Relieves Pains

The deep heat of your infrared sauna helps peripheral 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 muscle, so they recover faster. Muscles relax most readily when tissues are warm, for greater flexibility and range of motion.

Eases Joint Pain and Stiffness

In Europe, radiant heat therapy is widely used to treat patients suffering from many forms 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.

Clears Cellulite

Infrared saunas help 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 and because the radiant heat of the infrared sauna warms three times as deeply as conventional saunas, it is significantly more effective at reducing cellulite.

Removes Toxins and Mineral Waste

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, sulfuric acid and cholesterol.

Improves Skin

The profuse sweating achieved after just a few minutes in the infrared sauna carries off deeply imbedded impurities and dead skin cells, leaving the skin glowing and immaculately clean. Increased circulation draws your skin's own natural nutrients to the surface. You'll see improved tone, elasticity, texture and fresh colour.

Increased blood circulation has also been shown to relieve acne, eczema, psoriasis, burns, lesions and cuts. In addition, open wounds heal more quickly, reducing scarring.

Improves the Immune System

Sauna's deep heat 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.

Perhaps the most immediate relief your infrared sauna offers is simple relaxation, as it melts away the stresses and tensions of urban life. Just a few minutes in the gentle warmth of your 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.

Safe, effective radiant heat, just like the sun's soothing warmth. Radiant heat is more efficient because it warms you, not the air. Your body directly absorbs as much as 93% of the heat generated by your infrared sauna.

Uses Less Energy

Our infrared sauna costs less to operate because it uses very little energy - about the same amount used by a hair dryer or toaster oven, and it only takes only 5 to 10 minutes to preheat, not the 30 to 60 minutes required by traditional saunas.

Effective at Lower Temperatures

Our infrared saunas operate at safer, more comfortable temperatures than other saunas, only 41 - 57 C. Its radiant heat reaches deep, to be absorbed by your body as much as 1.5 inches below the skin, while producing 2 to 3 times more sweat than other saunas.

Traditional saunas rely on a stove to heat the air to as hot as 95 C. The energy they require can as much as double your electricity bill, and to be effective, this superheated air must remain tightly enclosed, resulting in a stifling, suffocating environment. By contrast, our infrared saunas allow fresh air to circulate for ventilation and maximum comfort.

Burn Calories and Controls Weight

As you relax in the gentle heat of the infrared sauna, your body is actually hard at work, producing sweat, pumping blood - and burning calories. In a single sauna session you may burn as many calories as you would rowing or jogging for 30 minutes. So you lose weight - not just water.

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 outpost and metabolic rate increase, while diastolic blood pressure drops, for improved overall cardiovascular fitness.

"many of us who run do so to place a demand on our cardiovascular systems, not to build big leg muscles. Regular use of a sauna may impart 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 . . . A moderately conditioned person can easily sweat off 500 gms. in sauna, consuming nearly 300 calories."

These notes have been taken from the Journal of the American Medical Association, August 7 1981. Should you have any specific medical concerns, please consult your doctor.