Offering a wide variety of Infrared Sauna models, eight different models of easy-to-assemble, compact saunas are in stock and ready for immediate shipment. Providing more consumer choices than anywhere else on the web, the consumer may special order one of a dozen more models designed in both size and decorum to fit in nearly any room of your home.

Their saunas are available in three distinctive styles. The Traditional Series offers the classic, Nordic look available in many sizes in Hemlock Fir or Western Red Cedar. Designed with a uniquely modern, upscale look, the Elegance Series is for the trendier interior decor. The Elegance Series models feature refined curves constructed in beautiful Western Red Cedar while The Contemporary Series seduces the tasteful consumer with two models boasting a European flavor crafted in Hemlock Fir individualized from other models by their full-length, front glass panels.

Enjoy plentiful health benefits of Touchstone’s far-Infrared technology while relaxing in your own private sanctuary. A sauna can help you lose weight, improve heart function, increase circulation, and give you clearer, more radiant skin and silkier hair. Requiring little more than a 110 volt power outlet you can relax in knowing that you’re being energy efficient while the soothing, penetrating heat helps release toxins in your body to help prevent disease and make you healthier and more energetic.

For more information, visit touchstonesaunas.com.

The Pet Sauna uses infrared technology to keep pets warm with the same radiant heat emitted by the sun. Cats and dogs that enjoy lying in the sun for hours can benefit from a Miracle Heat Pet Sauna even on days that are cold or cloudy.

The Pet Sauna is completely safe. Miracle Heat has designed the Pet Sauna to operate at an optimum 80 degree temperature, so it won’t harm or burn pets.

For more information, visit miracleheat.com.

Realsauna Sauna Suit is an effective sweat aid which uses natural body heat generated from any type of low or intensive high-energy physical exercise to increase perspiration during workout. Realsauna Sauna Suit also has an elastic waist and draw string for adjustment and comfort.

Realsauna Sauna Suit uses sweat excretion process through perspiration stimulates the entire body, thus helping to rid the body of excess water weight gain, and evenly melts away unwanted body fat. This process works just like the expensive saran wrap body treatments offered at exclusive health spas.

For more information, visit realsaunasweatsuit.com.

Infrared saunas generate heat through the use of ceramic infrared heaters, which are based on technology developed by NASA in the mid-1960s, and subsequently used in the space program. Following this success, this technology was further researched and developed by Japanese scientists in the 1970s, who foresaw the potential benefits of this technology over that of traditional saunas for the leisure and alternative therapy markets.

Infrared saunas achieve the same effects as steam saunas at lower temperatures, and are typically easier to install and cheaper to operate than steam saunas, offering a far more practical alternative for most homeowners. Infrared saunas also offer superior heat penetration and despite operating at lower temperatures induce equivalent or greater levels of sweating and associated therapeutic benefits than steam saunas.

The use of infrared saunas has become increasingly widespread in health spas and sports clubs, and they are generally seen as offering the same or greater therapeutic benefits as steam saunas, but in a more user-friendly and safe environment.

The American home sauna market has remained healthy in the last few years, with infrared saunas taking a growing slice of that market as more and more Americans become interested in home-based health and fitness activities and appreciate the benefits and convenience offered by these saunas.

Research and development of far infrared heating technology is ongoing, and 21st century-style improvements in energy efficiency and therapeutic effect are continually becoming being made, making this space-age infrared sauna technology increasingly affordable and accessible to all consumers.

For more information, visit saunadream.com.

The research shows infrared sauna use can burn as many as 300 to 600 calories during one sauna session. This happens due to the sweating process itself, as well as increased heart rate. Even though most of the weight lost in infrared saunas is water, regular sauna use can complement a weight-loss program. Sauna removes water from body as well as salt. One may question what has salt to do with weight loss. Well, salt in our body is deposited beneath the skin and for the salt to remain nontoxic, it requires water. Hence to keep the body intoxicated, lot of water is required and this adds to the bulk. Now the sauna helps reduce weight by removing the excess salt in the body, which is deposited under the skin along with water.

An infrared sauna assists in weight loss in three significant ways:

1. It effectively reduces heavy metals which have been directly related to metabolic imbalances in the body causing poor digestion and weight gain.

2. It decreases fat stored (lipophilic) toxins. Often weight loss cannot be accomplished unless these toxins are first removed.

3. Although weight loss due to perspiration (water loss) is quickly regained, sending more blood to the capillaries and converting fats and carbohydrates results in as much as 600 calories burned during one short sauna session.

Beside Crystal Sauna’s research, there are many doctors, health care professionals and fitness trainers who recommend infrared saunas because of the overwhelming benefits they provide. Dr. Sherry Rogers, a fellow of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and a diplomat of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, says in her book “Detoxify or Die” that an infrared sauna is the only way of removing man-made toxins from your body. Dr. Rogers also states that bio-accumulated toxic load in the human body is responsible for all disease not attributable to bacteria or virus.

Moreover, Dr. Mark Hyman, author of NY Times bestselling book “Ultrametabolism” and an infrared sauna user stated that, “Saunas are an important aid to weight loss and thyroid repair because as you lose weight, fat tissue releases stored toxins such as PCBs and pesticides.”

For more information, visit crystalsauna.com.

One researcher followed hundreds of patients who used the oral, non-prescription mercury detox cocktail to get rid of mercury aluminum, cadmium, arsenic, and other heavy metals. For folks who have tougher cases we can use DMPS which is available by prescription as Chemet, or the infinitely cheaper and non-prescription and identical substance, Captomer (Thorne, N.E.E.D.S.). And for folks with high levels of calcifications in their arteries EDTA is an intravenous chelator, but requires sitting hooked up to an intravenous solution in a doctor’s office for four hours three times a week for 20 to 40 sessions, costing thousands of dollars. Then you need a maintenance program. A safer proven way to reverse coronary calcifications is with the macrobiotic diet (Ornish, 1998). PET scans proved that the calcifications melted away. For the full directions on doing the health-promoting diet, start with You Are What You Ate, then proceed to The Cure Is In The Kitchen, and use Macro Mellow for the cookbook).

But what about the cancer-causing PCBs and the multitude of plastics and pesticides with all sorts of chemical configurations that the body has no way of metabolizing? What about all of the newly synthesized dangerous chemicals that firemen, for example, are exposed to when these plastics and pesticides burn, creating new compounds that have never before been seen by man? None of these chemicals are removed by chelation or any drug.

In the 1970s a controversial gentleman named L. Ron Hubbard designed a sauna program that enabled drug addicts to detoxify. He reasoned that folks were never addicted until they had taken drugs. And the more they took, the more they craved. He thought if he could get the drugs out of the body (the unmetabolized residues), the addict would no longer crave. He published his brilliantly successful program in his book Clear Body Clear Mind in 1990. Shortly after the results of the program were known, physicians from many specialties realized that this program might also be adapted for getting rid of all sorts of other types of chemicals, thereby restoring health in an endless variety of diseases (Kilburn, Schnare, Roehm, Rea, Root, Tretjak, Tei).

For more information, visit Lifestylelaboratory.com

• Skin rejuvenation. Sauna use slowly restores elimination through the skin. The skin is the largest organ of the body and a major eliminative channel. In most people, it is inactive, congested and toxic. Sun exposure, use of synthetic clothing, bathing in chlorinated water and exposure to hundreds of chemicals damage the skin. Excessive sympathetic nervous system activity and emotions such as fear, anger and guilt cause blood to be withdrawn from the skin, contributing to inactivity of the skin.

• Enhanced sweating. Sweating in a sauna is a by-product of applying heat to the body. The sweating process gently and safely helps eliminate all heavy metals and toxic chemicals. Medical studies demonstrate that most toxins can be eliminated through the skin, relieving the burden on the kidneys and liver. Sweating increases dramatically in most people after several months of daily sauna use.
Sweating during exercise is not nearly as effective for detoxification because exercise activates the sympathetic nervous system. Sympathetic nervous activity inhibits toxin elimination.

• Exercise benefits. Saunas provide many of the benefits of exercise with much less expenditure of energy. These include enhanced circulation and oxidation of the tissues. Repeated sauna use can lower elevated blood pressure and improve the elasticity of the arteries. Saunas are most helpful for cardiovascular rehabilitation, arthritis, allergies, skin conditions and chemical sensitivity.

• Decongesting the internal organs. Heating the body powerfully shunts blood toward the skin to dissipate heat. This decongests the internal organs and greatly stimulates circulation. Sinuses, joints and many other tissues benefit greatly.

• Fever therapy (hyperthermia) for infections. Raising body temperature powerfully assists the body to kill bacteria, fungi, parasites and viruses. Many people have a low body temperature and, for this reason, cannot get rid of chronic infections. Common sites of infections are the sinuses, ears, eyes, bladder, throat and intestines.

• Tumors, radiation poisoning and mutated cells. Hyperthermia also helps kill other types of abnormal cells. Tumors, for example, tolerate heat poorly. Raising body temperature hastens their death. Though not a conventional method, hyperthermia is a well-researched therapy for cancer. Heat also disables or kills cells mutated by radiation or damaged by other toxins.

• Inhibiting the sympathetic nervous system. This is tremendous benefit not offered by many therapies of any kind. It enables the body to relax, heal and regenerate itself much faster, causing recovery from many types of ailments.

• Near infrared benefits. These are many. They are discussed in some detail in another article on this website entitled The Benefits of Near Infrared Energy.

• Other benefits. Many other benefits are offered by all saunas, and by infrared and the near infrared sauna in particular. These are described in much more detail in the book, Sauna Therapy, and in other articles on this website.

For more information, visit drwilson.com.

#1 Wash Your Hands
Most cold and flu viruses are spread by direct contact. Someone who has the flu sneezes onto their hand, and then touches the telephone, the keyboard, a kitchen glass. The germs can live for hours — in some cases weeks — only to be picked up by the next person who touches the same object. So wash your hands often. If no sink is available, rub your hands together very hard for a minute or so. That also helps break up most of the cold germs. Or rub an alcohol-based hand sanitizer onto your hands.

#2 Don’t Cover Your Sneezes and Coughs With Your Hands
Because germs and viruses cling to your bare hands, muffling coughs and sneezes with your hands results in passing along your germs to others. When you feel a sneeze or cough coming, use a tissue, then throw it away immediately. If you don’t have a tissue, cough or sneeze into the inside of your elbow.

#3 Don’t Touch Your Face
Cold and flu viruses enter your body through the eyes, nose, or mouth. Touching their faces is the major way children catch colds, and a key way they pass colds on to their parents.

#4 Drink Plenty of Fluids
Water flushes your system, washing out the poisons as it rehydrates you. A typical, healthy adult needs eight 8-ounce glasses of fluids each day. How can you tell if you’re getting enough liquid? If the color of your urine runs close to clear, you’re getting enough. If it’s deep yellow, you need more fluids.

#5 Take a Sauna
Researchers aren’t clear about the exact role saunas play in prevention, but one 1989 German study found that people who steamed twice a week got half as many colds as those who didn’t. One theory: When you take a sauna you inhale air hotter than 80 degrees, a temperature too hot for cold and flu viruses to survive.

#6 Do Aerobic Exercise Regularly
Aerobic exercise speeds up the heart to pump larger quantities of blood; makes you breathe faster to help transfer oxygen from your lungs to your blood; and makes you sweat once your body heats up. These exercises help increase the body’s natural virus-killing cells.

#7 Eat Foods Containing Phytochemicals
“Phyto” means plants, and the natural chemicals in plants give the vitamins in food a supercharged boost. So put away the vitamin pill, and eat dark green, red, and yellow vegetables and fruits.

#8 Eat Yogurt
Some studies have shown that eating a daily cup of low-fat yogurt can reduce your susceptibility to colds by 25%. Researchers think the beneficial bacteria in yogurt may stimulate production of immune system substances that fight disease.

#9 Don’t Smoke
Statistics show that heavy smokers get more severe colds and more frequent ones.
Even being around smoke profoundly zaps the immune system. Smoke dries out your nasal passages and paralyzes cilia. These are the delicate hairs that line the mucous membranes in your nose and lungs, and with their wavy movements, sweep cold and flu viruses out of the nasal passages. Experts contend that one cigarette can paralyze cilia for as long as 30 to 40 minutes.

#10 Cut Alcohol Consumption
Heavy alcohol use suppresses the immune system in a variety of ways. Heavier drinkers are more prone to initial infections as well as secondary complications. Alcohol also dehydrates the body — it actually causes more fluid loss from your system than it puts in.

#11 Relax
If you can teach yourself to relax, you can activate your immune system on demand. There’s evidence that when you put your relaxation skills into action, your interleukins — leaders in the immune system response against cold and flu viruses — increase in the bloodstream. Train yourself to picture an image you find pleasant or calming. Do this 30 minutes a day for several months. Keep in mind, relaxation is a learnable skill, but it is not doing nothing. People who try to relax, but are in fact bored, show no changes in blood chemicals.

For more information, visit Webmd.com

2) If the design we like is used, all three or four of the heat lamps are placed near each other on one wall. This further concentrates the heat source.

As a result, the lamp sauna energy penetrates inside the body quite a lot deeper and thus the infrared effects tend to be much greater.

Also, color therapy in the lamp sauna and rotating the body adds considerable power to the sauna experience, as described below. One can easily feel these differences if one has been in both near and far infrared saunas.

For more information, visit drlwilson.com

However, most far infrared saunas emit harmful electromagnetic fields of a microwave type. This has to do with the frequencies they are supposed to emit in the 4-15 micron range. This is similar to the emissions from microwave ovens, cell and portable phones, although saunas emit much less than most telephones.

Some people, especially if one is ill, do not handle this radiation well. It heats the tissues too fast. Also, it damages the tissues a bit, though not significantly in most cases. If one is very ill, however, this could be a factor in one’s healing.

Some companies claim to shield their far infrared emitters, but they cannot get rid of this radiation, as it is a feature of far infrared emission. The only way this type of sauna will not emit a small microwave field is if, in fact, the emitters are not putting out much far infrared radiation. In other words, it really cannot be avoided if the unit is actually putting out far infrared in the amount that they claim it is doing.

In contrast, the lamp sauna emits much less harmful microwave radiation because it does not emit much far infrared.

For more information, visit drlwilson.com.