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Sauna Weight Loss

Support a healthy weight.

Maintaining a healthy weight is important to your quality of life yet can be so challenging. Changing your behaviors is key to success. You can create an enjoyable habit that will help your efforts in many ways with a Sunlighten sauna. You get all the benefits of sauna and infrared light therapy in a pleasant session. It’s an easy lifestyle and behavior change you’ll actually want to stick with for sauna weight loss support.

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​Saunaing: the habit you’ll enjoy creating.

The most current research shows behavior change techniques are now critical to weight management programs.1 Sunlighten saunas are beautiful, enjoyable experiences using infrared light to heat your body from the inside instead of heating the air. Infrared saunas can do more for the body’s health in a more pleasant environment (between 110 and 130 degrees) than the harsh suffocating heat of traditional saunas (180-210 degrees). Built-in chromotherapy lights create body-balancing beauty and calm.

Sweat off those last stubborn pounds or break a plateau.

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Sauna’s cardiovascular benefits are like a cardio workout.

Een studie uit 2019 vergeleek de cardiovasculaire effecten van de sauna met die van een homeA 2019 study compared participants’ cardiovascular effects in a sauna and on an exercise bike. The increase in heart rate was similar to a short, moderate workout. Researchers stated, "A sauna session is a physical strain. Its long-term positive effects are comparable to sports activities." (2) The focus was on the benefits to the heart and cardiovascular system, rather than weight loss or muscle development. We call it a “passive cardio workout.”trainer. De stijging van de hartslag was vergelijkbaar met een korte, matige workout. Onderzoekers verklaarden: "Een saunasessie is een fysieke belasting. De langetermijnpositieve effecten zijn vergelijkbaar met sportactiviteiten." (2) De focus lag op de voordelen voor het hart en het cardiovasculaire systeem, eerder dan op gewichtsverlies of spierontwikkeling. We noemen het een "passieve cardio workout."

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Release toxins and reduce inflammation.

Studies have shown that sauna therapy can release environmental toxins stored in fat tissues that can prevent weight loss. (3) Heavy metals and fat-soluble chemicals like PCBs, PBBs and HCBs can trigger the body to protect itself, resulting in the immune system’s inflammatory response." (4), (5) Infrared sauna therapy heats the body at the cellular level, helping to detoxify the body and reduce inflammation.

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Relieve stress and lower cortisol.

Studies have shown the direct connection between stress, cortisol and weight gain. Chronic stress leads to cortisol production in large amounts, which leads to obesity and weight gain. (6) Dr. Amy Myers recommends infrared sauna for weight loss to help break the connection between cortisol and weight gain by naturally relieving stress. Stress relief lowers cortisol, which can help create a healthy metabolism, thus contributing to weight loss.

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Increase cellular metabolism.

People often report feeling energized after infrared sauna sessions. Cells need energy to perform their best, just like our bodies need energy to function. Near infrared stimulates cellular energy when the body’s energy-producing cells absorb the light energy (photons) and produce more adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which fuels all cells. (7) This can increase cell health and performance throughout the body and all of its systems. 

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As part of an overall plan, an infrared sauna is a helpful weight management tool.

Having healthy body composition and waist size help us live a longer, healthier life. A Mayo Clinic pooled study showed that waist circumference is a critical factor for assessing the risk of premature death. (5) As part of an overall program of nutrition, behavior change and exercise, a sauna can help achieve health goals. A study of diabetic patients attending three 20-minute sauna sessions per week over three months showed a decrease in waist circumference, suggesting benefit to regular sauna use. (8)

There is a mountain of evidence on infrared sauna use showing that it is as foundational as diet and exercise. Sauna use is a miracle practice. I love it. I use it. I benefit from it.

Susan Pierce Thompson, Ph.D.

Founder & CEO, Bright Line Eating Solutions

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REFERENCES

  1. Omer T (2020) Behaviour Modification in Weight Management: The Transtheoretical Mode of Change and the Motivational Interviewing. J Obes Weight-Loss Medic 6:038. doi.org/10.23937/2572-4010.1510038 

  2. Ketelhut S, Ketelhut RG. The blood pressure and heart rate during sauna bath correspond to cardiac responses during submaximal dynamic exercise. Complement Ther Med. 2019 Jun;44:218-222. doi: 10.1016/j.ctim.2019.05.002. Epub 2019 May 2. PMID: 31126559   

  3. Crinnion WJ. Environmental medicine, part one: the human burden of environmental toxins and their common health effects. Altern Med Rev. 2000 Feb;5(1):52-63. PMID: 10696119 

  4. Chen, L., Deng, H., Cui, H., Fang, J., Zuo, Z., Deng, J., Li, Y., Wang, X., & Zhao, L. (2017). Inflammatory responses and inflammation-associated diseases in organs. Oncotarget, 9(6), 7204–7218. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.23208 

  5. Cerhan, James R et al. “A pooled analysis of waist circumference and mortality in 650,000 adults.” Mayo Clinic proceedings vol. 89,3 (2014): 335-45. doi:10.1016/j.mayocp.2013.11.011 

  6. Stress and Obesity: Are There More Susceptible Individuals?. Eline S. van der Valk, et al. Current Obesity Reports. 2018. 

  7. Tsai SR, Hamblin MR. “Biological effects and medical applications of infrared radiation.” J Photochem Photobiol  2017 PMID: 28441605   

  8. Volume 34, Issue 2, p113-118, January 1, 2010 Do Far-infrared Saunas Have Cardiovascular Benefits in People with Type 2 Diabetes, Richard Beever, BSc MD CCFP CI DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S1499-2671(10)42007-9  

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