Does Infrared Sauna Help with Inflammation?

If you follow health and wellness news, you’re already familiar with inflammation and many of the negative health outcomes associated with chronic inflammation.

From rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune disorders, to high blood pressure, heart disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and also including inflammatory bowel disease (it's right there in the name!), inflammation impacts just about every part of the body.

Inflammation has also been associated with some mental illnesses, like depression. And even if your concerns have more to do with external appearances, age-related inflammation may be detrimental to the appearance of our skin. Recent research is making it clear that managing and reducing inflammation are key to maintaining both health and beauty.

Infrared Sauna and Inflammation

Inflammation triggers are all around us. Sometimes within us. Not all of them can be avoided, either. We can work to limit our intake of saturated fat, but it’s harder for many of us to reduce our stress levels and, depending on where we live, our exposure to environmental pollution. Using an infrared sauna for inflammation can be a powerful—and relatively easy!—addition to your anti-inflammatory health routine. 

Does Infrared Sauna Help with Inflammation?

 It may sound far-fetched, but the connection between far infrared sauna and inflammation is actually well documented. As far back as 2008, researchers published the results of their study showing that far infrared therapy regulates inflammation of the veins by triggering an anti-inflammatory response in the body. Moreover, these effects don’t diminish with repetition. Every exposure to infrared light stimulates the desired anti-inflammatory process.

Vascular inflammation is particularly important to regulate. Uncontrolled vascular inflammation can contribute to high blood pressure, heart disease, and liver failure, among many other health problems. While other lifestyle interventions can take long periods of time to show results. In the meantime, adding regular use of an infrared sauna for inflammation can help begin to reduce health risks quickly and easily.