Effectiveness
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Sweat from an Infrared sauna is 15- 20% toxins.
Principally, cholesterol, fat-soluble toxins, toxic heavy metals,
sulfuric acid, sodium, ammonia, and uric acid. This
unusually high concentration of heavy metals and other fat-soluble
toxins is not found in the sweat from normal exercise.
IR saunas generate 2-3 times the perspiration produced in conventional
hot-air saunas.
(see article entitled Infrared
Thermal Systems)
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Sweat from a conventional sauna was found to
be 3-5% toxins.
(see article entitled Infrared
Thermal Systems)
Difficult to tell how much one is sweating in a steam sauna.
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Comfort
Safety
Tolerance
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110 to 130° F = therapeutic range
The lower IR temperatures trigger mobilization of chemicals from subcutaneous
fat storage, directly into the
sweat.“
Dr. Sherry Rogers believes IR saunas to be “far safer and infinitely
more tolerable.” For example: In a Mayo
Clinic study, end-stage heart patients’ arrhythmias decreased
or disappeared entirely and with no side-effects. And, ended up saving
their lives by the removal of toxins that were the underlying causes
of their diseases.
To read the entire Sauna
vs. Toxins article, please click
here.
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160° F and higher
This extra heat additionally forces toxins back into the blood stream
where they can duplicate original symptoms.
High temps can also cause difficulty breathing, burning eyes, heart stress,
heat exhaustion and risk of Sauna-taker’s Lung, by mold growth
in a dark, warm, damp, steam sauna.
In a Mayo
Clinic study, end-stage heart patients experienced a 20% increase
in arrhythmias in a regular sauna.
To read the entire Sauna
vs. Toxins article, please click
here.
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History
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The first electric infrared sauna was invented
by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg in 1891 using Edison light bulbs.
These came to be known as “the most effective of all known
healing agents” (See
1916 article, PDF file, 55KB) and were used all
over the world as are their modern counterparts like the SaunaGen
that uses Zirconium ceramic IR heaters. The SaunaGen is about
95% efficient and produces far Infrared in the most therapeutic
range.
(see article entitled Infrared
Thermal Systems)
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Time-tested for centuries with proven health
benefits.
(Heat therapy works, one way or
the other, but in this toxic age, truly sick and poisoned
people need to be very careful in indiscriminately using
high heat saunas without taking specific steps to deal with
the remobilization of toxins, and to educate themselves
on the health risks for specific health conditions.)
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