Improve your Athletic Performance!
According to Rhonda Perciavalle Patrick, Ph.D., increasing your core temperature for short periods (she calls this "hyperthermic conditioning") may offer dramatic improvements to your athletic performance. Hyperthemic conditioning boosts endurance because it induces adaptations in your body that make it easier for you to perform when your body temperature is elevated. These adaptations include increased plasma volume and blood flow to your heart and muscles (which increase athletic endurance) along with increased muscle mass due to greater levels of heat-shock proteins (HSP) and growth hormone. In one study, those who had a 30-minute thermal therapy session twice a week for three weeks after their workouts increased their time it took to run until exhaustion by more than 30 percent!
What is the Siberian Cedar Herb Steam Barrel and why is it much better than regular or infrared sauna and steam rooms? The Siberian Cedar Barrel is a unique ancient invention used to maintain health, which has no equal in the world today.
The most important component in the Siberian Cedar Barrel is the material - Siberian cedar wood. This unique wood contains special biologically active substances capable of destroying pathogens and microbes and helps alleviate many ailments.
Due to its small size, the barrel creates a dense atmosphere of saturated steam and thereby achieves a deep warming of the body. The warming goes to the cellular level. Steam, which is fed from the generator, plays an important role in the procedure. Under the influence of steam pores open and the body rids itself of toxins through the skin. It reduces the burden on the kidneys and speeds up metabolism.
To enhance the healing effects of the procedure, herbs are placed in the steam generator. It is known that herbs are absorbed much better through the skin than herbs that are consumed. Studies have shown that a few barrel sessions are equivalent to a YEAR of pills and supplements!! Herbs continue to favorably affect the body even after the procedure. After leaving the barrel, there remain on the body herbal microdroplets.
One of the main and important differences of the Siberian Cedar Barrel from saunas and steam rooms is the person's head is outside the barrel. Accordingly, the heat does not affect the brain vessels and airways. The procedure is more comfortable, even at higher temperatures. Hence the higher the body heat the more increase in metabolism and therapeutic effect. Due to the lower humidity of most saunas it is impossible to achieve such a saturation of steam with herbs as is achieved in the cedar barrel.
Sessions in the Siberian Herb Steam Barrel:
May Prompt a Release in Growth Hormone
You can boost your HGH levels by two-fold by taking two 20-minute sessions separated by a 30-minute cooling period. Sessions combined with exercise may lead to even greater, synergistic increases in HGH as well as increases in brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which is beneficial for your brain
May Promote Muscle Growth and Longevity
Hyperthermic conditioning reduces the amount of protein degradation that naturally occurs during both muscle use and disuse. As a result, this increases the net protein synthesis in your muscles, which ultimately promotes muscle growth.
May Support Muscle Recovery after an Injury
Heat treatments may even induce heat shock proteins that help protect against rhabdomyolysis, a serious degenerative muscle tissue condition that is one of the most common side effects associated with the use of statin cholesterol-lowering drugs! Hyperthermic conditioning has been shown to slow muscle atrophy during disuse by up to 32 percent in one study.
May Help Trigger Increased Insulin Sensitivity
The mechanism that builds protein in your muscles is part of the insulin cascade pathway, and it cannot be bypassed. Hyperthermic conditioning helps to improve insulin sensitivity, which may be yet another route by which it ultimately boosts muscle growth and performance.
Might Benefit Your Brain
During exercise, fasting and hyperthermic conditioning nerve cells release proteins known as neurotrophic factors, such as brain-derived neurotrophic factor or BDNF, which activates brain stem cells to produce new neurons. BDNF also triggers numerous other chemicals that promote neural health. Researchers have shown hyperthermic conditioning increases levels of norepinephrine, a hormone involved in the stress response that increases focus and attention, as well as prolactin, which may promote myelin growth, helping your brain to function faster and repair nerve cell damage.
Info taken from Mercola.com