Passive Cardiovascular Conditioning Effects

The Infrared Thermal System makes it possible for people who are otherwise unable to exert themselves, or who won’t follow through on an exercising and conditioning program to achieve a cardiovascular training effect. This also allows for more variety in any ongoing training program.

“Many of us who run do so to place a demand on our cardiovascular system, not to build big leg muscles. Regular use of indoor saunas may impact a similar stress on the cardiovascular system, and its regular use may be as effective, as a means of cardiovascular conditioning and burning of calories, as regular exercise.” – Journal of the American Medical Association 8/7/81.

Due to the deep penetration, over 1.5” into the skin, of the infrared rays generated by the Infrared Saunas Thermal System, there is a heating effect deep in the muscular tissues and the internal organs. The body responds to this deep-heating effect via a hypothalamic-induced increase in both heart volume and rate. This beneficial heart stress leads to a sought-after cardiovascular training and conditioning effect. Medical researches confirm that the use of home saunas provides cardiovascular conditioning as the body works to cool itself and involves substantial increases in heart rate, cardiac output and metabolic rate. As a confirmation of the validity of this from of cardiovascular conditioning, extensive research by NASA in the early 1980’s led to the conclusion that infrared stimulation of cardiovascular function would be the ideal way to maintain cardiovascular conditioning in American astronauts during long space flights. Blood flow during whole-body hyperthermia is reported to rise from a normal 5 ~ 7 quarts per minute to as much as 13 quarts per minute.

Outstanding Caloric Consumption and Weight Control

In Guyton’s Textbook of Medical Physiology, we find that producing one gram of sweat requires 0.568 kcal. The Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) states; “A moderately conditioned person can easily sweat off 500 grams in a sauna, consuming nearly 300 cal, which is equivalent to running 2 ~ 3 miles. A heat-conditioned person can easily sweat off 600 ~ 800 cal with no adverse effects. While the weight of the water loss can be regained by drinking water, the calories consumed will not be.” Since an Infrared Thermal System helps generate two to three times the sweat produced in a hot-air sauna, the implications for increased caloric consumption are quite impressive.

• TMJ Arthritis
• Muscle Spasms - reduced or eliminated
• Traumatic Arthritis
• Lower Back Pain - relieved
• Acel-decel Injury Sequelae
• Adhesions - lengthened or more easily broken; they are common in competitive athleses, trauma and repetative stress syndromes
• Disc-protrusion Relation Neuralgia
• Brain Contusion - accelerated healing
• Tight Shoulders - relaxed
• Compression Fracture - Example: pain stopped for 3 days with only a single treatment
• Spinal Cord Shock - post traumatic shock reversed
• Muscle Tension - relaxed
• Post-exercise Muscle Pain - relieved, which is vital to competitive athletes
• Arthritis (Gouty, Rheumatoid & DJD) - each substantially relieved or improved
• Shoulder Pain - relieved or eliminated
• Bursitis - eliminated

“Medical practitioners make use of Infrared Radiant Heat to treat sprains, strains, bursitis, peripheral vascular diseases, arthritis and muscle pain….” – McGraw/Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Dr. Masao Nakamura of the O & P Medical Clinic in Japan has reported great success with the use of infrared treatment.