Instead of steam or flame-stoked heat, infrared saunas use infrared lamps and electromagnetic magic to create warmth. This process allows infrared saunas to continue to provide therapeutic benefits while operating at a lower temperature. And the benefits of an infrared sauna are extensive.

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Our Infrared Sauna provides many benefits, including:

• Detoxification: infrared saunas promote sweating which helps your body eliminate toxins through its biggest organ — the skin.
• Heart and blood pressure: Saunas can lower both systolic and diastolic blood pressure over time.
• Exercise recovery: saunas taken before exercise increase performance and quicken recovery — just stay hydrated.
• Boosted immune system: get a jump on cold and flu season by taking a sauna, which increases white blood cells, lymphocytes, and neutrophils.
•  Mood improvement: according to studies, sauna users self-report less anger and depression after a sauna.
• Younger skin: infrared technology encourages development of more collagen and elastin, leaving skin smoother and helping wounds heal faster.
• Circulatory system: in an infrared sauna, your heart rate increases and blood vessels dilate, allowing oxygen to enter the cells of your body more easily.
• Pain relief: infrared heating pads are extremely beneficial for muscle and joint pain relief.
• Relaxation: help your body maintain healthy cortisol levels relax, and de-stress.
• Lower inflammation: keep your mind sharp and inflammation low with regular sauna use.

We recommend people with the following should not use an Infrared Sauna:

• Recent heart attack
• Recent stroke
• Heart disease that causes chest pain (angina pectoris)
• Severe aortic stenosis (a narrowing of a major heart value)
• Advanced or poorly controlled heart failure
• Orthostatic hypotension
• Pregnancy

A cold plunge provides many benefits, including:

Improved mood/mental wellness/elevated energy:

• enhanced energy, mood, and cognitive function
• increase in baseline dopamine levels for improved motivation, confidence and focus
• 5x boost of norepinephrine (neurotransmitter)
• longer sleep duration and a deeper night sleep

Overcome fear and lower anxiety

• cold therapy can help you manage your reactions to feelings of stress and other emotions
• strengthen mental endurance and reconditioning

Faster recovery/relief from pain and inflammation

• promotes faster healing and rehabilitation
• faster muscle recovery
• reduces inflammation
• improved post-surgery rehabilitation

Immunity boost/detox

• triggers an autonomic nervous response
• increase in white blood cell count
• Lymphatic contraction and release of fluid through the lymph nodes help detoxify the body
• drain lactic acid

Stress relief

• reduced cortisol levels
• release of endorphins
• improves focus and can help improve ability to identify negative thought patterns

We recommend people with the following should not use an Infrared Sauna:

• Heart disease
• High blood pressure
• Diabetes
• Poor circulation
• Peripheral neuropathy

As always, check with your doctor beforehand.

Combining the benefits of an Infrared Sauna and Cold Plunge, the key to Contrast Therapy are the rapid changes in your circulatory system when you alternate between hot and cold temperatures.

The key to Contrast Therapy are the rapid changes in your circulatory system when you alternate between hot and cold temperatures. The infrared sauna will directly heat the core of your body and cause vasodilation, a widening of the blood vessels resulting from the relaxation of smooth muscle within the vessel walls (particularly the large veins and arteries, and smaller arterioles).

As you transition to your private ice bath for a cold plunge and immerse yourself into refreshing cold water, your body will cool down and cause vasoconstriction, resulting in a narrowing of the blood vessels. This series of hot sauna and cold water immersion therapy improves local blood circulation so you can heal faster, detoxify, and boost your immunity. You’ll feel healthier and less stressed, be more confident and focused, and sleep better too.

What’s even more profound about Contrast Therapy is its ability to induce lymphatic circulation and speed recovery. While the heart plays an integral role as a central pump for the circulatory system, the lymphatic system (consisting of the lymph nodes) does not have its own natural pump. Due to the dilation and contraction of the lymphatic vessels made possible through Contrast Therapy, stagnant fluid can be removed from injured areas, reducing inflammation and healing damaged tissue.

See our recommendation for contrast therapy below: