Infrared sauna therapy is a standard part of most of the detoxification programs I make for the purpose of ridding the body of nasty stuff we find through lab testing, such as chemicals, pesticides, heavy metals and mycotoxins.
All of these compounds are linked to various chronic health issues, such as migraines, infertility, digestive disorders, joint pain, brain fog, along with more serious, like cancer, autoimmunity, hormone disorders.
These are signs, most often, that the body is collapsing from toxic load and needs help.
The body doesn’t just get sick out of nowhere - it gets sick when there are blockages present - mental such as stress and biochemical such as toxic load.
I use infrared sauna therapy in combo with taking binders for the toxins found, because there is scientific evidence that this method works to detoxify.
That it works can be seen in the subsequent laboratory testing.
Yes, we like to work based on facts and evaluate progress based on numbers and not ideas, beliefs and food religions. Health care should be fact based, not general ideas or theories or one-size-fits-all diets just to sell books.
Detoxing through gimmick diets and juice fasting does not rid the body of toxins - it only temporarily solves constipation issues in the colon.
You cannot medically detox without knowing WHAT you need to detox from, the minerals needed to facilitate detox, understanding whether the cell membranes are functioning or need to be repaired.
If our cell membranes are damaged, we cannot absorb nutrients optimally nor can we detox properly.
Many steps and individual assessments go into detoxing properly if it is to work.
Most, if not all, chronic health issues today are tied to toxicity to some degree. Yes, virus, retrovirus, fungi, parasites and bacteria are almost always involved also. But unless the body has a opportunistic environment, these opportunistic pathogens will in the majority of cases not be able to affect the individual.
In just one out of many studies they concluded "Increasing evidence suggests that IR can carry out photostimulation and photobiomodulation effects particularly benefiting neural stimulation, wound healing, and cancer treatment ... Clinical evidence has demonstrated that IR can selectively induce cell death by apoptosis, necrosis and anoikis."
So which key things are you looking for if you want to get an infrared sauna yourself?
In order ranked from most important to least important, you are looking for following factors when choosing an infrared sauna:
Low EMF - must be below 14 mG
Carbon panels - enable you to be longer in the infrared sauna than ceramic panels as they operate at lower temperatures
Far Infrared + Near infrared (Full spectrum) - offering health benefits from the different lengths of infrared light
Red cedarwood - natural antibacterial
Clearlight saunas are some of the best saunas out there that live up to above criteria (and no, this is not an ad). Most people are not gonna get a full-on sauna installed in their house, though, and for that you simply want to ensure the EMF is lower than 14mG and that it is carbon panels.
Also, remember to have an icy cold towel or use a sauna hat, as there are no benefits to overheating your head.
On the contrary, your body gets a stress response and enters sympathetic nerve system, if your head gets overheated. This is not a great thing, because if your body is stressed out, you do not detox - you mainly let go of toxins when you are in the parasympathic nervous system (relaxed).
References:
J Photochem Photobiol B. 2017 May; 170: 197–207.
J Environ Public Health. 2012; 2012: 184745.