Arthritis is a condition of joints. There are at least 100 kinds of arthritis, but the most common forms are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Osteoarthritis is a breakdown of cartilage in the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune response, in which your immune system attacks the linings of your joints. Osteoarthritis is wear and tear, Read more…
Infrared Sauna for Arthritis
Infrared Sauna for the Common Cold
Colin Cook Everyone is familiar with the common cold, but when you’re in the throes of one, you could be forgiven for thinking there’s nothing common about it. Symptoms might include a runny or stuffy nose, cough, sore throat, body ache, headache, congestion, sneezing, slight fever, and just feeling like crap. And one of the Read more…
Infrared Sauna for Fibromyalgia
Colin Cook According to the CDC, “Fibromyalgia is a condition that causes pain all over the body (also referred to as widespread pain), sleep problems, fatigue, and often emotional and mental distress.” The agency estimates that about 4 million people in the U.S. suffer from it. Its cause is unknown. The CDC says there are Read more…
Infrared Sauna for Lyme Disease
Colin Cook The CDC believes there are as many as 300,000 new cases of Lyme disease every year. The number appears to be growing, which may be the result of climate change extending the geographical range of the black-legged ticks that carry it or increasing numbers of people seeking recreational opportunities out of doors, or Read more…
Five Ways Infrared Sauna Fights Cancer
Colin Cook On the subject of infrared sauna for cancer, in August I posted a piece about an Ohio fire department that is using an infrared sauna and an exercise bike. They believe that getting fire fighters to sweat profusely after a fire engagement will help them rid their bodies of the toxins they encounter Read more…
5 Tips for Optimizing Your Infrared Sauna Use
In the past, I have written in this space about how infrared sauna can improve your cardiovascular health, hinder the proliferation of cancer, help you recover from heart failure, avert Alzheimer’s, treat many of the effects of lifestyle diseases, counteract the aging of skin, help you avoid sports injuries, and lose weight. If you have Read more…
Infrared Sauna and Your Wrinkled Skin
Dermatologist Suzan Obagi, writing for Scientific American, says that after the age of 20, you produce about one percent less collagen each year. Collagen, which supplies firmness, is one of three primary components of healthy, youthful skin. As the supply of it diminishes, skin becomes thinner and more fragile. The other primary components are elastin, Read more…
7 Tips to Avoid Sports Injury
If you have ever attended a party with triathletes, you know the conversations nearly always work their way around to personal injuries before the evening is over. Triathletes love to talk about their stress fractures, shin splints, runner’s knees, achilles tendonitis, patellar tendonitis, pulled muscles, sprained ankles, plantar fasciitis, IT band syndromes, lumbar stress, and Read more…
Infrared Sauna and Weight Loss
I recently found this statement in an article on the Focus Fitness website: “The truth is saunas can only help you lose water weight, not body fat.” You can find similar statements all over the web, because a lot of people want to debunk the idea that you can lose weight by sitting. It’s true Read more…
Sauna Prevents Alzheimer’s?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that Alzheimer’s disease causes 34.4 deaths per 100,000 of population, making it the sixth leading cause of death in the country. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, there is no cure for Alzheimer’s, and existing treatments have serious limitations. “As Alzheimer’s progresses, brain cells die and connections among Read more…