Health Benefits of Saunas

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The health benefits of a hot tub or spa can be both mental and physical – bringing great relief.
Reduce Stress
A hot tub is perfect! A soothing and relaxing soak helps with a more restful, peaceful, healing state of mind.  Help counteract the effects of stress – increased heart rate, rapid breathing, slow digestion – by enjoying the warm water and jet massage to soothe and relax tense muscles.
Improve Your Sleep
Lack of sufficient sleep can cause depression, mood swings, memory issues, headaches, tension and lower attention levels.  Soaking in your hot tub or spa prior to bedtime helps you fall asleep more quickly and you enjoy a more deep relaxing sleep. Hot water therapy induces sleep and it is a natural remedy.
Accelerate Your Healing Process
Ease pain, fatigue and soreness due to exercising. A hot tub can help you relax muscles and stimulate the release of endorphins, the body’s natural pain killers.
Arthritis and Chronic Pain
Recommended by The Arthritis Foundation, a hot tub is an excellent way to apply heat to arthritic joints. Benefit can be derived from 10-15 minutes in a hot tub in the mornings, when joint stiffness is at its worst. A hot tub is like having massage. Raising the body temperature causes blood vessels to open and increase circulation.  Water buoyancy reduces body weight and in turn relieves pressure on joints. Heat from your hot tub’s water warms up joints and decreases swelling and to restore range of motion.
Diabetes
Soaking in hot water may help improve blood sugar readings, sleep, general well being and stimulates the beneficial effects of exercise.
Weight Loss
The New England Journal of Medicine reported that people who soak in a hot tub for 30 minutes a day, 6 days a week for 3 weeks can lose an average of 3 ½ pounds. This is a result of the hot water stimulating the effects of exercise on the muscles.