Promote A Healthy Heart
We’d all like to live longer. Right?
But did you know that regular bathing in hot water (especially if it’s filled with your favourite BAVE soaks and salts) offers real benefits to your overall health?
Research has shown that regularly taking a warm bath can help to lower blood pressure, reducing instances of serious heart conditions, such as heart attacks and strokes. Adding Magnesium Salts to your bath improves heart health further by improving circulation and managing blood pressure.
It might sound crazy that by lying back in a hot bath you are actively improving your heart health but it’s true. By inducing heart and blood flow through your body you’re essentially giving your heart a mini-workout.
Research published in the journal Heart has revealed that in Japan, where bathing is a key part of the culture, those who take hot baths often show a significant decrease in risk for cardiovascular disease or stroke. The research found that frequent tub bathing was significantly associated with a lower risk of hypertension, suggesting that a beneficial effect of tub bathing on the risk of cardiovascular disease may be in part due to a reduced risk of developing hypertension.
It seems like tub bathing is similar to exercise in that it increases the heart's work, but it does so by relaxing the blood vessels and getting the blood pumping to other parts of the body. So it creates this extra temporary work for the heart, but not one that's a negative consequence.
