January 11, 2024 | Issue #84

Hello! As we start the new year, do you have any daily longevity habits? Is 2024 the year that you start? Over the next several weeks, we'll be introducing longevity products and services that you can integrate into your life. 

In this week's newsletter:🥵 Which Sauna is Best for You?💰 More Funding for Animal Longevity🌐 Slow & Steady Wins the Race?    

9 Best Sauna Options of 2024: Comparing Sauna, Steam Room, and Infrared

The benefits of sauna heat therapy have been apparent to humankind for thousands of years, with evidence of sauna use in Finnish, Baltic, and even Mayan civilizations.Some of the known benefits of sauna use include improved cardiovascular health, lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, improvement in depression symptoms, reduced inflammation, decrease in cortisol levels, and reduced risk of stroke.In the past, we've written about all of the details of Heat Therapy, and the benefits of Contrast Therapy. It's clear that there are a wide range of benefits associated with sauna and heat therapy that can help promote greater longevity in many.However, with a broad range of choices on the market, choosing the best method for implementing a regular heat therapy routine can be a headache.Should you choose the traditional sauna, go with a steam room, or hop on the latest trend of infrared technology?Find out which is best for you...

• The National Institute on Aging is hiring a Senior Program Manager APPLY HERE.

• Browse thousands of jobs in the longevity industry, updated daily, in Spannr's new Jobs database HERE. 

• Gallant Therapeutics, an animal health biotechnology company pioneering off-the-shelf stem cell therapies for pets, announced the successful completion of its Series A financing, securing over $15 million. The financing round, led by BOLD Capital and joined by new investors Digitalis Ventures and Hill Creek Partners, positions Gallant for a transformative phase of growth as they advance towards conditional FDA approval of their leading therapeutic candidate for Feline Chronic Gingivostomatitis (FCGS).

• Explore Spannr's Longevity Investor database HERE.

• How Dry January can help with anti-aging, according to doctors (ABC News)

• Slow and steady lives the longest (Nature)

• Fertility-Boosting Genes May Shorten Lifespan, Study Says (Health News)

• 30 Places Where People Live The Longest in The World (Insider Monkey)

• Soaring rent prices aren’t just hurting wallets. They’re shortening lifespans. (USA Today)

• The ultra-rich are trading their wealth for health with expensive, experimental treatments — but can the ‘largely unregulated’ longevity industry really help you turn back time? (Money Wise)

• Activating certain brain cells slows aging and boosts lifespan in mice (New Atlas)

• How well are you aging? How to discover your ‘fitness’ age. (WaPo)

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