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An infrared sauna blanket support the body's natural healing processes and therefore offer numerous health benefits. This makes them a great addition to your wellness routine.
This aside, they come with benefits of convenience too, because sauna blankets are easy to set up, maintain, store away or carry with you, and are affordable compared to fixed traditional and infrared saunas. And... they consume less energy and are less expensive to buy than traditional saunas or infrared sauna cabins.
Here is a rundown of the health benefits, as backed by scientific research studies and consumer reports.
sauna blanket health Benefits:
DEEP RELAXATION
- Deep relaxation is one of the main benefits of using an infrared sauna blanket. Far-infrared radiation penetrates deeply into the body's tissues, as opposed to the working of traditional saunas that warm up the air in the surrounding space. This impacts on a cellular level, which besides reducing muscle tension and tightness, has other beneficial effects [1].
- The blanket's relaxing and de-stressing effect contributes to better sleep quality, and help reduce anxiety and the debilitating symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
- Managing cortisol Levels. Cortisol is an important hormone, which your blanket might assist regulating, resulting in a decrease of chronic stress effects.
CIRCULATION
- Sauna blankets improve circulation flow. Through far-infrared rays, infrared sauna therapy mimics a light cardiovascular workout that boosts blood flow and amps up heart rate.
Inflammation
- Through the above noted relaxation and circulation effects, your infrared blanket helps decrease inflammation. The process of increased blood flow and muscle relaxation provides the supply of oxygen-rich blood to the inflamed areas and removes metabolic waste.
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detoxification
- As you may have gathered, boosted blood circulation in turn helps supplying cells with oxygen, and removes cellular debris (metabolic waste). it doesn't stop there, though. Other waste products get expelled more efficiently too, like heavy metals and other toxins, and are finally eliminated from the body via the skin, kidneys and bowels. This is what we call natural detoxification.
- Consistent infrared sauna use reinforces the lymphatic system. The body's lymphatic network consists of vessels that transport cellular debris and harmful microorganisms to the bloodstream for further expulsion, and lymphatic drainage promotes overall health and has a beneficial influence on many conditions.
weight loss
- The intense sweating and gentle cardiovascular exercise that are part of the benefits of far-infrared therapy, will also help with weight loss and to burn calories. It remains unclear how many calories exactly you can burn using an infrared sauna or sauna blanket, and depends on several other personal and external factors. You will shed some pounds through loss of fluids. So, please make sure your drink enough before, during and after your session to prevent dehydration.
Metabolic health
- Infrared sauna use induces a moderate level of hyperthermia (raising of body temperature, akin to a slight fever). This promotes certain responses in the body's nervous, hormonal, and cardiovascular systems to maintain a state of internal balance. Through regular sauna bathing the body gets used to this heat, optimizing it s response to future exposures. This may stimulate your metabolic rate, beneficial for digestion, and may further encourage fat burn and weight loss.
pain management
- Infrared sauna therapy alleviates chronic pain, specifically back pain, neck pain, joint pain from arthritis or rheumatoid arthritis, and the symptoms and discomfort of fibromyalgia.
- Sauna blankets also help joggers, athletes and other sports aficionados with muscles aches, stiffness, muscle recovery, and to recuperate faster after physical exertion. [2]
skin health
- Sauna blankets promote skin health by amping up blood flow to the skin and its deeper (subcutaneous) layers, dilating your pores, and increasing collagen production. All of these actions will revitalize your skin, and make the disposal of waste and dead skin cells, and clearing blemishes , more efficient.
- Certain skin conditions may benefit from infrared sauna therapy as well.
Other health benefits
As if the previous summary of health benefits isn't impressive enough, sauna blankets come with some additional benefits:
- Consistent infrared therapy supports testosterone production: Testosterone is an important hormone for health. Studies and user reviews indicate infrared therapy might aid normalizing its levels.
- Sauna blankets can bolster your immune system. Immune health has become an even more hot issue than ever in recent years. Scientists and users report infrared heat can help reinforce the body’s immunity.
- Your love life might get a boost from regular infrared saunas too.
While the infrared sauna blanket delivers many gains for healing and wellness, there are benefits of convenience we should not ignore.
- Sauna blankets are easy to set up, maintain, store away or carry with you.
Get yours today! Unwind, refresh and revive and... start indulging in some luxury self-care at home.
Diane Sargent
References
1. Fatma Vatansever and Michael R. Hamblin, Far infrared radiation (FIR): its biological effects and medical applications, PubMed, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3699878/
2. Christos Tsagkaris et al., Infrared Radiation in the Management of Musculoskeletal Conditions and Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review, PubMed, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35323210/
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