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The luxury Finnish Haikko Spa, located less than 50 kilometres east of Helsinki, has transformed a traditional pain-relieving approach into an energizing spa treatment that involves exposing the body to shallow temperatures, causing the skin’s surface temperature to drop to 3 to 4 degrees Celsius.
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The Haikko Spa in Porvoo, Finland, was the first Finnish spa to offer ultra cold treatments in 2003 and the world’s first cryo-treatment facility to employ a mix of electricity and liquid nitrogen to achieve the required freezing temperatures.
The spa recommends that guests wear a swimming costume and protective equipment, as well as mittens, socks, and slippers.
The therapy will be supervised by qualified personnel, who will go through two insulated rooms with temperatures of -30 and -60 degrees Celsius before entering the extremely chilly treatment room, where temperatures will plummet to -110 degrees Celsius.
Depending on the precise advised therapy, visitors will spend one to three minutes here.
When exposed to such cold temperatures, the skin’s temperature sensors transmit messages to the brain, informing it of the low temperatures; this causes a unique physical rush by triggering responses in the circulatory, endocrine, immunological, and central neurological systems.
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