All about Saunna

There are many who refers sauna to saunna. The function and benefits of saunna is not well understood. There are still many people to who likes to hold on to unfounded myth about saunna.

Some believe that they should not be doing saunna because of their age. To clarify, saunna can be experienced at any age. In the country where saunna originated, Finland, the entire family from babies to grandparents enjoy saunna at the same time. However, children who use saunna should be supervised by an adult. Everyone who uses the saunna will enjoy its benefits.

Today, you do not need to go all the way to a gym or a health club to enjoy saunna. You can even build one in your home. Many manufacturers supply home sauna in modular form. These are easy to assemble and affordable. Furthermore, with so many free sauna information available from the internet and published magazines, finding a saunna specialist near you is not difficult.

Most of these home saunna can be disassembled if you happen to shift house and re-assembled at your new home again. There are also many different options, or saunna kits, available for your choice of home sauna.

Then, what is preventing so many people from buying their own home sauna? Price is one consideration. However, if you research properly, you should be able to find a home sauna that fits your budget. The other consideration is whether they have adequate space for a saunna. A saunna room need not to be very big.

There are many variations to a saunna size today. There are a 2 person sauna, a 3 person sauna and 5 person sauna. If you have a water-proof floor for one of your room, you can just build your home sauna within that room.

There are also other myths and misunderstand about how saunna affects our health. Saunna do not help us lose weight, actually. However, saunna definitely helps us burn away our extra calories. When you are doing sauna, your blood pressure change. Your heart activity will increase to neutralise this effect. When your heart works harder, you burn more calories.

One of the sure benefits of saunna is that it makes your sweat. As you sweat, toxins are excreted from your body. Sweating also helps you to release stress. So saunna is great for both your physical and mental health. However, be sure to drink plenty of water to replace the water lost from your body.

One important precaution to note is that you should not consume alcohol in saunna. Saunna and alcohol do not goes well together as during saunna, your blood pressure is reduced significantly.

They are also those who substitute their regular exercise with saunna. This misunderstanding arised because since saunna can help us burn our calories, they thought that they no longer need to do any work-out. The only body parts that is having a work-out when you are in saunna is your heart. You should still maintain your regular exercise for the well-being of other body parts.

There are many types of saunna too. Actually the difference lies in the mechanism that causes our body to sweat. A traditional or an electrical sauna heats the atmosphere of the sauna room. As the temperature of the atmosphere rises, our body will react.

There is another type of saunna which is gradually gaining popularity. It is the far infrared saunna. A far infrared saunna heats our body instead of the atmosphere within the sauna room. When the temperature of our body rise, our body will react. You can find out more about far infrared sauna here.

Whenever you are in doubt about saunna or sauna benefits, please consult your doctor.