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Day 1732 and It’s Getting Hot In Here So Take Off All Your Clothes

You might want bring towel though, as our handcrafted Finnish sauna will need some use before the cedar is completely smooth. Yes, that’s right, the MilFred family Yellow Barn now has a sauna. And she is a beauty. Just check out the view we picked for her.

Alex and the wonderful family who built the cedar sauna structure placed her under the back awning of the big yellow barn today. Wiring and electronics are underway as I write.

We’ve been slowly but surely turning our barn into our ideal wellness center both for our own use and eventually for the wider community as well. We are privileged with skills, capital and loads of very expensive personal experience with chronic illnesses.

So naturally as geriatric millennials it is always our instincts to turn our pain into something useful and also if we are lucky pay back the expenditures and turn a profit. Which we can then reinvest. It’s the circle of life for a generation who found the circle of life to be a tad more inflationary than expected.

The man of action putting the finishing touches on the electronics. We don’t have anything in our home systems connected to the cloud, so he built his own fully local controller with
ESP32 as the brains, 60a 240v contactor for heater, RGBW LED controls
UI/ final control via Home Assistant and HomeKit. You can snag the code on GitHub

In true MilFred fashion, we are building and testing everything all on ourselves. An n of 1 is good, an n of 2 is better, and if you’d like to test it out hit us up while it is a work in progress. Build in public and beta test with your friends.

Tucked under the awning of the barn so one can easily pop in from gym, HBOT or cold plunge to warm cedar comfort and mountain views

We’d like to ultimately build a space for healing, relaxation and training for those who prefer time tested modalities like heat, cold, oxygen and pressure.

Friends and family can come and test out our now very impressive range of equipment as we build this all out.

We have one of the few hyperbaric oxygen therapy chambers available outside of hospital use in the region. You can pressurize to 2 atmospheres and set a range of parameters for a range of treatments. I use it for my inflammatory condition while Alex is treating the remains of long covid. You’d be shocked what pressure and oxygen can do.

Our hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber

If you want a work out get in some squat reps in our power cage, take a swing at the punching bag or lengthen your spine on our Pilates reformer. You can even climb around on the rock wall built into the the barn ceiling (not even kidding that is the work of the previous family).

If you are looking for a spa day you can have a sweat in the sauna, do red light therapy on your face, chill out on a PEMF mat, and hopefully soon take a dip in a cold plunge. Though if you are ambitious you can sprint across the front pasture and jump in our pond but I’ll warn you that the ducks might not love it.

The pond is fed by a creek that comes from the canyon above our house

The point being that we are building by hand and through personal experience something that improves our lives and others and that’s a pretty hot thing to do. Don’t worry, we will provide towels and robes if you do indeed take off all your clothes. Just come on over and try it out.

2 replies on “Day 1732 and It’s Getting Hot In Here So Take Off All Your Clothes”

Inspiring!

I live in the suburbs of Dallas and so cannot do all that you can do. But have a Finnish sauna from Saunaray and I have ordered a Red/Near-IR 360 wrap from China. And my Oxyrevo Space 60 just reached Long Beach. I also have a Tonal gym and a Peloton and an Eight Sleep pod.

Beginning in mid-October, my ideal morning routine will look like this:

• Sleep: 7 to 8 hours
• Red/Near Infrared: 20 to 30 minutes
• Hyperbaric Oxygen: 90 minutes
• Strength/Cardio: 30 to 45 minutes
• Sauna: 30 minutes
• Shave/Shower

Everything here reflects what my reading says current science considers optimal and what I can fit into my lifestyle. The one detail I’m still working out is whether my 2-hour eating window should follow the sauna or at the end of the day. I am leaning towards later in the day, but that may not be ideal for sleep.

Extremely cool! I’m super happy with the way our setup is coming along. Sounds like you’ve got many of the same ideas as us when it comes to what works and what feels awesome.

I have generally followed the eat your largest meal of the day at lunch rule but no one can tell you when lunch should be

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