free. The sun is undefeated.

Round 2 — Bryan is 60% pill. 100+ supplements a day. Olive oil shots for breakfast. Pen*s-rejuvenation lasers. Huberman picks up heavy things and walks outside.

Round 3 — Bryan tracks 70 metrics from a temperature-controlled chamber. Huberman trains outside, in weather, with humans. One body adapts. The other goes glass-fragile under fluorescent light.

Finisher — cold plunge raises noradrenaline 530% and dopamine 250% for hours. Bryan's morning routine ends with him sad-staring at a glucose monitor.

Final score: 4 — 0.

One is real. One is fake.

Huberman lives like a yoked athlete. Bryan lives like a scared Peter Pan chasing forever from a lab chair.

Bryan, post-fight: in bed by 8:30, glucose monitor still on.
Andrew, post-fight: outside, smiling, sunlit.

P.S. — Bryan, if you're reading this. The sun isn't going to bite you.

Who ya got? Tag a mate and settle it in the comments.

The question is not which is better.The question is: what do you want your nervous system doing when you walk out?Finish...
07/06/2026

The question is not which is better.

The question is: what do you want your nervous system doing when you walk out?

Finish cold — norepinephrine and dopamine surge for 2-3 hours. Alert, focused, sympathetic-forward. This is the sequence for performance days, morning sessions, high-output work ahead.

Finish warm — parasympathetic dominance, core temperature elevated then falling. That drop triggers sleep onset. Haghayegh et al. (2019, Sleep Medicine Reviews) documented a 36-minute improvement in sleep onset from the post-heat thermal rebound. For evening sessions, wind-down days, or recovery nights, heat last is not the wrong call. It is the correct one.

The one rule that never changes: sauna before cold. Always. The vasodilation from heat primes the vascular contrast that makes cold hit harder — for either goal.

Post-training is the exception: cold first to blunt inflammation, sauna after to drive recovery.

Same products. Different sequence. Completely different outcome.

Make it a Ritual.

Shop the Roman and Legion Sauna → link in bio.


Overstimulated, anxious, or just feeling like your brain has 47 tabs open?We made this for you.5 steps to calm the f*ck ...
07/06/2026

Overstimulated, anxious, or just feeling like your brain has 47 tabs open?

We made this for you.

5 steps to calm the f*ck down — sauna edition. 🔥

Your body breaks down in a very specific order at the end of a marathon.KM 32 — glycogen runs out. KM 32 is when the rec...
04/06/2026

Your body breaks down in a very specific order at the end of a marathon.

KM 32 — glycogen runs out. KM 32 is when the receipt arrives.
KM 35 — blood reroutes to cool you down. Away from the legs that got you here.
KM 40 — your brain calls danger. It's trying to protect you from yourself.

The last 2km aren't a fitness problem. Your running economy has collapsed. You are not slow. You are underthermoregulated.

Scoon et al. 2007 tracked competitive runners through 3 weeks of post-run sauna sessions. Time to exhaustion improved by 32%. Plasma volume up 7.1%.

Give your body heat, and it learns to manage heat. By race day, 35°C feels like 25°C to your cardiovascular system.

The Legion Sauna. Built for athletes who understand recovery is part of the training.

Make it a Ritual.


this, and you.
04/06/2026

this, and you.


Every cold plunge protocol you've ever read was built on male data.The temperatures. The durations. The frequencies. Eve...
02/06/2026

Every cold plunge protocol you've ever read was built on male data.

The temperatures. The durations. The frequencies. Every viral protocol — Söberg, Huberman, all of it — came from studies run on male cohorts.

Nobody flagged it. Nobody built you a different version.

Here's what the science actually shows.

Women vasoconstrict faster than men at matched temperatures. Your norepinephrine spike per degree of cold is higher. Your acute cold shock response is more powerful. Tipton and colleagues documented this in 2017 in Experimental Physiology: sex-related differences in the cold shock response are significant enough to require a completely different protocol.

Your cycle changes everything.

Days 1–14 (follicular phase): estrogen is high. Cold tolerance is better. Recovery is faster. Training adaptation peaks. This is your window — go harder, go colder.

Days 15–28 (late luteal): progesterone raises your core temperature. At 8°C, the shock response overwhelms the signal. Use 12–15°C. Cap at 90 seconds. Contrast therapy — sauna then cold then sauna — is often the better play.

Your thyroid is also in the conversation. Women are 8× more likely to develop thyroid conditions than men. Cold at the right dose increases T3 conversion. Overdone, it competes. Two to three sessions a week. Not seven.

Precision matters more than extremity.

The Centurion smart-app holds temperature within 0.5°C year-round. Set 15°C for week three. Set 10°C for week one. Not one protocol — your protocol.

Your cold. Your cycle. Your ritual.

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It’s important that you understand, working harder is only facilitated by recovery. The only secret is effort and recove...
30/05/2026

It’s important that you understand, working harder is only facilitated by recovery.

The only secret is effort and recovery.

Work hard enough to adapt.
Recover well enough to do it again.

Repeat.

Heat your body. But cool the crown jewels.Don't fear the sauna. Fear the unprotected session.The testicles sit outside t...
25/05/2026

Heat your body. But cool the crown jewels.

Don't fear the sauna. Fear the unprotected session.

The testicles sit outside the body because s***matogenesis needs 2–4°C below core temperature. Sauna pushes scrotal temp up 3°C in a single session. The machinery doesn't adapt around that. It breaks under it.

Garolla et al. (2013): ten men with normal s***m parameters. Two 15-minute Finnish sauna sessions a week for three months. S***m count and progressive motility both dropped significantly. Mitochondrial function fell. DNA packaging disrupted. Heat-shock and hypoxia genes upregulated across the board.

Six months after stopping, every parameter returned to baseline. Reversible. But why stop when you can just run it smarter?

The fix is two steps.

One: ice the crown jewels during the session. A cold pack held against the sc***um while you're in the sauna keeps scrotal temperature below the threshold while core temperature climbs. You get the heat shock proteins, the cardiovascular adaptation, the growth hormone response — without the reproductive cost.

Two: cold water immersion after. Mulcahy (1984) — fifty men with low s***m count or motility, scrotal cooling overnight. Sixty-five percent at least doubled s***m density and motility. The cold plunge post-sauna does the same job faster. Drives scrotal temp below baseline. Restores the system.

Sauna isn't the problem. The unprotected session is.

Heat the body. Ice mid-session. Cool the crown jewels after.

Make it a Ritual.

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you do the hard part - the plunge - and then erase it in the next 4 minshot shower. towel rub. hot coffee. all the thing...
18/05/2026

you do the hard part - the plunge - and then erase it in the next 4 mins

hot shower. towel rub. hot coffee. all the things that feel like the reward.

except the plunge isn’t where it happens. it’s where it starts. the 5–15 minutes after - the shivering, the goosebumps, the awkward standing around in the cold - that’s where the brown fat fires. that’s where the noradrenaline holds. that’s where the metabolic afterburn lives.

hot shower opens the blood vessels back up. brown fat stands down. the whole thing resets to baseline before the body has even finished what you trained it to do.
so. plunge. step out. dry off, don’t scrub. stand around like an idiot for ten minutes. then warm up.

it’s the easiest 10x to your protocol you’ll ever get.

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