Uncover your personal health goals so that you know what type of sauna will best serve your needs, and how to use your sauna. Every individual is different, and at different stages in life a variation of sauna protocols will be more or less helpful. This guide will help you to uncover and understand what… Read more
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Sauna Therapy For Rheumatic Diseases: Non-Pharmacological Management Protocol
Rheumatic diseases present an increasing challenge for much of the world’s population, especially for aging demographics. With over 200 illnesses falling under the large umbrella term of rheumatic diseases, most of these are without cure and rely on daily management of symptoms and progression. While pharmacological care remains central to treatment protocol for these diseases,… Read more
Do Saunas Really Mimic Exercise? Discover the Data and Mechanistic Details Behind this Claim
Have you ever heard claims such as ‘a single sauna session mimics moderate exercise’, or ‘taking a sauna is the same thing as going for a half hour long jog.’ Statements such as these are made by sauna companies and health influencers across the internet as well as in vivo interactions. So, what is really… Read more
Cardiometabolic Disease and Sauna Bathing: Your Sauna Sessions May be Saving Your Life
Simply picking your phone up and looking at the top news stories can elicit a strong hormonal stress response. Coupling this with a processed food based diet, personal life challenges, little exercise, air pollutants, and suddenly a perfect recipe has been created for the development of cardiometabolic disease. This disease takes the lives of 1… Read more
Infrared Light May be the Future of Regenerative Medicine: An Analysis of the New Data and Protocols to Follow From Home
The future wave of modern healthcare appears to be in regenerative medicine. This vast topic of research includes many approaches both ancient and modern. At its foundation regenerative medicine relies on natural human biology to heal itself. By harnessing the healing power of the body to intelligently organize itself into a balanced and high functioning… Read more
Sauna Use and Parasites: Using Heat and Infrared Light to Address Invasive Tropical Parasites
Settling into your airplane seat on your way home from a relaxing tropical vacation can be among the best feelings in the world. You bring home a relaxed body, calm mind, and glowing skin, and hopefully, leave the parasites behind, but what happens if you don’t? Whenever traveling to warm exotic destinations it is critical… Read more
Convert White Fat to Brown Fat With a Sauna: New Studies Demonstrate that You Can Increase Mitochondria With Heat Alone
Does the color of your body fat really matter? As absurd as this question may seem, the reality remains, that yes the color does matter. The color of your body fat does play a role in your overall health and how fast your body ages. Multiple studies have demonstrated that unequivocally we should all be… Read more
Passive Heat Therapy May Aid in the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease: Is it Possible that Sauna Therapy Can Treat, and Potentially Prevent Parkinson’s Disease?
Parkinson’s disease has presented itself in the body of many of our cultural heroes from Muhammad Ali, Michael J. Fox, former president George H. W. Bush, Ozzy Ozborne, Robin Williams, Pope John Paul II, and so many others. This means that even if you do not know someone personally with Parkinson’s disease, its effects have… Read more
Can the Use of a Sauna Aid in Relieving Symptoms of MS, or Serve as a Potentially Preventative Protocol?
The frightening realization that your body may be slowly atrophying at an unknown rate with highly variable degrees of consequence is an unimaginable experience. Yet this is what must be faced by those living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). MS may present itself in different individuals in many different ways.Perhaps an MRI scan that shows the… Read more
Sauna Use May Be a Key Element in Preventing Atherosclerosis: Heat Shock Protein 70 Powerfully Reduces Inflammation of the Arteries
The most deadly diseases in America are linked to Atheroscleorosis.(1) Atherosclerosis may not have any symptoms until one unsuspecting day a plaque on the artery walls ruptures, or blood flow is blocked. In many ways atherosclerosis is a silent killer, but still a preventable one. Some cases of heart attacks and strokes may be prevented… Read more