Saunas have many potential health benefits, including:
- RELAXATION: Saunas can help you relax and improve your sleep.
- PAIN RELIEF: Saunas can help relieve pain from chronic conditions like arthritis or fibromyalgia.
- CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH: Saunas may reduce the risk of cardiovascular events, lower blood pressure, and improve heart function.
- SKIN HEALTH: Saunas can help improve skin tone by opening pores and allowing sweat to remove dead skin cells and bacteria.
- RESPIRATORY HEALTH: Saunas can help humidify the airways and promote respiratory health.
- POST-WORKOUT RECOVERY: Using an infrared sauna after exercise can help improve muscle soreness and neuromuscular performance recovery.
- IMPROVED IMMUNE FUNCTION: Saunas may help improve immune function.
Sauna bathing, an activity that has been a tradition in Finland for thousands of years and mainly used for the purposes of pleasure and relaxation, is becoming increasingly popular in many other populations. You can benefit from one of our sauna installations in Devon, UK & on mainland Europe as emerging evidence suggests that beyond its use for pleasure, sauna bathing may be linked to several health benefits, which include reduction in the risk of vascular diseases such as high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and neurocognitive diseases; nonvascular conditions such as pulmonary diseases; mortality; as well as amelioration of conditions such as arthritis, headache, and flu.
The beneficial effects of sauna bathing on these outcomes have been linked to its effect on circulatory, cardiovascular, and immune functions. It has been postulated that regular sauna bathing may improve cardiovascular function via improved endothelium-dependent dilatation, reduced arterial stiffness, modulation of the autonomic nervous system, beneficial changes in circulating lipid profiles, and lowering of systemic blood pressure.
Sauna Installation in Devon, UK & Mainland Europe
This review summarises the available epidemiological, experimental, and interventional evidence linking Finnish sauna bathing and its effects on cardiovascular outcomes and other disease conditions on the basis of a comprehensive search for observational studies, randomised controlled trials, and non–randomised controlled trials from MEDLINE and EMBASE from their inception until February 24, 2018. An overview of the postulated biological mechanisms underlying the associations between sauna bathing and its health benefits, areas of outstanding uncertainty, and implications for clinical practice is also provided. Contact Sol Saunas – Sauna installation in Devon, UK & on mainland Europe.