How Does Sauna Healing Work?

Here's a question I frequently get as the CEO of Clearlight Infrared Saunas International®, many people inquire about the potential for sauna healing.

Below I describe 2 different mechanisms by which infrared saunas, including far-infrared light, can stimulate sauna healing.

What Is Far Infrared Healing?

There's not an exceeding amount of available research on "far infrared", compared to visible light and near-infrared light (1; 2; 3).

You may wonder, however, what the difference is between "visible light", "near-infrared", and "far infrared".

Well, it's simple: visible light is the different photons you can see with your naked eye. Visible light includes all the colours of the rainbow, such as purple, blue, orange, red, etcetera.

Some parts of the light spectrum are also invisible to the human eye, however - that's infrared light and ultraviolet light.

Ultraviolet light is the light that can give you sunburns - I won't treat that in this blog post. Infrared light, moreover, is felt as heat on your skin, and can venture into your body, thereby affecting your cells' functioning.

I'll now venture into the topic of sauna healing, specifically "far infrared healing".

Let's, therefore, explore some purported benefits of far infrared which have been demonstrated in the current scientific literature.

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