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Kate Moss snaps up Sauna!
Supermodel and singer, Kate Moss, has recently had an infrared sauna installed in her North London home reports suggest. Typically, singers and performing artists are encouraged to not use conventional saunas as there is danger of drying out the vocal chords. As we know, an infrared sauna operates at a lower environment temperature, so sitting inside the cabin is a relaxing “easy-breathe” experience that isn’t stressful on the body. A conventional sauna can sometimes prove to be a little too intense for some, making the infrared sauna the next best thing.
Moss has taken delivery of a “samarium”, which is a sauna that takes advantage of aromatherapy oils – her body will thank her for it!
$500,000 health tests show its time to Detoxify!
David Duncan, 51, took part in the ultimate health examination to discover firstly how healthy he actually was, and secondly what science could tell him about the near future. He transformed himself into the human guinea pig undergoing a vast list of investigations including genetic constitution, how his environment impacted his body and how his organs, muscles and bones were standing up to wear and tear. The tests cost in excess of $500,000.
Duncan considered himself as a generally healthy man, from a family with little history of disease. He undertook many tests with some using the latest advancements in medical technology. One test required him to eat two servings of fish in one day to measure the change in mercury levels in his body (the change was big). Another required Duncan to provide blood samples to various scientists to indicate his susceptibility to certain diseases. He also sent blood and urine samples to a specialist laboratory in Canada who worked to monitor the intake of harmful toxins into the body – finding everything including shampoo, dust and even plastic food wrap – and how they had found their way deep into his arteries and veins. His sight, taste, hearing, and sleep efficiency were also tested.
It is these toxins which we work to remove from our bodies by inducing sweat through exercise or the use of a sauna. Sherry A. Rogers, author of Detoxify or Die states:
“What is the best way to get rid of toxic chemicals including pesticides, heavy metals and hydrocarbon residues when you can’t tolerate a sauna? When a sauna makes you feel weak, sick, have a fast heart rate, faint, dizzy, panicky, head achy or just plain miserable, what is the solution? The infrared sauna. Thanks to improved technology, the infrared sauna is far safer and infinitely more tolerable, because it uses heat energy that penetrates tissues, triggering mobilization of chemicals from subcutaneous fat storage, directly into the sweat”
David Duncan was fortunate enough to find that there was nothing seriously wrong. His knees were suffering from running too much on pavements, and he was made aware of a benign cyst on his kidney which was later removed. However, Duncan did reach two conclusions. First, that we have a lot to learn about the toxins that surround us each day in our work and home environment; and that it wouldn’t be long before full health tests like the ones he undertook became part of normal medical practice.
The amount of toxins that surround us each day, from motor pollution in the air to the varied skin products, is simply incomprehensible. These toxins inside our bodies really aren’t going anywhere unless we boot them out – I think I might go and have a sauna!
Burn up to 600 calories in a Solare Sauna!
Can you lose up to 600 calories in a Di Vapor Solare infrared sauna in 30 minutes?
A common misconception is that weight loss in a sauna is solely due to water loss through sweating. While it is true that weight reduction due to water loss will be regained when you are rehydrated, it is also true that the body expends energy and consumes calories in the sweating process.
A letter by Major Ward Dean, MC, to the Journal of the American Medical Association (1981;246(6):623), detailed that the use of an infrared sauna can burn between 200 to 600 calories in a 30 minute session. When heated by the sauna, the body’s cardiac output, heart rate and metabolic rate increases.
Water does not simply “leak” from the body in an infrared sauna. It is this cardiac output that burns calories, aiding in weight loss. JAMA states that the process consumes 0.586 kcal per gram of water lost.
A different clinical study by M. Imamura looked at the potentially positive effects that using an infrared sauna can have on the lining of blood vessels in the heart. It was discovered, however, that after 15 minutes of infrared sauna use every day for 2 weeks, participants had significantly lost body weight [1]. As monitoring body weight was not their primary concern it demonstrates that the effect must have been significant to warrant its inclusion.
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Infrared Saunas Good for Chronic Heart Failure
Are far-infrared saunas beneficial for patients suffering from chronic heart failure (CHF)? There have been many claims over the years about many miracle cures to health issues such as chronic heart failure, however not all of these declarations have been backed up by factual scientific evidence.
It is critically important that all claims are tested under controlled scientific environments from unbiased, none commercial institutions, as many corporate companies are willing to make unsubstantiated claims, or bend the truth in order to gain a sale.
A recent controlled scientific test has been conducted by the Department of Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Metabolic Medicine, Graduated School of Medicine, Kagoshima University in Japan, in an effort to test whether or not ‘Waon Therapy’ using a far-infrared sauna is effective in treating chronic heart failure (CHF). A sample of 188 patients were selected: from those 188 patients, 112 were grouped to be treated with infrared sauna Waon therapy and the other 76 grouped to be treated with conventional methods.
The infrared sauna therapy group used the sauna once a day for 15 minutes and were then kept in a blanket after the sauna session for an additional 30 minutes. This was repeated daily for 14 days. The conventional treatment group was also tested for two weeks with standard methods used for treating chronic heart failure.
What is Waon Therepy?
Waon therapy is simply increasing the core body temperature by approximately 1.0~1.2°C in an effort to help soothe, and in some cases heal the body from its ailment(s).
Heart Failure Facts (United Kingdom)
- Based on a survey of heart failure management in general practice, there was an average of 8.3 cases of heart failure per 1000 population.
- Heart failure is very age dependent, with 0.2 cases per 1000 for those under the age of 35, while there are 125 cases per 1000 for those aged 85 or older.
- The prevailance of heart disease doubles for every decade of aging.
(http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/40000564/)
ResultsBefore and after the treatment, all patients were measured with the following: NYHA functional classification, Chest Radiography, Echocardiography and Brain Natriuretic Peptide (BNP). The results were very positive, where the infrared sauna Waon therapy group showed ‘significant improvements’ in all the aforementioned tests. The conclusion of the research showed that, ‘Waon therapy is an innovative and promising therapy for patients with CHF.’For the full article, please visit: http://www.divapor.com/sauna-articles/sauna-therapy-chronic-heart-failure.php