A hot new therapy? (Heart Failure).Spending time "Spending Time" is the first single released by Christian artist Stellar Kart. The lyrics describe the band members desire to spend "more time with God". "Sometimes it’s a real struggle to spend time with God. in a sauna sauna Bath in steam from water thrown on heated stones. Known in ancient times in various places, saunas are most closely identified with the Finnish people, who made saunas a national tradition. improves heart function in people with chronic heart failure, report researchers from Japan. For 2 weeks, 20 people spent 15 minutes a day, 5 days a week, in a 60[degrees]C sauna and then 30 minutes lying on a bed wrapped in blankets to maintain an increased body temperature. The other 10 volunteers lay on a bed without blankets at room temperature for 45 minutes a day, 5 days a week. At the beginning of the study, people in the two groups had comparable heart-failure symptoms. After 2 weeks, however, volunteers who got the sauna treatment experienced significantly fewer premature heartbeats and episodes of irregular heart rates compared with the patients who didn't get the saunas. The sauna-treated volunteers also had lower blood concentrations of two hormones linked to heart damage, says Chuwa Tei of Kagoshima University Kagoshima University (鹿児島大学 Kagoshima Daigaku . Tei notes that the saunas used in this study 'were heated with infrared An invisible band of radiation at the lower end of the visible light spectrum. With wavelengths from 750 nm to 1 mm, infrared starts at the end of the microwave spectrum and ends at the beginning of visible light. heat lamps heat lamp n. A lamp that emits infrared light and produces heat, used to apply topical heat to the skin for therapeutic purposes. heat lamp Infrared lamp, see there and Were cooler than the saunas in many Western countries. Tei proposes that the benefits of saunas may even extend patients' lives. Earlier this year, he reported that hamsters with heart failure regularly put into a heated sauna live longer than hamsters placed in a sauna that wasn't turned on.--D.C. |
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