As you relax in the gentle heat of your infrared sauna, your body is actually working hard producing sweat, pumping blood, and burning calories. After 30 minutes or so, you will be able to actually feel your heart pumping and increased pulse rate. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, in a single sauna session you may burn as many calories as you would when swimming or jogging for 60 minutes. Far Infrared heat penetrates below the skin and help breaks down the fat and water particles trapped in pockets beneath the skin. This helps to rid your body of unwanted fat and cellulite, so you are not only losing water but also losing weight!

Burn Calories

An infrared sauna sessions of just 30 minutes will burn 600 - 800 calories. Here are how many calories a 70kg person normally burns in 30 minutes of exercise:

Sport Calories
Rowing (peak effort) 600
Swimming (crawl stroke) 300
Jogging   300
Tennis (fast game) 265
Chopping Wood  265
Cycling (15kmh)  225
Golf   150
Walking (6.5kmh) 150
Bowling   120
Vigorous Racquet Ball 510
Marathon Running 593

Relieves Pain & Joint Stiffness!

Far Infrared heat relieves pain by expanding blood vessels and increasing blood circulation. Better circulation carries away metabolic waste products and delivers oxygen-rich blood to oxygen-depleted muscles, and helps reduce pain and speed up the healing process. Recent health and medical studies have confirmed that FIR heat is a successful treatment for arthritis, rheumatism, sprains, neuralgia, bursitis, muscle spasms, joint stiffness and many other muscular-skeletal ailments. Much of the stiffness, aches, and soreness that come with aging are reduced or eliminated.

A study by American researchers found that the sweat of people using a conventional sauna was 95-97% water, while the sweat of those using an infrared sauna was 80-85% water, with the non-water part mainly cholesterol, fat-soluble toxins, toxic heavy metals (cadmium, lead, copper, nickel etc.) sulfuric acid, sodium, ammonia, and uric acid. This unusually high concentration of heavy metals and other fat-soluble toxins is not found in the sweat from normal exercise. FIR treatment has been successfully used in the treatment of clogged capillaries in China, Europe and Japan. Doctors in the US recommend infrared sauna therapy to reduce and maintain low toxin levels for post cancer surgery patients.

FIR waves penetrate deep into the skin, stimulating the metabolism. Large water molecules containing toxins are broken down by vibration induced by the FIR waves. This deep perspiration - which is not achievable in a conventional sauna - removes deeply embedded impurities and toxins.

Beauty: The skin tissues will begin to produce new cells to replace old or dead skin cells. Increased blood circulation and deep cleansing of impurities improves skin tone and elasticity, leaving the skin glowing and youthful. Research reports improvements in acne, rashes, burns, eczema, psoriasis, skin lesions and cuts.

Probably the first benefit to be noticed from an infrared sauna offers is simple relaxation, as it melts away the stresses and anxiety of a busy life. After just a few minutes in the gentle warmth of your infrared sauna, you'll feel an overall relaxation, soothing strained nerves and tired muscles.

As the body produces more sweat and works to cool itself, heart rate, cardiac output and metabolic rate increase, providing the conditioning benefits of physical exercise. Due to the dilated blood vessels, blood pressure drops, thus boosting overall cardiovascular fitness. This cardiovascular workout is burning calories.

The increased flow of oxygen-rich blood circulating through the body will increase the health of the body's major organs and speed the body's natural repair and regeneration process.

“Many of us who run do so to place a demand on our cardiovascular system, not to build big leg muscles. Regular use of Sauna imparts a similar stress on the cardiovascular system, and its regular use may be as effect, a means of cardiovascular conditioning and burning of calories, as regular exercise.“
Journal of American Medical Association, August, 1981.

Medical research demonstrates that exposure to infrared heat can produce excellent therapeutic effects. The deep penetrating heat induces an artificial fever, as the body naturally counters the fever your immune system is strengthened. The improved immune system weakens the hold of viruses and bacterial growth, boosts metabolism and your overall health, thereby increasing resistance to disease. Recent studies also show that colds and flu-like illnesses are reduced dramatically if treated in the early stages with infrared heat therapy.