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Eat Nutritious Food to Replenish Minerals and Vitamins Like Sodium
The best way to replace lost electrolytes and other nutrients are not just by drinking plenty of nourishing fluids but also by eating nutritious foods. It’s important to eat a healthy snack as part of your post-sauna routine. You might notice that you crave salt when you leave the sauna.
That’s because of the lost electrolytes, especially sodium. While it’s tempting to grab a bag of chips or other high-sodium junk food, doing so is unhealthy and doesn’t add the right amount of sodium back into your system. Remember why you are embracing the sauna life in the first place.
Quite likely, you are doing it for positive health benefits. Enhance the benefits with the right foods to replace lost minerals the good way. Among foods that can replace water and nutrients lost to sauna sweating are green leafy vegetables like spinach, kale, watercress, and collard greens, beets, nuts, bananas as well as foods that are high in water like melon and pineapple.
Because your body’s circulation hasn’t fully returned to normal and your digestive system isn’t experiencing adequate blood supply, avoid eating large and/or heavy meals. Stick to a small snack instead. This is where drinking beverages with electrolytes can be very helpful because it supplies your body with the minerals it lost without requiring intense digestion and can speed your recovery time.
Adding electrolytes to your water can be as easy as adding Hi-Lyte Sugar-Free Electrolyte Powder (on Amazon). A convenient way to snack and hydrate after the sauna is to make a smoothie (you can even add electrolytes to it) ahead of time. Step out of the sauna, keep sipping water, cool off in the shower, and then grab your smoothie out of the fridge and relax.
I Used a Sauna Every Day for 2 Weeks. Here’s What Happened to My Body
Saunas have been around for thousands of years, and today's celebrities still tout them as health and wellness essentials for everything from muscle recovery and stress relief to improved lung function and better sleep.
Lady Gaga, for example, has shared that she uses an infrared sauna every day to alleviate bone inflammation from a hip injury she suffered years ago. Actor Chris Hemsworth and former professional soccer player David Beckham have also been vocal about using a sauna for the alleged health benefits they provide.
Since I’ve heard about so many positive experiences from sauna users, I wanted to try one myself. Because my gym in St. Louis, Missouri, has a sauna that's available for all members to use, I was able to regularly access the facility to document how repeated sauna use did—or didn't—impact my physical and mental health.
I also wanted to incorporate a sauna session into my daily routine because I put my body through a lot of stress and strain through weightlifting, running, stair climbing, and hiking.
Here are the top things I noticed after using my gym’s sauna for 15 minutes every day for two weeks.
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I Was Less Sore After My Workouts
After using the sauna consistently for two weeks following a workout, I noticed that overall, my muscles didn’t feel as heavy and sore as they normally would feel post-exercise. For example, after upper body workouts, I generally feel some type of tightness and soreness in my triceps and chest the following day. However, when I used the sauna after completing the same workout but with heavier weights, I didn’t have that muscular fatigue.
According to Medhat Mikhael, MD, pain management specialist and medical director of the non-operative program at the Spine Health Center at MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley, CA, when people use a sauna, blood vessels tend to relax and dilate. When this happens, blood flow increases to muscles, joints, and other organs, which speeds recovery and helps to alleviate soreness.
"Relaxation causes a lot of relief to muscle soreness. The dry heat from the sauna is especially beneficial to patients with chronic pain or those who suffer from arthritis and inflammatory diseases," Mikhael told Verywell.
