{"id":564,"date":"2011-01-15T21:13:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T21:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sexandlifecoaching.com\/site\/?p=564"},"modified":"2011-04-16T06:07:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T06:07:46","slug":"can-saunas-lower-your-testosterone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sexandlifecoaching.com\/site\/2011\/01\/can-saunas-lower-your-testosterone\/","title":{"rendered":"Can saunas lower your testosterone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Milrod:<\/p>\n<p>I am 30 years old and know I can\u2019t do certain things like I used to. Meanwhile, I belong to a health club right across the street from where I live. \u00a0I go there all the time, sometimes to workout, but mostly to shower, shave and hit my favorite 2 rooms, the hot room (close to a sauna) and the steam room.\u00a0I have a serious high tolerence for heat. \u00a0I can stay in the hot room for 30 minutes, read the paper, dripping sweat, jump in\/out of the pool then sit\/lie down in the steam room for another 20-30 minutes.\u00a0My brother can barely handle it for 10 minutes combined. \u00a0I&#8217;m a little concerned because I have heard that this can lower your testosterone. Is this true?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Traina<\/p>\n<p>Dear Joe Traina:<\/p>\n<p>A researcher in Poland actually subjected males to sauna exposure and measured their levels of cortisol (stress hormone) and testosterone during exposure. He actually got a concentration of plasma testosterone increase during a 1-hour exposure; however, magnitudes depended on fluid ingestion. Conversely if you are trying to get your sperm count up, don&#8217;t sit around in hot rooms or wear sweaty, tight pants. Keep your family jewels in boxers and keep them cool!<\/p>\n<p>Christine Milrod, Ph.D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Milrod: I am 30 years old and know I can\u2019t do certain things like I used to. Meanwhile, I belong to a health club right across the street from where I live. \u00a0I go there all the time, sometimes to workout, but mostly to shower, shave and hit my favorite 2 rooms, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexandlifecoaching.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexandlifecoaching.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexandlifecoaching.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexandlifecoaching.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexandlifecoaching.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sexandlifecoaching.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/sexandlifecoaching.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexandlifecoaching.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexandlifecoaching.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexandlifecoaching.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}