There is a positive cosmetic effect of a regular bath visit. Increases the thermoregulation ability of the skin. Improved reactive processes, including all elements: sensitivity of the receptor apparatus, changes in blood flow parameters, modification of the secretion of sweat glands.

Training with variable thermal effects makes it possible to accelerate reactions and increase the volume of thermal regulation. Apparently, this is the explanation of the preventive action of the bath against colds, as reported by aerobic. Newmail. En.

The subcutaneous fat layer is a poor conductor of heat, it protects the body from hypothermia. This should be taken into account by lovers of contrasting procedures. Often after a hot steam room, a company of friends rushes into the icy water and sits there longer than it should be. At the same time, no one takes into account that one amateur of such sensations has a thickness of 3-5 cm in subcutaneous tissue, while the other has 0.5-1 cm. It is clear that the first of them will only freshen up, and the second one will cover with "goose bumps" and risk getting a catarrhal disease.

As is known, the allocation of sweat refers to those functions of the skin that can be developed and which, without appropriate training, degrade. Due to systematic training visits to the pair can, as a rule, achieve adequate work of sweat glands.

More recently, new and very important data have been obtained on the penetration through the intact surface of the skin of toxic and neutral substances that dissolve well in water and in the secretion of sweat glands. It was found that our skin is impermeable only in the absence of sweat or with persistent perspiration (for example, when doing physical work, exercise, in a bath). However, once the skin has cooled, it immediately begins, like a sponge, to absorb the wetting liquids of different chemical composition. Entered through the human skin substance penetrates into the tissue fluid, lymph and blood. For example, for 2 minutes through the entire surface of the skin of a person diving after the steam room into the pool, 10 ml of the contents of the bath can enter the body!.

This fact should be instructive for those people who use steam as an active agent, to drive weight. For example, they are sportsmen both in the process of training sessions and before competitions in those sports where the rules provide for a certain body weight: boxing, weightlifting and other. These subtleties should also be known to those who watch their weight: dancers, those who are engaged in rhythmic gymnastics, and many others, to whom excess weight is contraindicated on medical grounds.

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