What will it do for me?
Beautification & Anti-Aging Effect
Our lava stone spa treatment increases the body's core temperature, which results in overall health improvements, rejuvenation, relaxation and deeper sleep. These attributes are all related to the enhancement of beauty for most people. Our treatments can help you achieve and improve overall beauty by detoxification of your skin through the perspiration process by lying on stone bed.
The sebum that is produced from the sebaceous gland supplies a natural coating for the skin and hair – making them both smooth and silky.
It is recommended not to take shower within two hours after the treatment to gain the most benefits to the skin and hair.
Also, profuse sweating carries off deeply imbedded impurities and dead skin cells, leaving the skin glowing and immaculately clean.
This is excellent for clearing psoriasis, eczema and acne.
Increased circulation draws the skin's own natural nutrients to the surface. It improves tone, elasticity and texture of the skin.
While you improve the surface of your body, your body also promotes rebuilding of injured tissue by having a positive effect on the fibroblasts (connective tissue cells necessary for the repair of injury).
Furthermore, it increases growth of cells, DNA syntheses, and protein synthesis all necessary during tissue repair and regeneration. This is known to be good for healing burns, scar tissue and skin problems.
This detoxification and rejuvenation of skins cells is what leads to the natural "glow" of the skin and the appearance of beauty.
Of course if you prefer to have a shower, Bliss Stone Spa has a shower booth equipped with Shiseido body soap and shampoo.
Sickness Prevention
It has been established that coldness is the starting point for most diseases. When your body core gets cold, your body accumulates or holds fat and water which leads to poor blood circulation. As your body temperature decreases, so does your metabolism rate and immune system which makes you more susceptible to catching all kinds of colds and illnesses.
Magma stone rock-bathing treatments help increase your body’s temperature throughout by first heating up your body core and can help prevent you from catching unwanted colds and other sicknesses.
Counteracts negative effects of Environmental Pollution and helps prevent respiratory-related illnesses:
Today, modern homes and offices seal out negative ions. Computer terminals, fluorescent lighting, forced air ventilation systems and modern building materials generate an over abundance of positive ions. Positive ions make us feel tired, depressed and irritable. A room charged with negative ions was shown to stem bacteria growth and precipitate many airborne contaminants including pollen, dust and dust mites, viruses, second-hand cigarette smoke, animal dander, odors and toxic chemical fumes.
It is therefore crucial that we strike a balance by enhancing our bodies with negative ions.
Increase the flow of oxygen to the brain:
Negative ions result in higher alertness, decreased drowsiness, and more mental energy," says Pierce J. Howard, PhD, author of The Owners Manual for the Brain: Everyday Applications from Mind Brain Research and director of research at the Center of Applied Cognitive Sciences in Charlotte, N.C. By promoting abundant oxygen levels in the blood, negative ions help normalize brain function, resulting in relaxation and calmness.
Natural Anti-Depressant:
A higher level of negative ions has been proven to be as effective against SAD (Seasonal Affective Depression) as antidepressants, such as Prozac and Zolof, and without the side effects.
Strengthens the Immune and Cardiovascular Systems
- Stimulates increased production of white blood cells (leukocytes) by the bone marrow and killer T-cells by the thymus.
- Relieves nervous tension and relaxes autoneuro muscles thereby helping the body make the most of its intended healing abilities. Far Infrared Rays reduces soreness on nerve endings and muscle spasms, as muscle fibres are heated.
- Promotes the killing of many pathogenic (disease causing) bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites.
- High Levels of negative ions promote production of globulin in the blood, resulting in stronger resistance to illness.
Greater immunity makes you stronger at fighting off viruses, bacteria and other infections.
If you feel the early signs of a cold coming on, come in for a Magma rock bathing treatment to help rev up your immune system. This will reduce your number of sick days. Greater immunity means greater health and a better quality of life.Cardiovascular System is strengthened by causing heart rate and cardiac output increase, and diastolic blood pressure decrease - Extensive research by NASA in the early 1980's led to the conclusion that far infrared stimulation of cardiovascular function would be the ideal way to maintain cardiovascular conditioning in American astronauts during long space flight.
Pain Relief
The deep heat of Far Infrared therapy helps peripheral blood vessels dilate, bringing relief and healing to muscle and soft tissue injuries. In Europe, radiant heat therapy is widely used to treat patients suffering from many forms of arthritis.
It has proven effective in the treatment of sprains, neuralgia, bursitis, muscle spasms, joint stiffness and many other musculoskeletal ailments.
For athletes who push their body's to the limit, creating lactic acid build-up, which often results in stiffness and pain, the Infrared Rays offers sweet relief as it gently metabolizes and disperses the lactic acid. Increased blood circulation carries off metabolic waste products and delivers oxygen-rich blood to oxygen-depleted muscles so they recover faster. Muscles relax most readily when tissues are warm, promoting greater flexibility and range of motion. Much of the stiffness, aches and soreness that come with aging will be reduced.
Detoxification
Lava Magma rock-bathing promotes perspiration. There are actually two ways that you can perspire and the quality in the sweat is very different.
One type of sweat includes the loss of good nutrients like sodium and magnesium. This type of sweat is usually oily, salty and smelly and is caused by a sudden rise in body temperature (i.e. from hot sauce or sports).
The other way to perspire is through Bliss Stone Spa – Ganbanyoku. The body temperature rises slowly from the inside of your body. Your body will “be ready” to perspire good quality sweat that does not contain minerals essential to the body but gets rid of toxins in your system. Essentially, the body eliminates a large fraction of accumulated toxins naturally by sweating. Far-Infrared heat therapy stimulates the sweat glands which cleanse and detoxify the skin as it heats the tissues several inches deep.
This promotes elimination of fats, chemicals and toxins from the blood: Poisons, carcinogenic heavy metals - toxic substances from food processing - lactic acid, free fatty acids, and subcutaneous fat associated with aging and fatigue - excess sodium associated with hypertension - and uric acid which causes pain.
Since the sebaceous glands are activated, accumulated cosmetics in pores can be eliminated through the skin (sweat and oil glands) rather than by the kidneys. Sebum, from the sebaceous glands, detoxifies harmful metals such as mercury, lead, and cadmium. Such metals are usually attached to body fat which makes them into unhealthy "non-burnable" fat as even high metabolism rates will not get rid of these contaminated fat deposits.
However by sweating from far infrared rays and negative ions, these heavy metals detach from fat cells and through your rock-bathing treatments, you will rid your body of these toxins while also allowing your body to naturally burn away body fat.
Scientists in Japan report that Far Infrared heat expands the capillaries and then initiates the start of a process to dissolve hidden toxins. Researchers have discovered that the use of the Far Infrared spectrum was most effective in the removal of a vast amount of toxins via the skin, thereby relieving a heavy load on the kidneys and limiting the use of oral or intravenous chelating agents.
Far Infrared Ray therapy is thought to be 7 times more effective at detoxifying heavy metals such as mercury, aluminum, cholesterols, nicotine, alcohol, ammonia, sulfuric acid and other environmental toxins, as opposed to conventional saunas. Mercury is the most toxic element on earth, second only to plutonium.
The flushing of toxins from the lymph areas and from the largest organ of elimination, the skin, is the source of many health improvements. Toxemia has been targeted as the number one reason so many of us are ill.
With the elimination of these poisons from deep within the body, the organs can then do their job unhindered.
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