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 (35 - 45 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 re-absorbing 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.
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