what is the proper usage of a steam room and/or sauna? What are the benefits?
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Benefits:\n\n1. Cleaning your skin pores\n2. Eliminating body toxines\n3. Burning fat and losing weight\n\nI dont know of any risks involved.
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distill\n\nboil liquid, and cool the steam.
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its due to the room heating system
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In the sauna after it's had about 30 min to cool down.  \nI did this in 2001, once, on an Alaska cruise ship.  Ever since then the cooling sauna is the best.  The smell of cedar and sex......  \nAfter a couple of martinis my girl and I snuck in the spa after the spa was closed.  The cruise ship was rocking and lockers were slamming shut, then swinging open, then slamming shut. We were the only ones in and were hoping the whole time that someone would/wouldn't walk in.  Hot.
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a room with a hot tub!!
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Sitting in a steamy restroom is good for asthma. It works like a humidifier and opens up the airway passage.
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humidity - if you go look under the general science and mathematics category then the question next to yours is very similar. Saunas are definitely over 70C, I've been in one in Finland that was about 80C, they like theirs HOT. You have to sit on a thick towel or you would burn your skin when you sat down. Turkish baths are the steamy ones aren't they? They are definitely not 70C, you'd die. They are probably about 30-35C but they feel just as hot because of the humidity. \n\nWhen your body needs to cool down you sweat, and as the sweat evapourates it cools the skin. If you are in humid air at 30C the sweat can't evapourate much as the air is already full of moisture so you feel hotter. In a sauna the air is very dry and the sweat evapourates so you don't feel as hot. \n\nIf you want to test this, the simple way is to go in a sauna, get comfortable, then chuck a scoop of water on the rocks so it goes to steam. Chuck on a few scoops and you will be out of there pretty quick.\n\nI should also point out that although you feel hot, your core body temperature would hardly change - we are very good at controlling that so long as we get out of the heat when we feel we really need to.
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I used to take a steam bath, then go into the sauna and then a cold shower.  I'm not sure if it matters in what order you do the first two as they both have the same effect .. opening up the pores, cleanse out the body's toxins and revitalize the skin.  Just make sure you take the shower last to close the pores again.\n\nhttp://www.freewebs.com/spiritualhealing
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saunas are great for your skin.........they open up the pores......no other real benefits though.........you might drop a few pounds in water weight from all the sweat...........mostly just for relaxation....
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It takes quite a lot of energy for water to change phase.  Steam actually contains much more energy than does boiling water, therefore it burns far worse when it comes in contact with human skin.\n\nSee the link below.  You can actually do the math to confirm this -- it takes 100 cal/gm to heat water from 0 to 100 degrees C, but 539 cal/gm to change that water into steam.  So ten grams of water at 0 degrees C absorbs 1000 calories to boil but nearly 6400 calories to turn completely into steam.\n\nThat's a lot of heat.\n\nIn rebuttal to some of the other answers, burns are caused (I believe) by heat convection -- that is, the hot substance in direct contact with the skin, transferring its heat to the skin cells and damaging or destroying them.  Water is more likely to stay in contact with the skin than steam is, because steam is a gas that rises away from the skin.  This is why some people seem to erroneously believe that steam doesn't burn.\n\nHowever if skin comes into continuous contact with steam, it will burn, and quite badly.
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I find a nice warm relaxing bath then a nice rest in your comphy pajama's with soothing music on while a scented candle or incense in burning works very well, but it depends on the person, some people find exercise works well...
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To conserve body heat and energy.
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"2. Use less power - take a shower!\n\nSometimes a Myth, but sometimes True\nThe Government pushed this one heavily in the mid-1990s; I have a nice badge showing a dinosaur taking a shower. But in practice the answer is a lot more complex. The easiest way to test this out is to put the plug in the bath next time you have a shower, and see how much it fills up. If, at the end of the shower, there is less water than you would usually have in a bath, then you will probably save money by taking a shower. But it's not quite that simple... \n\nThe simple answer assumes that you are using the same source to heat water for the bath and the shower. This will be the case if you are using your central heating boiler or an immersion heater. But a lot of British homes have a "Power Shower" that uses electricity to provide a powerful and instant shower. Not only do they use water more quickly than a shower fed from a hot water system, they also use on-peak electricity that costs around 7p a unit, compared to 2p for gas. At this point it gets complicated, as to give a firm answer you would also need to know the efficiency of your heating boiler, the amount of insulation on the hot water tank and the losses on the pipework between the tank and your shower.\n\nIn fact, it may not make any difference either way, if you are using the central heating boiler to warm the water. For in most cases, especially in summer, we leave the boiler on for a fixed period of time, allowing it to heat up the tank of water. If the bath or shower is drawn off after the end of a water heating period, it will not affect the heating cost on the day it was used (for that has already happened) but on the next heating cycle. And if the tanks cools down then it will not be significantly affected by how much hot water was used after the previous cycle. "
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for radiation - how about someone sitting under the sun? Radiant energy is what heats you from the sun.\n\nFor convection (you seem to change your mind if you want convection or conduction info) you could think in terms of how a convector heater works - the warm air circulating the heat around the room. Convection also applies to liquids too - think of the water in the kettle and the water currents inside making all of the water heat more-or less together.\n\nFor conduction, how about a saucepan sitting on top of a cookers' hotplate?\n\nHeating by radiation is through infrared heat - from the sun, from a light bulb - even a bonfire but that can also be from convection too. Think in terms of "heatwaves" with radiation perhaps.\n\nConduction of heat is when two surfaces of dissimilar temperature are brough together. Some of the heat will travel by conduction (touching) to the cooler object.
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I had this dilemna in highschool for wrestling. Saunas, Run in a heat suit (Or in multiple layers of clothes)
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well firstly you are using less electricity and also the steam is not polluting the atmosphere directly. apart from that there aren't really any other advantages i can think of
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I know some essential benefits are to cleanse our body, free radical stress which has been accumulated in our body, regulate our body temperature, invigorates our organs and skin. It's good to use the steam every now and then to heighten our well-being and health!