How does Sauna works?

It has been about more than a week since I have updated this blog. So today, I'm going to share with you (Readers ^.^) about how does a Infrared Sauna and Steam Sauna works!

From the name Infrared Sauna, we can imply that the sauna actually uses infrared to operate.

From the scientific point of view, infrared ray is a form of electromagnetic spectrum, which has a wavelength of 5.6-15µm. As the wavelength is close to human body's radial which allows the body to absorb easily. 

The far infrared ray can penetrate 40mm deep into the human skins, so the recipient can receive an infrared massage, making cell tissues resonant, accelerate blood circulation and eliminate the impurities , result in both bio-thermal effect and physical effect. Thus, health will be improved.

From the image above, we can clearly see that the blood vessels are just beneath the skin, hence, the infrared can definitely reach the blood vessels as well as the tissues beneath your skin. 

Moreover, the infrared ray is able to penetrate through our skin and stimulates the movement of molecules in our body. When this happens, water (sweat) along with other toxins in our body will be washed out. 

So, do we all have a clearer idea of how does an infrared sauna works? 

I hope it's a yes! Otherwise, SingSauna.com is able to provide you with more information! 

Now, lets head over to how does Steam Sauna works!

For many of us, we find it hard to imagine burning charcoal, putting water over the fire to get steam and enjoy the steam! Many would consider this as the conventional type of sauna. True enough, these types of conventional sauna is dated back to hundred years ago! 

When the charcoal burns and water is added, the steam that is produced will usually rise. From the theory of physics, we know that hot air will rise and cool air sinks. However, the area where the user is seating is at the lower part of the sauna, hence, it takes a longer time to sweat in a conventional sauna than in infrared sauna! 

Now we can conclude which Sauna is better? :)

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Carbon Fiber Heater

Hola Readers!

Today, i am back to talk to you about my favorite sauna, which is also the sauna that i have at home. From the title itself, you can see that it is actually called Carbon fiber heater.

It looks something like that that. Pretty cozy as it can fit at most 2 person. Usually, it's more for single user, whereby sometimes we called it, personal sauna. 

Many times, people would ask me what is so good and special about this particular sauna. One thing that i love most is definitely because it is cozy! I can lie on the bench, read book, listen to my favorite songs and sweat all the toxin out! It definitely feel like you're having the best moments! 

Other features would include:

• Organic carbon: Human body is made up of carbon and water, so the spectrum from carbon fiber heater is easier to be absorbed by people
• No Wires Heater: Ultra-conducive carbon fiber heater brings more efficiency and longer life
• 360° Surrounded Heater: makes people enjoy the therapy of far infrared completely
• Low surface temperature:  More propitious to emit biology far infrared rays

In my previous post, i have mentioned about the benefits of sauna. However, no harm posting again and refreshing you memory again about the benefits of sauna? 

As for myself, i think that the most important benefit that you can get from a sauna session is actually the fact that during a sauna session, it can help your body to expel toxins!

How is that possible? 

For people who knows a bit of biology, sweat actually contain urea and waste product, which can also be called as toxins. Hence, whenever we sweat, we can actually sweat out toxins and waste products. 

Are you stress? 

Because having a sauna session helps to loosen muscle and relax the body. Moreover, it has been known that a sauna session provides a thorough and more effective treatment than a massage! 

Going for facial and treatments just to reduce wrinkles and have a softer skin? 

How about having a second thought about what a sauna session can do for you? 

Infrared heat can actually improve circulation, dead skin and dirt chemicals from the surface of your skin. This will then help to reduce wrinkles due to aging and hence, lead to a softer and finer complexion. 

Control weight? What's another alternative of having to exercise? 

Answer: SAUNA!

Y up, that's right! A sauna session can actually help to make you reduce weight! The whole sweating process will actually increase the cardiac output, heart rate and metabolism rate. This process requires huge amount of energy and reduces excessive moisture, sweat and subcutaneous fats in the body. Moreover, because the body would need energy to sweat, fats would be burnt to give the body energy, and hence, the loss of weight. In addition, fats become soluble at 42°C, whereby the body can sweat out both toxins and fat at the same time. 

The previous post, i mentioned that my mum had a sauna session and after the session, all her ache is gone? 

Here's why:

Due to infrared heat, our blood vessels will expand, resulting in better circulation. Better circulation will allow more oxygen to reach injured parts, help reduces pain and speed up the healing process. 

Thus, aches and pain will not be felt after each sauna session, isn't it amazing?

Muscle spasms, arthritis and rheumatism are being treated with Sauna and have been proven successful! 

Falling sick all the time? 

Sauna session can actually help one to improve their immune system! 

Far infrared heat therapy provides an artificial fever to the body, whereby it will eliminate virus and attack foreign agents. Moreover, recent studies have shown that cold and flu-like illnesses can be drastically reduced if treated in the early stages by Far Infrared heat therapy. 

Alright, what do you think of Infrared sauna? A whole new different perspective? Come on board with us, have your own personal sauna at home, and enjoy sauna session anytime you want! 

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Coming up next week will be about how do infrared sauna, as well as steam sauna works! Plus, their differences! Stay tune to Sauna Paradise!

It's all about Sauna

Aloha Readers!
It has been a long time since i have updated my post? Yup, so now, let me bring you through some of the wonderful things about Sauna.

As for me, i don't really go to sauna much and my experience with sauna is actually pretty limited. However, my mum, loves and adore sauna so much! Well, she is a sales manager and do have to attend to customer everyday and she have to stand the whole day. Moreover, in a air-conditioned environment, it is pretty difficult to sweat. As you know (from my previous posts), they toxins will accumulate in our bodies and one of the ways to get these toxins out is by sweating.

As we all are busy with work and pretty much lazy to get out of bed in a Sunday morning just to go out for a jog, sauna can be a very good substitution for jogging! Sauna, sometimes can be called as artificial sweating. Yes, maybe. It can let you sweat even when you're just sitting there doing nothing, Sauna let you sweat! This is the amazing thing about Sauna.

After work, my mum is exhausted and has aches everywhere! So i suggested to here that we go for a sauna session. We don't have to travel far, because the sauna is just beside our bathroom! How convenient is it?! Once we get home, we get undress and step into the Sauna and start reading magazines and have listen to soothing music.

We used infrared sauna, whereby there is no steam nor water needed. So long as the sauna is on and you're present in the sauna, you'll definitely sweat! About 10-15mins, me and my mum starts to sweat profusely. Then, we lower the sauna temperature and we starts to cool down. After a cooling bathe, both of us felt so refresh and my mum no longer feel any ache anywhere!

Interestingly, as compared to jogging and exercising, having a sauna session actually help us to sweat more! The only disadvantage of going for sauna than exercising is that exercising will help one to build up muscle while sauna can't. HAHA!! XP

Alright, i'll stop here for this week. Next week, i'll update you on one of my favorite sauna! Be back for more! :P

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Traditions and old beliefs

One word in Finnish, strictly connected to sauna, is löyly. Steam vapor, also called löyly [ˈløyly], was created by splashing water on the heated rocks. In many languages related to Finnish, a word corresponding to löyly is found. The same approximate meaning is used across the Finnic languages such as in Estonianleil. Originally this word meant "spirit" or "life", as in e.g. Hungarian lélek and Khanty lil, which both mean soul, pointing to the sauna's old, spiritual essence. There still exists an old Finnish saying, "saunassa ollaan kuin kirkossa," – one should behave in the sauna as in church.

The same meaning of "spirit" is also used in Latvian.

Saunatonttu, literally translated the sauna elf, is a little gnome or tutelary spirit that was believed to live in the sauna. He was always treated with respect, otherwise he might cause much trouble for people. It was customary to warm up the sauna just for the tonttu every now and then, or to leave some food outside for him. It is said that he warned the people if a fire was threatening the sauna, or punished people who behaved improperly in it – for example slept, or played games, argued, were generally noisy or behaved otherwise "immorally" there. Such creatures are believed to exist in different cultures. The Russian banya has an entirely corresponding character called a bannik.

In Thailand, women spend hours in a makeshift sauna tent during a month following child birth. The steam is typically infused with several herbs. It is believed that the sauna helps the new mother's body return to its normal condition more quickly.

Fun Fact- Heating and Cooling the Inner Body

Marvelous things happen beneath the skin in the heat of the sweat bath. The capillaries dilate permitting increased flow of blood to the skin in an attempt to draw heat from the surface and disperse it inside the body. The bather's skin becomes cherry red. The heart is pressed into a faster pace to keep up with the additional demands for blood. Impurities in the liver, kidneys, stomach, muscles, brain, and most other organs are flushed out by the faster flow of juices. The skin and kidneys filter the wastes, excreting them in sweat and urine.

Some researchers claim that the rapid flexing of the heart and blood vessels in the heat of the sweat bath is a healthy exercise that puts little more strain on the heart than strolling on level ground. The increased capillary volume, they say, keeps blood pressure normal.

While the surface temperature of the skin may rise as much as 1O degrees C, inner temperature increases up to 3 degrees C. It is a common knowledge that many bacterial and viral agents do not survive well at temperatures higher than normal body temperature. It is also possible that damaged cells repair themselves quicker in fever conditions due to the increased metabolic rate. Recovery from illness then comes easier and quicker.

The inner temperature rise also affects the function of important endocrine glands, the pituitary in particular. Located in the bottom center of the brain, the pituitary is known as the master gland because its hormones regulate both metabolism and the activity of other glands such as the thyroid, adrenal, ovaries and testes. Urged by the heat, the pituitary accelerates the body's metabolism and affects the interplay of several of the body's hormones. Some people have gone as far to say that sex drive is increased and growth stimulated in the sauna bath.
The oxygen needs of the body increase by about 2O percent so the lungs, another important eliminator of body wastes, join in the body's quickened pace. Clogged respiratory passages are opened by heat, giving relief from colds and other minor respiratory problems. Sweat bathing is not recommended for those suffering from pneumonia or other acute respiratory diseases.

When the bocly is slowly cooled, the effects of heat are reversed--the heart calms, sweat pores close, dilated blood vessels contract and body temperature returns to normal. On the other hand, abrupt cooling brought on by a plunge into snow or icy water creates a more dramatic effect. For this reason, people with weak constitutions should avoid rapid cooling. Vessels near the skin's surface contract, but since the skin's metabolism returns to normal slower than the circulatory system, wastes accumulate that are normally washed out by the blood. Local vasodilators are then stimulated and blood rushes back to the skin's surface. The heart continues to beat vigorously and you may experience psychedelic flashes bouncing across your retina from the increased adrenal activity--an unforgettable experience! Goose bumps sometimes appear, a phenomenon reminiscent of the time when our prehistoric ancestors possessed a shaggy pelt of hair. Goose bumps extended the hair, making it thicker and giving more insulating power against cold or protection from attack. The swift transition from hot to cold stimulates the kidneys and usually creates the desire to urinate.

The typical body is 6O% water by weight and any pounds lost at this point will be promptly regained. As you can imagine, the combination of sweat bathing and cooling conditions the body, and a well-tuned body is more resistant to colds, disease and infection. In cold weather, the warm glowing feeling lingers for hours, while in hot climates the body seems cooler than before the sweat bath.

Fun fact - Skin

Because it eliminates, the skin is sometimes called the "third kidney." It is far more complex than the kidney or any other organ except the brain. It is composed of blood vessels, nerve endings, vessels for carrying Lymph, pigmentation, oil glands, hair follicles, cells that are waterproof and deny entry of bacteria and, of course, the tubular, coiled sweat glands. It is so important that death by accumulated poisons occurs in a matter of hours if the skin, and its sweat passages, is smothered.

A Finnish doctor wrote: "The best-dressed of foreigners can come into a doctor's office, and when his skin is examined, it is found to be rough as bark. On the other hand, as a result of the sauna, the skin of any Finnish worker is supple and healthy." Properly cared for skin is better able to resist eczema, athlete's foot, pimples and blackheads.

Furthermore, combining sweat bathing and brushing with a loofa or rough brush removes flakes of dried skin cells that accumulate on the epidermis. If allowed to remain, they can clog sweat pores and oil passages and result in dry, flaky skin.

In conjunction with the sweat bath exercise, supplemental dosages of vitamins B2 and E help keep skin fresh. Cayenne pepper, ginger, peppermint are notable herbs which, when taken internally, promote sweating and healthy skin.

(An interesting note: the ability of lizards and snakes to shed old skins has fascinated many primitive societies. Some believe that if they could shed their old skins and acquire new ones, they could renew their youth. During some ceremonies, participants don the skins of animals or other human beings in a symbolic gesture of eternal youth.)