I have been practicing for eleven years and teaching for ten. I can tell you this yoga keeps one young. Range of motion is increased and range of motion is equivalent to your youth.

Bikram is very spine centric, if one can imagine being able to bench press 280 lbs but hurt ones neck or back while driving in traffic to look for car in side lane? Does not make sense.

Bikram is done in heat 105 degrees farhinhite and 40% humidity this is 126 heat index keeping the body soft and mucels easly streetching deeper. I sewat about a gallon of water in one ninty minute class, one can sweat heavy metals out through the skin.

If you have not tried Bikram 26 postures 2 breathing exercises do it and go for a week or so you will know how healing and therapeutic this yoga is.

The way class is designed it is a interval training style workout and definitely when adding the heat a high intensity interval training HIIT looking this up you will find one of the major benefits is increasing the HGH production by the body this is Human growth hormone and will stay at elevated rate for up to three days. If one eats sugar and causing insulin response by pancreas the elevated HGH production will stop.