The Saturday Standard · The Finnish habit that cut death by 50%

VOL. 8 · JUNE 27, 2026 Last Saturday of June. Time to close the month out clean. Coffee first — five things. THE RESEARCH — The Sauna Habit Linked to Far Fewer Deaths Researchers in eastern Finland followed 2,315 middle-aged men for two decades (Laukkanen et al., JAMA Internal Medicine, 2015), sorting them by how often they used a sauna. The men who went 4 to 7 times a week had roughly 40% lower all-cause mortality than the once-a-week crowd — and more than 60% lower risk of sudden cardiac...