Sauna Benefits Are Real for Once: The 20-Year Finnish Study Behind Britain’s 2026 Sauna Boom – and the £400 Blanket That Misses the Point
Editor’s note: this piece has been folded into our fuller guide, Sauna Benefits UK 2026: Inside The Beach-Hut Sauna Boom Sweeping Britain, which now carries everything from this article – the 20-year Kuopio study figures and the 2017 dementia follow-up, the sleep and respiratory evidence, the £400 infrared blanket problem, the Victorian Turkish-bath history, the 2026 UK Sauna Awards, who should steer clear, and why frequency rather than equipment is what would actually move the needle. Please read and bookmark that version; it’s the one we keep updated.
