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http://www.vitanews.net/Archives2008/SweatingOutEnvironmentalToxins.htmlIf you've been reading about all the toxins we're exposed to just walking through the world these days, you've inevitably wanted to know what you could do to detoxify yourself. One simple way according to Dr. Shelia Rogers, author of Detoxify or Die, is to sweat the toxins out using far infrared sauna (FIR). Doing some googling, I found three very large excerpts from Dr. Rogers book on how FIR has been used for chemical detoxification. Here's a bit from the first excerpt:
Dr. William J. Rea, medical director of the American Environmental Health Center in Dallas Texas, has treated literally thousands of patients with nearly every diagnosis, incorporating this technique into an all-encompassing environmental medicine program. Because these patients come from all corners of the world, are desperately ill and have all exhausted everything that modern medicine has to offer, getting rid of their underlying chemicals is crucial to their healing. In fact when physicians knowledgeable in finding the causes of disease are totally stumped and do not know what else to do for seriously ill patients, they often send folks (and themselves) to this unique center.
These people are so full of chemicals and their detoxication pathways are so damaged, that often they will need one or more months of detoxification saunas at the unit to be followed by months and years of saunas at home.
In one study by Dr. Rea, 210 patients with a variety of symptoms did only one or two 40-minute sessions a day for one month (Rea). 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.
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