When it starts turning cold outside, I am reminded to share with you my favorite way to ensure I can keep up with all of my healing progress that I got during the active, warm, sun loving spring and summer months going all fall and winter long.
By setting up a healing sanctuary, you can put into place health routines that ensure you don’t lose a single bit of the healing progress you’ve made so far this year, and no matter how cold it gets and how long and dark the nights become, you’ll be powerfully catapulted forward on your healing trajectory, all fall and all winter long, too.
As you know from this article I wrote for you here, getting daily, full spectrum sunlight is non-negotiable. Avoiding the sun is a risk factor for death that is equivalent to heavy smoking. Did you know you can get the same, full spectrum light in an even safer way — without the blue light spectrum (so there is no circadian rhythm disruption, even if done in the middle of the night) and no UV radiation (completely eliminating UV related skin cancers and age accelerating damage) by using incandescent lighting?
It’s true. So be sure you continue to get daily sunshine, even in the winter, and if that is hard where you live because you wake up in the dark and head back home after work in the dark, it’s all the more crucial to be sure to set up a sauna that has the full, natural spectrum of sunlight for you to get each day.
The Importance of Incandescent Sauna Lighting
And you also already know from this article I wrote for you here, that grounding is another health non-negotiable — keeping inflammation low, boosting your immune system, improving metabolism and digestion, balancing hormones, accelerating healing and so much more, so you don’t want to miss out on a single day of grounding just because the weather gets rough in the winter.
Easily Add A Grounding Mat To Your Sauna:
And as you also know from this article I wrote for you here, sauna boosts longevity as well — getting circulation increasing throughout your entire cardiovascular system, your muscles, your skin, your joints, your brain, your body from head to toe. Sauna helps increase vascular perfusion of the brain, increasing endothelial function and reducing inflammation. And not just in your brain, but throughout your entire body, too, which is one of the reasons it’s so cardioprotective as well.
In fact, sauna boosts circulation throughout your entire body so well that routine sauna has many of the same health benefits that exercise does. Sauna raises whole body temperature which activates metabolic changes like: neutralizing inflammation, reducing oxidative stress, increase nitric oxide bioavailability, increased insulin sensitivity, and improved vasodilation.
So when the weather is harsh outside, find a local sauna to go to (most local YMCAs have one!) or even better, set a sauna up in a corner of your home to use daily — that way you can feel confident that you are still boosting your health and longevity without depending on the weather being nice enough to go outside to get grounded and to exercise.
If you know someone who doesn’t have time to exercise routinely, someone who had mobility issues, someone who doesn’t have the energy to exercise, someone who is in recovery and doesn’t have the strength for exercise, someone who lives in such a cold harsh environment they are not likely to be outside for long, or someone who wants to protect their cognition as they age… send them this blog post and let them know about the healing benefits of sauna to support them through the times when exercise is harder to come by.
Medical studies have shown that folks who use a sauna two or more times a week have a significantly reduced risk of cardiovascular disease and death, and a reduced risk of all-cause mortality (meaning they died less from all causes put together) than folks who used a sauna once a week or less.
Published in Evidence Based Complimentary & Alternative Medicine Journal, April 2018 , this study was the largest meta-analysis of all of the medical literature on dry sauna from 2000 to 2017, so it provides definitive proof of the overwhelming health benefits of routine sauna. Researchers review 40 studies that included almost 4,000 patients and found that routine sauna use:
- reduced risk of heart disease, heart attack and sudden cardiac death
- lowered blood pressure
- lower risk of stroke
- reduced risk of dementia and other neurocognitive changes
- reduced risk of pulmonary disease such as asthma and lung infections like influenza
- decrease risk of rheumatologist and immune disorders
- decrease in pain conductions such as arthritis and headaches
- decreased risk of death
- improved quality of life
Looking specifically at cognitive function yielded even more exciting results. Turns out, sauna not only lengthens lifespan but protects against dementia to preserve quality of life, too! Published in Age and Ageing (Dec 8, 2016) researchers followed more than 2,300 patients for an average of 20.7 years, and found:
- Patients who averaged 4 to 7 trips to the sauna a week were two-thirds less likely to develop dementia over the next 20 years (a 66% decrease in dementia)
- Patients were also two thirds less likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimers Disease (AD) during the 20 year follow up (a 65% drop in AD diagnosis)
- This risk reduction was independent of any known risk factors, including body mass, age, smoking status, alcohol consumption or previous heart attack.
The Bottom Line: Sauna users enjoyed a 66% reduction in dementia risk of all types (including Alzheimer’s) from this very easy-to-enjoy lifestyle intervention.
So, not only does sauna help you live longer (avoiding heart disease and all-cause mortality) but it also helps you avoid dementia and memory loss disease to enjoy that longer life more!
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Why is this sauna my favorite?
One reason is because it is completely non-toxic — no varnishes, glues, plastics in the construction of it, no EMFs to add to your total toxic burden for the day, and no damp communal surfaces that expose you to mold like steam does. Nothing but organic bamboo fabrics, solid hand crafted made in the USA wooden frames, and the incandescent bulbs that provide you with full spectrum, radiant light that gives you all the health benefits of natural sunlight without the UV radiation.
My Favorite, Completely Non-Toxic Sauna:
Another reason this line is my favorite is because it is so versatile.
Hop over here to see how fun it is to design the exact sauna of your dreams; your preferred colors, the exact number of incandescent bulbs you want, and tons of other creative options that give you tons of solutions — including lower priced options like just grabbing a single incandescent light to use on your face (while resting your feet on my organic grounding mat — this is a win-win combo that comes very close the the entire sauna set up!)
There are even clever set ups available like bathroom set ups — did you know your could transform your shower or bath into a sauna for the winter — with a sauna curtain that drapes right along where your shower curtain goes! It’s true!
Lots of options to explore and no matter which you choose, don’t forget to grab your discount with the DRLAURA discount code, and then add an organic grounding mat to make your sauna session even more exponentially healing.
A single sauna light and an organic grounding mat or organic grounding throw blanket might be the very best, most loved and continuously used holiday gift you could ever give… or maybe you want to put a sauna on your own holiday list to prioritize your own healing this year!
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The best part is you can actually combine sauna and grounding at the same time, just by adding an organic grounding pad under your feet or an organic grounding throw blanket draped over your lap.
Using a sauna, I get similar benefits to exercising, but without the risk of slipping on dangerous ice or feeling my lungs burn from the frigidly cold air. I also get a 15 minute grounding session in and on top of that, I get 15 minutes of incandescent light exposure that has full spectrum sunlight benefits without the UV radiation and without disrupting my circadian rhythm… even if I do my sauna session in the evening after work, as I often do.
Sauna to boost circulatory health, incansedenct lighting to get that full spectrum light exposure, and grounding to boost conductive health… that’s your win-win-win winter health care routine.
The sad reality is that you can spend thousands of dollars going on a once in a lifetime luxury trip, trying to get out in nature, get off grid, get a grounding boost, get some natural light on your face and get away from EMFs… yet still come back feeling tired and wired, and as stressed out as ever before.
That’s because even in remote locations, there are hidden cell towers, routers, boosters and tons of artificial electrical appliances that make it every bit as stressful as trying to take a vacation in the middle of a shopping mall or your office at work.
Instead, invest the same funds into a set up that allows you to create a truly EMF free, grounded, full spectrum light oasis that you can use every single day for years and years and years to feel your best and elevate your health. With a grounded, shielded sauna sanctuary in place, you are sure to arrive next spring actually feeling better than you ever have, better than you’ve had during any previous winter.
Here’s how to set up and use your longevity sanctuary:
- Set up an eco-friendly, non-toxic, truly EMF free sauna that uses incandescent lighting and has an EMF blocking silver lining around the entire unit, so the interior truly offers you a complete healing sanctuary, even in the middle of a city.
- Get a grounding tool to rest your feet on: this organic, handmade-in-the-USA grounding mat uses medical grade stainless steel so you can wash it over and over again, contains no plastics, and has an EMF protective grounding cord, so it is the only one I recommend. It’s the only eco-ethically hand crafted, medical grade grounding mat available anywhere in the world. Be sure to select the EMF protective PureGround cord to ground your organic grounding mat, and place it on the floor of your sauna.
- Use the sauna at least once a week, or even daily, for a time period of at least 5 minutes and a maximum of 20 minutes. Allow your bare feet to rest on the grounding mat on the sauna floor, so that not only are you getting the longevity boosting effects of the sauna, but you are getting the healing boost from being grounded the entire time.
- Hydrate before, during and after sauna.
- Cool down for several minutes afterwards, to let your core body temperature normalize, and then dive back into your day knowing you have powerfully boosted your health and supported your longevity. Or slip into a nice cool shower after grounding in the sauna and then directly into bed for a wonderful restorative sleep at night. Only this sauna will let you go to sleep naturally afterwards, without disrupting your beautiful circadian rhythm with artificial lights, and the grounding mat will have reduced brain stress, relaxed your muscles, and balanced your hormones, so that sleep comes even easier.
- Don’t sauna if you have a fever, an active infection, are pregnant, or are intoxicated, and ask your physician if sauna is right for you if you have a serious cardiac issue or other health issues.
Sauna + full spectrum light + grounding is so pleasurable, it promises to be the one health care routine you want to keep up all year long, well past when winter’s chill is over!
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xoxoxo, Laura Koniver MD
