sauna detox treatments

Sitting in a sweat bath could be the most vigorous activity you've had all day. The heat produces an artificial "fever" and urges every organ of the body into action. While outwardly relaxed, your inner organs are as active as though you were jogging or mowing the lawn. At the same time, you are being cleansed from inside out by the skin, your body's largest organ and its excretion, sweat.

Sweating is as essential to our health as eating and breathing. It accomplishes three important things: rids the body of wastes, regulates the critical temperature of the body at 98.6 degrees F, and helps keep the skin clean and pliant.

Many people simply don't sweat enough, making sweat bathing particularly necessary. Antiperspirants, artificial environments, smog, synthetic clothing, and a physically idle lifestyle all conspire to clog skin pores and inhibit the healthy flow of sweat. These detrimental effects are reversed in a sauna. Throughout history physicians have extolled the medicinal value of the sweat bath in its various forms such as the Finnish sauna, Russian banai, Islamic hammam, or the American Indian sweat lodge.

During a 15-minute sauna, sweating can perform the heavy metal detoxification that would take the kidneys 24 working hours. Sweating is such an effective de-toxifier that some physicians recommend home saunas to supplement kidney machines. Sweat also draws out lactic acid which causes stiff muscles and contributes to general fatigue. Sweat flushes out toxic metals such as copper, lead, zinc and mercury which the body absorbs in polluted environments.

Because it eliminates, the skin is sometimes called the "third kidney." It is far more complex than the kidney or any other organ except the brain. It is composed of blood vessels, nerve endings, vessels for carrying lymph, pigmentation, oil glands, hair follicles, cells that waterproof and deny entry to bacteria and, of course, the tubular, coiled sweat glands. It is so important that death by accumulated poisons occurs in a matter of hours if the skin, and its sweat passages, are smothered.

Furthermore, combining sweat bathing and skin brushing removes flakes of dried skin cells that accumulate on the epidermis. If allowed to remain, they can clog sweat pores and oil passages and result in dry, flaky skin.

Our sauna treatments detoxify the body inside and out, helping to relieve muscle/joint pain, regulate blood pressure, remove toxins from the body, rejuvenate skin, and de-stress the body.

Forty Minutes* ~ $25 Package of 6 ~ $138** Package of 12 ~ $240**

*Time in sauna varies with each individual. The above time does not include your cool-down time. Please allow an additional 15-20 minutes in our office in order for your body to readjust to the environmental temperature.

**Packages must be paid for in advance in order to receive these discounts.

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