He claimed that it stimulated healing in the body and in 1893 displayed his invention at the Chicago World's Fair. John Harvey Kellogg invented the use of radiant heat saunas with his incandescent electric light bath in 1891. Infrared saunas are also used in Infrared Therapy and Waon Therapy and although there is a small amount of preliminary evidence that these therapies correlate with a number of benefits including reduced blood pressure, increased heart rate and increased left ventricular function there are several problems with linking this evidence to alleged health benefits. Traditional Saunas differ from infrared saunas in that they heat the body primarily by conduction and convection from the heated air and by radiation of the heated surfaces in the sauna room whereas infrared saunas primarily use just radiation. Infrared saunas are popular in alternative therapies where they are claimed to help with a number of medical issues including Autism, Cancer and COVID-19 but these claims are entirely pseudoscientific.
For the page about other types of saunas, see Sauna.Īn infrared sauna is a type of sauna that uses infrared heaters to emit infrared light experienced as radiant heat which is absorbed by the surface of the skin.
This article is about the type of sauna that uses infrared light as its heat source.
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