The philosophical argument for buying a sauna if you live up in Northern States like Michigan

The human body is 70% water.

The human body has sweat glands covering 100% of it.

You have to believe this is by design. A lot of water was meant to pass through bodies on a fairly regular basis. For one good reason, the flow of water carries toxins and waste. People, who are couped up inside all day for days on end, don't work their body as much as they should.

Basically, people, who live up North, where winter lasts for 6 months don't sweat as much as they should be because the long extremely cold winter isn't conducive to working up a sweat. In fact, the weather is conducive to a 6 month hibernation.

I recently spent another winter in Flint, Michigan. If you don't know, the weather patterns in Michigan are very similar to Sweden, Finland, and Norway. 70% of the homes in those Scandinavian countries have saunas in them. Why?? I think Scandinavians have figured out that you need to sweat. In addition to staying warm, you need keep lots of water flowing through your body to stay healthy.

You also need moderate amounts of sun exposure to create Vitamin D. (Vitamin D deficiencies have traced to some forms of cancer.)

So, my contention is, if you're going to live up North, and you want to stay healthy, you should seriously think about getting a sauna and some tanning lights. If I lived up North, I would definitely own these things.

I believe Americans have yet to fully develop viable cultures for the weather environments in which they live. Michiganders should view winter kind of the way Swedish view winter. The weather patterns are almost identical.