00:00hey guys welcome back to the channel in today's video I want to talk about the 11 health benefits of infrared Sonos and at the end of the video we'll also talk about some of the potential side effects that I think you should be familiar with and before we get started as always make sure you subscribe and you check out my medical and affiliate disclaimer in the description [Music] infrared saunas are a relatively new phenomenon at least in comparison to traditional steam solos but Studies have shown they offer a lot of health benefits and we're gonna dive into those in today's video so let's start with health benefit number one sauna bathing relieves stress and tension and that's because you know being in a hot environment generally makes you feel good but especially when the skin gets heated up or is exposed to heat the brain releases serotonin one of the feel good hormones that makes you just feel better sauna bathing over its owner bathing all the lower cortisol levels in fact Studies have shown that a single sauna treatment can significantly reduce the symptoms of major depression that's pretty amazing and so I recommend making
01:00sauna bathing a regular part of your routine especially if you're on a lot of stress and tension number two infrared sauna bathing improves circulation and blood flow and that's because the infrared light dilates your blood vessels to allow more oxygenated blood full of nutrients to reach the various part parts of your body and or the tissues and the interesting thing is in Studies have shown that only 15 minutes of infrared sauna bathing increase the blood flow in the brachial artery by 68 that's pretty significant and even better your dilated blood vessel and the improved blood flow remains so for up to 30 minutes after the sauna session so if you you know enjoy the sauna for 30 minutes and it takes approximately 15 minutes or so before significant blood flow kicks in and so you get the 15 minutes in the sauna plus 30 extra minutes with increased blood flow that can help reduce inflammation speed up recovery and all of the things associated with increased blood flow and the cool thing about being vasodilating
02:00meaning increasing the diameter of your blood vessels is that its sauna bathing can also decrease blood pressure so inverts on a bathing has been shown to improve both or to reduce both use systolic and diastolic blood pressure so if you suffer from high blood pressure regular sauna bathing can alleviate those symptoms items in addition of course with making some of the other lifestyle changes that might be causing your high blood pressure in the first place the fourth benefit also closely related to increased blood flow is a reduction in pain so infrared sauna bathing can reduce your pain be that pain caused by a chronic unconditional my arthritis maybe or something that's injury related to more acute pain and that's because again it goes back to increased blood flow whenever blood flow increases to an affected area that you feel tender or that you know is painful your pain perception goes down at least temporarily but infrared sonipating also triggers the release and that's caused by the infrared light a release of pain blocking molecules that can temporarily provide relief now obviously that pain
03:00relief is not going to be permanent once you get out of the sauna after a while you'll probably feel the pain again but at least you can get temporary relief and in the long mid and long term speed up recovery reducing inflammation and get rid of the pain once and for all number five infrared sauna bathing mimics a cardiovascular in a workout and I've done measurements in our infrared sauna and I've noticed that my heart rate goes to up to about 110 beats per minute and in comparison my resting heart rate is about somewhere between 45 and 50 beats per second so I can get a significant increase in heart rate by spending 20 25 30 minutes in an infrared sauna and that mimics a mild cardiovascular workout so if I go for a brisk walk or for a light chalk my heart rate goes roughly to the same levels around 110 maybe 120 depending on how fast I run um and I can get the same benefits or very similar benefits by just spending 30 minutes in the song and of course when your Hardware goes up and that leads us to the next benefits we
04:00burn extra calories so sauna bathing infrared sauna bathing can be a tool to support your weight loss efforts and I've done measurements I mean you know measuring calories burned during a workout active calories Etc is not exact science because none of the wearables that I have access to really Act accurately measure calorie burn but at least you get a rough indication and the comparison of how you know a certain certain types of workouts compare as far as calorie burn is concerned and I've noticed that during a 30-minute sauna sessions I burn up for close to 200 calories again very comparable to a brisk walk or to a to a light run and so it can be a great tool to burn some additional calories and to maybe help with your weight loss efforts if you combine that of course with an appropriate diet and without a lifestyle changes that are conducive to losing weight or maintaining your weight number seven infrared sauna bathing increases your resistance to illness and that's for very there are various reasons for that number one heat stress especially
05:00if you sauna bathe at very high temperatures and for an infrared sauna that's probably around 150 degrees Fahrenheit and if you think that well but that's not hot enough I've talked about that misconception in a separate video that I'm going to link down below but even at 150 degrees Fahrenheit it infrared sauna can induce enough heat stress to trigger the release of heat shock proteins and those are Parts part of your body's immune response that can help fight pathogens infrared sauna bathing or the associated heat stress can also lead to a increase in white blood cells interference and some of the other molecules the immune system uses to fight pathogens so if we go into the sauna and you do Sonic mix Sonic painting a regular part of your routine especially with infrared on it but also with steams on us of course Studies have shown that you can decrease your risk of catching a cold by 50 that's quite significant and that's one of the reasons why we make sauna bathing a regular part of our routine especially during the colder months of the Season benefit number eight sauna bathing can help your body get rid of toxins sweat
06:00is one of the preferred ways besides urine and feces and some other Pathways of getting rid of toxins so sweating profusely is a great way to get toxins out of your body that might be stored and difficult to remove otherwise and that's particularly true for heavy metal and for more so if you have mold sensitivities mold issues if you have been exposed to heavy metals through diet or other lifestyle factors sweating a lot in a solid and infrared sauna in particular is a great way to help your body detoxify number nine infrared sauna bathing has been shown to increase flexibility and mobility and range of motion in fact there are some studies that suggest that stretching Inland infrared sauna so while you're sauna bathing while you're exposed to the infrared radiation can help improve your range of motion by 300 percent that's quite significant so this order we had in the past wasn't unfortunately big enough for us to do any sort of stretching but the new one we got I'm gonna have a dedicated review coming up
07:00here shortly so stay tuned is big enough so we can actually do some stretching in this order to help improve our range of motion and flexibility and sauna bathing has also been associated with improved muscle gains or an increase in lean muscle tissue and obviously just sitting in the sauna is not going to make you stronger and grow your muscles how however the recovery aspect of infrared Sonos the increase in blood flow especially after intense workouts the speeding up of your recovery the improving of your range of motion all of that combined can help you then outside of the sauna meaning in the gym to gain muscle tissue more rapidly so you can strategically leverage sauna bathing in infrared saunas in particular to support your work of routine and to help you improve your gains when you're working out another benefit that's closely associated with the heat stress that or stress in general is an increase in growth hormone now in all of the studies that I've seen associated with or that show that sauna bathing can cause a spike in growth hormone release we're done using wet saunas however even
08:00Andrew huberman who is one of the leading resources in you know all different types of stressor speed cold Explorer as well as heat exposure acknowledged that you can likely get the same benefits from other types of stressors and I have based on my experiments and base of the research I've seen infrared saunas can cause the same type of heat stress the same intensity of heat stress as Steam sauna so I would argue that the studies in regards to steam saunas in causing a spike in growth hormone also applied to infrared Zone as I firmly believe that just based on the heat stress that I experience in an infrared so in comparison to our Steve Zone with both at home so I kind of can compare side by side and so the bottom venue really is that if you expose your body to stress like from infrared radiation the heat transferred into your tissue by the infrared radiation you can significantly increase your output in growth hormone and that can obviously then help with athletic performance with recovery and with a lot of other things that growth hormones are known for the last benefits of infrared's on us doesn't apply to all
09:00infrared zones it particularly applies to infrared's owners that also emit near infrared radiation and that is near infrared lights from a infrared sauna for a fourth Spectrum infrared so I like the one we have in our backyard can improve skin Health can increase the production of collagen and elastin and many of the other things that are typically associated with red light therapy and near infrared radiation so if you're looking to improve the health of your skin the appearance of your skin the resilience of your skin to UV light for example so you burn less likely when you're out in the sun without protection near infrared radiation is a great thing so that's why we picked a Ford Spectrum infrared sauna that offers near Mid and far infrared typically most infrared saunas only offer fire infrared but if you can find a full spectrum infrared sauna that's in your price range I highly recommend that in particular if skin health and improving the appearance of your skin is important to you now that we talked about the 11 health benefits of infrared saunas let's talk about the potential side effects because
10:00they are important to consider and number one is sauna bathing in general but in particular exposure to infrared radiation is a stressor to your body we talked about it briefly you know in this video already when I said you know heat stress heat stress is a stressor so if you already run run down and stressed and anxious and don't know what to do to kind of calm down going into an infrared sauna at the highest temperature possible and exposing your body to heat stress to more stress is probably counter-intuitive there is such a thing as too much stress even if that stress is considered a good stress or a HoMedic stressor so I highly recommend to listen to your body to figure out how much stress you can take and then adjusting your infrared sauna exposure appropriately that could maybe mean that using your infrared sauna at a lower temperature or staying in for less time or a combination thereof you know very often you get a lot of the benefits even at lower temperatures especially as far as you know releasing the tension and
11:00releasing anxiety and reducing your stress overall can be perfectly achieved in an infrared sauna it may be 130 degrees Fahrenheit instead of 150. the second thing is we talked about it infrared light causes your blood vessels to dilate and it lowers your blood pressure if you already is suffer from low blood pressure you want to be careful not to overdo it because you might pass out if your blood pressure gets too low so those are related to only main potential side effects that I've experienced I haven't experienced them personally but that I've read about and I can and I can see that can happen generally speaking sauna painting is relatively safe but of course I always recommend talking to a knowledgeable Healthcare professional before you start any new Wellness routine now with that we're gonna wrap it up one more thing I want to mention if you're interested in any of the scientific evidence behind those benefits I mentioned I have a very detailed blog post on michaelcoomer.com about the health benefits with links to individual studies and more explanation about those benefits I mentioned in the video If you like this video give it a thumbs up if you didn't like it let me
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