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According to a lot of experts, saunas and steam rooms have a lot of medical benefits. That’s right, sitting in a room sweating it out can actually do a lot of good for you. Who’d have thought it? Saunas generally have rooms set up with dry heat and with low humidity. Steam rooms, on the other hand, are much more humid, and not as hot. The heat is more wet heat or moist heat, and the rooms crank it up to nearly 100% humidity. Whew. So are you considering sweating it out for the sake of your health? And if so, which one should you pick?
The Makeup
Traditional saunas have heaters to heat up rocks, which warm up the whole room like an oven. You can pour water over them to get the room a bit humid, and the room usually has a vent. Some saunas use infrared heat as well….