far infra red sauna faq-frequently asked questions
 What exactly is Infrared heat?
Infrared heat is simply a form of energy that is directly transmitted onto objects because of its specific wavelength. It has nothing to do with ultraviolet light which gives you sunburn and damages your skin.
Where conventional saunas use hot air to transfer heat, the infrared heat rays warms your body directly. This allows an in-depth heat in a more pleasant temperature of 35-45C, thus providing more health advantages and providing a highly enjoyable comfortable environment, where you can still breath normally without the discomfort of high humidity or steam.
How does it work?
Conventional saunas need high air temperatures to pull impurities from the body, but infrared heated saunas can directly penetrate up to 45 mm inside the body. Impurities can be pushed out using lower and more comfortable temperatures. Compared to conventional sauna's this means many more health benefits.
As the body temperature rises, perspiration occurs and blood circulation increases. The muscles and organs are stimulated and toxic waste (fat, heavy metals and other toxic materials) is removed from your body through perspiration.
Unlike conventional heating systems which rely on heating the air to warm our bodies, the efficient infrared heat looses less than 20% of its energy in heating the surrounding air, allowing over 80% of the heat energy to be directly converted to heat onto and within our bodies. This energy can then penetrate safely up to 45mm into our skin layer and outer body.
What are some of the benefits?
Our body reacts to the increased heating through the natural cooling process of perspiring. Through the perspiration process, acid and waste residue like toxins, sodium, alcohol, nicotine, cholesterol and the potentially carcinogenic heavy metals are removed from the cells (especially zinc, lead, nickel, cadmium, etc).
As well as the pores of our skin opening and discharging waste products , the skin sheds any old skin cells , leaving it glowing and immaculately clean, with improved tone, elasticity, texture and colour. Other health benefits include the following:
Detoxify your body
The infrared sauna is a great way to get rid of fat that stores toxins.
The deep penetrating infrared heat causes toxins to be released from cells into the lymph fluid. Since sweat is manufactured from the lymph fluid, toxins present will exit the body through the sweat. By taking this detoxifying load off your liver
and kidneys, even people with impaired liver or kidney function will enjoy a significant benefit.
Increased blood circulation stimulates the sweat glands, releasing built-up toxins and waste. Daily sweating can help detoxify your body as it rids itself of an accumulation of potentially carcinogenic heavy metals (lead, mercury, zinc, nickel, cadmium) as well as alcohol, nicotine, sodium, sulphuric acid and cholesterol.
Weight Control and Caloric Consumption
As our body expends energy to produces sweat (1 gm sweat requires 0.586 kcal)
a moderately conditioned person can easily sweat off up to 1000gms or more in a sauna session - the equivalent to running 10-15 kms. While this weight loss can be regained by rehydration with water, the calories consumed will not. This is a valuable system for those who don’t exercise and those who can not exercise, yet want an effective weight control and fitness program , along with the benefits that regular exercise bring.
Cellulite
A Healthwave Infrared Sauna can assist clear ugly cellulite (the gel-like lumps of fat, water and debris trapped in pockets beneath the skin). European beauty specialists routinely incorporate daily saunas in programs to reduce cellulite. Because the radiant heat of the Physiotherm Infrared Sauna warms three times as deeply as conventional saunas, it is significantly more effective at reducing cellulite.
Beautiful, youthful skin
Infrared heat helps develop the body's capillary network and can increase blood circulation to the skin. Your skin can develop a new "inner glow" as the skin is freed of accumulated dirt and dry skin cells due to the deep cleansing of impurities. Regular use can also firm and improve skin tone and elasticity.
Far Infra red heat can aslo be wonderful relief for acne, eczema, psoriasis, burns, any skin lesions or cuts. Open wounds heal quicker with reduced scarring.
Scars on Skin
Fully formed scars, even keloids, can be gradually softened. Burns and other wounds or incisions may heal with significantly reduced scarring.
Fitness
A Healthwave Infrared Sauna session is the perfect solution for keeping up your cardiovascular fitness if you:
• wish to add a gentle but very effective workout to your program
• need to skip a workout or
• need to allow an injury to heal.
For the maximum flexibility, research shows that stretching after a 30-minute session will produce a permanent increase in your flexibility. Even one 20-minute session will create up to a 10% temporary increase in your flexibility. As a warm-up, a sauna session will help to prevent injuries and increase your fitness program's enjoyment.
Athletes - great for a warm-up
For athletes, the Healthwave Infrared Sauna is exciting good news. The perfect warm up prior to exercise, because muscles relax most readily when tissues are warm and allow greater flexibility and range of motion. Afterwards it helps oxygen debt recovery and faster healing of strains and muscle pain. Infrared saunas are installed at top sporting events such as the Olympic games for this purpose.
To warm up before starting any vigorous activity, simply get in the sauna with your training gear on and wait until you just begin to break a sweat. Now you are pre-warmed for stretching, skiing, swimming, running, etc.
A Healthwave Infrared Sauna is also a great post-activity warm-down, especially in cold weather.
Relieve Pain and Injuries
A Healthwave Infrared Sauna helps with sprains, strains, arthritis, muscle spasm and many other muscular-skeletal ailments. Much of the stiffness and soreness that comes with ageing is reduced or eliminated in the infrared sauna. The deep heat helps blood vessels dilate, bringing relief and healing to muscle and soft tissue injuries. Increased blood circulation carries off metabolic waste products and delivers oxygen rich blood to oxygen depleted muscles, so they recover faster.
Eases Joint Pain and Stiffness
In Europe, radiant heat therapy is widely used to treat patients suffering from any form of arthritis. In addition, it has been proved effective in the treatment of sprains, neuralgia, bursitis, muscle spasms, joint stiffness and many other muscular-skeletal ailments. Much of the stiffness, aches and soreness that comes with ageing is reduced or eliminated.
Cardiovascular Conditioning
Whilst the moisture on the surface of the skin evaporates and cools the body, a number of other changes occur in the body to release the heat as quickly as possible. The heart beats harder and faster, pumping more blood through the now dilated blood vessels, thus achieving the conditioning benefits of continuous exercise.
Increases Blood Circulation and Strengthens the Cardiovascular System
As your body increases sweat production to cool itself, your heart works harder pumping blood at a greater rate to boost circulation, supplying the conditioning benefits of continuous exercise. Heart rate, cardiac output and metabolic rate increase, while diastolic blood pressure drops, for improved overall cardiovascular fitness.
Improves the Immune System
The deep heat produced from a infrared sauna raises your body temperature, inducing an artificial fever. As it works to combat the "fever," your body's immune system is strengthened. Combined with the elimination of toxins and wastes produced by the intense sweating, your overall health and resistance to disease is increased.
Reduces Stress and Fatigue
Perhaps the most immediate effect you will experience with your Healthwave Infrared Sauna is pure relaxation, as it melts away the stress and tension of life. Just a few minutes in the gentle warmth of your Healthwave Infrared Sauna gives you an overall massaging effect, soothing jangled nerves and knotted muscles. You'll feel rejuvenated and renewed, restored in both body and mind.
Who is using infrared technology?
Infrared heat is well known for pain relief. Health professionals have used infrared heat lamps for decades to treat muscle and joint problems.
In hospital baby care units, incubators are often equipped with infrared heating systems to keep new-born babies warm.
Major medical successes have been achieved recently in the use of infrared light to treat wounds, third degree burns and brain cancer. It is in wide hospital use in the USA to stop mouth sores caused by radiotherapy in cancer patients.
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