Wash in the bathhouse and you will be born again: how the Russian bathhouse is beneficial for the body
There are many proverbs and sayings about the benefits of the bathhouse and bath procedures: the bathhouse steams – gives health, having washed in the bathhouse – you are born again and many, many others.
Folk wisdom is confirmed by the physiological effect of the bath on a person. Let's find out what happens to the body while in the steam room.
As a result of bath procedures, the vital activity of cells changes - ultimately, their reactivity is activated, the body's resistance to adverse environmental influences increases, and protective and compensatory mechanisms develop.
To sum up, we can say that a natural harmonization of all life processes occurring in the human body occurs.
So, speaking about the cardiovascular system, the functioning capillaries expand and increase in number, and arterial and venous blood flow accelerates.
Thanks to the active work of gas, mineral and protein metabolism, the body “more energetically” gets rid of harmful deposits such as sodium salts, chloride, uric and lactic acid, etc.
The ligament-articular apparatus is not left out either, since the Russian bathhouse stimulates the regeneration of bone tissue, which can be called a kind of prevention of arthrosis and contractures.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that natural hardening occurs in the bathhouse, which means that the bathhouse gives lightness to the body, vigor and a good mood.
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