Women’s health often falls to the wayside when it comes to conversations about wellness and sauna bathing. The single most cited sauna study evaluated over 2000 men using saunas over the course of several decades. While this longitudinal study has brought to light many health benefits of sauna bathing and has helped to spread the… Read more
Stress response Articles
A New Year and a New Chance to Stay Dedicated to Your Sauna: How to Stay Committed to Your Sauna Routine For Maximum Health Benefits
Longer, healthier, and happier lives are just a few wide sweeping promises that sauna use offers. If these statements cannot motivate you to stay committed to maintaining your sauna routine, then consider a few practical tools that will keep you dedicated to your sauna use today and every day. There is an 8 pronged approach… Read more
Can Sauna Use Help to Reduce Bloating? Edema, Fluid Retention, and How Heat Therapy may Regulate Episodes of Bloating
Waking up to a bloated body is not pleasant. Puffy under-eyes, engorged tummy, or swollen ankles are just some signs that your body may be retaining fluid. Many times a few simple lifestyle adjustments can help to manage abnormal fluid retention. Taking a sauna seems like a really good way of eliminating excessive fluid in… Read more
Reduce Your Stress Load This Holiday Season With Sauna Sessions: Relieve Your Allostatic Load With Infrared Light
The holidays should be a time of joy, comfort, and warm feelings, but the reality is that they can also be a time of high stress. Whether you are trying to make everything perfect for the family that you love and over-extending yourself, or perhaps you are spending time with a family that is triggering… 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
Sauna Intervention For Veterans: Data Demonstrates Sauna Use as a Leading Treatment for Gulf War Illness
In service of country, young men and women sacrifice their lives to protect the peace of their homeland. Sadly, this sacrifice does not begin and end with deployment. Rather, the long lasting effects of active duty can consume entire lives not only on the battlefield but also at home. The extent of the damage imposed… Read more
Consider Using a Sauna to Successfully Relieve and Treat Back Pain
Piercing, throbbing, or an aching back is an experience few humans will escape in their lifetime. Most of the time a painful back is not a life threatening condition, but it can certainly put a person out of commission. It may come as a surprise to some, but there is actually research on how sauna… 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
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
Your Nervous System and Passive Heat Exposure: Why Do Saunas Feel so Relaxing?
A warm glow of relaxation comes over the body as the clock ticks and the body is enveloped by the heat of the sauna. Saunas are almost synonymous with relaxation, and high-end spas around the world have used them for decades. The bio-mechanics behind the soothing sensations that are offered through a sauna experience all… Read more