Dry Saunas Have a Benefit: A Sense of Well-Being
The dry sauna is a popular area at any decent fitness center. As anyone who has gone to a local fitness center's hot dry sauna on any kind of regular schedule is aware, however, it's usually only used by a relatively small subset of the gym community. Those who do utilize them, however, tend to use them with a much greater frequency than, for example, the people who just come to the gym to go for a quick run and leave in a hurry.
One of the many benefits of a dry sauna is that, unlike other high heat environments such as steam rooms, they are dry! This means that there is less of a real likelihood of potentially dangerous fungus popping up and not being noticed by the gym staff that is supposed to be maintaining it. Dry saunas also have the advantage of a tendency to not be as irritating to the lungs and lining of the nostrils and mouth because the intense heat and the energy it is carrying isn't channeled into steam being pulled into the lungs.
Many individuals have the belief that one of the advantages of hot saunas is "detoxification" of heavy metals and toxins. While this very well may be true because of the volumes of water being pushed through the pores, there hasn't been a tremendous amount of high profile research demonstrating this to be factual. Nonetheless, it does indeed seem to make a certain degree of sense and it might not be a huge surprise if one day some scientific literature happens to show this to be true. At this point in history our everyday environment, and even the diet of foods we eat every single day contain things that should not be ingested. Bisphenol A, something found in many plastic containers and canned foods, is one such example.
One cool thing that has been demonstrated by recent science, however, is that a certain degree of hyperthermia (that is, overheating) after a workout actually increases the amount of hypertrophy following after the workout. The research was done in an animal model, of course. In this particular publication, I believe the research was done on rats or, perhaps, mice.
Dry sauna use has been very popular in many cultures throughout human history and perhaps with good reason! One of the benefits of dry sauna use is it dilates the blood vessels, and causes the heart rate to rise giving the sensation of cardiovascular activity without lifting a finger, and that familiar surge of endorphins following right afterward. Those endorphins feel great and are known to lift your mood.
One of the many benefits of a dry sauna is that, unlike other high heat environments such as steam rooms, they are dry! This means that there is less of a real likelihood of potentially dangerous fungus popping up and not being noticed by the gym staff that is supposed to be maintaining it. Dry saunas also have the advantage of a tendency to not be as irritating to the lungs and lining of the nostrils and mouth because the intense heat and the energy it is carrying isn't channeled into steam being pulled into the lungs.
Many individuals have the belief that one of the advantages of hot saunas is "detoxification" of heavy metals and toxins. While this very well may be true because of the volumes of water being pushed through the pores, there hasn't been a tremendous amount of high profile research demonstrating this to be factual. Nonetheless, it does indeed seem to make a certain degree of sense and it might not be a huge surprise if one day some scientific literature happens to show this to be true. At this point in history our everyday environment, and even the diet of foods we eat every single day contain things that should not be ingested. Bisphenol A, something found in many plastic containers and canned foods, is one such example.
One cool thing that has been demonstrated by recent science, however, is that a certain degree of hyperthermia (that is, overheating) after a workout actually increases the amount of hypertrophy following after the workout. The research was done in an animal model, of course. In this particular publication, I believe the research was done on rats or, perhaps, mice.
Dry sauna use has been very popular in many cultures throughout human history and perhaps with good reason! One of the benefits of dry sauna use is it dilates the blood vessels, and causes the heart rate to rise giving the sensation of cardiovascular activity without lifting a finger, and that familiar surge of endorphins following right afterward. Those endorphins feel great and are known to lift your mood.
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