FAR Infrared Sauna – Advanced Health Clinic

FAR Infrared Sauna

Detoxification

Sweat better. It’s one of the body’s safest and most natural ways to heal and maintain good health. Our sauna’s high quality infrared heat promotes effortless, deep productive sweat.

We know what it feels like to be frustrated to feel your body holding you back when you want to live a full, active life. Today’s world places a toxic load on our bodies, from environmental toxicants to stress and anxiety that create inflammation and other symptoms. Our Infrared sauna’s fundamental benefit is the ability to sweat out toxic substances naturally. Our sauna promotes a deep detoxifying sweat that will leave you feeling cleansed, refreshed and energized.

Heart Health

Strengthen your heart. Infrared Sauna therapy acts like a passive cardio workout, which helps your heart by improving circulation and even reducing circulation.

We all know how important it is to have good heart health. We understand how hard it can be to make the lifestyle changes you need to fight genetics. Or simply to stay on track with all the things you need to do to keep your heart healthy as long as possible. Sauna therapy makes it pleasant and effective, and science supports using an infrared sauna regularly as part of a healthy lifestyle can be good for your heart.

Infrared sauna sessions raise your heart rate and increase circulation. This replicates a cardiovascular workout we term “passive cardio.” In fact, blood flow during infrared sauna use may rise from a normal rate of 5-7 quarts/minute to up to 13 quarts/minute. Your heart is a muscle; working it makes it stronger. A stronger cardiovascular system helps capillaries deliver more oxygen to muscle cells. For people with injuries or conditions precluding them from cardio activity, saunas can help serve as an alternative for needed cardio benefits.

Our Sunlighten sauna has been clinically shown to provide one of the best, natural ways to help temporarily lower blood pressure.* In a 2005 clinical study by the University of Missouri Kansas City, Sunlighten’s SoloCarbon far infrared heaters were shown to temporarily lower blood pressure through a program of 30-minute infrared sauna session 3 times per week. The study concluded that Sunlighten sauna sessions, as part of a healthy lifestyle, dilated blood vessels and reduced the volume of their inner lining, thus increasing circulation needed for healthy blood pressure. * View the Blood Pressure Study

Increased Immunity

We understand you want to stay healthy and well. You already manage your diet, your fitness and activity levels, your water intake, your mental health. Adding in infrared sauna use to your wellness routine can help even more, especially now. Its natural preventative properties help support all your goals with benefits for circulation, weight loss, sleep, immunity, stress relief and temporary pain relief.

Increase core body temp, activate your immune system.

Your body naturally defends itself. During a fever, body temperature rises and strengthens the immune system. It’s a signal to white blood cells and the body’s antiviral army of lymphocytes, neutrophils and interferons to come to the rescue. Increased body temp may also help fight infections as it stimulates heat shock proteins that deter viruses from reproducing and reduces inflammatory cytokine proteins. Raising body temp above normal for therapeutic treatment is called hyperthermia. Our infrared heating technology gives you the highest quality and quantity of infrared clinically proven to raise core body temperature by three degrees. Using a sauna regularly helps your body stay well. An Austrian study of 25 healthy subjects who regularly used saunas found they had significantly fewer episodes of common colds than those who did not. This benefit becomes more significant, especially after 14 weeks of consecutive sauna use. To maximize these benefits, it’s recommended to use it at least twice a week throughout the year.

Muscle Recovery

Recover faster. Perform better. Infrared heat delivers more oxygen to muscle cells for faster repair and pain relief. No one wants sore muscles to slow them down. Whether you’re a competitive athlete, a weekend golfer or simply trying to stay active, proper muscle recovery impacts your ability to keep doing what you love. Infrared sauna therapy penetrates muscles deeper, increases blood flow and helps the body recover faster so you can stay in the game, of sports and life.

Beyond building muscle, the right recovery is important.

Most people understand the benefits of exercise and training when trying to enhance performance or build muscle. In fact, that’s often the only thing they do. Equally important is the recovery process, or downtime in between training, when energy is restored, and the body is able to heal tissue damage and rebuild muscles. Building muscle not only increases strength, but also boosts metabolism, reduces risk of injury, improves bone density and helps with excess body fat.

Infrared light benefits muscle recovery and performance.

Heat, in and of itself, is great for recovery, temporary pain relief and inflammation. Infrared light heats the body from within and penetrates the joints, muscles and tissues, increasing circulation and blood flow.

Good circulation is critical for proper healing. Red blood cells carry oxygen and nutrients to the site of the strain or inflammation, which helps to create new blood vessels and tissues at the site. The more red and white blood cells that can get delivered to muscles, the quicker they rebuild.

Sunlighten’s patented SoloCarbon® far infrared heaters have been found to be 99% effective in terms of far infrared absorption into the body. View IR absorption study

Anti-Aging

Renew your skin! Harness a scientifically “fountain of youth” and revitalize your skin’s appearance. Near Infrared technology increases collagen and elastin. Far infrared waves increases circulation, regenerating cells.

Care for your skin from the inside out.

Healthy, glowing skin can help you feel radiant and confident, and it’s one of the many benefits of consistent infrared sauna use. Sunlighten infrared saunas can help reduce wrinkles and crow’s feet, while improving overall skin tone, softness, smoothness, elasticity, clarity and firmness. What a wonderful way to restore, refresh and rejuvenate your skin.

Rejuvenate and purify your skin. Really!

It sounds too good to be true, but science supports it. Photobiomodulation uses invisible, near infrared (NIR) wavelengths (700 to 1,200 nanometers (nm)) to deliver energy to cells. Research shows specific light frequencies have specific activity. NIR has the perfect wavelength (880 nm) to penetrate skin best. When NIR is applied to the skin, fibroblast cells absorb the light activity, stimulating production of collagen and elastin. Over time, those increases create thicker, younger looking skin, decrease lines, fade scars, and promote skin renewal, cell health and tissue growth.

Relaxation

True relaxation and de-stressing. Step into your wellness sanctuary and experience therapeutic heat that leaves you feeling physically restored and mentally refreshed.

Escape the stress and really relax.

We’re programmed to push ourselves. Sometimes getting through the day takes everything you’ve got. Science validates the value of rest for your whole self. Stress impacts not just the mind but the body as well. Infrared saunas provide an enjoyable place in your wellness routine to receive the full-body benefits of relaxation and stress reduction.

Stress affects your entire body.

Studies show stress impacts the brain, blood pressure, weight and immune system. It creates memory problems, anxiety and learning difficulties. Neuroscientists say chronic stress can cause physical changes in grey and white matter, impact quantity of neurons and the size and connectivity of the amygdala.The American Institute of Stress estimates stress problems make up 75 to 90% of all primary care doctor visits. Cortisol is the culprit. Stress increases that “fight or flight” hormone that raises heart rate, blood pressure and deposits excess calories in our midsection.

Find perfect stress relief. Our infrared sauna helps you relax in natural comfort with an invigorating deep tissue sweat that will have you feeling fully refreshed after every sauna session. Envelop yourself in soothing warmth to help you relieve stress, ease your muscles and fully relax.

Sleep

Improve your sleep. The time you spend in the sauna can help you get better rest by creating a routine that supports relaxation and a healthy circadian rhythm.

You want to sleep better.

Getting a good night’s sleep is essential to feeling your best. When you don’t get the rest you need, the health consequences quickly add up. It’s hard to give yourself fully to what—and who—you love. Infrared sauna helps the body in so many ways that can help improve sleep, and give you back the energy you need to thrive.

Saunaing may help you sleep better.

There’s not much scientific study on infrared saunas and sleep – yet. Anecdotal evidence often points to possibility and creates the need to learn more. In recent years, we began seeing a pattern of feedback from people noticing an effect on their sleep after they began saunaing. We asked our community who experienced improvements in their sleep: 70% of those who responded said they had. Not everyone does, and the reasons for that are varied. For those who have, we found their experience compelling enough to share.

Resolving sleep issues is complex.

Our bodies regulate sleep through a complicated chemical process managed by our brain, activated by our circadian rhythm and sleep drive. When that process is disrupted, there are a lot of variables to consider and evaluate, including activity patterns; health issues like stress, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, depression, menopause, diabetes, etc.; and sleep hygiene factors such as room temperature, light reduction, regular bedtimes and wake times, etc.

“Infrared therapy may improve the amount and quality of sleep. The mechanism for this effect has not been firmly established but may be related to the ability of infrared to act as an “exercise mimetic.” It is well known that physical exercise will improve disturbed sleep. Infrared radiation can increase blood flow and oxygen metabolism in the muscles and the skin and could trigger a biochemical cascade resulting in improved sleep.” Prof. Michael R Hamblin, Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg

Weight Loss

Increase metabolism. Burn calories. Far infrared sauna creates a passive workout, stimulating sluggish metabolism and improving fat burning.

Support a healthy weight.

Maintaining a healthy weight is important to your quality of life yet can be so challenging. Changing your behaviors is key to success. You can create an enjoyable habit that will help your efforts in many ways when you sauna. You get all the benefits of sauna and infrared light therapy in a pleasant session. It’s an easy lifestyle and behavior change you’ll actually want to stick with for sauna weight loss support.

Saunaing: the habit you’ll enjoy creating.

The most current research shows behavior change techniques are now critical to weight management programs. Saunaing is beautiful, enjoyable experiences using infrared light to heat your body from the inside instead of heating the air. Infrared saunas can do more for the body’s health in a more pleasant environment (between 110 and 130 degrees) than the harsh suffocating heat of traditional saunas (180-210 degrees). Infrared light therapy does its work at the cellular level to expel toxins, increase circulation, spark metabolism, burn calories and help decrease waist size.

Sauna’s cardiovascular benefits are like a cardio workout.

A 2019 study compared participants’ cardiovascular effects in a sauna and on an exercise bike. The increase in heart rate was similar to a short, moderate workout. Researchers stated, “A sauna session is a physical strain. Its long-term positive effects are comparable to sports activities.”The focus was on the benefits to the heart and cardiovascular system, rather than weight loss or muscle development. We call it a “passive cardio workout.”

Release toxins and reduce inflammation.

Studies have shown that sauna therapy can release environmental toxins stored in fat tissues that can prevent weight loss.  Heavy metals and fat-soluble chemicals like PCBs, PBBs and HCBs can trigger the body to protect itself, resulting in the immune system’s inflammatory response.”Infrared sauna therapy heats the body at the cellular level, helping to detoxify the body and reduce inflammation.

Relieve stress and lower cortisol.

Studies have shown the direct connection between stress, cortisol and weight gain. Chronic stress leads to cortisol production in large amounts, which leads to obesity and weight gain. Martha Bray highly recommends infrared sauna for weight loss to help break the connection between cortisol and weight gain by naturally relieving stress. Stress relief lowers cortisol, which can help create a healthy metabolism, thus contributing to weight loss.

Increase cellular metabolism.

People often report feeling energized after infrared sauna sessions. Cells need energy to perform their best, just like our bodies need energy to function. Near infrared stimulates cellular energy when the body’s energy-producing cells absorb the light energy (photons) and produce more adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which fuels all cells.⁷This can increase cell health and performance throughout the body and all of its systems.

As part of an overall plan, an infrared sauna is a helpful weight management tool.

Having healthy body composition and waist size help us live a longer, healthier life. A Mayo Clinic pooled study showed that waist circumference is a critical factor for assessing the risk of premature death.As part of an overall program of nutrition, behavior change and exercise, a sauna can help achieve health goals. A study of diabetic patients attending three 20-minute sauna sessions per week over three months showed a decrease in waist circumference, suggesting benefit to regular sauna use.

Thinking of a Sauna for Home? We recommend Sunlighten Sauna’s.

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*Infrared Sauna products are not approved or regulated by FDA for lowering blood pressure.

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