Introduction to the advantages and disadvantages of sweat steaming

Sweat steaming is a leisure and health care method that is loved by many fashionable people nowadays. Sweat steaming has many benefits to our body. It can effectively help us eliminate toxins in the body and effectively relieve our physical fatigue. However, it also has some disadvantages. Usually we only know that sweat steaming has many benefits but we don’t particularly understand some of its disadvantages. Let us learn about the advantages and disadvantages of sweat steaming.

The pros and cons of sweat steaming

Benefits of sweat steaming

1. Excrete toxins

Experts say that active sweating can speed up the body's fluid circulation and metabolism, expel toxins such as lactic acid, urea, ammonia, etc. that accumulate in the body, and ensure the smooth flow of the nose, skin, lungs, and large intestine system.

2. Improve digestion

Not sweating and slow blood circulation will affect digestion, causing people to lose appetite; neural activity will also be affected, causing people to sleep poorly at night.

3. Control blood pressure

Hypertension is a phenomenon caused by the narrowing and hardening of the inner diameter of blood vessels, which limits the unit blood flow. Sweating during exercise can dilate capillaries, accelerate blood circulation, increase the elasticity of blood vessel walls, and achieve the purpose of lowering blood pressure.

4. Prevent osteoporosis

Many people think that sweating will cause calcium in the body to be lost with sweat. In this regard, experts point out that only water-soluble vitamins will be lost with sweat. Although calcium is soluble in water, its solubility is very low and it is unlikely to be excreted with sweat. On the contrary, sweating is beneficial to the effective retention of calcium and the prevention of osteoporosis.

5. Skin care and beauty

People who never sweat have slow skin metabolism and some waste products are difficult to excrete. Sweating can clean pores and achieve the effect of beauty and skin care.

6. Improve memory

A long-term educational experiment conducted in the United States on 20,000 middle school students showed that active exercise and sweating will have a positive effect on students, greatly improving their memory and concentration.

7. Weight loss

When the human body exercises and reaches a certain intensity, fat will be burned and converted into heat and excreted from the body through sweat.

8. Regulate Yin and Yang

People live in air-conditioned rooms for a long time, such as bedrooms, cars, shopping malls, banks, offices, etc. Over time, the balance of yin and yang in the human body will inevitably be destroyed. Sweat steaming can effectively balance the yin and yang of the human body.

9. Strengthen immunity

Far-infrared light waves radiate back to the human body, giving it a sense of warmth and enhancing the body's immunity (resistance) and the tissue regeneration capacity of biological cells, accelerating the supply of nutrients and enzymes, and achieving the effects of health care and auxiliary treatment.

10. Calming the nerves

Far-infrared sauna baths can calm the nerves, restore the central nervous system's self-regulating inhibition or excitement function, and relieve physical tension.

Disadvantages of sweat steaming

1. May cause male infertility

Although sweat steaming has many health benefits, if men do it too frequently, it may cause infertility. The reason for this is that the temperature of the sweat steam is relatively high, while the temperature of the testicles is 3-4 degrees Celsius lower than that of the human body. The testicles are not as sensitive to temperature as other parts of the skin, so the water temperature that the skin feels is appropriate may have already "burned" the testicles.

2. Easy to cause colds

After steaming, people often sweat profusely and all over their body. When you leave the steam room, once you encounter cold wind or lower temperature, it is easy for the cold air to invade your body, which can cause a cold in severe cases. Faced with this situation, people who like sweat steaming must bring a thick coat. Even if they still feel hot all over after sweating in the steam room, they should put on the coat to prevent colds.

3. People with weak constitutions are prone to collapse

Sweating consumes a lot of energy, and if you have a weak physical constitution, you may experience fainting. Therefore, people with weak constitution should shorten the steaming time.

4. Obesity rebound

Although sweat steaming can help lose weight. However, during the steaming process, a lot of energy will be consumed in the body. After the steaming, you may feel extremely hungry. At this time, if you eat a lot, you may experience obesity rebound.

We all know that everything has multiple aspects, with good and bad sides. By understanding the advantages and disadvantages of steaming, we can make full use of the benefits of steaming to help us relieve physical fatigue, thereby avoiding and reducing the disadvantages brought to us by steaming.