Sauna 101 - What Are the Benefits of A Sauna Bath?

Although the sauna was first built because people had to protect themselves from the harsh winter cold, the sauna has become one of the more popular ways that people are maintaining their health.

But really, what do you gain from using the sauna?

The Journal of the American Medical Association published a report on August 7, 1981 indicating that using the sauna regularly offers the same benefits as regular running. These benefits include raising the body's temperature, inducing sweat and, burning calories.

In case you did not know it yet, the body raising its temperature to eliminate viruses, tumors and toxic-filled cells. When you have a fever, it means that your body is working hard to eliminate toxins: unhealthy cells are weaker than normal body cells and are intolerant to heat.

If you are feeling feverish, you can speed up your recovery by taking a sauna bath.

A regular sauna bath is also very good for people who are over 50 and are afraid of experiencing, or otherwise want to ease, the pains of growing old, including back pain, fibromyalgia and arthritis.

Also, if you're not yet 50 years old but are unable to exercise because it is painful, a sauna bath is a very good alternative to exercising.

Other than inducing sweat and easing body pains, the sauna offers other temporary and long-term benefits, including:

* Reducing the incidence of the common cold

* Temporarily relieving symptoms of the common cold

* Improving performance in endurance sport

* Decreasing systolic blood pressure

* Significantly increasing tolerance to exercise

* Reducing stress by decreasing adrenalin and noradrenalin levels in the body

* Reducing symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome

* Improving heart condition

It has also been suggested that regular use of the sauna combined with exercise can effectively eliminate drugs, heavy metals, and solvents, from the body.

Perhaps the only problem with a sauna bath is that it's often not that accessible. Unlike in South Korea where there are many cheap sauna room facilities called jimjilbang, often you have to build you own indoor or outdoor sauna, which costs thousands of dollars. But then again, if you want to maintain your health that way, why not build a sauna, right? It is certainly is more fun that taking medicine.

There are two types of saunas - far-infrared saunas and traditional saunas. Out in the market, you will find different pre-cut materials for building an indoor or outdoor sauna.

Visit http://buy-a-sauna-for-health.blogspot.com/ for the complete step-by-step process of building a sauna.

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