Creating a detox diet for yourself can kick metabolism into overdrive and will help clean out the system. Combined with infrared sauna therapy and there’s a lot of amazing benefits you can provide the body in a short amount of time, jolting it into healthier living.
Gut health is a focus of a detox diet plan, reducing the bad bacteria living in your gut and improving digestion while minimizing bloating. Liver function will be improved as more fat’s burned, toxins stored in this part of the body are excreted, and your organs get optimized. Thirdly, skin complexion and tone generally improve after a few weeks, and that’s because so many metals or toxins are being pushed out through the skin, including cadmium and lead.
Now, there are many detox plans out there which are not the healthiest. Juice fasts and similar diets are temporary, trendy, and can make a person feel like absolute garbage while they’re going through it. For long-term and sustainable results, a healthy detox diet should involve smart choices in foods combined with sauna use which is not short-term and which you can spur into something permanent.
With a detox diet, you don’t want to jar your system into arrest. Jump right in and you could end with headaches, constipation, bloating, and painful side effects. That’s not what infrared sauna therapy is about nor what a detox diet should do. Simple ways to ease your way in is to cut out sugar and alcohol from your day-to-day. Any artificial sweeteners, wheat-intensive products, overly processed foods, and fast food can be eliminated as well in this time. Animal proteins – especially those with high-fat such as sausage, pork, and beef – can be eliminated.
A healthy detox diet for an infrared sauna begins with vegetables. Dark leafy greens like kale, arugula, spinach, and collard greens are recommended. Tasty veggie snacks include celery, carrots, cucumber, lettuce, snow peas, squash, zucchini, yams, and asparagus. Veggies are great because they’re low-calorie and low-carb, filled with fiber to help with digestion, have some protein to them and are filled with nutrients.
Outside of veggies, healthy grains like wild rice, quinoa, tapioca, rice bran, rice crackers, and oatmeal are great to work into your diet here and there as an energy booster. Nuts and seeds also pack in serious protein which you don’t need to eat meat to receive. Almonds, cashews, Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, and pistachios. Fruits are also excellent additions to any diet detox plan as they’ll give you a kick of natural sugar, fiber, and are appropriate in juice as long as it’s natural and unsweeted. Choose apricots, pears, peaches, mangos, kiwi, cherries, or figs for fruit.
Although some detox diets will say never to eat animal protein, a healthy diet has balance. A small amount of animal protein in a day’s eating can have a purpose. Select lean cuts in turkey, chicken, wild-caught fish, lamb, and any wild-game. Drinks-wise, filtered water is always going to be our best recommendation. Any sodas, high-sugar juices, or non-water based drinks are only going to add calories which is something you don’t need.
As you begin on your sauna health and wellness journey, it’s key to focus on what you’re putting into your body. After all, it’s from these ingredients which so much about the way you look and feel are determined. Take it from one of North America’s top steam room and sauna supplies, Steam Sauna, when you get your diet straightened out in combination with regular sauna use, that’s all you need to look and feel better.