Nacidos para sudar : El calor nos hace más fuertes

What if the key to thriving in an increasingly warmer world wasn't avoiding the heat, but learning to harness it for our benefit? In Born to Sweat, science journalist Bill Gifford takes us on a fascinating exploration of the power of sweat to improve our performance and health. Combining cutting-edge science, personal experiences, and practical advice, he reveals that heat adaptation and thermal therapies like saunas activate the body's natural mechanisms that promote longevity and resilience. To do this, the author: * ventures into the steamy world of Finnish saunas, * volunteers as a subject in state-of-the-art heat laboratories, * tackles a 160-kilometer bike ride under the scorching Texas sun, * explores how infrared therapy could combat depression more effectively than some medications. Through groundbreaking research in evolutionary biology, physiology, and thermoregulation, this book shows that humans evolved to thrive in sweltering conditions, and that reactivating this ancestral advantage will help us perform better, live longer and healthier lives, and adapt to an increasingly warmer planet. Throughout these pages, you'll discover that sweat is much more than a cooling mechanism: it's key to achieving peak performance. We were born to sweat, and sweating makes us stronger.