The 6 Top Health Benefits Of Sauna
In almost any high quality gym, you’ll find a sauna. Why is that?
Well, they are popular – so the gym owners want to provide what customers want. But on top of that, most gym owners understand the health benefits of using a sauna.
Here are the top 6 benefits of using sauna therapy.
1. Circulation
Being in a sauna can help boost your circulation especially through your capillaries in your extremities (areas like your feet and hands) that in many people have poor circulation. In a sauna, blood flow to your skin can increase by as much as 50-70% and many people believe this extra blood flow helps nourish the skin and build healthier skin, especially if done regularly.
2. Heart Rate
In a sauna, your heart rate can increase by as much as 50-75% while just sitting and relaxing! That’s equivalent to the heart rate you would get from jogging a few miles and has a very similar metabolic benefit meaning that those of you who have a slow metabolism may find using a sauna could give you a gentle boost.
3. Sweat It Out!
Saunas and steambaths make you sweat (duh!). But that sweating can be very good for the body – it can aid it in eliminating toxins. It also helps open the pores of your skin and flush out toxins from the skin.
4. Killing Bacteria and Viruses
When you’re in a sauna long enough, your skin and core temperatures can increase to about 100 degrees Fahrenheit – above the normal body temperature by a few degrees. This fever-like state in the body can help your immune system kill bacteria and viruses that become weakened when they overheat.
Of course, just be careful because you can overheat yourself – never let your core temperature get above 102 degrees in a sauna – and of course, most saunas have a sticker on them telling you to limit your time inside to 30 minutes or less. It doesn’t take long to get the health benefits of using a sauna!
5. Pain Relief
Because of the increased circulation from using a sauna, many people find their joint pain, muscle pain and arthritis improve dramatically after using a sauna.
6. Respiratory Health
Many people also find that using a sauna can help clear your lungs – improving conditions like bronchitis, asthma, allergies, laryngitis, sinusitis and congestion.
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What Are Scabies?
Scabies is a contagious skin infection caused by a very tiny parasitic mite. The scabies mites burrow into their host’s skin and can cause incredibly itching, skin irritation, allergic reactions and red spots or rashes along the skin. Scabies are easily and quickly transmitted through skin contact, so if you know someone who has scabies, please be careful not to touch them a lot or have prolonged skin contact.
A scabies mite as seen through a microscope. These tiny little buggers will make you itch!
If you’re wondering what are scabies, they’re really just small insects looking for a place to live – and your skin happens to be very convenient for them. Scabies mites are so small many people can’t even see them without a microscope or some seriously thick glasses. They are little eight-legged insects less than half a millimeter in length.
This is a typical scabies rash, notice the red inflammation in a seemingly random pattern. It itches...a lot!
Despite what many people think, scabies do not jump or fly like fleas can. So the only way to get them is through contact with someone who is infected or with contact of a surface touched by an infected person who left behind a few stragglers. Just being in the room with someone who has scabies is not dangerous as long as you don’t lay in their bed or wear their old clothes.
Just shaking someone’s hands won’t get you scabies. It often takes a lot more contact than that. Most of the time, scabies are transmitted through sexual contact. So it’s always a good idea to make sure your sexual partners have been checked for any STD’s – including scabies.
Preventing and Naturally Treating Coccydynia
Coccydynia is a disease when your tailbone starts to swell and become painful. It’s really hard to imagine the excruciating pain until you have gone through such experience yourself.
The tailbone or coccyx is your bone found between the cheeks of your buttocks and when it starts to get inflamed, you will experience a great deal of pain sitting down. Most often, it happens after a fall when the butt bone is hurt (a slip, an accident, a snowboard fall). People who have coccydynia can use butt pads to cushion the body weight when you have to walk or sit down. Surprisingly, the butt pads are undetectable and will not show as unusual under your clothing. Many times, people who use butt pads don’t appear to be under any kind of discomfort. They are often recommended by chiropractors and physicians as an alternative to surgery or painkillers.
Coccydynia (or butt bone decease) occurs also when people spend long hours sitting. People in wheel chairs, drivers, and police officers are at higher risk. Padding will just make it less painful and easier to go through the day.
By lessening the pressure on the tailbone, you minimize chances of sciatia, cysts, or fracturing the bone. The butt pads are only a temporary solution, because you need a permanent one. Coccydynia can be treated with pain drugs or a cortisone injection. It’s to be used during the treatment period, and if the pain persists, your doctor could recommend surgery, which is a very rare case.
Still, if you do have to undergo surgery, you will need the some kind of cushion for post-operation care. In summary, people with tailbone problems caused by accidents or falls will find superb relief with a butt pad that does not need major maintenance or care. It’s far better than having to carry a lumpy cushion pillow around all the time.
Other things that may help are regular exercise and eating anti-inflammatory foods like fresh raw fruits and vegetables.
Common Human-Bacteria Imbalances
Did you know that your body actually contains more than 10 times as many bacterial cells as it does human cells? Scientists believe we have around 10 Trillion human cells in our body so that means we have over 100 Trillion bacterial cells!
Making sure our bacteria are healthy, happy and balances is one of the keys for lasting health.
Unfortunately now we’re seeing people with massive bacterial imbalances, especially in the gut. Due to widespread use of antibiotics and especially broad spectrum antibiotics, our internal bacterial ecosystems are getting out of balance. On top of prescribed antibiotic exposure, we also have massive antibiotic exposure on a daily basis from our food supply, especially from livestock such as chicken, pigs, and cows that are fed antibiotics in their feed.
Human-Bacteria Imbalances
Some of the most common bacterial imbalances include:
Candida Overgrowth
Yeast Overgrowth
Yeast Infections
Other Risks of Bacterial Imbalances
Bacterial imbalances can also cause many other disorders and symptoms, including digestive disorders such a Crohn’s disease, Colitis, and Leaky Gut Syndrome as well as much rarer diseases like necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) which is the death of bowel tissues that cause inflammation, bleeding, and death in many cases for young newborns.
This is why it can be so important to make sure to limit antibiotic use as much as possible and try to avoid foods contaminated with antibiotics. Also, taking a probiotic supplement regularly as well as eating healthy foods that are loaded with probiotics can help. Foods that naturally contain probiotics include yogurt and fermented foods like kimchi, sauerkraut and kombucha tea.
Making sure your bacteria are in a happy, healthy balance is one of the keys to good, lasting health! So make sure you plan ahead and make some positive changes for your bacterial balance today. Your body will thank you, trust me!
Childhood Obesity Statistics in America Getting Worse
Childhood obesity in America is skyrocketing. The rate of childhood obesity in preschool age children in America has risen from 5% in 1980 to over 14% in 2004. For elementary school children, childhood obesity rates have grown from 6.5% in 1980 to 18.8% in 2004.
We currently have over 20 million obese children in the United States and all the statistics show that these trends will continue to get worse. By 2015, it is predicted that 75% of Americans will be obese or overweight.
Our children are also more medicated than ever before in history. Prescription and over-the-counter drug use in children is growing at a rate of more than 20% a year! That’s faster than the drug use growth rate of senior citizens!
Dr. David Katz has said, “Children are more harmed by poor diet than by drugs, alcohol, and tobacco combined!” Dr. Katz is right – over 25,000 children in America die every die from preventable causes.
The costs of this obesity epidemic are horrendous. We spend over $475 billion a year on treating Cardiovascular diseases, over $219 billion on Cancer treatments, and over $147 billion treating diseases directly caused by obesity.
Today about 20% of every dollar spent in the U.S. goes to pay our healthcare expenses. By 2014, the U.S. healthcare expenses are expected to be $3.6 trillion! And 70% of those expenses are for treating chronic diseases which are preventable and reversible with proper nutrition and exercise!
On top of that, between 90,000 and 400,000 patients die every year due to prescription drugs and surgery. Many of these deaths are due to normal complications resulting from taking prescription drugs as directed.
The #1 killer of Americans is Heart Disease (cardiovascular diseases) the #2 killer of Americans is cancer, and the #3 killer of Americans is the American health care system (drugs and surgery!).
Even though we spend more on healthcare per capita in the U.S. than any other country in the world, we rank only 39th in the world in terms of health. The paradox is, the more we spend on healthcare in America the sicker Americans get!
Researchers from the National Institute of Health have shown that 90% of diseases in America is due to poor nutrition and lack of physical activity. Why don’t we spend more money promoting good nutrition and physical activity instead of promoting drugs and surgery? We could prevent 90% of disease in America and save Trillions of dollars at the same time!
What are your thoughts? Should we invest more in prevention in America? Leave a comment and let us know!
Special Podcast: Dr. Barry Sears, Author of The Zone Diet
Dr. Barry Sears, author of The Zone series of books and founder of the Zone Diet. Dr. Sears is an internationally known expert in weight loss and human nutrition.
Great news!
We just interviewed Dr. Barry Sears, author of the best-selling The Zone series of books and founder of The Zone Diet for the Authentic Health Coaching Nutrition Podcast show. Dr. Sears shared for 50 minutes on the amazing research on inflammation, obesity and weight loss. Did you know that inflammation is one of the major causes of weight gain?
Dr. Sears shares some incredibly powerful and SIMPLE tools for losing weight and maintaining a healthy weight and a healthy body for the rest of your life.
If you’re thinking, “I’ve heard of Dr. Barry Sears before,” that’s probably because you have! He’s sold over 5 million books and appeared on 20/20, Today, Good Morning America, CBS Morning News, CNN, MSNBC and many other media outlets!
But in this interview, Dr. Sears dives dips and gets to the core of weight loss and diet. Dr. Sears even shares the story of how he’s helped the heaviest man in the world, Manuel Uribe, lose over 500 pounds! Manuel is still obese, as he started at 1,320 pounds but his bloodwork shows that he’s a healthy man.
How is that possible?
Because his diet is now a healthy diet and it’s brought down his inflammation to a healthy Zone – thanks to Dr. Sears. You’ll hear all the details when the show is published this Saturday, October 1st at 4am EST. Stay tuned!
Podcast Interview with David Pritchard, Professional Sports Trainer
We just released our newest Nutrition Podcast. In this show, we interview David Pritchard who has been a leader in the fitness and nutrition industry for over 20 years. David has trained amateur, college and professional athletes in the NBA, NFL, MLB, Boxing and Olympics. David shares some powerful tips on the fundamentals of good nutrition and fitness – the basic things you have to do every day to maintain a healthy lifestyle. He also shares some amazing tips on how you can make the shift from your current lifestyle to a healthier lifestyle while making it fun.
For more information about David, visit his website www.mydestinationwellness.com
For more great nutrition tips and info, visit us at www.AuthenticHealthCoach.com
The Tower Garden Home Growing Kit
I just recently found out about the Tower Garden! It’s a new home and commercial hydroponic growing system. It’s an amazing way to grow food at home without all the regular gardening work of preparing the soil, weeding and having to water every day. The Tower Garden uses as little as 5% of the water and nutrients needed to grow food in soil because of it’s amazing unique hydroponic system. This makes using the Tower Garden not only great for your health, but for the health of the environment too!
Here's a Tower Garden loaded with a very large Squash plant, peas, greens and herbs.
It’s a great way to grow food, especially in cities like New York City where several restaurants are using the Tower Gardens to grow food and herbs for their dishes on the rooftops. The food is fresh and local and it’s a great use of the wasted grey space in the city’s rooftops.
Can you imagine what it would be like if every rooftop in our cities were being used to grow food? Imagine the health benefits for everyone in the city and the environmental impact as well.
The Tower Garden lets you grow your own food at home, on your roof, or in your backyard, year-round! You can even take the Tower Garden inside during the Winter months if you live in the North and still grow healthy, delicious, local organic food for you and your loved ones.
This is what the Tower Garden Kit looks like before the plants start growing.
Here's the Tower Garden Kit with a tomato cage.
- Here’s a Tower Garden loaded with tomatoes on the roof of a restaurant in New York City.
Enterprising entrepreneurs and farmers can also use the Tower Garden to sell produce to local restaurants and produce lovers.
The Tower Gardens aren’t due to be released until early 2012 so all you expectant Tower Gardeners will have to wait a few short months.
You can join the Tower Garden Fan Page here and connect with the Tower Garden community.
Here's the top of the Tower Garden which shows you the water pumping mechanism (so no more watering with a hose!)
Becky Bassham Interview – Brain Health and Neurofeedback Podcast
Check out our newest Authentic Health Coaching podcast show interview with Becky Bassham on Brain Health and Neurofeedback.
In this show, we interview Becky Bassham on brain health and neurofeedback. Becky shares some incredible information here on brain health and how you can improve conditions such as ADD, ADHD, Alzheimer’s and addictions using some simple, proven methods to help the brain balance and heal itself.
Allergies and Nutrition Podcast with Jennifer Papaconstantinou
Just released this powerful interview with Jennifer Papaconstantinou of http://www.HealNaturally.ca – this is life-changing information for anyone with allergies.
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