Find out what saunas are all about

A sauna is usually a room or a house designed as a place where you can experience dry or wet heat sessions, where the participants undress and sit in that heated environment at temperatures that can surpass 80 degrees Celsius. This process of heating that room makes people relax and promotes sweating.

By simply controlling the humidity, any sauna can reach the temperature of the water boiling point and be tolerated by the human body just fine, without any damages. For example, having a relatively low level of humidity a sauna can reach its temperature to 100 degrees Celsius.

The oldest saunas were just pits dug in a slope into the ground. This kind of saunas had special places where a fire was started with the purpose to heat rocks. When the rocks heated enough, water was thrown on them, producing steam and giving the impression of increased heat, even if it was winter.

There are a lot of sauna types to choose from. There are dry or wet saunas, smoke or steam based saunas, or one of the most common types of sauna, that works with infrared waves. All of these types have different designs of the chamber where the sauna is placed, for example they can come with a chimney or without one.

The benefits of sauna are endless. From relieving medical conditions like asthma or chronic bronchitis to the improvements saunas can get in improving joint mobility in patients suffering from rheumatic disease. Almost everybody can benefit from the sauna, except persons with severe stenosis or recent myocardial infarction.

Written by Deborah Risset for the french site Piscine, sauna et aquagym.

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