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6. Can help with fat burning and weight loss

7. Improves immune function.

8. Helps you adapt and become stronger

What’s the Hype Around Infrared Sauna’s

& Ice Baths?

I’m sure you’ve seen these services advertised or heard of the “Ice Man” and his Wim Hof method, but do you know what the benefits are and why everyone is so obsessed with this healing method right now? Let’s dive in!

Some benefits from hot and cold therapy;

1. Increases blood flow and reduce inflammation

2. Helps reduce stress

3. Increases energy levels

4. Boosts your mood

5. Improves sleep

Both ice bathing/cold plunging and infrared sauna offer similar benefits, though they achieve those benefits in different, and sometimes opposite ways.

For example, cold exposure reduces inflammation by constricting your blood vessels causing a decrease in blood flow. Where heat exposure dilates blood vessels, increasing blood flow and inflammation (at least in the short term). However, by enabling the body to send more oxygenated blood to the inflamed area, heat exposure speeds up the healing processes, which leads to reduced inflammation over time.

Other examples of how cold and heat therapy provide similar benefits, but in different manners, include the reduction of stress, increased energy levels and improved sleep. Sitting in a sauna can be fairly relaxing, on the other hand, cold plunging might not give off the same relaxing vibes.. AT FIRST! Getting into a cold tub sends your body into fight or flight mode, this ramps up your perceived stress levels. But as you get accustomed to the cold water and learn how to better handle that stress, you’ll likely find it easier to manage stress in everyday situations. As a result, cold exposure can help you reduce stress over time. Stress runs you down, messes with sleep patterns, and that affects your energy! Manage you stress and you will sleep better, feel less burnout, fatigued, and run down, you will sleep better, feel less burnout, fatigued, and run down, and have more energy to live your best life!

The last 2 benefits I want vates your brown adipose tissue, which helps burn fat for energy so you stay warm. Infrared radiation increases your heart rate and metabolic rate the same way a mild to mod- your core body temperature, kind of mimicking a mild fever. As a result, your immune system triggers the release of white blood cells, and other parts of the body’s antiviral army. Cold water exposure activates a type of white blood cell called “natural killer cells”. to cover are with weight loss and immune function!

Combining cold therapy and infrared sauna supports your immune system from different angles, making you more resistant to viral infections!

Combining cold plunging with infrared sauna can jumpstart your ability to burn fat and lose weight. Cold water exposure acti- erate cardio workout would, allowing you to burn extra calories.

When it comes to immune function, sitting in an infrared sauna increases

So as you can see, both cold and heat therapy provide similar benefits — though they often use different mechanisms. The reason why the benefits of both therapy forms work together instead of cancelling each other out, is because humans have evolved to adapt and become more resilient when exposed to extreme circumstances on opposing sides of the spectrum.

I was so fortunate to be able to have my own hot experience at Studio Plunge which recently opened inside of the Wellness Market in Tecumseh! The infrared sauna felt ahhmazing! I spent my first 20 mins in there just glowing from the inside out, then it came time for my cold plunge..hahaha.. Ya, I realized that day I am not a cold plunge girlie haha I know all of the benefits and have done it once before while on vacation but I stood in there for like 3 minutes and could not get myself to sit down! Haha so back in the sauna I went and stayed there for the remainder of my session. I wasn’t mad about it! If you’re like me and you don’t think you would be able to get yourself to do it, the space is actually big enough to go with a friend! Maybe having someone else to do it with will help keep you accountable to actually going in…. I’ll have to try that next time hahaha

You can now experience the benefits of hot and cold therapy at STUDIO PLUNGE! Click the link in bio @studioplunge_ or call The Wellness Market at 519-956-7722 for more information on how to book.

Click the link in bio on the Instagram page for @studioplunge_ and use code INTRO upon booking and receive 2 sessions for $65!

We are so excited for our June collaboration with The Wellness Market!