Caloric loss using a sauna blanket

running1954
running1954 Posts: 3 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Does anyone know any weight to heat setting values for using a LIFEPRO Sauna Blanket?

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  • running1954
    running1954 Posts: 3 Member
    edited July 2023
    This would require a study addressing weight, time and heat setting...all very approx.
  • sollyn23l2
    sollyn23l2 Posts: 1,855 Member
    Are you trying to sweat out water? That's all it will do. As far as how much water you'll sweat out... that's extremely individual to your body.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,081 Member
    edited July 2023
    You might be burning less calories if you lay under that blanket compared to sitting around and using your muscles to keep you upright. Just a timy bit less, mind. For sleeping at night: it does sound dangerous
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    This seems a bit like an ad...first post, hm.

    I would think this is a very dangerous thing in general.

    Just eat less, move more. :drinker:
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,055 Member
    I saw a page on a blog that claimed "according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, a 30-minute session in an infrared sauna blanket can burn up to 600 calories" but when I went to JAMA's site, could not find any results for sauna blankets. Maybe someone more experienced in searching JAMA could double check?

    I suspect if the scale shows a decrease, it will be water weight only, when what you actually want to lose is fat.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,093 Member
    edited July 2023
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    I saw a page on a blog that claimed "according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, a 30-minute session in an infrared sauna blanket can burn up to 600 calories" but when I went to JAMA's site, could not find any results for sauna blankets. Maybe someone more experienced in searching JAMA could double check?

    I suspect if the scale shows a decrease, it will be water weight only, when what you actually want to lose is fat.
    Lol, if this really was the case, then why bother exercising when instead you can lay under a sauna blanket and watch TV for an hour and burn up to 1200 calories? :D
    I couldn't find a study to support it, and blogs usually have people who just "blog" to get likes.


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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,214 Member
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    I saw a page on a blog that claimed "according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, a 30-minute session in an infrared sauna blanket can burn up to 600 calories" but when I went to JAMA's site, could not find any results for sauna blankets. Maybe someone more experienced in searching JAMA could double check?

    I suspect if the scale shows a decrease, it will be water weight only, when what you actually want to lose is fat.

    From what I can see, some AMA publications accept advertising, though they have quite a strict advertising code. One of the classic marketing slick tricks is to place an ad in "Pretigious Publication X" making claims for a product, then advertise in other places that "According to Prestigious Publication X, our product does XYZ amazing things!". Wondering if that could be true here. Or - shockers - maybe the blog just made it up.

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