"If a sauna, whiskey and tar do not help, the disease is fatal."

"Two are holy: a church and a sauna."

"A sauna -- the poor man's pharmacy."

"A sauna makes a woman most beautiful one hour after the bath."

These old Finnish proverbs tell some of the characteristics of the mysterious and even magical place called the Finnish sauna.

The TV special goes behind those lines and into the traditions of sauna bathing not only in Finland, but around the world. It tells the authentic ways of going to the sauna, and even instructs how to build one. What is the Finnish sauna? Can it really cure physical illnesses? Is it dangerous? What makes the Finns want to go into this mysterious place at least once a week?

These and many other questions are answered in

THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT THE FINNISH SAUNA

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