Time to Sweat it Out!

Sweating is a great way to burn calories and rid your body of unwanted toxins. But how do you sweat when you’re injured, or unable to exercise?

Its easy! Just sit back and relax in an Infrared Sauna! Infrared saunas help your body release a number of toxins, including heavy metals like mercury and lead, and environmental chemicals. The benefits don’t stop there! With infrared sauna technology, you can also lose weight, relax, relieve unwanted pain, increase your circulation, and purify your skin.

At Lavida Health we are now offering infrared Sauna therapy as part of our Natural Health Protocols.

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Here are some of the Infrared Sauna Benefits:

1. Heart Health & Blood Pressure

According to a study published in scientific literature about infrared saunas, the biggest benefit seems to its effects on the heart and the sauna’s ability to help normalize blood pressure and reduce the chance of heart failure.

2. Detoxification

Sweating is one of the Body’s modes of elimination. An increase in circulation and sweating helps the body to shed unwanted toxins such as heavy metals like arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury In a case report, they found that mercury levels normalized with repeated sauna treatments.

3. Anti-aging, Muscle Growth, and Injury Healing

Saunas increase antioxidant enzymes, and stimulate cellular cleanup (autophagy), which can help our cells function like new. In aging mice, an increase in heat shock proteins help delay aging and improves cognitive function.

Infrared therapy has a powerful anti-inflammatory effect that has been seen to accelerate injury healing.

4. Mood, Mental Health, and Cognitive Function

Just like exercise, a session in an infrared sauna increases endorphins (the happiness hormone) and opioids (the body’s natural pain reliever),

Infrared saunas can also reduce stress by helping to lower cortisol levels (the stress hormone)

5. Weight Loss and Metabolic Diseases

Infrared saunas help improve insulin sensitivity, increase lean muscles, and reduce fat by changing the hormonal environment. As well as reducing inflammation. This means that sauna therapies can prevent obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases!

6. Inflammation and Autoimmunity

By increasing circulation in the body, heat exposure can help reduce inflammation.

Infrared saunas can help decrease inflammation by stimulating protective nitric oxide production in the blood vessels, reduces oxidative stress, and increases mitochondria function. Several studies have shown that far infrared exposure helps with numerous inflammatory diseases, including:

cardiovascular diseases

diabetes

chronic kidney disease

chronic pain

fibromyalgia

chronic fatigue

Sjögren syndrome (an immune condition marked by dry eyes/mouth)

rheumatoid arthritis

asthma and chronic bronchitis

poor sleep

7. Sleep

According to Dr. Michael Breus, a clinical psychologist with a board certification in sleep medicine, the steep drop in body temperature at night is one of the day-to-day cues the body recognizes that it is time to sleep. This explains why a warm bath or a shower before bed can improve sleep quality. Because the sauna typically heats the body up much hotter than a warm shower, it can take the body a few hours to cool down for bed. In order to improve your sleep quality, consider using a sauna session in the afternoon or before dinner in order to allow the body to cool down by bedtime.

A Japanese study also found that far-infrared ray exposure improved sleep quality in both rats and an insomniac human subject.

8. Skin Health

In order to eliminate heat, your body increases blood flow to the skin. In addition, the skin adapts to this process, making it healthier. A German study found that the skin of regular saunas users could better hold moisture and maintain a healthy skin pH. In addition, these sauna users had less sebum on their foreheads, suggesting that they were less likely to get acne.

Skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis involves both inflammation and a vulnerability of the skin barrier. By helping both with strengthening the skin barrier and reducing overall inflammation, infrared sauna, if tolerated, can really help with these skin issues. (If sweat significantly irritates the rash, then you may want to protect the rashes with a eczema-friendly lotion and shower right after the sauna.)

9. Cellulite Reduction

There are several studies that evaluated how well infrared light exposure reduced cellulite along with other treatments. One Brazilian study found that a near infrared treatment further enhanced the cellulite-reducing effects of regular treadmill exercises. Two studies found that a combination of radio-frequency, infrared light, and mechanical massage treatment significantly helped with cellulite appearance.