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Far Infrared Radiant Heat Therapy is not a complete answer to overnight weight loss, but it can help play a major roll in maintaining a healthy weight or shedding a few pounds, especially when combined with a regular exercise routine and healthy eating. During a FIR session, you can lose a couple of pounds of physical weight. However, as you would expect, most of this weight loss is due to perspiration of fluids and not burning fat. Following your session, you will consume water to replace the lost fluids, so some of this weight will certainly come back almost immediately. It is estimated that to produce one gram of sweat, 0.568 Kcal is required. The average sauna user can easily produce 500 grams of sweat during a brief effective sauna session, thereby burning close to 300 Kcal. This is equivalent to running a couple of miles.
Perspiring is part of the complex thermoregulatory process of the body that increases the heart rate, cardiac output, and metabolic rate. The process requires a large amount of energy and reduces excess moisture, salt and subcutaneous fat. Fat becomes water soluble and the body sweats it out along with toxins. Detoxifying the body helps in weight control.
People who have unsuccessfully tried many diets often find success with the Aesta Sauna Dome and the Aesta Ion Mat because they are able to eliminate chemicals stored in your cells. This makes weight control much easier. I say control because detoxifying will also help those who have a problem keeping their weight up to normal. As well, recent research shows that Infrared Radiation stimulates the thyroid gland to increase it s hormone levels, translating into increased metabolism and weight loss.
The Aesta Sauna Dome and the Aesta Ion Mat assists in weight control in three significant ways:
- 1. They effectively reduce heavy metals which have been directly related to metabolic imbalances in the body causing poor digestion and weight gain or loss.
- They decrease fat stored (lipophilic) toxins. Often weight loss cannot be accomplished unless these toxins are first removed.
- Although weight loss due to perspiration (water loss) is quickly regained, sending more blood to the capillaries and converting fats and carbohydrates results in as much as 1000 calories burned during one short FIR session.
Through deep penetration of fat cells, radiant heat therapy will also help clear away cellulite.
Far Infrared Therapy is more beneficial than the steam room if weight loss is desired because the energy expenditure. Compared to the steam room, the Aesta Sauna Dome and the Aesta Ion Mat places a greater demand on the body in terms of using up calories, thus assists in fat loss. Therefore, the heart needs to work harder to send more blood to the capillaries under the skin. The energy required for that process is derived from the conversion of fat and carbohydrates to calories,
In addition, the sweat glands must work to produce sweat, which also requires energy and more calories. Studies show a person can burn up to 1000 calories during a short sauna session, the equivalent of a 3 to 4 mile jog or 2 hours of moderate weight training.
People can lose up to a quart of water during a 20 minute sauna. Without replacement, such a high water loss can lead to disruption of normal heart rhythms and cause fatigue and nausea. Therefore, drinking clean restructured water before, during and after the sauna is highly recommended.
Far-infrared hyperthermia clinical study review for weight loss
Title of Study:
Repeated Thermal Therapy Improves Impaired Vascular Endothelial Function in Patients With Coronary Risk Factors
Authors:
Dr. Imamura, et.al, Kagoshima Japan
Publication and Date:
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2001
Purpose of Study:
To determine whether Infrared Sauna therapy improves blood vessel function (endothelial) in patients risk factors such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes and smoking. This dysfunction represents an early stage of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).
How did they do it?
Studied 25 men with at least 1 risk factor. Patients were treated in an Infrared Sauna for 15 minutes once a day for 2 weeks.
Results: Infrared Sauna Treatment
- Significantly lowered blood pressure
- Significant weight loss
- Significantly lowered blood sugar
- Significantly increased blood flow
- Lowered cholesterol
- Lowered triglycerides
Conclusion:
- Repeated Infrared Sauna treatment improves impaired blood vessel functions in patients with high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking and high cholesterol. This suggests a preventive role for sauna use for atherosclerosis.
Burn up to 1000 calories in a 30-minute Fir-Sauna session
As the body works to cool itself, there is a substantial increase in heart rate, cardiac output and metabolic rate. Blood flow during whole-body hyperthermia is reported to rise from a normal 5 to 7 quarts per minute to as much as 13 quarts per minute.
This benefit was recognized in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association as long ago as August 1981: "Many of us who run do so to place a demand on our cardiovascular system, not to build big leg muscles. Regular use of a Sauna imparts a similar stress on the cardiovascular system, and its regular use may be as effective, a means of cardiovascular conditioning and burning of calories, as regular exercise."
For most healthy people, as well as for most patients with stable coronary heart disease, sauna bathing is well tolerated, safe, and has therapeutic value, according to a study published today in The American Journal of Medicine. A comprehensive review of the world's biomedical literature (1966 to the present) was carried out by investigators from the Department of internal medicine and University of Oulu, Finland, and the Division of Cardiology, Washington Hospital Center, Washington D.C. The authors examine the benefits and risks of sauna bathing for healthy adults and children, as well as for patients with coronary heart disease, hypertension, and congestive heart failure.
A moderately conditioned person can easily sweat off 500 grams of sweat in a sauna-the equivalent of running three to four miles or 475 to 600 calories. While the weight of the water lost can be regained by re-hydration with water, the calories will not be.
Aesta can therefore, play a pivotal role in both weight control and cardiovascular conditioning. This would be most valuable for those who don't exercise and those who can't exercise yet want an effective weight control and fitness maintenance program. This also allows for more variety in any ongoing training program.
Some weight loss authorities believe that our bodies use fat to dilute toxins. Since Far Infrared Heat Therapy is an unsurpassed expeller of toxins, it is also a great way to get rid of any fat our bodies are using to dilute toxins we are storing.
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