Why a sauna is good for you In Good Shape Interview
00:00[Music] in good shape your weekly dose of health information on doll find out more about what's new in medical treatment alternative medicine as well as nutrition wellness and Beauty medical professionals therapists and counselors are in our studio to offer their expert advice on in good shape and my guest in the studio today is a specialist in naturopathic treatments and conventional Medicine Dr Shang thank you very much for joining us Drang going to the Sona is said to have really pronounced health effects which of these effects are actually scientifically proven well most research has been done on the cardiovascular system hypertension uh and in recent times on cardiac insufficiency and then of course on the immune system prevention of colds and this type of thing okay so you mentioned the cardiovascular system how does that work how does the SAA train the
01:00cardiovascular system well when you heat up the shell what the T does your vessels will open as much as they can when you cool down they close again and like it was shown in the movie if you do this three or four times you know this is a training like muscle training so uh your vessels will be able to open especially and this is very good in hypertension of course like if you smoke uh this will be uh will not happen this effect okay because that's the counter effect of smoking you also mentioned colds uh it's said that people who visit the SAA get colds or get fewer colds how is that or why is that well this is one of the secrets of the body because all these systems have some interconnections there are in the web if you want to see this uh so if you train the cardiovascular system and the vessel regulation you get also down to the immune system mhm is that the same effect visiting a sauna is that the same effect than a a fever is it like an
02:00artificial fever no I wouldn't say that because the core as we see of the body is heated very slightly and those who do the sauna very frequently even on the long run have lower core temperatures so it's sort of an economization of energy temperature if you want to say so uh uh we don't think the core is very important but the shell the outside the skin and the underlying layers are very important mhm okay well we'll speak a bit more about what the sauna can do for you but I would like to know which kind of sauna there's so many there steam rooms like the hamam there's steam rooms in in the Asian regions there's the hot sauna which we've seen in the report the really hot finish kind of sauna which kind should you be using well this is very interesting because almost any culture in the world in their medicines they have developed some kind of these things as you mentioned by different means that they could find and that they they could use uh for the public so this
03:00is a very different um culture uh cultural aspect uh we know most about the uh Finnish SAA and the Japanese U steam bath which is very popular there but um almost any culture has used hot water hot Stones um hot sand like in isia in the Mediterranean and they all have shown beneficial effects the old Greeks the Romans the Japanese the Russians so Africa there are hot springs M okay right we'll get to that a little bit later because we I'll ask now we have a question from our viewer from Tanzania Avid khima has written to ask if you don't have a sauna what else can you do to get these hot cold treatments well there's nothing that exactly replicates it but uh physical exercise Sports uh do similar effects on hypertension on the immune system we know that but probably not uh all the effects that we observe
04:00for example for the skin when you do the SAA regularly this probably can't be um achieved by Sports else what about hot and cold showers alternating like that well this is uh like the knipe therapy in Germany of course this is sort of an approach but here you have a lot uh smaller differences in temperature mhm okay right so the sauna is it really no matter whether it's steam or hot sauna but you mentioned it helps with skin conditions as well is that true yes well like in chronic uh inflammatory conditions of the skin like in psoriasis uh this might be very beneficial also an atopic eczema of course these people who are heavily affected might have um um problems with using a public Sona which are not justified at all but still worthwhile it is that way and last but not least who shouldn't go well there are very few contraindications as we say people who have very bad control of their cardiovascular disease dises of
05:00hypertension of arthas uh this type of thing epilepsy um uh shouldn't shouldn't go into SAA and also people who have multiple sclerosis should be careful all right others can benefit well thank you very much for being here thanks for being our guest today