Sweating
Sweating is one of the essential processes for our health. In sauna, body is exposed to high temperature, for enough of the time to start to perspire. Through sweat our skin cleans itself of the impurities ‘accumulated’ in its pores thus, it rids the body of some wastes. Furthermore, sweating helps our skin to be clean and soft. During a proper sweat bathing, according to the Finns, sauna elicits a quart of sweat per hour. According to sauna expert Mikkel Aaland, “during a 15-minute sauna, sweating can perform the heavy metal excretion that would take the kidneys 24 working hours. Ninety-nine percent of what sweat brings to the surface of the skin is water, but the remaining one percent is mostly undesirable wastes.” The doctors also encourage the use of sauna. A world known physician and medical expert Dr. Weil, declares:” I generally encourage sweating. It helps the body to rid itself of unwanted materials and improves general circulation.”
There are also some delusions related to the sweating and the weight loss in sauna. Lots of people think they would loose weight permanently due to the sweating in sauna. That is not correct. The truth is that you will burn some calories and become ‘lighter’ for a few hours thanks to the sweating in sauna. But it is because of loss of your bodily fluids and you will get the kilos back very soon. You are normally thirsty after sauna, and those fluids will be restored just at the time when you have first drink or glass of water. Thus, any eventual weight loss induced by sweating will be recovered very soon.
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