Hype aside, what can infrared saunasactuallydo for you and your health?
One promising finding is that infrared saunas could help reduce pain for certain people.
Results showed that during these sessions, patients experienceddecreased pain and stiffness1to a statistically significant degree.
Post exercise recovery.
The authors also highlight the fact that FIRS provide a comfortable and relaxing experience.
Cardiovascular benefits.
Skin health.
On the topic of skin health and infrared saunas, things are still pretty hazy.
Fenton attributes these seemingly conflicting results to the fact that different studies evaluate different types of infrared light.
When they go into the heat, they don’t want that sort of rosy cheek glow.
But for the average person?
Maybe it’s temporary, but it does give you a nice glow to the skin.
Types of infrared saunas.
Whether this is clinically significant or not is still being debated.
Risks and important caveats.
The bottom line.
So where does that leave us?
Ultimately, we need bigger clinical trials conducted over longer periods of time so that confirm results.
So in the meantime, its really your call whether to embraceor skipthe trend.
