Finnfox Sauna

09/05/2026

08/08/2026

Momentos from Asuntomessut (Housing fair).

07/13/2026

Hear what Dr. Rhonda Patrick at FoundMyFitness has to say on how having a sauna a few times a week can extend your longevity.

06/12/2026

You can get a light cardiovascular workout without the workout! Saunas for the win !🥵🥰

A sauna is not a passive activity. Your heart works about as hard as it does during light cardio, and that changes how to read the survival data.

Sauna gets treated as relaxation, which makes the longevity findings look like magic, but the mechanism is plain. When you sit in heat that hot, your body's main job is to get rid of the heat before your core temperature rises, and it does this by opening the blood vessels in your skin and sending a large share of your blood to the surface where heat can escape. That drop in resistance forces your heart to pump faster and harder to keep your blood pressure steady, and your heart rate climbs and stays up the whole time.

One study tracked heart rate and blood pressure through a 25-minute sauna session and compared it to a treadmill-style exercise test in the same people. The strain on the heart matched light to moderate exercise, somewhere around 60 to 100 watts of effort. Sitting still in heat was doing real cardiovascular work.

102 adults who each had a heart-disease risk factor did a single 30-minute session in another study. Afterward their arteries were measurably less stiff, and their top blood pressure number dropped from 137 to 130. One session moved both in a healthy direction.

The survival data lines up with that. In a study of 2,315 Finnish men followed for about 20 years, the more often someone used the sauna, the less likely they were to die during the study. Death rates dropped step by step: highest in once-a-week users, lower at two to three times, lowest at four to seven times a week. Heart-related deaths followed the same pattern. The benefit scaled with how often, not just whether.

This was an observation of one group of middle-aged Finnish men, not a controlled experiment, so it cannot prove cause, and the frequent users may have been healthier to start. No trial has tested this directly against lifespan. What the evidence does show: heat is a real workout for your heart and blood vessels, and the dose appears to be how often you do it.
References:

Laukkanen et al., JAMA Internal Medicine, 2015
Laukkanen et al., Journal of Human Hypertension, 2018
Ketelhut and Ketelhut, Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 2019

05/20/2026

At Finnfox Sauna, we try to source local wood species and work with local and regional mills as much as possible because supporting the regional forestry sector is important to us.

Here are some shots of our recent trips to Szeder Sunset Cedar in Barwick, ON and Papasay Value-Added Wood Products sawmill, near Beardmore, ON. Our goal was sourcing Eastern White Cedar, a species that grows here in the region. It's fragrant, attractive, and a strong local alternative to Western Red Cedar.

We're greatful to be able to build with materials that reflect the landscape. Supporting local forestry and local craftsmanship goes hand-in-hand.

Special thanks to the Boreal Springboard accelerator and Northwestern Ontario Innovation Centre or helping us connect with great regional suppliers.

05/17/2026

Happy May long everyone! This weekend is traditionally for opening up the camp (or the cottage if you're outside of Northwestern Ontario).

If you have a sauna, you may want to spend a bit of time sprucing it up as well. Check out our info and resource page for a couple of blog posts around maintaining your sauna and sauna stove.

https://www.finnfoxsauna.com/info-and-resources

05/15/2026

Sauna dosing for a long and healthy life!

05/07/2026

Quote of the day from Very Finnish Problems

"The complete Finnish maintenance manual contains three items: sauna, silence and sisu."

Sure, they were talking about Eurovision, but it works as a general rule. 🇫🇮

04/09/2026

We're so excited! Finnfox Sauna is featured in the latest issue of Wood Design and Building magazine published by the Canadian Wood Council.

The links to the feature are in the first comment.

Nous sommes super enthousiastes! Finnfox Sauna est en vedette dans la dernière édition de la r***e Le Bois coneption & construction, publiée par le Conseil canadien du bois.

Les liens à l'article sont dans les commentaires.

03/26/2026

Misa sauna stoves is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, and they are still producing their kiukaat (sauna stoves) by hand. That's quality and craftmanship built to last.

We share those values and are happy to promote them. That's why Finnfox Sauna is proud to be North America's exclusive distributor of Misa sauna stoves.