Detoxification and Far Infrared Therapy

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Most of us are familiar with the liver and kidneys as filters, however many of us are not aware of the fact that the skin is the body's largest organ and is an excellent detoxifier. The skin is sometimes referred to as the body's third kidney, because it is thought by many to be responsible for eliminating up to 30% of the body's wastes. Although any type of sweating is healthy and detoxifying, nothing can compare to the detox of an Aesta Sauna Dome or Aesta Ion Mat. They aid the Liver and Kidneys by taking the full burden of detox off of them. In some cases it is the only way to detoxify fat stored poisons. As the core of the body heats up, the blood is pumped out to the surface to be cooled. Toxins are then expedited out through pours in the sweat solution.

With deep radiant FIR heat, your body will sweat more than in conventional old fashioned Saunas. The heat goes deep into the fat tissue. You'll experience a cleansing of harmful toxins from the body while you melt calories away. In one study performed by American researchers, the sweat of people using a conventional sauna was found to be 95 to 97% water while the sweat of those using an infrared thermal system was 80 to 85% water with the non-water portion principally cholesterol, fat-soluble toxins, toxic heavy metals (such as mercury and aluminum), sulfuric acid, sodium, ammonia and uric acid.

Far Infrared is thought to be 7 times more effective at detoxifying heavy metals such as mercury, aluminum, and even cholesterols, nicotine, alcohol, ammonia, sulfuric acid and other environmental toxins, as opposed to conventional heat or steam saunas. Repeated use of an Aesta Sauna Dome or Aesta Ion Mat slowly restores the skins natural abilities for toxic elimination better than any other method without the need for rigorous exercise which may be difficult or impossible for many people.

Since infrared saunas heat the body directly and profuse sweating begins quickly, they offer an excellent means of general detoxification. Infrared heat penetrates well below the surface of the skin, right into the joints and muscles. This increases metabolism and allows body cells to eliminate toxins more readily.

It may seem unusual to say this, but we don't sweat like we used to. Synthetic clothing fabrics, our more sedentary lifestyles, and indoor air conditioning, reduce the opportunities that our bodies have to sweat out toxins. Further, sun damage to our skin and the chemicals found in skin lotions, soaps, creams and deodorants also affect the rate that we perspire. Repeated use of an Aesta Sauna Dome or Aesta Ion Mat slowly restores skin elimination better than any other method without the need for rigorous exercise which may be difficult or impossible for many people.

The human body is a reservoir of all kinds of bio-toxins which cannot be expelled immediately and become stored in the body, thereby triggering illness. When toxic gases such as sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide or potentially fatal heavy metal toxins such as mercury, lead and chlorine, meet large water molecules they are encapsulated by clusters of water and trapped in the body. Where these toxins are accumulated, blood circulation is blocked and cellular energy is impaired. However, when a 7 to 14 micron FIR wave is applied to these large water molecules, the water begins to vibrate. This vibration reduces the ion bonds of the atoms which are holding together the molecules of water. As the water evaporates the encapsulated gas and toxins are released.

After about 30 minutes of exposure in an Aesta Sauna Dome or Aesta Sauna Mat, the blood vessels of the skin dilate to allow more blood to flow to the surface to support the cooling process. The millions of sweat glands covering the body are infused with fluid from the blood. In turn, they empty to the skin's surface, thereby flushing large amounts of toxins, including toxic acids and heavy metals from the body.

Essentially, the body eliminates a large fraction of accumulated toxins naturally by sweating. The Far-Infrared heat therapy stimulates the sweat glands which cleanse and detoxify the skin as it heats the tissues several inches deep, triggering mobilization of chemicals and enzymes which enhance the metabolic process and in essence, speed up the body's natural healing process. Far Infrared heats the body while the air remains cool. Sweating begins quickly and the experience is rather pleasant.

Researchers have discovered that the use of the Far Infrared spectrum sauna was most effective in the removal of a vast amount of toxins via the skin, thereby relieving a heavy load on the kidneys and limiting the use of oral or intravenous chelating agents. The Aesta Sauna Dome or Aesta Sauna Mat is far safer and more tolerable than a conventional sauna.

Different types of light interact with our body differently. In general, the shorter the wavelength of a light, the more harmful it is to living cells. Light, like ultraviolet, is very harmful to living cells. The most beneficial lights are those whose wavelengths are near the red light. Far Infrared Therapy or FIR therapy uses far infrared light which is part of the Sun light spectrum whose wavelength falls just below (infra means below) the visible red light.

Although the wavelengths of FIR are too long for the eyes to perceive, we can experience its energy as gentle, radiant heat, which can penetrate up to [3.5] inches beneath the skin. To establish this concept, place the palms of your hands together about ? inches apart. The radiant heat which you feel is the far infrared energy generated by the body. "Touch Therapy" healers have used this energy for centuries, and it is often included in many yoga positions for self healing purposes.

Far Infrared therapy has also made medical news in its use in patients with cardiovascular conditions such as congestive heart failure and angina, as it enhances endothelial nitric oxide which lowers blood pressure and improves cardiovascular function. I would even speculate that because of the elevation of nitric oxide, the Far-Infrared Sauna will also enhance sexual arousal and increase the intensity of orgasm in both genders. In men, under the right circumstances that extra nitric oxide will help to dilate the key blood vessels serving the penis and erectile function improves. Viagra artificially inhibits the enzyme that normally breaks down nitric oxide resulting in higher nitric oxide levels. In women, if you combine L-arginine with Far-Infrared Sauna therapy you will get even a better result than with L-arginine alone. Vigel is a topical L-arginine! Immune system enhancement is another well known benefit. The more I research, the more correlation I find between the immune system and a healthy, functional sex life! Obviously, the Far-Infrared Sauna benefits extend to all age groups not just to restore ultimate health, but for a multitude of reasons!

Far-infrared cellular purification

Dr. Toshiko Yamazaki, MD owns an infrared therapy clinic in Japan where she has done extensive research on the uses of Far Infrared Therapy or Infrared Light Therapy. In her book, "The Science of Far-Infrared Therapies," she explains that one of the reasons FIR (Far Infrared Therapy) has beneficial results in a variety of illnesses is the ability of FIR waves to remove toxins with mercury detoxification, which is often at the core of many health problems. Since humans are bio-accumulators, numerous toxins that disturb natural body healing and cannot be removed immediately after entry are stored in our bodies and prevent future natural body healing.

A 10 micron far-infrared light wave reaches up to 2 inches deep inside the body's tissue cellular vibration occurs when the light waves penetrate the cells and reach the large water molecules, this vibration reduces the ion bonds of the atoms that are holding together the molecules of water, resulting in a release of toxins.

Detoxification and Far Infrared Heat Therapy

When toxic gases such as sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide or toxic substances such as lead, mercury, or chlorine meet large water molecules, water clusters encapsulate them. Where these toxins accumulate, blood circulation is blocked and cellular energy is impaired. Detoxification begins when Far Infrared Therapy wave is applied to these large water molecules and the water begins to vibrate.

This vibration reduces the ion bonds of the atoms that are holding together the molecules of water. As the vibration continues, breakdown of the water molecules occurs and encapsulated gases and other toxic materials are released. Scientists in Japan report that in the Far Infrared Therapy wave treatment of clogged capillary vessels, a similar process occurs: heat expands the capillaries from Far Infrared Therapy and then initiates the process to dissolve hidden toxins.

Far Infrared Therapy also helps to improve nervous disorders, digestive disorders, weight loss, and normalize blood pressure.

Heat Treatments Get Rid of Toxins

By Raymond Francis, M.Sc. Reprinted from "Never Be Sick Again"
Not only do saunas feel good, they are good! Saunas get your heart beating and your blood circulating, helping the body to detoxify in unique and important ways. Toxins do the damage, and saunas help with damage control. Saunas or other treatments help to accomplish detoxification in the following manner: A layer of fat and oil exists just below the surface of the skin. Heat from the sauna increases skin temperature, causing those fats and oils to "melt" and ooze out of the skin's oil glands. As sweat and oil are secreted, the toxins dissolved in them are secreted as well. By excreting these toxins and then washing them off your body, your toxic load is lowered and cellular health improves.

Choose a temperature that can be tolerated for an extended period of time-thirty minutes to an hour or more. The point is not to sweat out a lot of water, but to rid your body of oil-soluble toxins. Our skin contains sweat glands and oil glands, both of which help us detoxify. Sweat gets rid of water-soluble toxins, and even helps to eliminate toxic heavy metals such as mercury and cadmium. Oil glands help remove oil-soluble toxins that the body would otherwise have a difficult time eliminating. We have created a world filled with oil-soluble toxins such as gasoline, solvents, pesticides and ingredients in toothpaste and personal care products, and the body is not able to dispose of them efficiently. The longer the skin is heated, the more oil-soluble toxins are eliminated.

Be careful not to overheat! The challenge is finding an environment where you can keep your skin temperature up for an extended period of time without overheating or dehydrating. Overheating and perhaps feeling dizzy can happen easily if you stay in a steam room, a hot tub or the top bench of a hot sauna too long. Choose a "low temperature" sauna (110-120 degrees), and use it for an extended period of time-an hour or more is best-though you may have to work up to this duration gradually. Remember: Drinking adequate amounts of water before, during and after your sauna is essential in order to prevent dehydration.

A good supplement program, containing fat-mobilizing vitamins and essential fatty acids makes the sauna even more effective. Be sure to shower afterwards; prevent those toxins from reabsorbing back into your body by washing with a nontoxic Castile soap. Taking saunas or other "heat treatments" is not a luxury, but like exercise, is a physical responsibility and an important element of the physical responsibility and an important element of the physical pathway. Incorporating saunas after exercise is even better. Exercise begins to mobilize toxins and saunas continue the process. You may need to make a few sauna visits before you can tolerate extended periods of time, but the benefits of these heat treatments are incredible. These treatments feel good for very good reasons; they provide beneficial physical stimulation-including increased lymphatic and cardiovascular circulation, as well as the removal of toxins-all of which are good for the health and function of your cells.

Detox: Infrared Sauna vs. Conventional Sauna

In one study performed by American researchers, the sweat of people using a conventional sauna was found to be 95 to 97% water while the sweat of those using an infrared thermal system was 80 to 85% water with the non-water portion principally cholesterol, fat-soluble toxins, toxic heavy metals (such as mercury and aluminum), 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.1 Mercury is the most toxic element on earth, second only to plutonium.

Hyperthermic detoxification using these saunas is not only uniquely helpful in removing fat-stored toxins from the body, but also as an adjunct to mercury removal. Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, M.D., of Seattle, who has been called "the holistic doctors' doctor and teacher," is one of the pioneers in combining the use of far-infrared saunas with the chelating agent DMPS in a heavy metal detox protocol.

Dr. Klinghardt explains, "Since hyperthermic sauna therapy removes metal contaminants from the body, we have found that it may be used to further the benefits derived from chelation therapy. And we have also found that it may be an alternative for those who are unable to undergo chelation. Research conducted by U.S. scientists has demonstrated that close to 80% of individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome will improve markedly by a guided detoxification program.2 We combine this approach with hyperthermic therapy using the far-infrared sauna, as well as exercise and chelation. The results we are seeing are very promising."

Dr. Klinghardt adds, "If far-infrared saunas work, why wait to use them? People need information about what nutrients and minerals to take, how to stay hydrated, and a reminder to shower after the sauna. It's not going to do much good to spend time detoxifying if you don't wash off those toxins afterwards. And don't overlook the importance of educating yourself and your children about sources of environmental toxins and allergens. Your future health depends on it!"

Far-infrared detox for mercury

Early causes and detection of mercury toxicity

Early signs of mercury contamination include: decreased senses of touch, hearing, vision and taste, metallic taste in mouth, fatigue or lack of physical endurance and increase salivation. Symptoms may progress with moderate or chronic exposure to include: anorexia, numbness, headaches, hyper-tension, irritability and excitability, and immune suppression, possibly immune disregulation. Advanced disease processes from mercury toxicity include: tremors and in coordination, anemia, renal dysfunction or failure; in mercury contamination of long duration, renal excretion of mercury (and normal metabolites) may become impaired and the urine level of mercury might be only mildly elevated or not elevated at all due to kidney failure.
Mercury is also used in vaccines, explosive detonators; in pure liquid form form for thermometers, barometers, fungicides and pesticides. The fungicide/pesticide use of mercury has declined due to environmental concerns but mercury residues persist from past use.

Methylmercury, the common poisonous form, occurs by methylation in aquatic biota or sediments (both freshwater and ocean sediments). Methylmercury accumulates in aquatic animals and fish and is concentrated up the food chain reaching high concentrations in large fish and predatory birds. A daily dosage of fish can cause 1 to 10 micrograms of mercury per day to be ingested, with about three-quarters of this (typically) as methylmercury.

Mercury enters the body not just through contact, but through inhalation as well. Persons who should be concerned about mercury intoxication, aside from those with dental amalgams in their mouths, are dentists, dental assistants, dental office personnel, and anyone who has been around the use of amalgams.
However, a serum or urine mercury level is an inadequate test, because mercury does not like to come out of the cells in which it is stored. A proper test is conducted with DMPS, which liberates a large amount of mercury. Urine mercury concentration, according to Godfrey and Campbell, shows a sixty-fold increase after DMPS administration in people with amalgam, a thirty-fold increase in dental personnel without amalgams, and only a ten-fold increase in people who have had their amalgams removed followed by a course of chelation therapy.

The best way to get rid of heavy metals and pesticide residues is Far Infrared Heat Therapy. It has been known for decades that sweating is a wonderful way to get rid of stored chemicals, including heavy metals. In fact, sauna is one of the detoxification procedures used in the Environmental Units in Dallas (Dr. William Rea) and North Charleston (Dr. Allan Lieberman) where the sickest of folks go to heal. But many people cannot tolerate a sauna. They feel weak, sick, fast heart rate, faint, dizzy, headachy or just miserable. Thanks to improved technology, the infrared sauna is tolerated much better, because it uses a heat energy that penetrates the tissues better, allowing an overall lower temperature to be used.

Eliminate Toxins with Aesta

Directly or indirectly, toxic residues find there way into our air, food and water supplies. The net effect of this ecological overload is to alter the body's balance or "homeostasis". This interference with our natural biological tendencies to restore internal balance, results in "disease" in one form or another.
Toxins such as sodium, alcohol, nicotine, cholesterol and carcinogenic heavy metals (cadmium, lead, zinc, nickel) and mercury accumulate in the body during modern daily life.

Unfortunately the human body has no previous experience with these toxins and there are very few natural mechanisms within our bodies to break them down, and eliminate them.

The one effective method that the body does use is perspiration. This eliminates most toxins naturally by sweating and FIR heat therapy stimulates the sweat glands that cleanse and detoxify the skin. Increased blood circulation stimulates the sweat glands, releasing built-up toxins and waste.

The simple chemistry involved in this process can be illustrated by the fact that some chemicals readily dissolve in water, while others dissolve only in oil bases. Oil soluble chemicals therefore have a tendency to accumulate in body fatty tissue or lipids, which are also insoluble in water. Perspiring requires a large amount of energy and one consequence of this powerful force is that fat becomes water soluble and the body excretes it along with the toxins that were trapped as sweat.

A "heavy metal" is an element that exhibits certain metallic properties such as high electrical conductivity and very high density. The toxicities of heavy metals vary. Some, such as zinc and Manganese, are essential dietary nutrients that are required for good health. Others, such as Cadmium and Lead have no biological function in the human body and can cause adverse health effects at very low levels.
Heavy metal poisoning is the toxic accumulation of heavy metals in the soft tissues of the body. All metals are toxic to cells. They compete with the nutritional minerals in the body thus rendering them unavailable to the necessary processes to maintain health.

Let's take a look at just one small example: certain metals such as Aluminum or Magnesium displace calcium and make it unavailable for building bone, teeth and muscles (including the heart muscles) thereby weakening these structures. Low calcium levels lead to osteoporosis, dental caries, periodontal disease, muscle cramping, colic and heart disease.

Your skin is the body's largest organ and as such it plays an essential role in keeping you healthy and in protecting you from toxic metals.

The body eliminates most toxins naturally by sweating and FIR heat therapy stimulates the sweat glands that cleanse and detoxify the skin. Increased blood circulation stimulates the sweat glands, releasing built-up toxins and waste. Daily sweating can help detoxify the body as it rids itself of an accumulation of potentially carcinogenic heavy metals as well as alcohol, nicotine, sodium, sulfuric acid, cholesterol and other chemical contaminations.