Strengthens The Immune System
An artificial fever is produced by the body from the Infrared heat,
which stimulates the body's defense mechanism against bacteria and
infection. The artificial fever causes an increase in the production of
white blood cells by your bone marrow and killer T cells by your thymus
which is the beneficial side effects of the raised body temperature
thus causing an increase in your immune system.
Cardiovascular Results: Infrared Sauna Therapy
- Significantly lowered blood pressure
- Significant weight loss
- Significantly lowered blood sugar
- Significantly increased blood flow
- Lowered cholesterol
- Lowered triglycerides
Passive Cardiovascular Conditioning Effects
The Infrared Sauna makes it possible for people in wheelchairs, or
those who are otherwise unable to exert themselves, or who won't follow
through on an exercising and conditioning program to achieve a
cardiovascular training effect. This also allows for more variety in
any ongoing training program. Most people often times who run do so to
place a demand on our cardiovascular system. Regular use of a sauna may
impact a similar stress on the cardiovascular system, and its regular
use may be as effective, as a means of cardiovascular conditioning and
burning of calories, as regular exercise. Infrared therapy issues the
body to respond due to this deep-heating effect which results in an
increase in both heart volume and rate. This beneficial heart stress
leads to a sought-after cardiovascular training and conditioning
effect. Medical researches confirm the use of a sauna provides
cardiovascular conditioning as the body works to cool itself and
involves substantial increases in heart rate, cardiac output and
metabolic rate. As a confirmation of the validity of this form of
cardiovascular conditioning, extensive research by NASA in the early
1980's led to the conclusion that infrared stimulation of
cardiovascular function would be the ideal way to maintain
cardiovascular conditioning in American astronauts during long space
flights. Blood flow during whole-body hypothermia is reported to rise
from a normal 5 ~ 7 quarts per minute to as much as 13 quarts per
minute.
Conclusion:
Repeated Infrared Sauna treatment improves impaired blood vessel
functions in patients with high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking and
high cholesterol. This suggests a preventive role for sauna use for
arteriosclerosis.
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