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Sweating helps your body burn calories and flush out toxins. However, some situations like a busy lifestyle of injuries don’t give you a chance to exercise and sweat the calories or toxins out.
But you don’t have to hit the gym or go on a jogging spree to enjoy these benefits. The following are advantages that can be derived from an infrared sauna therapy.
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Detoxification
Every day, you stand exposed to toxins found in the food you eat, the air you breathe, and even the water you drink. This constant exposure makes it impossible for the body to just flush out all these toxins at once.
Detoxification thus remains an ongoing process within the body, and though it has developed complex and powerful detox capabilities, sometimes it needs a little help.
An infrared sauna comes in handy in such cases as it increases your body’s natural detoxification through sweating.
Unlike the traditional sauna, an infrared sauna encourages more profuse sweating at tolerable temperatures thus enabling your body to eliminate a higher percentage of toxins.
According to several studies explaining the relationship between sweating and detoxification, some of the harmful pollutants removed out of the body through sweat include lead, mercury, arsenic, and xenobiotics that if left to accumulate within the body can cause health problems.
Healthier skin
Does your skin always feel rough and aged? This may result from the accumulation of dirt and other dead cells on the pores that decrease air and blood circulation within the skin cells.
But you don’t have to turn to creams and other chemical compounds as most do more than harm than good. Try out sweating in an infrared sauna. Note that as sweat pushes through the pores on your skin, it opens them up carrying with it any toxin accumulations.
This allows for better penetration of air and even improved blood circulation, both of which lead to a softer, healthy and younger looking skin. A few sessions and you will realize that you don’t need skin-tightening chemicals.
Pain relief
For centuries, saunas have been used as a pain reliever, especially when it comes to chronic pains associated with age-related ailments like arthritis, backaches, and sore muscles.
Researchers have even found out that regular infrared sauna therapy can help reduce chronic illnesses in individuals to a point where they can lead healthy lives without the need for constant medications.
This theory demonstrated by the University of Nishi Kyusyu in Japan that showed that patients subjected to infrared sauna therapies were able to return to their way of life faster than their counterparts who choose to handle the pain differently.
Weight loss
How does exercising help you lose weight? It increases your metabolism and in effect your overall body temperatures.
This results in an increased heart rate as it has to work harder in lowering your core body temperatures. In effect, this allows for burning of more calories necessary to keep the heart running.
You will be surprised to learn that the infrared sauna rays trigger the same heart action as any exercise would. Therefore, apart from losing water weight through sweating, you also get to burn significant amounts of calories.
Research estimates that the number of calories burnt in a 30-minute infrared sauna therapy stands at around 600. This shows the weight loss effects regular sauna can have on your body.
Stress and depression relief
Did you know that heat plays a significant role in muscle relaxation and tension relief throughout the body? The heat generated in a sauna session thus helps you relax your core muscles thus easing tension in the brain cells and helping you de-stress.
Most importantly, the heat therapy stimulates the production of ‘feel good’ dopamine and serotine neurotransmitters responsible for stress and anxiety relief.
Supports cardiovascular health
According to a study by the University of Eastern Finland, the high sauna temperatures can stimulate a higher heart rate to levels only achieved during a moderate-intensive physical exercise.
Interestingly, the infrared sauna is often referred to as passive cardio due to the cardiovascular effects it often has on the heart. These may range from reduced blood pressure to dilation of blood vessels thus allowing for proper blood circulation.
In effect, enough blood can then reach vital body organs such as the skin, kidneys, and lungs thus allowing for improved cell oxidation and enhanced toxin removal.
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Helps boost immunity
After penetrating the body, the radiant infrared rays not only stimulate heat production and improved circulation, but they also stimulate the production of the defensive white blood cells.
The cells help rally up your immune system while the improved circulation and improved body heat create an inhospitable ground for common disease-causing microorganisms such as the flu and cold-causing viruses. Regular therapy is also important in speeding up muscle recovery.
Improves your biological life
Do you have a friend that you at first thought to be enjoying their early 50’s but actually turned to be in their late 30’s or others who turned out to be considerably older than you estimated?
Scientific studies trace this peculiar phenomenon to discrepancies between an individual’s chronological and their biological ages. The chronological age refers to the actual number of years you have been alive while the biological age point put out to the aging level of your cells.
To help preserve your cellular age and maintain a youthful look and biological operations, the body produces heat shock proteins. However, this production diminishes with age, especially in instances where individuals stand exposed to stressing situations.
However, scientific evidence proves that infrared saunas play a significant role in stimulating the production of these heat shock proteins within the body. This heat is also believed to activate the longevity gene, which together with the heat shock proteins extend a person’s lifespan by about 30 percent.
Supports your cognitive health
The heat generated in a sauna helps create heat stress with immeasurable effects on brain activity. This heat is responsible for the development of a neurotrophic heat factor that in turn stimulates the regeneration of new brain cells, neurogenesis while shielding existing cells and neurons from possible damage.
The heat further stimulates the production of focus and attention hormones, norepinephrine, as well as the growth of myelin that determines how fast the brain functions. The heat stress, therefore, contributes to the overall cognitive abilities regardless of your age.
Limits side effects of diabetes
Persons ailing from diabetes often suffer several complications like chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, and heart problems. However, research indicates that by subjecting a diabetes patient to regular infrared sauna therapies, you help them improve their quality of life.
Over time diabetes patients engaging in sauna therapy report improved physical and emotional health as well as regain their cognitive abilities thereby allowing them to resume normal life activities.
Bottom Line
You will note that infrared sauna therapy has significant impacts on vital aspects of your life such as your cardiovascular health, and detoxified body system as well as a rejuvenated skin health.
It also improves your physical health through weight loss as well as your cognitive abilities regardless of your age or gender. Whether you step to a sauna with just the goal of losing weight or de-stressing, you still get to enjoy all of these other benefits effortlessly.