Sauna
A Finnish sauna, also called the dry sauna, uses temperatures between 85 and 100 0C and the humidity of 5-10%. It is recommended to use it once a week during the whole year. To notice the improvement of the immune system one has to use it systematically.
Sauna bathing means overwheating and then cooling the body, which should last from several up to a dozen or so minutes. The whole cycle we can repeat 2-3 times depending on our mood and the level of our fitness. The higher the temperature of the sauna the shorter the time we should use it and the cooling lasts longer. After the sauna we should have a rest and drink mineral water (non-sparkling one) or citrus juice to supplement water.
The sauna is not a curing procedure, but its very good influence on our body is known for a long time: it toughens, cleans and improves our efficency, so it does a lot for our body.
Effects:
- clears the organism of the products of the metabolism,
- moves the system fluids,
- the rate of the heartbeat rises, initially the blood pressure rises, but at the end of the prosedure it falls down,
- the rate of breathing rises, which causes the lung ventillation,
- the hormonal system, which manages our inner secretion system, is stimulated,
- influences our nervous system and the mental fitness – after the stimulation it calms down up to the drowsiness.