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Detox with Infra Red Sauna
By P T Published: 22/08/2010
Household products are surprisingly full of nasty chemicals: watch out for bleaches, shampoos and cleaning products of dubious origins. Fluoride toothpaste is a particular pet hate of mine: the barefaced deception that toxic waste (fluoride) is good for us brings me out in a cold sweat of fury. In the past 50 years an estimated 5 million new chemicals have been created by man, of which 75000 are in regular everyday use; less than 10 % of these have any toxicity testing. The most worrying aspect of all is the fact that many of these toxic chemicals accumulate in our bodies rather than being flushed out, and some of them can be implicated in some truly nasty chronic problems.
Thank goodness someone has, at long last, come up with a genuinely pleasant way of reducing the toxic load on our bodies, without supplements or tubes entering where the sun doesn’t shine.
So, what is this latest craze to hit the worried well in America? It is called a Far Infra Red (FIR) Sauna. It has many of the same features you find in an ordinary sauna: you sit on a wooden bench in a pine clad cabin; yet the quality of the heat is different. It feels deeply warming, without that immediate feeling that “if I breathe in, my lungs will catch fire” that I feel in ordinary dry saunas. Throughout the 40 minute session the experience was more like being hugged than roasted, yet I sweated with extraordinary profusion.
The Anahata Health Clinic has a FIR sauna: complete with the latest advance in Far Infra Red radiation, biocarbon panels. These black panels radiate energy in the 5.6 - 1000 microns wavelength, so the heat you feel is radiated energy, not heat from the air in the cabin (which remains cool compared to an ordinary sauna (35°C- 60°C as appose to 92°C - 104°C).)
If you are wondering what a Far Infra Red sauna is like, you can experience the same rays right now: our palms emit radiation between 8 – 14 micron wavelength; this healing energy has been used in China for thousands of years. Hold your palms close together and you will feel the radiant heat: this is another reason why it is healthy to sleep next to someone in bed.
These radiant heat frequencies are the same as you feel from the sun on a cold day. Even if the air temperature is cold, when you stand in the sun, it warms you. This end of the electromagnetic spectrum is the opposite end to the harmful ultra violet rays which also come from the sun. These radiant rays are invisible and penetrate the body up to 1½ inches, where tissues selectively absorb the rays by a process called "resonant absorption". This occurs when the frequency of the far infrared rays matches the frequency of the water in the cell, causing toxins to be excreted from the body with bodily fluids (sweat, faeces and urine); the most efficient of these is sweat. Radiant heat is so efficient because it warms you, not the air. The body absorbs as much as 93% of this heat causing perspiration and producing a vast array of health benefits.
After my Far Infra Red saunas I have always felt deeply cleansed: perhaps because the sweat from my sauna carries 7 times more heavy metals than my ordinary exercise-induced sweat. My skin feels different as well, and, in the mirror, I look younger: wrinkles seem to have unwrinkled themselves… this seems too good to be true! Don’t tell me it is slimming as well! Apparently the far infra red sauna will actually help reduce weight by causing the energy in fat tissues to be used to assist the body to sweat; a sit-down do-nothing workout?! I have to admit this has not yet worked for me: I have only experienced the third of my course of 10 sessions, but I would not find it so far fetched.
Japanese research has found that Far Infra Red saunas have helped a huge variety of conditions including: asthma, bronchitis, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, cystitis, menopause, pain, post surgical adhesions, endometriosis, muscle tension, eczema, psoriasis, acne, and many other conditions. It has even been in the national press recently, to clear the toxins from breastmilk.
