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| Passive Weight Loss |
Your body must expend energy (Calories) to produce sweat, so a single sauna session can burn as many calories as you would jogging for 30 minutes.
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| Improves Blood Circulation |
As your body produces sweat to cool itself, your heart works harder pumping blood at a greater rate to boost circulation, supplying the conditioning effects of exercise.
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| Strengthens Your Immune System |
Heat exposure to the skin stimulates production of white blood cells and strengthens the immune system.
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| Improves Skin Tone |
The profuse sweating achieved after just a few minutes in an infrared sauna carries off deeply imbedded impurities and dead skin cells, not only leaving your skin glowing and immaculately clean, but also giving you improved skin tone, elasticity, texture and color.
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| Removes Toxins and Mineral Waste |
Increased blood circulation stimulates the sweat glands, releasing the built-up toxins and waste that your body trapped in the fatty layers just beneath your skin.
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| It's Therapeutic |
| Pain Relief for Stiff Joints and Muscles |
The deep heat of an infrared sauna helps peripheral blood vessels dilate, bringing relief and healing to muscles and soft tissue injuries.
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| Effective for Arthritis and Bursitis |
In Europe, radiant heat is widely used to treat patients suffering from many forms of arthritis, and has proven effective in the treatment of sprains, neuralgia, bursitis, muscle spasms, and other muscular-skeletal ailments.
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| Benefits |
Because infrared rays penetrate the body through conversion there is a deep heating effect in both the muscle tissues and internal organs without putting too much burden on the heart.
Our body reacts to the increased heating through the natural cooling process of perspiration. Through the perspiration process acid and waste residue like toxins, sodium, alcohol, nicotine, cholesterol and the potentially carcinogenic heavy metals are removed from the cells (epically zinc, lead, nickel, cadmium, etc) The pores of our skin open and discharge waste products shedding any old skin cells leaving the glowing and clean with improved tone, elasticity, texture, and color.
Over the last 25 years Japanese and chinese researchers and clinicians have completed extensive research on infrared treatments and have reported many provocative finding. In Japan there is an "infrared society" composed of medical doctors and physical therapists dedicated to furthering infrared research. Their findings support the heath benefits of infrared therapy as a method of healing. |
| How Infrared Saunas Work |
Infrared Saunas differ from traditional saunas in that they use infrared radiant energy to directly penetrate into the body's tissue to produce perspiration.
Traditional saunas use steam to heat the air inside the sauna, which then heats your body until you begin to perspire. In order for this to be effective temperatures would need to reach in the upwards of 190 degrees Fahrenheit. Infrared saunas only need a temperature of up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit to obtain the same effect. This lower temperature makes the environment more tolerable and allows you to breathe easier.
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| What are Infrared Rays? |
Infrared is the band of light we perceive as heat. We cannot see this band of light with the naked eye but we can feel this type of light in the form of heat. Our sun produces most of its energy output in the infrared segment of the spectrum. Infrared rays heat your body without having to heat the air in between. THis process is called conversion.
The infrared is divided into 3 segments by wavelengths measured in microns: near infrared: 0.76-1.5 microns: Middle infrared: 1.5-5.6 microns: and far infrared: 5.6-1000 microns. Among these segments only far infrared penetrates organic substances such as the human body two to three inches so that the warming effect is very uniform.
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| Are Infrared Rays Safe? |
| Because infrared rays are part of sunlight they are not only safe but also highly beneficial to our bodies on a cellular level. Health professionals have used infrared heat lamps for decades to treat muscle and joint problems. In hospital baby care units incubators are often equipped with infrared heating systems to keep newborn babies warm. |
