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Finnish Sauna Culture- for health and well being

        

While perusing the bookshelf of a local Minnesota shop, I came across The Sauna Cookbook. I flipped through the pages to find Scandinavian recipes celebrating the Finnish sauna tradition. The food and drink recipes highlight refreshing delights circled around saunas. After reading through the cookbook, I decided to look into Finland’s sauna culture further and what I found is interesting.

        The Finnish Sauna Society reports Finland’s love for saunas has a rich history in recreational, healing, and chores use. Yes chores. In addition to individual use, the sauna was used for curing meat, drying flax, and other agricultural and domestic tasks. At the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, Finnish athletes had a sauna built for their use during the games and promoted sauna use to Europe. The sauna was also used until World War II as the place for women to give birth to their children. Women often stayed in the sauna for about two weeks after the birth of their child to rest.

        Sauna use is ingrained in Finnish culture as today approximately one in three citizens own saunas. Further, saunas can be found in sport centers, hotels, camp sites, car ferries, and some housing projects. Saunas are considered sacred places and rules of conduct are similar to attending church. The Finnish Sauna Society has highlighted on their website the rituals, customs, and process for using and experiencing the rejuvenating sauna.

        In an effort to understand health and other benefits of the sauna, The Finnish Sauna Society established the Finnish Sauna Research Foundation in 1984. Many other societies, associations, and researchers from around the world participate in the International Sauna Congress to present an array of information on topics such as well-being, construction, health, and tradition.

While saunas have a rich tradition in Finland dating back to the 5^th or 8^th century, the movement continues to spread throughout the world today as multiple benefits of its use are proving beneficial to our overall health and well-being.

Chronic Heart Failure Patients Benefiting From FAR Infrared Sauna Therapy

A group of 12 medical researchers from Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan conducted a 2004 study published in the Journal of Circulation of 30 patients with Chronic Heart Failure using Far Infrared Sauna Therapy as a treatment modality.

Patients in the treated group completed a two week program consisting of being in a 60º C Far Infrared Sauna for 15 minutes followed by 30 minutes of bed rest. Those patients in the study who did not receive the Sauna therapy were placed in a temperature controlled room in bed with a temperature of 24º C for 45 minutes. 

The findings presented in the article suggests repeated 60º C sauna therapy improves the problem of ventricular arrhythmias in patients with Chronic Heart Failure as well as their overall prognosis. Ventricular arrhythmias are irregular rapid heart rhythms increasing the risk of sudden death in patients with Chronic Heart Failure. Far Infrared Sauna Therapy is continuing to show promise for those suffering from a variety of medical problems.

To learn more about the benefits of Far Infrared Sauna and other MyBath.biz products please check back regularly with our blog. Thank you.

Help For Chronic Degenerative Diseases Patients

                              

Dr. John C. Cline of the Cline Medical Centre in British Columbia is a family practice physician who provides non-surgical therapies to prevent and reverse chronic degenerative diseases. With chronic degenerative diseases on the rise, many medical professionals are looking at a variety of treatment modalities including alternative medicines to help their patients.

Dr. Cline reports the increase in chronic degenerative diseases is primarily caused by three toxins contaminating our environment and posing a serious health threat to us all. The three toxin categories include heavy metals (mercury, lead, and arsenic), persistent organic pollutants (pesticides, herbicides, and flame retardants), and biological toxins (mold, parasites, pathological bacteria, viruses, etc.). He further reports these toxins account for 90% of the chronic diseases in the world.

Dr. Cline’s Centre in British Columbia offers a detoxification program to assist with a variety of ailments including chronic pain, heart and circulatory disorders, arthritic disorders, fatigue, and many other health concerns. His program combines the use of Chelation Therapy, a simple/nutritional diet, and Far-Infrared Sauna Therapy over a four to eight week period. A simple diet including the elimination of foods often causing food allergies is an important part of his and any healing program. Chelation Therapy uses chelating agents to remove heavy metals from the body.

Far-Infrared Sauna Therapy is used 2-5 times a week in Dr. Cline’s program depending on the individual’s need. He reports, Far-Infrared Saunas “utilizes completely invisible infrared light to warm deeply inside the body tissues without heating the air or the external parts of the body much at all.” Dr. Cline reports many of his patients thoroughly enjoy, feel relaxed, and look forward to their Sauna treatments.

Mybath.biz conveniently provides consumers the opportunity to own a Far-Infrared Sauna for use in the comfort of their own home. What better way to relax at the end of the day as well as reap the benefits of detoxifying your body from harmful toxins.

Fibromyalgia Association... improve, understand and find relief...

Fibromyalgia, with one of the most common complaints being tightness and soreness of muscles in the neck face and back, is an ailment which would indicate the use of a steam shower for relief of acute as well as chronic pain. If the Fibromyalgia sufferer may enter a steam shower to soothe their muscles they may notice significant improvements in their complaints of pain and symptoms- sorry doctors.  A steam shower at home may lessen the amounts of office visits required In the United States; not mere conjecture, the scientific/historical evidence supporting the efficacy and applicability of Steam has stood monumentally strong, as I imagine it ever will.

We have been contacted by many Fibromyalgia sufferers who are receiving pain relief from our Far-Infrared Saunas; some of them have had primary care physicians suggest they try the technology. This is a heartening, and in many ways, humanizing message from Medical Science. Fibromyalgia still stands misunderstood- as many of its patients do. However, the Medical Community has started to rally around the cause of easing the pain and emotional effects of Fibromyalgia. 

I wanted to use this blog entry to encourage our Fibromyalgia sufferers to log onto and look at the National Fibromyalgia Association’s website: www.fmaware.org . We know many of our clients have purchased My Bath products with the relief of pain in mind. As we become aware of the technologies emerging to adequately treat certain disorders such as Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome we will make certain you have access to the professionals who can steer you toward relief from pain and an improvement in quality of life.   

Thank you on behalf of My Bath.