How we love to combine business with pleasure! A familiar example to everyone is to gather in a cheerful group in a bathhouse to steam to your heart’s content, and at the same time drink beer, relax, and chat with friends.
Some in the bathhouse also set real tables and celebrate birthdays or New Years on a grand scale. If “serious” alcoholic drinks, such as vodka, are unacceptable for many in the sauna, since everyone knows about the dangers they pose, then the attitude towards beer is much more loyal.
It is believed that almost everyone can drink beer in a bathhouse: the body will benefit. But is it?
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What is beer
Beer is one of the oldest drinks; it is believed that the cultivation of grain crops began for its sake. It was considered a drink of the poor and was ranked much lower than wine.
Beer was made where the climate did not allow grapes to be grown. Beer is a Slavic word that meant any drink. Over time, only an alcoholic drink began to be called this way. Traditionally, “beer” is understood as a low-alcohol drink, which is obtained as a result of fermentation of wort with the help of brewer’s yeast.
It turns out that everyone's favorite foamy beer is alcohol. How does alcohol affect us in the bathhouse kingdom?!
Alcohol and sauna
It is no secret that alcohol dulls reactions, impairs coordination of movements and weakens attention. The state of euphoria that alcohol causes gradually turns into drowsiness. Bath heat, hot water, hot stove stones, slippery floors and shelves are far from safe for a drunk person. Burns and falls are commonplace, the bathhouse punishes severely!
There were also cases when bathhouse attendants, stupefied by alcohol, simply fell asleep in the bathhouse and went crazy. The bathhouse is quite small, poorly ventilated and the carbon dioxide content in it is quite decent. It is the inhalation of carbon dioxide that enhances the effect of alcohol; it is very appropriate to recall the saying: “A drunken sea is knee-deep.”
Meanwhile, the blood is saturated with alcohol more and more. Bath heat and alcohol dilate blood vessels, increasing the load on the heart. And if the walls of the blood vessels are weak and thin, they give in and burst. As a result, a beautiful bruise on the body is guaranteed! It happens that a vessel can rupture in the brain - and this is much more serious than a bruise, it can lead to a stroke!
Even an absolutely healthy person’s blood pressure rises when visiting a bathhouse; this is natural. People suffering from hypertension and drinking alcohol in the bathhouse are suicides!
If you decide to do super experiments with alcohol in a bathhouse, then you must understand that you are going to double overload. High temperature, bath heat and steam, together with alcohol, force the heart to work in emergency mode. Such work can cause arrhythmia, heart attack, myocardial infarction.
Is drinking alcohol beneficial after a steam room?
After completing the bath procedures, you can indulge in a glass of foam, if you do not suffer from various chronic gastrointestinal diseases. Beer promotes:
- improving the absorption of nutrients (vitamins B, copper);
- strengthening blood vessels (due to their gentle “training”);
- acceleration of metabolism;
- stopping the process of stone formation in the kidneys;
- increasing immune strength.
In addition to beer, after the sauna it’s a very good idea to finish your wellness session with green tea, cranberry juice, and freshly squeezed juice.
What about after the bath? - you ask. To answer this question, it is important to understand for what purpose you are visiting the bathhouse.
As we have already noted, the sauna and the contrast procedures associated with it have a healing effect: nervous tension goes away, the skin and the entire body are cleansed, and the immune system is strengthened.
Drinking alcohol immediately after a sauna leads to vascular spasms and slows down kidney function. Therefore, the effect of the bath will be reduced to zero. In the presence of chronic diseases, their exacerbation occurs. A sudden development of a heart attack, even fatal, is likely.
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| Tea will help restore water balance and consolidate the effect of the bathhouse. |
Beer lovers can enjoy a mug of their favorite drink no earlier than 2-3 hours after leaving the sauna, when the body has fully recovered. But the greatest gratitude for your body will be a cup of herbal tea flavored with honey, cranberry juice, still mineral water or kvass.
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And then the next morning you will feel cheerful, energized, and your mood will be at 100!
To summarize the above, let us note the main thing. In a sauna, the human body works in enhanced mode. By adding alcohol, we increase the load on all organs of our body several times. The consequences of these actions can be quite dire.
In this regard, when going to the bathhouse, realize that this is a place where you can:
- relax your mind and body;
- cleanse and heal the body;
- feel a surge of strength and energy.
Herbal tea, fruit juice or mineral water will help enhance this effect.
And it is better to drink alcohol on any other day without harm to health.
Most doctors agree that you should not drink alcohol in the bathhouse. During bath procedures, the body loses a large amount of water. If the dehydration process is not stopped, it can lead to serious negative consequences - hallucinations, loss of consciousness, general weakness, dizziness, headaches.
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This does not mean that you can eat whatever you want to saturate your body with fluid. Drinking strong alcohol after bath procedures is strictly prohibited. When visiting a steam room, waste, salt deposits, and toxins are removed from the body through the opened pores. The effect of the cleansing process will be canceled after drinking strong alcohol. This also leads to other consequences:
- vasospasm;
- increased pressure;
- increased heart rate;
- disruption of the liver and kidneys;
- intoxication of the body.
Sometimes a few glasses of strong alcohol after bath procedures cause a heart attack and death.
Mineral water
Since the body is dehydrated after bath procedures, it is necessary to replenish the lack of fluid. To do this, it is recommended to use:
- mineral water to saturate with microelements and replenish salts;
- fruit juice;
- homemade kvass;
- tea brewed with herbs with a little honey.
Many people do not know whether it is possible to drink beer in a bathhouse. Taking this drink before leaving the steam room is prohibited, but it can be used as an inhalation product. It needs to be diluted with a small amount of water and thrown onto the hot stones. Hop:
- calms;
- relieves the body of cold symptoms;
- relieves pain.
The vapor of the drink emanating from the hot stones kills the multiplying bacteria on the surfaces of the steam room. When the bath procedures are completed and the body is cold, you can drink a glass of foamy drink. In this case he:
- speeds up metabolism;
- improves the absorption of beneficial microelements and vitamins;
- normalizes the functioning of the immune system;
- strengthens blood vessels.
The day after the holiday, the guest may be invited to visit the bathhouse. In such a situation, you need to adhere to some rules:
- stay in the steam room for no more than 10 minutes at a time;
- before you start steaming, drink a cup of tea with lemon;
- get enough sleep before visiting the bathhouse;
- take a contrast shower before bath procedures.
Two hours before visiting the steam room, it is advisable to eat liquid food. It can be any vegetable soup or chicken broth.
For some bathhouse attendants, alcohol and bathhouse are inseparable concepts, but drinking alcoholic beverages can seriously harm the body. If it is impossible to completely stop drinking alcohol, you can learn several rules for drinking it on a bath day.
When going to the sauna, it is better to avoid any form of alcohol. You should also forget about tonic drinks and cold drinks. It is better to combine a visit to the bathhouse with kvass and tea, as well as a contrast shower and massage treatments. Enjoy Your Bath!
During bath procedures, the body becomes severely dehydrated, everyone knows this. Moreover, dehydration affects not only the superficial layers of the dermis - fluid “leaves” from the internal organs. Loss of water by the body must be replenished. But not between visits to the steam room, but only an hour or two after the completion of steam activities.
If you do not comply with this condition and drink beer in the bathhouse (as well as other alcoholic drinks) during the bathing procedures, sweating becomes more intense, resulting in an increase in the already heavy load on the internal organs. Cold drinks, in addition, when sweat is released, provoke excessive condensation.
In this regard, it is worth limiting beer consumption in the bathhouse. But after the body returns to normal (in a few hours), you can replenish the water lost. To understand how beer in a bathhouse affects our body, you need to know the composition of beer. And it consists of water, malt, hops and yeast. There are much fewer calories in beer than in Coca-Cola, fruit juice, coffee, tea with sugar, etc.
- strengthening the circulatory and cardiovascular systems; - absorption of copper; - enrichment of the flora of the gastrointestinal tract; - treatment of skin lesions; - reducing the risk of heart attack; - restoration of the mucous membrane in the intestines and stomach. In addition, this drink has anti-inflammatory, analgesic, has a calming and disinfecting effect, normalizes kidney function, prevents the occurrence of urolithiasis and promotes the destruction of already formed stones, accelerates the metabolic process inside cells and stabilizes metabolism.
The most interesting thing is that in reasonable quantities, beer in a bathhouse has a rejuvenating effect and, attention, preserves the beauty of a woman’s breasts! However, all this will become a reality only if the amount of beer drunk in a bathhouse does not exceed normal limits. If control over beer consumption is lost, expect unpleasant consequences.
The composition of the beer infusion is very simple. Add about 0.5 ml of live beer and a tablespoon of honey to 1 liter of water.
You need to use it wisely, without watering left and right.
First, you need to pour boiling water over the stones from a ladle, and only after that sprinkle the tincture on the still wet stones. You will be surprised, but beer vapors have a wonderful smell of freshly baked bread.
The harm of beer in the bathhouse
The effect of beer is well known - it increases sweating and kidney function. In the heat of a bath, a person sweats, loses quite a lot of fluid, and if you drink an intoxicating drink during bath procedures, banal dehydration of the body occurs. Agree, this is not very good.
By drinking beer between visits to the steam room, you increase the load on the body.
The bathhouse cleanses our body not only from the outside, all unnecessary waste comes out through open pores with sweat, we naturally get rid of toxins and impurities. What does beer do? Does it help the heat of the bath to make our body cleaner?
No! No! And no! In fact, the body becomes intoxicated; our liver and kidneys work to the limit against the background of dehydration. Beer during a bath is a real poison for the body!
There are other negative aspects of drinking beer. Of course, they only drink it cold. A warm, steamed body plus cold beer equals a sore throat, tonsil inflammation, and sore throat.
The beer production technology is such that the finished product retains its natural properties for only 2-3 days. Therefore, manufacturers came up with adding a variety of chemical elements. These are formaldehyde (used for embalming corpses), cobalt (a harmful heavy metal), and alcohol.
Alcohol is used as a preservative and to increase the strength of the foamy drink. And the stronger the drink, the more dangerous it is; it can easily cause poisoning. Very often a person loses control of himself, becomes stupid, and loses shame.
In addition to these harmful substances, beer contains quite a lot of phenols, methanol, formaldehyde and aldehydes, as well as fusel oils. All this is harmful, these are by-products from which a person is poisoned and sick.
Healthy water balance: recommendations from doctors
When going to the sauna, it is important to follow the main advice from doctors: during bath procedures it is recommended not to drink water in a volume exceeding 1 liter. This secret protects the body's excretory system from excessive stress on the kidneys.
The amount of alcohol allowed for consumption during water procedures is 30 ml (strong drinks) or about 200 ml of wine.
We suggest you familiarize yourself with: Calorie content Unfiltered light beer Alc. 4.1% vol. (Athanasius). Chemical composition and nutritional value.
You should return to libations and heavy meals at the moment when the body returns to its normal state and the organs begin to function healthy again. The recovery process may take up to 2 hours.
The benefits of beer in the bathhouse
And yet, with all its shortcomings and harmful effects, beer in a bathhouse still has benefits.
The secret is how to apply and consume the foamy drink. The most beneficial, aromatic effect of beer is this: dilute the beer in hot water and pour it on the heater! Oh, what an unprecedented bread aroma there will be in your bathhouse! The proportions for dilution are as follows: 500 grams per liter of water. beer.
Beer aromatherapy helps cope with irritability and stressful situations. It is considered one of the best remedies in the fight against insomnia.
Beer steam helps fight skin irritations and acne, as it contains special vitamins that stimulate collagen production. If you apply beer foam to the skin of your face and neck, you will only get positive results. Small wrinkles will be smoothed out, the skin will become elastic.
Beer masks are very useful for hair; after this treatment, the hair becomes smooth, shiny, and the ends stop splitting. I recommend using only “live” beer to prepare masks.
Beer hair mask
Heat one glass of beer, add one tablespoon of olive oil. The mask is ready! Apply it to clean hair, rubbing thoroughly into the scalp.
The mask must be left on for at least 15-20 minutes, then washed off with warm water.
Beer mask with kefir
This mask is used to moisturize and grow hair. To prepare the mask you will need 0.5 cups of beer and 0.5 cups of kefir. Mix beer and kefir, apply the finished mixture to your hair. The mask must be left on for 20 minutes, then rinsed off with warm water.
Beer and sauna
How many people, so many opinions. Some claim that they have been drinking, drinking and will continue to drink beer in the bathhouse - it is pleasant and healthy. Well, adequate adults should understand what they are doing. But in the old days they never allowed drunks into the bathhouse.
Beer is an amazing drink, if it were not now diluted with various chemical elements, then perhaps this conversation would not have happened...
I'm sure that in moderation, beer won't do much harm. Experts also confirm this - one or two mugs of aromatic foamy beer two hours after a good bath will be an excellent addition to the bath ceremony and will only be beneficial!
Eternal dispute
Participants in the debate on the presence of alcohol in the bathhouse can be divided into two camps: those who ardently support the idea of beer in the bathhouse, and those who are opposed to strong drinks. The latter, most often adherents of a healthy lifestyle, cite a number of medical conclusions and logical explanations to support their point of view, but, as they say, you cannot argue against love: it is difficult to convince beer fans in the steam room.
So who actually speaks the truth?
