Reasons to Use a Sauna in Your Summer Health Routine

Using a sauna in the summer might sound counterintuitive, but hear us out! Using a sauna in the summer can be a helpful tool in maintaining your health in the summer, from helping improve skin health to helping improve your immune system. Read on to learn more about why an infrared sauna is the ultimate addition to your summer health routine and discover the many benefits of sweating and being exposed to the heat!

 

 

Increased Weight Loss

Many focus on weight loss for the summer, and using an infrared sauna can help you achieve healthy weight loss, whether you use the sauna after a workout or on its own. You might see claims that saunas burn calories quickly for rapid weight loss, but infrared sauna weight loss is more of a healthy, gradual burn. While you won’t see any miracle weight loss in a day, you’ll still be giving your body a calorie-burning boost that can be beneficial with regular use.

The infrared heat increases your heart rate and boosts your metabolic rate to burn approximately 1.5 times your regular calorie burn. For example, if your resting calorie burn is 40 calories in 30 minutes, then a 30-minute infrared sauna session might help you burn 60 calories. While it isn’t a large difference, any additional calorie burn helps.

 

Boosted Immune System

Summers often bring about summer colds, and they can put a real hamper on your seasonal activities. Working up a sweat helps keep the immune system healthy by helping eliminate toxins, which in turn can help reduce the chances of getting sick. Additionally, there are many viruses and bacteria that thrive at our regular body temperature, but die off when our bodies heat up to above 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.

Infrared sauna use helps boost your immune system and protect you from summer illnesses. The heat from a sauna helps promote the production of white blood cells, improves blood circulation, creates an artificial fever, and releases toxins through sweat – all actions great in helping your body stay healthy all season long. Pairing your infrared sauna with salt therapy can also help alleviate respiratory symptoms from summer colds or allergies.

 

 

Improved Skin Health

Your skin holds on to the dirt and toxins you’ve encountered throughout the day, especially during the summer when you are in contact with sunscreen, pools, beach towels, and sweat. If not washed off or removed from your body, you face the risk of building up toxins and causing breakouts. While sitting in an infrared sauna in the summer might just sound like another hot activity, there are many benefits to sweating it out, especially for your skin.

Using an infrared sauna for skincare, especially with the HALOONE® halotherapy generator and red light therapy, is a great and natural way to cleanse your pores, eliminate blemishes, and improve the appearance of skin. Sweat helps remove deeply embedded impurities and dead skin cells, leaving you with clean and glowing skin in summer. After, it is important to cleanse your face after sweating to prevent potential clogging of the pores.

 

Better Endurance to Heat

In most places, the summer heat can be fairly intense depending on the month and the weather. Sometimes it seems unbearable when it gets to those higher temperatures. But, after some time spent in the heat, it typically becomes more tolerable. That’s where a sauna comes in. Using an infrared sauna can help you become more accustomed to the heat, which can lead to you enjoying the warm summer sun even more.

When using your infrared sauna, it is recommended to start with shorter sessions so your body can acclimate to the higher temperatures. Go in for increments of 5 minutes until you feel comfortable with a full session. Once you get out, the 90-degree weather will feel like nothing compared to the ​​180-220 degree heat of your sauna!

 

Reduced Stress

While summer days as a child were filled with fun, summer as an adult has a few more stressors with work, planning summer activities, and even paying the summer A/C bill! Luckily, working up a sweat releases endorphins, which make you happy. While sweating while it’s already hot outside might sound miserable at first, it actually helps relieve stress and promote relaxation. Don’t knock it until you try it!

One of the quickest ways to release endorphins and reduce stress is by relaxing in an infrared sauna. Next time you’re feeling stressed out or need a break to clear your mind, think about spending a few minutes for yourself in the sauna to ease your mind, feel rejuvenated, and embrace the benefits of sweating. Using aromatherapy with the AROMAONE® portable essential oil diffuser can help you make an even more calming sauna experience.

 

 

Summer Heat Safety

 

Saunas, working out, being outside – no matter how you decide to sweat this summer, always be sure to do it safely. Weare weather- or activity-appropriate clothing, always stay hydrated, wear sunscreen if outdoors, and be aware of the potentials of heat-related illnesses that may arise if your body overheats. Know when to take a break and cool when you need to. If you are doing any intensive heated activities, have a buddy who can keep an eye out just in case heat exhaustion arises.

Once you are done with your summer heat activities, be sure to drink plenty of water, rest, and take a shower. Once you’ve sweat out all those toxins, you don’t want them stuck on your body.

 

Benefits of Sweating in Summer

 

Sweating in the summer might not sound like the ideal activity, but it’s hard to argue with the points above that getting your summer sweat on might be one of the best health choices out there. Using an infrared sauna is the best and easiest way to tap into the health benefits of heat and sweat without overexposing yourself to the hot summer weather. Whether you decide to sweat it out in an infrared sauna, take a walk outside, exercise, eat spicy food, or however else you like, the health benefits are well worth the moments of feeling the heat. Who knows, maybe someday you’ll start to enjoy the feeling of it!