Cardiovascular Disease Helped By Far Infrared Therapy?

Cardiovascular Disease is one of the most common illnesses of the western world.

A study from 2004 in Cardiology in Review has looked at whether a far infrared sauna is an effective therapy for congestive heart failure.

The authors summarise their findings by saying that there are suggestions that the far infrared sauna "can be an effective therapeutic modality for patients with cardiovascular disease, especially for those with congestive heart failure."

That's good news.

However, as the authors point out double-blind studies would be difficult to evaluate in a sauna.

However, the story doesn't end there...

In the Japanese Circulation Journal a study was published, the same year.

The study used 30 patients with Chronic heart failure (CHF) and split them into two groups. One group was given daily infrared sauna therapy for two weeks. The control group was put into a room with a controlled temperature.

The study concluded that "Repeated sauna treatment improves ventricular arrhythmias in patients with CHF".

Looking at this research it certainly showed an infrared sauna helped the patients in the study.