{"id":1338,"date":"2024-11-27T11:08:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T10:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordicsaunastories.se\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2024-11-27T11:08:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T10:08:35","slug":"bli-lyckligare-av-bastu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nordicsaunastories.se\/en\/bli-lyckligare-av-bastu\/","title":{"rendered":"Be happier in the sauna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There are many reasons to use the sauna, which we will return to time and again as I meet many people in the sauna and they share their stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently, a study from Lule\u00e5 University, linked to the MONICA study conducted in 2022 in Norrbotten and V\u00e4sterbotten, was published. The study shows that sauna bathers experienced higher levels of general and mental health, higher levels of energy and happiness, and reduced self-reported pain compared to non-sauna bathers.<\/p>\n<p>In Sweden, we have an individualistic culture that makes many people in our society feel lonely. As we know, loneliness is harmful to health, and sauna bathing is often something we do together with others.<\/p>\n<p>The sauna is a form of heat therapy where we sit calmly and quietly in the heat. This means that a sauna bather, compared to a non-sauna bather, rates their happiness higher, has less worry, a lower perceived level of pain, and better overall health status.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Det finns m\u00e5nga anledningar att bada bastu som vi kommer komma tillbaka till g\u00e5ng p\u00e5 g\u00e5ng d\u00e5 jag m\u00f6ter m\u00e5nga m\u00e4nniskor i bastun och de delar sina stories. Nyligen publicerades en artikel fr\u00e5n Lule\u00e5 universitet kopplat till MONICA-studien som gjordes 2022 i Norr- och V\u00e4sterbotten. Det man kan l\u00e4sa om i studien \u00e4r att bastubadare&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordicsaunastories.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordicsaunastories.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordicsaunastories.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordicsaunastories.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordicsaunastories.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nordicsaunastories.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordicsaunastories.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordicsaunastories.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordicsaunastories.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordicsaunastories.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}