FIR Saunas for detoxing?

[Ann-ticipatingSuccess]

Has anyone used one?

I've been doing a little reading about it and it sounds very interesting. It also seems to be an easy and non-invasive way of doing detox.

I've also read a theory that suggests that difficulty in losing weight is due to toxins being stored in fat. The fat is actually keeping the toxins from doing more damage to your body. If you detox, then the fat can be released. That's a very pared down version of the theory, but I think you get the idea.

Just curious if anyone here has any experience with the FIR saunas.

Ann

[Aaron]

IR sauna

I own one. It is one of the best health inventions ever. Absolutely priceless.

[Adrienne]

hi,
what is an IR/FIR saunas? what does IR or FIR stand for? and what does it do?

Thanks...Adrienne

[Aaron]

ir & fir sauna

Hi Adrienne,

The IR is infrared and FIR is far-infrared from the 800nm (800 billionths of a meter wavelength - nanometers) and longer. It is basically invisible red light, which is infrared heat.

In these saunas you will sweat 2-3 times MORE than a hot steam sauna at that is at 80 degrees cooler or more!

A hot steam sauna isn't as healthy as it is cracked up to be. Your body is warmed like food in an oven. The air temp is heated and this slowly warms up the body. It takes a lot of energy to heat the environment that the person is in. The body is trying to ventilate the heat and does so by sweating out electrolytes and really there aren't much toxins in the sweat from this type of sauna that operates at about 200F and hotter.

The infrared sauna can make you sweat 2-3 times more at only about 140F so much safer. The infrared penetrates up to about 1.5" (inches) deep and warms you from infrared penetration and NOT from having to heat the air around you.

It can be below freezing and your hand will feel cold in the cold air but if the sun is shining, you can feel warmth on the hand. How can that be? The air the sunshine is coming thru is freezing cold but you feel warmth on your hand. The heat is produced AT your hand by the IR meaning that the heat that is generated on the Earth from the sun literally is produced locally and literally the heat is not leaving the sun itself...only the waves that will eventually stimulate heat when hitting something.

Lots of toxins are released from infrared saunas since the deep tissues are warming up from the IR & FIR penetration.

You can use one of these saunas for an hour a day every day for a month and you probably won't see but a $5 increase in your electric bill.

I sold these in the past when I worked with a company selling devices for healing based on heat and light.

These saunas can burn up to 1200-1500 calories per hour.
Improves flexibility by up to 15% for many hours after getting out.
Improves circulation, improves mobility in joints, relaxes tight muscles, and relieves pain.
Gives a good cardiovascular workout without moving a muscle.

Sherry Rogers MD uses these saunas quite extensively in her practice for environmental detoxification. I met her once at a medical conference in Vegas once with a MD I worked for and they went to the same medical school at different times. The sauna was the common interest.

Here are her books:
https://prestigepublishing.northland..._web_store.cgi

[Aaron]

Sherry Rogers Infrared Sauna

The Far- Infrared Sauna

The secret of sweat.

What if we could have a body that only had the toxins we had accumulated up until 20 years ago, or better yet at age 16? I have followed hundreds of patients who used the oral, non prescription mercury detox cocktail to get rid of mercury, aluminum, cadmium, arsenic, and other heavy metals. For folks who have tougher cases we can use DMPS which is available by prescription. And for folks with high levels of calcifications in their arteries EDTA is an intravenous chelator, but requires sitting hooked up to an intravenous solution in a doctor’s office for four hours three times a week for 20 to 40 sessions, costing thousands of dollars, or using the detoxamin EDTA suppositories for the same results in a more convenient form in the comfort of your own home for less cost. Pet scans prove that the calcifications melted away.



But what about the cancer-causing PCB’s and the multitude of plastics and pesticides with all sorts of chemical configurations that the body has no way of metabolizing? What about all of the newly synthesized dangerous chemicals that firemen, for example, are exposed to when these plastics and pesticides burn, creating new compound that have never before been seen by men? None of these chemicals are removed by chelation or any drug.


In the 1970’s L. Ron Hubbard designed a sauna program that enabled drug addicts to detoxify. He reasoned that folks were never addicted until they had taken drugs. And the more they took, the more they craved. He thought if he could get the drugs out of the body (the unmetabolized residues), the addict would no longer crave. He published his brilliant successful program in his book Clear Body Clear Mind in 1990.
Shortly after the results of the program ere known, physicians from many specialties realized that this program might also be adapted for getting rid of all sorts of other types of chemicals, thereby restoring health in an endless variety of diseases.


Using Hubbard’s protocol, researchers discovered that the FIR saunas were able to restore toxic firemen to normal once they got rid of their tightly stored chemicals contracted during the execution of their jobs. The FIR sauna cleared people of PCB’s and pesticides as well as Agent Orange (dioxins). These folks had undiagnosable and untreatable symptoms, totally resistant to all therapies that medicine could offer. Likewise, residents of Michigan gave a huge amount of scientific information when a PCB-laden cancer-causing fire retardant was accidentally put into animal feed, contaminating their entire dairy industry, mild and cheese, statewide, forever. The Master Planner left one route for us to unload a lifetime of damaging, disease-producing chemicals: SWEAT.


Studies six years later showed that Michigan residents and folks from over 25 other states, who also got the PCB’s hidden in their dairy products, just did not get rid of those nasty PCB’s. The body does not have the chemistry to do so. Even in the soil these chemicals are what we call persistent environmental poisons. But those who did saunas were able to eliminate the PCB’s as well as other stored toxins from their bodies.
We have all accumulated these and hundreds of other similar toxins that are known as some of the most powerful inducers of cancer in existence. Remember, EPA studies show 100% of humans harbor PCB’s, one of the most potent causes of cancer known to man.


There are my hundreds of patients with severe chemical sensitivity, saddled with just about any symptom you can think of, who have traveled the world in search of how to get well.


Dr. William Rea, medical director of the Environmental Health Center, Dallas, receives the most difficult to treat cases in the world, cases for which there is no more hope and many of whom are physicians themselves. By now you are getting the idea that whenever you hear a disease is “hopeless”, it merely means no one has looked for the underlying cause, nor have they been committed to getting rid of it. For this is why Dr. Rea’s program has been so successful, because he does just that. And the FIR sauna is an integral part of it.


Dr. Rea had 210 patients with a variety of symptoms did only one or two 40 minute sessions a day of one month. Even a program this short, with people for whom medicine had nothing more to offer, yielded impressive results. Within one month 63% measurably decreased their levels of toxic chemicals and 31% improved their symptoms. Clearly sauna is the only proven method for depurating a lifetime burden of xenobiotics producing “incurable” SYMPTOMS.


I sprayed herbicides (atrazine) on our farm and my autonomic nervous system became damaged. For decades, whenever I got overheated, I would never sweat, but just remained bone dry and beet red. If I tried to go in a sauna I couldn’t stand it even five minutes, feeling like I would go crazy. Many people experience this because of a damaged autonomic nervous system, especially those with multiple chemical sensitivities, chronic fatigue, MS, and fibromyalgia.


Thanks to improved technology, the far infrared sauna is far safer and infinitely more tolerable, because it uses a heat energy that penetrates tissues, triggering mobilization of chemicals from subcutaneous fat storage, directly into the sweat. This activating penetration allows for a much lower overall temperature to be used, one that is enjoyable and not torture.
But more important, you haven’t forced the body to bear very high temperatures (160 degrees and higher), pulling chemicals back into the bloodstream where they can duplicate original symptoms. Instead they slip out the back door, so to speak, fro just under the skin storage directly into the sweat. Over weeks and months there is an equilibration, where chemicals that were stored in other organs slowly and safely disseminate throughout the body and eventually empty into subcutaneous fat. It is the chemical load that is stored beneath the skin that is the main area activated by the far infrared sauna.


I am convinced that the far infrared sauna is something that everyone should do to restore health, and then continue to do on a less frequent basis to maintain the “cleaned out” state for the rest of their lives. It’s therapeutic as well as prophylactic.

[Aaron]

Sherry Rogers Infrared Sauna 2

FIRS, the Only Sauna Proven Safe for Elderly, Severe End Stage Heart Patients

Congestive heart failure is more prevalent and more lethal than cancer, folks know so little about CHF that they do not concern themselves with preventing it the way they do cancer. CHF starts with any heart symptom you can imagine. High blood pressure, high cholesterol, angio-arrhythmias like atrial fibreillation, dyspnea (shortness of breath, beginning with the stairs and inclines), claudication (leg pains when walking, pedal edema (ankle swelling), pericarditis, cardio-myopathy (heavy metal or other poisoning of heart muscle), fluid in the lungs, recurrent pneumonias, bypass surgery or endarterectomy (roto-rooting or reaming out the old plugged arteries) can be the beginning that insidiously leads to congestive heart failure. The most common symptom is shortness of breath, especially on stairs, inclines, or while doing repeated deep knee bends or jogging. An even worse sign is the swelling of ankles at the end of the day, indicating a heart so overloaded that fluid backs-up all the way to the leg vessels.
Anything can poison the heart; mercury from dental amalgams, fish and paints’ cadmium from auto exhaust, cigarette smoke (including secondhand from others), shellfish, incinerator pollution, and industrial pollution in the air, food and water. Yet even though these toxic elements have been a recognized cause of high blood pressure and heart failure for decades, they remain ignored by medicine.

Herbicides and pesticides, which are hidden in our food and water, can silently poison our hearts. Hydrocarbons and other environmental pollutants or toxins, from trichloroethylene in city water supplies, solvent extraction fluids used to decaffeinate coffee, toluene in painted rooms, formaldehyde in carpets, benzene in air fresheners, and vehicle exhaust also poison the heart.

Since the FIRS are not as hot as conventional saunas it is easier for ailing folks to tolerate the heat.

How is the Far Infrared Sauna Different?

Let’s look at the energy that comes from the sun. It is responsible for photosynthesis, the process by which plants make energy to grow. In essence, solar energy is responsible for all of life.
The spectrum of energy from the sun is classified according to the length of the waves. The shortest ( and most damaging) rays of the solar spectrum are gamma rays. The next longer rays of the sun are x-rays (carcinogenic), then ultraviolet (causes sunburn, corneal and lens damage and skin cancer), and then visible light. After that is the infrared spectrum, then radio waves.

At the far end of the infrared spectrum are the longest and most healing rays, the far infrared (FIR) spectrum, spanning from 1,000 to 4 microns. Between 4-14 microns in the FIR spectrum, fall most of the rays that are the safest and most vital to health and healing. They are responsible for photosynthesis, without which there would be no life on earth.
Even our bodies radiate infrared energy through our skin between 3-50 microns, mostly around 9.4 microns. This is the basis for infrared glasses allowing Special Forces to see the enemy at night. Palm healing and other hands-on therapies are based on the healing properties of natural far infrared rays, with our palms emitting infrared energy between 8-14 microns. Our bodies absorb 93% of the infrared waves presented to us, the basis for similar heaters being used to warm premature infants in nurseries.
The FIRS uses a panted zirconium ceramic infrared heater, emitting between 2 and 25 microns, with a third of the output in the 2-5.6 micron range for deepest penetration, about 1.5 inches. Patented in 1965, it was used predominantly in Japan, and then use extended to the U.S. since 1981. Sager, more economical to operate, lower in EMF, and inducing 2-3 times the seat volume, while allowing a much more tolerable and safer operating temperature, makes it my preferred tool for purifying and detoxifying the body. Naturally nothing stands alone, and a clean diet, environment and soul are, of course, crucial components to healing the impossible.

Far infrared wavelengths have other beneficial properties. They lower lactic acid ( the acid that accumulates and causes pain in muscles when you have overdone exercising), stimulate endorphins or happy hormones of the brain, and kill organisms like bacteria and parasites. More important, they penetrate tissues, detoxify cells by vibrating ionic bonds, stop selling, improve lymphatic flow and blood circulation, and attract calcium to cell membranes where it is needed for healing.

In studies published in Circulation and the Journal of Cardiology, both respected cardiology journals, physicians at the famed Mayo Clinic use the worst classification of congestive heart failure patients to demonstrate the safety and therapeutic value of the far infrared sauna. They study used patients who were end-stage heart patients who were maximally medicated and unable to walk across the room without shortness of breath, unable to tolerate warm baths, much less tolerate a sauna.

During the FIRS , no patient had dyspnea (shortness of breath), angina (chest pain) or arrhythmia ( irregular heartbeat), nor complained of excess heat. There were no side effects, something that never happens with drugs and surgery. Diastolic blood pressure ( the low number) decreased but the systolic pressure ( the top number) was unchanged. This means they did not get hypertensive, and in fact the work of the heart was lessened. Furthermore the stroke volume and ejection fraction increased, meaning the heart beat more efficiently with less effort.

Contrast this with warm baths that caused an increase in systemic blood pressure and pulmonary vascular resistance. Warm baths, by raising blood pressure, cause more work for an already failing heart. And in a regular sauna, the arrhythmias increased 20%, whereas in the FIR sauna, arrhythmias decrease or disapproved entirely. Other cardiovascular improvements unique to the FIR sauna that would impress cardiologists include decreased pulmonary arterial and capillary wedge pressure as well as right atrial pressure, and in some cases disappearance of mitral regurgitation. The ECHO (echocardiogram) showed smaller left ventricular and left atrial dimensions, and epinephrine levels did not change, but norepinephrine increased.

Because the far infrared sauna has so many physiologic benefits that improved cellular detoxification (without making the rest of the body toxic or sick in the process), no side effects were observed with the FIR sauna, even at 140F.

In conclusion, the FIR sauna was extremely well tolerated and did the impossible. It improved the cardiac status of folks who were at the end of their therapeutic ropes. Even though medicine had nothing more to offer, congestive heart failure was reversed by the far infrared sauna.
Excerpts taken from Dr. Sherry Rogers, MD Detoxify or Die Pages 191-213

[Aaron]

Sherry Rogers Detoxification

The Simple Detox Cocktail Solution

I strongly recommend everyone make the detox cocktail to have once or twice a day. It revs up both phases of detoxification.



Not only does the detox cocktail help detoxify and get rid of all sorts of environmental insults, but it also helps dump our stored heavy metals like mercury. But this only happens once you have caught up and don’t have any other chemicals currently to detoxify. Pg 50


So for starters why not incorporate the detox cocktail into your daily regimen? If you get diarrhea from a teaspoon of Vitamin C powder, cut back to a half or a quarter of a teaspoon. When you do beneficial things for your body like the detox cocktail, it often has multiple other benefits. (pg 51) Vitamin C can protect against thyroid damage cause by environmental heavy metals. This is just one more reason why the daily detox cocktail is so important. (Pg 125)
The detox cocktail protects the body in a wide range of ways. It revs up detoxification of environmental chemicals, guards against a heart attack or blood clot, and cleanses the gut, protects our genes, and boosts cancer killing cells. Pg 51

Boosting the Rest of Your Detox System

What else can you so to rev up the ability of your body to fight free radicals and detoxify their major cause, the environmental chemicals contained in our air, food and water? For starters, the detox cocktail, detox enema Lipoic Acid are great for boosting phase 1 of detoxification.

The Detox Enema

The main way the body gets rid of health-damaging and age-promoting chemicals is through the gut. Nutrients like Vitamin C can prepare and attachment site on the chemical for glutathione. The body makes a lot of glutathione that can hook onto this prepared site, making the toxin heavy and polar (electrically charged). This facilitates dragging the chemical out of the bloodstream, into the liver, then into the gallbladder and last into the intestines where it is flushed down the toilet.


If you are constipated or the gut is not completely healthy, the nasty chemical that has been dragged into the gut attached to glutathione does not end up in the tank. Instead, the glutathione falls off the chemical and the chemical is now reabsorbed into the body, ready once again to do its damage.
The phytonutrients in the organic coffee also go directly from the colon veins to the liver. In the liver they actually stimulate the syntheses of more glutathione along with release of detoxifying bile and glutathione. In other words, the detox enema supercharges your detoxification system. Pg 65

Lipoic Acid

Lipoic acid is called the universal antioxidant because it can quench nearly all free radicals. It also recycles antioxidants like vitamin C and E back to their useful forms.

Glycine

The simple daily detox cocktail can keep your body from stockpiling or accumulating so many chemicals. It does this by revving up phase 1 of detoxification with Vitamin C Powder and revving up phase 2 with glutathione. If you want to add even more power to your detox cocktail you can add Lipoic Acid. If you want to make you detox cocktail even more potent, add glycine.
Glycine is a very simple amino acid, and it is also one of the three ingredients that the body uses to make its own glutathione. But just as the body hooks glutathione onto unwanted chemicals to help drag them out of the blood and into the stool, it uses glycine to help drag them out of the blood and into the urine. Pg 75


One of the main ways that phthalates or plasticizers cause liver cancer is by damaging the chemistry of little organelles inside the cell. In molecular biochemistry this process is called peroxisome proliferation. The important thing is that glycine can prevent this. Furthermore, glycine can protect against cadmium toxicity. When you realize what a potent detoxifier it is, it probably comes as no surprise that it also protects the lungs against other types of toxins. If that were not enough, glycine has some other very unique properties like zapping sweet cravings, helping hyperactive kids and anxious adults with jangled nerves and even has improved schizophrenia, epilepsy, depression, learning disability and memory. It also helps people thwart hypoglycemia and fatigue.


Warning Never do your cocktail before going to the dentist. I’ve had to have an injection of anesthetic every 12 minutes because I had my detox pathways so revved up! Not fun. Do it when you get home from the dentist. Pg 88

Glutathione

Glutathione is a safe detox nutrient that we all make in our bodies every single day. We also run out of it or use it up in the work of silently detoxifying hundreds of chemicals that we are exposed to every day in our air, food and water. Folks with most diseases, including Parkinson’s disease, have a deficiency of glutathione. Pg 109


Researchers found that when they gave 500 rats- used for cancer research-glutathione before, during, or after the introduction of a carcinogen chemical, the rats did not develop cancer. Pg 185


Excerpts taken from Dr. Sherry Rogers book Detoxify orDie

[Ann-ticipatingSuccess]

I gotta get me one o' these!!

Thanks, Aaron, for all that helpful information!

I'm even more convinced, now, that I want (and need) one of these. I just wanted opinions from someone who wasn't selling them before making my decision.

Looks like I need the book, Detox or Die, also.

Thanks again, Aaron.

Ann

[nlivened]

Portal IR Sauna

Hi Aaron,

Would you comment on the effectiveness of the portal sauna, which is much less expensive, as opposed to the stationary unit?

Thanks for all the helpful info.

[Ann-ticipatingSuccess]

Great idea, Peg!

Here's a link to the one that I'm interested in -

Portable FIR Sauna

This one has free shipping and is the best price I've found for portable saunas. I don't have room for a stationary one, so portable is the only way I can go.

Always appreciate your input, Aaron.

Ann

[Jamie]

There's also quite a few on sale at ebay for even less! Just fyi.

[belle99]

infrared bulbs in the bathroom?

Aaron,

What about those red heat lamps for bathrooms? Does it do the same thing?

And how many milligrams glycine, lipoic acid, and vitamin C does one take for the detox cocktail?

Thanks for the info....

[Ann-ticipatingSuccess]

Revisiting this topic with a 'buyer beware'

After many long months waiting to be able to afford a Portable FIR Sauna, I ordered one on eBay that looked very similar to the one I linked to above. It arrived today and it was a BIG disappointment. I sat in it for 40 minutes at its highest 'power level' - '5' and it was barely warming me and certainly did not make me sweat. Fortunately for me, the seller is going to refund my money.

It is my understanding from Aaron's explanation and other reading I've done on the internet that FIR heat is like the heat of the sun. If I had spent 40 minutes in the sun I would have been sweating like a pig after just a couple of minutes. Didn't even come close in this sauna.

This experience has lead me to suspect that most of the 'portable' FIR saunas that are for sale in various places on the internet are not really FIR saunas. It seems to me that a true FIR sauna would not require a warm up time, but I could be wrong about that.

I'm going to do more research before purchasing another and I may have to wait till I can afford one of the wooden ones.

Just wanted to share my experience in case it might be helpful to anyone.

Ann

[Athena]

Another portable FIR sauna

Here's a link to the one sold by Tools for Wellness, watch out for the sticker price! Portable FIR Sauna
The website has plenty of photos, including some of the unit being knocked down for storage.

Ann-ticipatingSuccess, I'm grateful that you shared your experience. So glad you were able to get a refund!!

Aaron, is this a good unit? Where did you get yours?
Hugs to everyone that reads this post!

[Aaron]

Aaron,

What about those red heat lamps for bathrooms? Does it do the same thing?

And how many milligrams glycine, lipoic acid, and vitamin C does one take for the detox cocktail?

Thanks for the info....

Hi Belle...I never saw this post!!

Some people have made saunas from these heat lamps but you have to really be careful...I think they can be quite a bit hotter.

You can make the ceramic infrared element type sauna in a closet, etc... by ordering infrared heating elements from Granger Electronics, etc...

I don't know the doses for those ingredients but if you search for
Dr. Sherry Rogers book Detoxify or Die
you might find the doses.