Sweating: The Body's Cooling and Cleansing Mechanism
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We associate certain negative connotations with it and often
try to prevent the process altogether, but sweating is in fact,
an important and healthy bodily function. Essentially, sweating
serves two purposes: firstly, it is the means by which our body
cools itself in response to a rise in temperature, and secondly,
it is one of the primary pathways for clearing contaminants from
our system.
Our bodies are deeply warmed in the Far-InfraRed sauna. In
response to the rise in body temperature, the hypothalamus (the
part of the brain that regulates body temperature and metabolism)
activates our complex thermoregulatory system. This involves
several mechanisms including an increase in heart rate, cardiac
output and a dilation of blood vessels.
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Body temperature is kept within the normal range through the
process of sweating. When the body heats up, the heart rate
increases to pump the warmed blood away from the internal organs
towards the skin. Blood vessels dilate, increasing blood volume
and flow to the skin. Heat is transferred from the blood to the
sweat and is released into the air from the skin’s surface. The
cooled blood therefore cools the body.
As you continue to use the Far-InfraRed sauna, you gradually
become ‘acclimatized’ and generate more and more sweat. The
volume of sweat produced in the Far-InfraRed sauna is profuse,
amounting to 2-3 times that in a regular sauna. Acclimatization
increases cardiac output, raising blood flow from a normal 5-7
quarts per minute to as much as 13 quarts per minute.
As mentioned before, inducing a heavy sweat in the sauna for
detoxification purposes is an ancient tradition practiced by
different cultures around the world, and wisely so. The skin is
our largest organ and sweating is one of the body’s most
important ‘detoxification’ pathways. The combination of modern
Far-InfraRed heating technology with the ancient sauna ritual
has resulted in an effective way to deeply cleanse the tissues
of the body.
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