It can feel like walking into an inferno when you first enter the sauna. “The heat also increases blood flow to the muscles, which probably helps sore muscles feel better temporarily by removing the accumulated lactic acid, and increases muscle flexibility and joint stiffness.” There’s another advantage from the heavy sweating it releases endorphins and helps with the perception of pain, said Chan. In fact, your ticker may be beating up to 150 times per minute in the sauna, which actually corresponds to you doing moderate intensity exercise, such as brisk walking or even household chores including vacuuming or mopping. Those health benefits could also come from raising your heart rate. The researchers said sweating creates a natural diuretic effect, and that could be responsible for lowering the blood pressure and decreasing the work load of the heart. READ: Naked etiquette: From onsens in Japan to jjimjilbangs in South Korea There may also be a lower risk for dementia since both heart disease and dementia share common risk factors, such as high blood pressure, said the University of Eastern Finland researchers behind the study. Sweating it out four to seven times weekly was even better – it almost halved (48 per cent) their heart disease risk.
According to the research published in JAMA Internal Medicine, those who frequented the sauna more had lower risks of heart disease.Ī 23-per-cent lower risk for fatal coronary heart disease, to be exact, if you visited the sauna twice or thrice weekly, noted the study on 2,315 Finnish men aged 42 to 60 years old.
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