Benefits of Steam

Steam Therapy Health Benefits

Steam therapy can have numerous positive effects on your body and mind, as well as help alleviate a number of illnesses. The heat of the steam can help relax tight, sore muscles. The hot steam dilates blood vessels, improves circulation and increases blood flow to the muscles. This allows oxygen and nutrients to reach the areas where they are needed, which in turn helps loosen tight muscles and reduce pain. The steam therapy can also help get rid of the lactic acid build-up in your muscles and thereby reduce soreness.

Hot steam induces a state of hypothermia in the body, which is a very high fever that is usually created artificially for therapeutic purposes. When your body reaches the ambient temperature of the steam room, or 101 degrees Fahrenheit, it has an artificial fever. Viruses, bacteria, and other toxins accumulated in your body can not survive at such high temperatures.

The heat of the steam opens up approximately 2.6 million sweat glands located under your skin, which allows you to flush out 30 percent of bodily waste through perspiration, during a single steam room session.

Whether naturally or artificially induced, fevers also encourage your body to produce more white blood cells, which have the ability to fight infections by attacking and destroying harmful organisms like bacteria and viruses. They are the most important part of your immune system.

Steam therapy is therefore a highly effective way to cleanse your body and increase your immunity naturally and without invasive treatments.

Stress is a part of our daily life and it can lead to:

• Nervousness
• Muscle tension
• High blood pressure
• Headaches
• Cardiovascular problems.
• Emotional disorders
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Diabetes
• Skin conditions

The Most Therapeutic Benefits of Steam Therapy is:

• Relieve stress
• Calm tense nerves
• Relax tight muscles.
• Increasing muscle flexibility
• Reduce tension headaches
• Relieves muscle stiffness and pain
• Improves Circulation/Reduces Inflammation
• Weight loss/Cellulite reduction
• Steam rejuvenates your skin and improves its texture and tone

• Detoxifies the body and improves the immune system
  • Steam can help expel toxins and waste products that have built up in the body due to stress, bad eating habits, poor digestion, and other external factors.

• Improves breathing and relieves colds and flues
  • Steam can provide immediate relief from cold symptoms. It can moisten a sore throat, loosen phlegm in the lungs and dissolve mucous in the nose. Steam inhalation improves the respiratory system and it is very useful for people suffering from asthma, allergies, sinusitis, and bronchitis.

• Reduces rheumatoid arthritis pain
  • The moist heat of a steam room is a natural pain reliever. It penetrates tendons and joints and reduces inflammation that causes pain. By reducing the build-up of lactic acid, steam also helps reduce friction in your joints, making it easier for your body to move.

• Improves sleeping problems.
  • If done two hours before going to sleep and for no longer than 20 minutes, a steam treatment can help with insomnia and encourage a good night’s sleep.