Quick Highlights of Benefits
1. Weight Loss
Infrared saunas can help you burn up to 600 or more calories in just one 30-minute session. Here are how many calories a 150-pound person normally burns up 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 (10mph) : 225
- Golfing (without a cart) : 150
- Walking (3.5mph) : 150
- Bowling : 120
- Vigorous Racquet Ball : 510
- Marathon Running 593
Some weight loss authorities believe that our bodies use fat to dilute toxins. Infrared sauna detoxification is easy with a LuxSauna to expel toxins via fat loss and perspiration.
2. Beauty
- Excellent for increasing blood circulation to the skin, which is essential for beautiful, youthful, glowing skin.
- A new "inner glow" as the skin is free of accumulated dirt and dry skin cells, due to deep cleansing of impurities.
- Improves the conditions of acne, eczema, psoriasis, burns and any skin lesions and cuts.
- Open wounds heal quicker with reduced scarring.
- Removes roughness, leaving skin baby smooth and soft again.
- Firms and improves skin tone and elasticity.
3. Scars on Skin
Scars fully formed, may be gradually softened. Burns and other wounds or incisions may heal with significantly reduced scarring.
4. Cellulite
Cellulite is a gel-like substance made up of fat, water and wastes, which are trapped in pockets below the skin. An Infrared LuxSauna can assist this condition, as profuse sweating helps clear this form of unwanted debris from the body.
European beauty specialists confirm that a sauna will greatly speed any anti-cellulite program. Due to at least twice the depth of heat penetration into cellulite combined with up to 10 times the level of heating in these tissues, an Infrared LuxSauna System is FAR more effective than any conventional sauna.
5. Pain Relief
Effective for arthritis, back pain, muscle spasms, headache, etc.
6. Injuries
Radiant heat helps with sprains, strains, arthritis, muscle spasm and pain. If you are an athlete, an Infrared LuxSauna is all good news. It allows oxygen debt to be repaid more quickly. This lead to greatly improved and quicker healing and repair of sprains and muscle pain.
7. Relaxation Enjoyment
Helps to reduce stress in a comfortably warm temperature. Renders amazing long-term sauna health benefits in just half an hour a day for convenient relaxation in the privacy of your own home.
Medical Studies and Articles
Research Supported Sauna Benefits is a balanced view from Justin Tobias, M.D. and revised by Stephanie Neumayer, M.D. citing research-supported benefits and references.
Sweat Your Way to Radiant Health Excerpted from: Sick and Tired? Robert O. Young , PhD. DSc. 1999
Infrared Thermal System Excerpts from Dr. Aaron M. Flickstein's article on infrared sauna therapy entitled Infrared Thermal System, 1994
Systemic Benefit from far-infrared sauna (Video)
Thermal Far-Infrared Therapy for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome PMID: 17561703 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Heat in the treatment of patients with anorexia nervosa by Gutierrez E, Vazquez R. March 2001
Clinical Implications of Thermal Therapy in Lifestyle-Related Diseases by Sadatoshi Biro, Akinori Masuda, Takashi Kihara and Chuwa Tei 2003. Obesity And Diabetes: Pathophysiological Mechanisms And Therapeutic Approaches
Regular sauna bathing halves the incidence of common colds Annals of Medicine. 1990;22(4):225-7
Is Your Family Toxic? By James Ferguson. Published in the London Daily Mail May 22, 2007. Extracted from The Vitamin Murders: Who Killed Healthy Eating in Britain, by James Ferguson, published by Atlantic Books (opens in new window)
