Weight cuting with infrared sauna?

[dog812]

Anyone ever tryed it?
I have done cuts in normal saunas but now it seems one of my teammates will have to try and use a IR sauna.. i am just trying to get some info whether it works or not or what

thanks in advance.

 

[XMoker]

I don't have anything to offer, but please let us know how this turns out. Difference or not.

 

[cooks1]

This is an interesting development that will come up more and more.

Here is what I can tell you.

The idea behind an infrared sauna is that using "far" infrared heat versus steam or hot dry air heat, you are able to heat your body without necessarily heating the area around it to as high of a temperature. Think of a microwave as opposed to a conventional oven in a general sense. Sort of heating the body from within.

What is definately true:

1) You can heat your body to just as high a temperature in an infrared sauna as with a regular sauna.

2) Even though your body is the same temp as a regular sauna, the temperature in
an infrared sauna is 50-80 degrees less than a regular sauna.

What May or may not be true:

Many infrared proponents claim that the nature of the infrared heat allows your body to sweat out more toxins along with the water in sweat. Places that sell infrared saunas will claim that sweat in a regular sauns contains 2-3% toxins, where sweat in infrared saunas contains up to 20% toxins.

I have not seen any credible science to back this up. Then again, i have not gone out of my way to look for it either.

Hope that helps.

 

[Sinister]

That sounds a lot like the shit that people who sell those alkaline water machines say.

 

[Stormbringer]

Many infrared proponents claim that the nature of the infrared heat allows your body to sweat out more toxins along with the water in sweat. Places that sell infrared saunas will claim that sweat in a regular sauns contains 2-3% toxins, where sweat in infrared saunas contains up to 20% toxins.

This part set off the "bullshit alarm" in me. Don't know anything about infrared (or any other kind of) saunas, but whenever something starts bringing up amount of "toxins" that something gets rid of, it seems like a convenient way to claim something good without being able to back it up (ie: what are you classifying as "toxins" anyway?).

 

[cooks1]

That sounds a lot like the shit that people who sell those alkaline water machines say.

I do agree with you and stormringer on this. As you will see from my post, I am not at all claiming that you sweat out more toxins in an infrared sauna. I simply stated that those types of claims are being made, and I am not aware of any science that backs them up.

I have been in an infrared sauna a few times. I perspired about the same amount that I normally do in a regular sauna in a similar time frame. The temperature in the infrared sauna was substantially less than that of a normal sauna.

I am no expert on perspiration OR TOXINS. By the way, some of the toxins infrared proponents maintan the sauna helps with are heavy metal toxins. I can certainly say that my sweat in the infrared sauna seemed no different at all from any other time I sweat. If my sweat had contained 7 times the toxins of sweat from a normal sauna, I would have expected it to be a little different. Hell, I was half expecting green ooze to come out of me or something from what I was being told.

I did this daily for about a week, and afterwords I felt absolutely no different than i normally feel.

Make of that what you will.

 

[TMMAray]

As others have stated, any time someone starts talking about flushing out toxins, you should interpret it as "I'm making things up/lying my ass off."

As for the saunas themselves, I'm quite curious about them as well, unfortunately I don't know anywhere near me where I could try one.

 

[Sinister]

Let us not be mistaken, there IS a such thing as ridding the body of toxins...there ARE toxins, and they CAN be excreted, just not through pads on the feet, by drinking special water, or by infrared scanners...I mean saunas.

 

[Urban]

I'm confused... so the infrared sauna causes the sweat glands in deeper tissue (tissue that DOESN'T sweat) to secrete more toxins? really?

 

[cooks1]

I'm confused... so the infrared sauna causes the sweat glands in deeper tissue (tissue that DOESN'T sweat) to secrete more toxins? really?

Not really, No. In a normal sauna, you are basically sitting in a hot room. because you are sitting in a hot room, your body temperature rises, causing you to sweat.

In an infrared sauna, the "far" infrared heat warms your body directly, causing your core temperature to rise, and then perspiration.

I took the time to pull a quote from an infrared sauna producers site:

"Infrared light is part of the sun

 

[cabern]

Not really, No. In a normal sauna, you are basically sitting in a hot room. because you are sitting in a hot room, your body temperature rises, causing you to sweat.

In an infrared sauna, the "far" infrared heat warms your body directly, causing your core temperature to rise, and then perspiration.

I took the time to pull a quote from an infrared sauna producers site:

"Infrared light is part of the sun

 

[Chris Beeby]

So is the IR sauna more pleasant because of the lower temperature or just as un/pleasant because your body temperature is the same?

 

[Freestyler]

So is the IR sauna more pleasant because of the lower temperature or just as un/pleasant because your body temperature is the same?

This is what I was wandering. If its the same comfort level, it wouldn't matter to me which one I jumped in.