STEAM SHOWER & SAUNA HEALTH BENEFITS
Steam showers and sauna treatments are recommended by professional massage therapists, chiropractors, coaches and health and beauty practitioners during treatments and therapies. With cold winters and hot summers, a steam room shower prevents the skin from becoming dehydrated and itchy. A steam shower takes advantage of a wet heat that is different from the dry heat produced in a sauna. Steam room showers open pores for toxins and dirt to drain, increases blood circulation and helps to clear sinuses and nasal passages to free breathing. It is especially helpful for those who suffer from asthma, bronchitis and allergies. A shower and steam room treatment can also sooth tired and aching muscles.
Additional benefits of steam showers include the following:
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Reducing stress
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Relaxation
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Rejuvenating the skin
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Detoxifying the body
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Increasing metabolism
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Cardiovascular fitness
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Increased circulation
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Pain relief
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Enhancing the respiratory system
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Aromatherapy
So for a
righteous regimen that can repair your
ravaged remains, renew your resources,
revitalize your run-down resistance,
rehabilitate your raggedy, rumpled and
reclining remnants, leaving you radiant and
radically revived?u>read on!
A steam shower (or an infrared sauna) can also offer a quick and affordable escape from increasing demands on time and can combat growing stress.
So many benefits…so little cash. Brilliant Showers has a full line of steam shower systems waiting for you!
Medicinal hot
baths have been around for a long time.
Many cultures, including the Mayan, Mexican,
Russian, Indian, African and Japanese, all
had their own variation on the sauna
experience. But the modern-day sauna was
developed by the Scandinavians. In fact,
“Sauna?is the Finnish word for “bath?(or
“bathhouse?. There’s an old Finnish
saying: “A sauna is a poor-man’s
drugstore.?/i>
The first
Finnish functional facility was built in the
year 1112. Back then, a sauna was simply a
small hole in the ground covered with
smoldering rocks. The Finns didn’t just use
their saunas for relaxation. They also used
the sauna’s curative properties to curing
meats, drying fish nets, malting barley,
washing the dead and as a birthing chamber.
In 1638, the
Finns had brought their sensational saunas
to America. In fact, when Finns and Swedes
first settled in what is now Philadelphia,
they named their new home “Sauna.?nbsp; The
city’s present-day city hall is where the
first sauna built.
By the 1950’s
sauna sales really took off with the advent
of the electric heating stove ?no more open
fire pits in the basement.
Over the past
twenty years, the sauna’s healing properties
have finally found acceptance in the
worldwide medical community, as a legitimate
treatment for many types of illnesses and
maladies. A sauna has been proven to be an
effective treatment against addictive drugs
(such as heroin and nicotine) and
environmental toxins (pesticides and
herbicides). According to the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), toxic
chemicals are responsible for up to 80% of
cancer deaths. The deep, open-pore
cleansing properties of a deep sauna
treatment can actively eliminate a plethora
of poisonous narcotics from the body.
And if you are
trying to burn inches off your waistline,
there is no healthier and natural way to
sweat those pounds away. A typical
20-minute sauna session actually extracts
one quart of water from the body. In fact,
our sweat is composed of 99% water. 30%
of body wastes are expired through the skin.
A sauna is the safest way to
swiftly remove excess H20 and flush out the
toxins.
Sauna
treatments will also accelerate the body’s
ability to burn calories. You can lose 600
calories in just one half-hour session.
Your heart rate will increase by 50-75%,
providing you the same metabolic increase as
a brisk walk. The increased blood flow
brings more nutrients to the heart.
For women,
a regular sauna regimen will even reduce the
appearance of cellulite, and deep-clean and
nourish skin, giving you a much more
youthful appearance.
For men,
regular sauna treatments can speed up the
healing of sport-related injuries and
increase oxygen flow to areas of the body
suffering from deep tissue and joint
damage.
For both men and
women, there are several mutually beneficial
health benefits, including:
Cardiac
Fitness ?A 10-minute sauna will
elevate your heart rate, which
increases blood circulation
and perspiration. Perspiration
is the body’s natural way of cooling off the
body after exercising. Sweating detoxifies
the body by opening pores and flushing out
impurities. Studies have shown that 30% of
body wastes are passed through the skin.
So you get all
the benefits of exercise ?which includes
increasing your metabolism ?
without the danger of injury.
Pain
Relief ?Rigorous exercise can
put pressure on muscle joints. Temporary
relief from the pain and stiffness of
arthritis can be achieved instantly
?through the soothing and
recuperative qualities of steam.
Bodybuilders and athletes have known about
sauna therapy for decades. Muscles become
sore and tired because during exercise, the
body builds up excessive amounts of carbon
dioxide and lactic acid. A sauna
treatment rids the body of CO2 and excess
lactic acid, thereby relieving muscle
tension and promotes rapid healing.
Stress
Reduction ?Study after study
has shown that chronic stress causes
chronic diseases.
Stress can be drastically reduced by
soothing sessions in a sauna. Stress causes
capillary vessels to contract. A sauna
opens these vessels, reliving pressure and
releasing endorphins, which
are the “feel good?hormones.
Endorphins are the body’s natural way to
relieve tension, stress and fatigue.
These curative
benefits are not wishful thinking ?
they are based solid science. The
sauna’s high, dry heat creates an artificial
fever state in the body. Believe it or not,
a fever is part of the body’s natural
healing process. The father of modern
medicine, Hippocrates said: “Give me
the power to create a fever, and I shall
cure any disease.?/i>
And that’s
exactly what modern medical research has
found. A fever stimulates the immune
system, increasing the production of white
blood cells, antibodies and interferon.
Interferon is a potent anti-viral protein
produced in the body that has many
cancer-fighting properties.
A sauna shower
will revive and renew vitality to your sore
muscles and invigorates your soul with the
most sophisticated water jet propulsion
system on the market today. The shower’s
hydro-massage capabilities will leave you
relaxed and restored. You’ll feel
like you’ve just been to an expensive health
club ?all in the comfort of your own home.
The power of
steam is a natural healing wonder.
Breathing in steam has been a natural and
effective treatment for respiratory maladies
for hundreds of years. Some of the
breathing ailments that are relieved
by a steam shower are:
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Common
cold
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Asthma
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Allergies
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Sinusitis
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Bronchitis
Steam inhalation
relieves the inflammation and congestion of
the lungs?mucous membranes, and alleviates
throat irritations due to chronic dryness.
You’ll be able to breathe easier, with less
irritation and discomfort.
Beyond all the
recent medical breakthroughs, there is one
more powerful piece of evidence that having
your own personal sauna reaps untold
benefits ?customer
satisfaction. People who purchase
their spa at Accessory Wholesalers
have told us that they simply feel
better. While this response might
be unscientific, we know that truer words
were never spoken. Trust us. A 20-minute
sauna treatment will invigorate, refresh and
revitalize your mind, body and soul.
So many
benefits…so little cash. At
BrilliantShowers.com we try to make
every potential sauna purchaser an offer
they can’t refuse.
