Connie Zack compares traditional wood-fired saunas to infrared ones. Traditional saunas heat the air and warm your skin surface, while far-infrared wavelengths penetrate deeper into tissues, triggering heat-shock proteins and circulation improvements. Infrared feels like gentle internal warmth; traditional saunas feel externally hot and can feel suffocating.
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What's the difference between traditional finisher, Swedish or Norwegian kind of, you know, sit there with steam or heat and an infrared sauna? Because I think a lot of people listening might not know.
Yeah. So the difference essentially is the way the heat is delivered into the body is with infrared, the heat goes, especially if you get a high enough amount, which we can talk about. That's what makes enlightened special. That's what I've studied for all these years, is how to get the. The maximum in the body. So infrared, if you can get the maximum heat and you master the wavelength, then you can get it all into your body to change and transform your body. Traditional Finnish saunas have hot air and they heat the air and the wavelengths stay in the air. So you're still hot because you're hot if your air is hot. Right. Like, if it's a hot day, you're still hot, but the wavelength stays in the air. So the healing properties that actually transform the cells, that stays in the air. And the hotter the wavelength is, the shorter the wavelength is and the harder it is to get into the body. The cooler the wavelength, the longer it is, the easier it is to get into the body. And sunlight and has mastered the maximum amount of long wavelengths, far infrared, specifically to get into the body. So that's essentially when you walk into a finished sauna, like, to make it really simple. Sometimes you're like, oh, my God, that's hot. Right. Because you're feeling the air, the heat and the air. When you walk into a sunlight and infrared, there's no. It's warm and it actually, once you start to sit there, you start to feel hot from the inside. And you start, you know, your heart rate starts going, but it's not this oppressive, like, gasping feeling. That is different. So they're two completely different experiences.
It's sort of like if you go into the shade on a really hot day, you're still really hot. But if on a cool day, you go into the sun and the sun warms you up, it's a very different feeling. And it turns out there's different biological effects from it.
Correct.
So it's not just about heat. It's how does heat delivered. Is it through convection, through conduction? And what we've figured out over the last 20, 30 years is that heat's generally good for you because you heat shock protein.
Yes.
But the delivery method of the heat really seems to make a difference. And I feel very different if I go into, you know, traditional wood fired sauna and there's some hot steam versus if you're actually getting an infrared dose because. Presumably because it penetrates deeper.
Correct.
