What’s Actually in Your Sweat After a Sauna Session: The Numbers vs Urine
Recap: Sauna use helps mobilize out circulating toxicants mainly via sweat and urine, but understanding concentration vs…
What CO2 Buildup Costs You During Your Sauna Sessions
Most people optimize their sauna sessions around two numbers: temperature and time. For temperature, it’s often between…
The Importance of the Post Sauna Session Cool-Down
Recap answer: The clinical studies behind far infrared sauna therapy didn’t just study the sauna alone. They…
What It Actually Costs to Run a Transcend Sauna (I Did the Arithmetic)
One of the hesitations we oftenI hear from people considering a home sauna is: “What’s it going…
You’re Sweating for Detox — But These 3 Habits Might Be Undoing It
I’ve had patients tell me they sit in their sauna religiously, four or five times a week,…
Hydration and Electrolytes for Sauna Users: What to Drink Before, During, and After
Overview answer: Sodium is the mineral you lose in the greatest quantity when you sweat (though there…
Sauna Fitness™: Finally, a Way to Measure Your Sauna Progress
I’m about to tell you about my favorite feature we’ve ever built. But first, a confession. For…
How Often Should You Use an Infrared Sauna? Frequency, Timing, and Building a Sustainable Routine
Short answer: For most healthy adults, an every-other-day rhythm (even through the summer, more on this below)…
Introducing the TRS-1: Our Smart Sauna, Now in a 1-Person Size
For the past couple of years, one question has come up in our conversations with customers more…
Sauna and Your Nervous System: Cortisol, Stress Resilience, and Down-Regulation
I get some version of this question almost every week. Someone’s read that saunas lower stress, they…
Sauna Use and the Glymphatic System: What the Science Actually Supports
Your brain doesn’t have lymph vessels the way the rest of your body does to remove waste.…
Contrast Therapy: What Alternating Sauna Heat and Cold Plunges Does for Your Body
The practice of cycling between heating and cooling the body has been practiced for thousands of years…
The Case for Sharing Your Sauna: Benefits Beyond Heat
Almost everything written about saunas focuses on the same handful of numbers: how hot, how long, and…
Infrared Sauna Therapy and Your Mood: Why Heat Therapy Supports Mental Wellness.
If you’ve been feeling off lately, know that you’re in a very big crowd. The CDC’s latest…
Can Sitting in a Sauna Actually Work Your Heart Like a Workout?
Here’s something that sounds too good to be true. You sit down, relax, sweat a little, and…
Menopause and Infrared Sauna Therapy: Hot Flashes, Sleep, Bone Density, and the Timing Question
Let me get the obvious joke out of the way first. You are having hot flashes, and…
The Growing Role of Saunas in Integrative Medicine: What Practitioners Are Saying
Twenty years ago, telling your cardiologist you used a sauna for heart health would get you a…
Useful Sauna Adjuncts: Adaptogenic Herbs
As an herbalist who has studied herbs and their functions for over 30 years, my favorite category…
How to Know If Your Sauna Is Actually Working: Signs of Effective Sessions and Adaptation Over Time
I hear this question a lot. Someone buys an infrared sauna, uses it for a week or…
Are You Detoxing… or Re-Toxing?
Everybody’s detoxing these days. Cleanses, supplements, sauna protocols, celery juice, you name it. But almost nobody is…
What Is EMF, and Why Does Low-EMF Design Matters in an Infrared Sauna
If you’ve spent any time researching infrared saunas, you’ve probably come across the term “EMF” and wondered…
Mitochondrial Health: Fueling Your Cells with Infrared Light
You probably think about energy in terms of what you eat — calories in, energy out. Maybe…
Calorimetry and Infrared Sauna Therapy: Why Measurable Heat Matters
If you’ve spent any time in an infrared sauna, you already know what it feels like. The…
Toxin Binders for Sauna Detox: A Complete Guide
I’ve been studying holistic health since 1997 and working at High Tech Health for over thirteen years.…
Can Sauna Use Support Dementia Prevention? What the Finnish Research Actually Shows
If you’ve been paying any attention to wellness research over the past few years, you’ve probably come…
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