Infrared Sauna

Infrared saunas use a certain type of wavelength of light, called infrared rays, to generate heat. This type of heat is very effective at raising your core temperature and heating up your body. The heat penetrates your tissue deeper than other heat and is useful for detox, enhancing immune function, lowering blood pressure, promoting muscle recovery, and improving circulation.

What Are the Benefits of Infrared Saunas?

Saunas help to detoxify the body through our body’s largest organ of elimination, the skin. The heat helps to mobilize toxins, including heavy metals, which are stored in fat cells. Sweating helps eliminate these impurities through the skin, thereby decreasing the body’s toxic burden.

The heat from the sauna elevates body temperature, which can help the immune system to effectively clear infections, as many pathogens including Lyme disease, cannot live at increased temperatures.

By bolstering the immune response to illness, and improving the elimination of toxins and wastes via sweating, saunas help to increase your overall health and resistance to disease.

Saunas also help improve circulation and blood flow, thereby nourishing skin and healing soft tissue such as ligaments, tendons, and joints. Increased blood circulation helps repair injured tissue faster by carrying off metabolic waste products and delivering fresh, oxygenated blood to oxygen-depleted tissue. The deep heat of infrared saunas helps peripheral blood vessels dilate, bringing relief and healing to muscle and soft tissue injuries and disorders including bursitis, fibromyalgia, and acute and chronic pain.

Weight loss is another potential benefit of sauna therapy. As the body works to cool itself, there is a substantial increase in heart rate, cardiac output, and metabolic rate, causing the body to burn more calories.

Common benefits include:

• Detoxification
• Muscle pain relief
• Immune system boost
• Weight loss and increased metabolism

• Ease joint pain and stiffness
• Stress and fatigue reduction
• Improves skin

How to Prepare for Your Appointment

We recommend being well hydrated and eating a meal or snack prior to your session. Drinking 32-64 ounces of water before and after your appointment is recommended to maximize the detoxification encouraged by the infrared therapy.

The sauna is in a private room and clothing does not impede the infrared waves. You can choose to go without clothes or to wear what you will be comfortable in. We provide towels and water.