Benefits

Deep cleaning of the body

We live in a more and more urban and contaminated environment. Many chemicals in our environment make their way into our food, water and air. No matter how pure your diet or lifestyle, you can be sure that your body contains traces of harmful substances that eventuelly cause different kinds of symptoms. There are ways to get rid of stored toxins and purify your body, and one of them is sweating. Profound sweating is a highly effective way to remove toxins the body might have been absorved in several ways. And, sauna and infrared heat does just that. The intense heat session of the sauna or the more gentle warmth  of the infrared cabin makes the body sweat and has also relaxing and soothing effects.

Also Himalayan salt walls and cabins have a cleansing effect on the body, because they offer an opportunity to detox from the pollution associated with daily life.

One of the most common applications and beneftis of thermotherapy (heat therapy) is natural pain relief. You too can step into our sauna, infrared cabin or vitarium to relieve tension and relax muscles. Heat therapy works by penetrating joints, muscles and tissues, increasing circulation and speeding oxygen flow. By reducing soreness on nerve ending, heat reduces muscle spasms and helps the body heal itself naturally.

Saunas and infrared cabins are actually becoming increasingly used by athletes, but not only for the post-workout muscle relaxation as you might expect.

According to Rhonda Perciavalle Patrick, Ph.D., increasing your core temperature for short periods, as is done by using a sauna, may offer dramatic improvements to your athletic performance. She calls this concept “hyperthermic conditioning,” which emerging research suggests has multiple positive effects on your body, from increased endurance to the growth of new brain cells.

In short, as your body is subjected to reasonable amounts of heat stress, it gradually becomes acclimated to the heat, prompting a number of beneficial changes to occur in your body.

These adaptations include increased plasma volume and blood flow to your heart and muscles (which increase athletic endurance) along with increased muscle mass due to greater levels of heat-shock proteins and growth hormone.

In one study, those who had a 30-minute sauna session twice a week for three weeks after their workouts increased their time it took to run until exhaustion by more than 30 percent! Other physiologic adaptations that occur from hyperthermic conditioning include:

• Improved cardiovascular mechanism and lower heart rate.
• Increased blood flow to skeletal muscle and other tissues.
• Increased efficiency of oxygen transport to muscles.
• Lower core body temperature during workload
• Reduced rate of glycogen depletion due to improved muscle perfusion.
• Increased red blood cell count.

One of the significant organs of our body, your skin also needs regular exercise and saunas, infrared cabin and salt cabins are a great way to exercise skin. As we grow older, more of the dead cells accumulate onto our skin pores, as the skin becomes less elastic. A few sessions improve blood flow to our skin, which aids the growth of new skin and also removes all the dead cells that were building up previously. The oils, which are the natural moisturizers and antibiotics present in our skin are mobilized through saunas. This helps us to look younger in a significant way.

Negatively charged ions from a Himalayan salt wall or salt cabin leave you also feeling refreshed and rejuvenated. Salt therapy also normalizes the pH level and induces the skin recover.

High blood pressure increases your risk of getting heart disease, kidney disease or serious stroke. Infrared cabins provide natural ways to lower blood pressure. Regular session in infrared saunas dilate blood vessels and reduces the volume of their inner lining, thus increasing circulation to promote healthy blood pressure.

Heating the body is an excellent preventive method from infections. Regular users of sauna and infrared sauna have higher count of white blood cells, they stay healthier and if illnesses occur, they heal faster.

Australian researchers found people who had a sauna steam twice a week caught half as many colds compared to those who didn’t, in a six-month study.

Human growth hormone (HGH) is a synergistic, foundational biochemical that addresses the serious muscle loss and atrophy that typically occurs with aging. The higher your levels of HGH, the healthier and stronger you will be.

Once you hit the age of 30, you enter what’s called “somatopause,” at which point your levels of HGH begin to drop off quite dramatically. This decline of HGH is part of what drives your aging process, so maintaining your HGH levels gets increasingly important with age.

Saunas and infrared saunas provide ways to naturally optimize your HGH. Regular sessions enhance muscle performance and brain function.

The biomedical scientist Rhonda Perciavalle Patrick, Ph.D suggest that two 15 minutes sauna sessions separated by a 30-minute cooling period may boost your HGH by five-fold.

During a sauna weight loss session, core temperatures increase. The body has to work hard to cool itself, causing a healthy sweat. Using an infrared sauna increases heart rate, cardiac output and metabolic rate, burning more calories, leading to more weight loss.

Plus, regular use of sauna and infrared sauna may provide many of the same benefits as regular exercise, such as cardiovascular conditioning. It is actually a passive cardio workout.

It can help those suffering with asthma by helping to cleanse respiratory tracts and alleviate the frequency of attacks.

Those suffering with other bronchial afflictions or allergen associated afflictions, such as hay fever, weakness of immune system, can find that constant sessions in salt cabins not only allow them to breathe easier, but also improve their bodies capacity to fight off illness and ailments.

As the body recuperates and relaxes in a Himalayan salt cabin, the sessions help to improve sleep patterns. This makes the salt cabin an essential part of any healthy regime. Down time is as important as time dedicated to exercise, and what could be better than helping boost your bodies defenses whilst relaxing.

Many people find that they get ‘the winter blues’  – SAD (Seasonal Affective disorder) and that it seriously affects the quality of their life through the winter months. The symptoms might include having too little energy or feeling anxious or a change in their sleep patterns.

People feel that SAD is connected to shorter days with less sunlight and that may well be the case.

Winter depression is a common mood slump in the Nordic countries where, because of their more northern latitude, the days do become very much shorter.

Regular sessions in saunas and infrared saunas have great benefits on the mind and the mood.

Saunas and infrared saunas help you to release large amounts of endorphins into your system.

Endorphins are natures ‘feel good’ chemicals that numb pain and also alleviate feelings of depression. They are exactly the same chemicals that give you that ‘natural high’ after taking exercise but sauna bathing actually releases endorphins in greater quantities than most ordinary forms of exercise.

The heat of a sauna also encourages the body to release norepinephrine which is a chemical involved in brain activity. Changing the levels of norepinephrine seems to help brain cells send and receive messages between each other and that, in turn, can boost mood.

Depression can be a very serious illness and if you experience strong or persistent periods of depression you should, of course, consult your doctor or medical practitioner.

Relaxation is more important to health than most people realize. Long-term stress is the cause of countless physiological effects on the body, including increased blood pressure, weight gain and weakening of the immune system.

The more stressed you are, the more cortisol your body produces.

Cortisol is a “fight or flight” hormone made in the adrenal glands that raises heart rate and blood pressure and leads to the deposit of excess calories in the midsection.

Scientific evidence also shows that infrared sauna therapy helps the body maintain healthy levels of cortisol. While cortisol levels stay the same or rise slightly during a sauna therapy session, they drop immediately afterward.