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Weight Loss and Cardiovascular Benefits of the Infrared Sauna

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As your body increases sweat production to cool itself, your heart works harder pumping blood at a greater rate to boost circulation, supplying the conditioning benefits of continuous exercise.

Heart rate, cardiac output and metabolic rate increase, while diastolic blood pressure drops, for improved overall cardiovascular fitness.As reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), August 7, 1981:”A moderately conditioned person can easily sweat off 500 gms. in a sauna, consuming nearly 300 kcal – the equivalent of running 2 – 3 miles.

A heat-conditioned person can easily sweat off 600 – 800 kcal with no adverse effects. While the weight of the water loss can be regained by re-hydration with water, the calories consumed will not be.

Since an infrared sauna helps generate two to three times the sweat produced in a hot-air sauna, the implications for increased caloric consumption are quite impressive. In Guyton’s Textbook of Medical Physiology, we find that producing one gram of sweat requires 0.586 kcal.

Burns 600 or more calories in just one 30-minute session!