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
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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
Part 3, 4, & 5 – Your Complete Guide on How to Sauna to Meet Your Health and Fitness Goals: Discover Your Personal ‘Why’ so That You Know ‘How’ to Sauna
Part 3,4,5: Nervous System Regulation – High Performance Athletes – Human Growth Hormone 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… 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
Back to School and Back to the Sauna For Improved Cognitive Function, Memory Consolidation, and Brain Health
As we leave the long summer days of blissful play in the ocean behind and head back to the classroom it may be time to refocus your attention. Cognitive clarity can feel allusive after several months of vacation, but there are some ways to improve your focus without any added pharmacological products. Whether you are… 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
Burn Out and Your Cortisol Levels: How to Regulate Cortisol Levels Throughout the 24 Hour Cycle with the Aid of a Sauna
Sleepless, yet anxiety-filled nights, or mornings and days where there is little to no available energy to complete important tasks are just a few symptoms from having dysregulated cortisol levels. Perhaps waking up throughout the night or far too early in the morning leaving you groggy throughout the day is the way that dysregulated cortisol… 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