Infra Red Sauna's and Nutritional Balancing

In the last couple of weeks I've rediscovered my infra red sauna and how important it is to use it on a regular basis. There are many benefits to the infra red sauna and it has certainly received a fair bit of media attention the last several years but it would be worthwhile reviewing some of the main reasons why you might consider using one regularly. By regularly I mean daily, or as close to this as you possibly can, for a couple of years. Recreationally you can use it infrequently but from a therapeutic perspective it most certainly should be used daily.

To me the most important aspect is the effect it has on the nervous system but this might be the chiropractor in me coming out. The nervous system is the system responsible for communication in the body and without it functioning at an ideal level many chronic problems will result. The sauna has the incredibly brilliant effect of turning off the fight or flight "sympathetic" or stress nervous system allowing the "parasympathetic" (or healing) nervous system to function. What this means is that the sauna relaxes you and forces your body to go to the relaxed body state where all healing and rebuilding occurs. It does this because, unlike exercise, it heats you from the inside with the infra red rays and this shuts down your natural heat production. When you shut your natural heat production you go into the parasympathetic state and this is why you will feel so relaxed or "jelly-like" when you get out of it. All healing occurs in this state and it is critical to be there as often as possible. 

The second most important benefit of the infra red sauna is the ability to significantly speed up the detoxification of the body. By putting you into the parasympathetic or healing state your body will look to get rid of anything it doesn't want like toxic metals and chemicals. The bowel and kidneys are the primary way the body will do this but anything that leaves the body is fair game to dump out the metals. It turns out that the largest organ in our body, the skin, is a great way to do this and the elimination of toxic metals is increased significantly in people who regularly use the sauna as part of their Nutritional Balancing program.

Another aspect that I find to be an extremely important and often hidden benefit of the infra red sauna is the ability to help with chronic infections. Most people are not aware that our bodies harbour many chronic deep infections. Things like sinus, teeth and virus's like herpes, ross river and shingles. Things like ears, eyes and other infections that never fully healed. There are many of them and the sauna helps to eliminate them through "fever therapy". When we are ill our body temperature rises naturally to help "burn" these things off. The sauna mimics this effect when used regularly as part of a Nutritional Balancing program.

There are many more benefits but another significant one is the increase of the ability to oxygenate your body. When we use the infra red sauna we de-congest the central organs and promote more blood to the periphery. The sauna is also good for the health of our skin which is usually very inhibited, shut down and congested. By improving this we can take some of the load off the kidneys and bowels which are often overwhelmed.

So those are some of the main reasons why the infra red sauna is so important in a Nutritional Balancing program. The use of it though is subject to human emotions. By this I mean we may know what we should be doing but we don't necessarily do it. If this rings a bell with you, hopefully you will be motivated to get back into the habit of daily infra red saunas. Your body will love you for it!