Who wants to lose weight without effort? YES PLEASE, SIGN ME UP!!!

You'll notice I didn’t say without sweat, because this is a strategy that helps you not only lose weight, but also detoxify your body, manage pain and boost the immune system, all while lying “doing nothing” in a Far Infra Red (FIR) Heat therapy bed. You WILL sweat and that’s the whole idea.

Let me share a client’s story with you…

• Male, 47 years, 5’11”, 101 kg.
• Target weight loss goal 30kg in 3 months.
• 6 weeks in and 15kg’s down.
• 40 minutes in the FIR bed, 400 grams down. WOW!

In fairness client has a quite a bit to lose and the more weight you carry the more you’ll burn off. For example, I am quite little at ’5’2” and about 48kgs, and when I have a FIR session, I lose about 100 grams, and this is cumulative (assuming calorie intake is kept in check)  A typical session of 30-40 minutes burns around 1000-3000 calories, depending on how much you have to lose. Now that doesn’t mean you can have your 3000 calorie cake and eat it!

I don’t need to lose weight, so why do I do FIR? Well my work as a yoga teacher and massage therapist can sometimes be taxing on my joints, and I use FIR for pain management, and for me all it takes is 40 minutes of FIR therapy and my pain is gone for quite a few days.

Its ironic that we are using fire to put out the fire. So what is FIR and how does that work? Well here are the basic principles.

FIR is a painless, non invasive light therapy that is experienced by us as heat, the kind of heat we enjoy while sitting in the sun (the invisible part of the sun’s rays but without the suns skin damaging UV radiation). This infra red light penetrates the inner layers of the skin by up to 7cm, deep into muscle, nerves and bones, boosting blood circulation, accelerating a detoxifying sweat while bringing healing nutrients and pain relieving components to the area.

The body responds to this deep penetrating infrared heat by relaxing and allowing the muscles and tendons to unwind, releasing tension and promoting the release of the ‘feel good’ hormones Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin and Endorphins (DOSE). The release of DOSE hormones has a domino effect in the body and are hugely beneficial in such areas as reducing stress, aiding in sleep, aiding in weight loss, reducing anxiety, reducing pain and having a profound effect on the psychological and physiological well being of the body.

This deep heat is also responsible for increasing the core body temperature, thus creating a ‘false fever’ and the bodies natural immune response is to reduce pain by ‘putting out the inflammation fire’. An additional benefit is the activation of the sweat glands, which removes toxins (by detoxifying fat cells and tissues), cleansing the skin, boosting collagen (excellent for anti-ageing), creating a healthy glow and leaving skin tone much improved.

The downside of weight gain, is it invariably results in joint pain due to the added stress of extra weight burden on those joints. However, with FIR you're receiving a double whammy of weight loss and pain reduction, all at the same time. With the cooler weather contributing to possible weight gain and inflamed joints, what better way than to relax in a super warm, cosy FIR bed.

An effortless way to achieve awesome results. Who doesn’t want that?

Let us help you kickstart your weight loss and pain management programme by popping into VaVa Health or give us a call.

Namaste,  Ashlí

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