How Saunas Help…

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Burn Calories

A sauna of 30 minutes reduces blood pressure and increases vascular compliance, causing a similar heart rate to medium intensity exercise. Most people will burn 200-400 calories during a sauna session, just by sitting and relaxing. It’s also very hard to eat ice cream in a sauna.

 
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Performance Enhancement

Increasing core temperature for short bursts is not only healthful, it can improve performance whether done in conjunction with other activities or on its own. Deliberately acclimating yourself to heat through sauna use induces adaptations that reduce the later strain of aerobic activity by increasing blood and oxygen flow to the heart, skeletal muscles, skin, and other tissues.

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Detox Your Body

Your skin is your largest organ, and sweat is one of your body’s major elimination channels for toxins. Full Spectrum Infrared increases the body’s core temperature and penetrates beneath the skin as far as 3 inches allowing the IR to penetrate fats cells where toxins can accumulate. This deep sweat helps the body get rid of heavy metals and foreign compounds like BPA, an endocrine disruptor found in the hard plastic bottles that many people use every day.  

 
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Sleep and Relaxation

Researchers have found that a sauna can help provide a deeper, more relaxed sleep, relief of chronic tension, and relief of chronic fatigue issues, most likely due to a release of endorphins from the sauna. As endorphins are released into your body, they create a soothing, tranquilizing effect that not only helps to minimize chronic arthritis pain and other muscle soreness, but can also help with relaxation and sleep.

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Ease Pain

The deep penetrating heat of an infrared sauna brings warm relief to sore muscles and soft tissue injuries by increasing and improving your blood circulation. Increased blood flow and red cell count boost the efficiency of oxygen delivery to your muscles, reducing muscle soreness, improving joint movement, and easing arthritis pain.

 
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Heart Health and Longevity

JAMA Internal Medicine shows that regularly spending time in a sauna may help keep the heart healthy and extend life. Researchers from Finland tracked 2,300 men for an average of 20 years. They found that the more sessions per week men spent in the sauna, the lower their risk of sudden cardiac death and fatal coronary heart disease. The sauna also extended the life of participants with other illnesses, including cancer.

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Immune Support

The Journal of Human Kinetics investigated the effect of sauna on the immune system, specifically white blood cell profile, cortisol levels, and selected physiological indices in athletes and non-athletes. After the sauna session, an increased number of white blood cells, lymphocyte, and basophil counts was reported in the white blood cell profile, showing that sauna use stimulates the immune system. German medical research also shows that saunas are able to significantly reduce the incidences of colds and influenza, and other studies show that regular sauna bathing leads to a 30% less chance of getting a cold or influenza.

Sauna Effects

For millennia, saunas have been used to soothe aching muscles, relieve stress, cure sickness, and provide a gathering area for communities. People have valued the rituals of perspiration since before recorded history, with evidence as far back as 7000 BC of structures intended to encourage profuse sweating. The Turkish Hammam, Russian Banya, and Native American sweat lodges are just some of the ways cultures from all over the world have sought the benefits of sweating. Modern Infrared saunas use heat and light to help relax and detox the body without harmful UV rays. These saunas omit FAR infrared light waves that penetrate your skin tissue up to 3 inches, raising your body’s core temperature by 3° F, causing a deep detoxifying sweat.

Feel the relaxing warmth soothe your muscles and joints while the IR penetrates fat cells, where environmental pollutants and other toxins are stored. Sweat and increased blood circulation are activated and intensified during a sauna session, assisting your body in getting rid of heavy metals and xenobiotics- foreign compounds like plastics and petrochemicals.

Evidence suggests that regular sauna use is associated with a better health-related quality of life. Sauna use promotes feelings of relaxation and a sense of well-being due to increases in production of circulating levels of hormones, like endorphins. Regular use also improves circulatory, respiratory, cardiovascular, and immune function while reducing blood pressure, inflammation, and oxidative stress. A sauna session burns the calories of a moderately intense workout and shows added health benefits when used with an exercise routine.