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The overall physiological effects of sauna exposure have been presented previously .The cardiovascular system combats thethermal stress by cutaneous vasodilatation,and increased skin blood flow, heart rate andsweating. The heart rate accelerates up to twice the resting rate and even more.

The cardiac output is estimated to increaseby about 70 % over the resting state, the total peripheral resistance of the vessels decreases by about 40 % , the stroke volume is unaffected,and the diastolic and mean arterial pressures decrease, with practically no change in the systolic pressure. The overall work of the heart, as estimated from the heart rate and systolic blood pressure, indicating myocardial oxygen demand, does not increase greatly.

The strain on the heart and the cardiovascular system depends not only on the temperature in the hot room, its air humidity and the duration of stay in the heat, but also on the type of cooling employed during the cool-off session. The skin temperature fluctuates from up to 40°C in the hot room, down to 33°C upon icewater immersion. The core temperature, as
measured from the esophagus, is more stable, rising in the hot room at an average rate of 0.07°C × min-1 up to 38°C, then accelerating to 0.4°C × min-1 up to 39°C, and returning to initial values rapidly after the exposure.The rate of reduction depends on the type of cool-off. (more…)

No matter what disease you look at, from the most seemingly innocent to the nastiest symptoms, environmental chemicals are at the base. Look at endometriosis. It is not a killer, you rarely hear about it, it has a devastating effect on millions of women in the United States. It affects 15 percent of women in reproductive age range and is increasing each year. It leads to extensive and expensive problems with infertility as well as loss of much productive work time, not to mention loss of personal time because of severe pain and/or abnormal bleeding.

Even worse, endometriosis often cripples women to the point of forcing them to have a hysterectomy in early 20s, before they’ve had a chance to marry and have a family. Or they are put on drugs like Lupron, which is analogous to a chemical castration and may contribute to irreversible infertility, chemical sensitivity, or cancer later on.

Did you know the dioxins are one of many causes of endometriosis? Totally unavoidable in the 21st century lifestyle and diet, dioxins are even in everything from our foods and toilet paper to coffee filters, diapers, tampons, and much more (Birnbaum). Since they are persistent environmental poisons, they never leave the soil or water permanently, but cycle through rain, plants, animals, and into our food and bodies. The only way out is through sweat. (more…)

Saunas are a relatively new thing in North America, and many of us North Americans do not know how to use them properly. In order to get the maximum results from a sauna, we must first know the dos and don’ts of saunas. There is a lot of propaganda about sauna out there, and if someone were to believe and do everything that is said you can do, that person’s health would be in serious jeopardy!

Saunas can do a lot for your body, and perhaps the best thing it does is to cleanse the toxins from your body. It does this by heating up your body and allowing it to sweat. Sweating is your body’s way of removing the “bad stuff” and replacing it with the “good stuff”. The room temperature in a sauna has to be pretty high for this process to happen properly, and some people are afraid that their bodies may be burned because of the high heat.

The correct temperature for a regular sauna is 180 degrees Fahrenheit. If your oven has heated up to this degree and you place your hand on the burner, your hand will be burned! However, in a sauna, the heat comes from only one thing in the room — the heater, and if you are using the sauna properly, you do not ever have to touch the heater. It is not possible for your body to be burned by the high heat of the sauna room as long as the temperature stays at a normal sauna temperature. (more…)

There seems to be a lot of controversy going around lately about whether or not a sauna will help you to burn calories and lose weight. Some people think that the whole thing is just a myth, and some people swear by it.

A lot of the sauna manufacturing companies will tell you that saunas definitely help you lose weight and calories, but this information is not as believable coming from someone who wants to sell you their sauna! Some of these companies’ websites even have so called “doctors” who will answer any questions you may have about their saunas, but these people are employed by the company, and are still just trying to sell you their sauna.

Sitting inside of a hot sauna for any period of time will make you sweat. Sweating releases fluid from your body. The longer you sweat, the more fluid you will lose, and this fluid loss is really the only weight loss that you see from sauna use. Once you are done with the sauna for the day, it is highly recommended that you drink lots of water after you’ve cooled off. This basically puts the lost fluid right back inside of your body. (more…)

I first started looking into purchasing a far infrared sauna about six months ago, when both myself and my boyfriend were fed up with our constantly aching necks and backs from sitting at our desks at our respective office jobs all of the time.  Not only that, I wanted a place that was an oasis from the hectic days during the work week, and somewhere that I could unwind and enjoy an enveloping warmth.

Dry heat has always been relaxing and soothing to me, especially since I suffer from asthma.  There’s just something about a penetrating heat, like the kind you get from sitting in the sun, and not surprisingly, the kind that an infrared sauna gives off, that makes you feel deeply relaxed and tranquil.

This is precisely what we wanted out of a sauna, and so I began my search for the perfect infrared sauna.  We ended up getting a four person unit installed in our basement about 4 weeks ago, and ever since it’s been there, we’ve been in it every single night without fail.  I can’t even begin to describe the changes in my health and mental clarity that have resulted since then. (more…)

The number of drugs should tell you that medicine doesn’t have a clue as to what the true underlying cause is for CHF. But you know. It is anything that 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 air, food and water. You cannot escape heavy metals or other environmental pollutants. 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.

What else can silently poison hearts? You guessed it, herbicides and pesticides, which are also hidden in our air, food and water. No one is protected, while not one toxin is suspected. And the causes of heart disease do not end there. They include 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, and benzene in air fresheners, to good old diesel and other common pollutants in vehicle exhaust (EPA, Bond, Theriault, Levine, Atkins, Kesteloot, Alexander, Goldsmith, Meyerson, Asokan, Williams, Mee, McLeod, Wiseman, Wright, Speizer, Antti-Poika, Edling, Kobayaski, Sharp, Schroeder). (more…)

How can we bring aging and illness to a screeching halt? Better yet, how can we turn back the hands of time? By booting those nasty disease-causing chemicals out of the body. Sweat out the poisons is the answer, but not any old sauna or sweating program will do.

Many people who are sick, like heart patients, would never tolerate the extreme temperatures of regular saunas. In fact it would make them worse, raising blood pressure and heart rate, while triggering arrhythmias and shortness of breath. Clearly heat is contraindicated. Imagine a man with cadmium-induced arthritis and hypertension, or a woman with Mercury-induced shoulder pain and angina, or toluene-induced migraines and arrhythmia. When environmental chemicals create pain in addition to cardiovascular disease, as examples, what is the heart patient to do?

If you are like most people, you may have never learned much about the diagnosis of CHF or congestive heart failure. Yet it attacks more people each year than cancer, and it is as lethal as cancer. For with the diagnosis of cancer, the median survival (different cancers have their own survival rates, but if you average them all together) is six years. With CHF, the median survival is less: five years. When the diagnosis of cancer is made, folks feel eminent doom and urgency. But with CHF, it has received such scant press that it merely engenders a “So What?” response. It fosters no doom and gloom urgency. (more…)

Is your body clean on the inside? Could you benefit from a total body cleansing? If you decide that a detox might be just the thing your body needs, how do you go about it?

There are different ways to detoxify your body.Detoxiyfing and cleansing the body thoroughly and often is important for good health.

Now that you know the importance of internal cleansing, how do you do it? How do you go about ridding your body of the harmful toxins that may be the cause of feeling poorly?

First, you need to understand what happens when you cleanse your body.

When you detoxify, you will: (more…)

I simply don’t get it: Most of you reading this are probably using your mobiles, sit in front of your computer screens and  love the latest electronic gadgets in your cars totally oblivious to the inherent dangers. Let’s face it, these dangers are well known and are largely ignored.

Now I am going to be blunt: The reason? Because I want you to sit up and listen and understand what is at stake here:

I am talking about your health!

You are surrounded by electronic equipment polluting the air you breathe in your office and your home. The wide spread use of electronic equipment in all parts of the world is wreaking havoc with the body’s energy system.

Odds are this constant bombardment of electro pollution is affecting your emotional and physical health. Scientific studies have conclusively shown how EMF or electromagnetic field emissions from electronic equipment affect our well being. If you are working in built up areas, in a call centre, as a stock market or commodity trader, an air traffic controller or in any other job where you are constantly exposed to electro pollution your health is particularly at risk! (more…)

Like every thing else the human body needs to be cleansed inside out every now and then, otherwise the accumulation of harmful, or in some cases even poisonous elements, may cause serious diseases, mental and physical fatigue, pains in various parts of your body, and an overall degeneration. So if you are trying to retrieve that lost spark, if you want to regain that zest for life, natural detoxification is the way to go. Get rid of those terrible toxins by natural body detox methods.

Detox methods clean the blood in your liver, through the kidneys, lungs, skin and intestine. And natural body detox methods are the cheapest and safest way of cleaning your body thoroughly.

Obviously, as a preparatory measure, prior to the beginning of your natural body detox, you have to bar further toxins from entering your body. Products which we consume regularly, such as, coffee, nicotine, refined sugar, alcohol, saturated fats, all contain toxins. So stop indulging yourself before you start natural detoxing. Other products of day to day use such as shampoo, toothpaste, soap, floor cleaners etc all contain toxins, so for the time being check the use of all that stuff.

Having stopped effectively the entry of more toxins, you can begin with the actual natural body detox process. Here are some of the ways in which you can have a natural body detoxification: (more…)