Working With The Body Using Far Infrared Sauna Therapy
Benefits Of Far Infrared Sauna - Vitalists Work With the Body
The benefits of infrared saunas and how these relate to the battle between vitalists and atomists and their approach to health.
Really, there are only two kinds of health practitioners in the world: Vitalists and atomists. Hippocrates, often referred to as the "Father of Medicine", was a keen observer of nature - a scientist, if you will - observing life. And in his observations, he came to the realization that the body has an unbelievable capacity to correct itself. He called this vitalism. The body was vitalistic - having the ability to move towards wellness - no matter what the circumstance. It tries to correct the problem. If the environment is kept pure and is conducive towards health, the body can prevent disorders from taking root and maintain itself. Democritus had a differing view: If you can't see or prove it - it simply doesn't exist. He said what exists is matter - we're all composed of simple matter and all you have to do is act on this matter with other matter to change its course.
Thus two branches of medicine developed diametrically opposed to each other. There's really no middle ground. Either the body moves toward wellness or it doesn't. So, if a doctor works with the body - he's a vitalist. If he doesn't then he's an atomist, a believer in the ultimate particle - that which you can see. He believes you can change that course by treating it with other substances.
To give an example, let's examine fragile situations involving the elderly and serious heart patients. As mentioned earlier, the extreme heat from steam saunas normally would not be tolerated well by these folks. And modern medicine, the atomists, would pile on the medications. A vitalist, on the other hand, would try to eliminate the environment that poisoned the heart in the first place. You guessed it - eliminate the herbicides, pesticides, hydrocarbons, trichloroethylene, toluene, formaldehyde, benzene diesel and other vehicle exhaust. And experience has shown that when nothing else helped these patients, FAR infrared sauna therapy indeed did.
Body Regeneration?
Can the body actually regenerate itself? That's not possible, an atomist would say, we see no regeneration! Yes it does - it happens every day of your life. I'm not going to have the same liver in six weeks as I have today. Every cell in my liver is going to be re-made by my body. A new liver in six weeks! But realize that this same liver will be in the same condition as it is now if I don't do something about cleansing and nourishing my electrical body. The body can't make something out of nothing.
Your entire body totally rebuilds itself in less than two years, ninety-eight percent in less than one year. A new brain in one year, blood in four months, skeleton in three months, DNA in two months, liver in six weeks, skin in one month and stomach lining in five days! Are we still creating the same body?
That's Sounds Great - But Where Do I Start?
The body has one superb method of ridding itself of environmental toxins and that's through perspiration (okay, sweat!) However, when people who are so full of toxicity they cannot sweat or when they do, they detoxify so quickly that the chemicals come pouring into the bloodstream from the fat cells, they need specifics. Bear in mind that with abundant sweat comes loss of essential minerals. That's why it always wise to get a complete physical from your doctor, explaining your intentions. With the body expelling poison and medication, the level of medication in your blood will change.
Most healthy people have no trouble using their sauna for an hour each day at a temperature of 110 -120 F. However, if your health is more fragile, it makes sense to start out at 100 F for 10 or 15 minutes at a time. You'll be able to tolerate longer durations at a bit higher temperatures in time. If you are uncomfortable, use less heat and shorten your session. Don't worry about extending your length of stay or tolerating higher temperatures if you are competing with yourself. It's just not necessary. The detox effect usually lasts 3 days.
Ever start a detoxification cleansing program or a fast only to feel miserable and worse than when you started? It's because you were forcing your body to eliminate poison directly into the bloodstream THEN onto the other organs of elimination. With FAR infrared sauna therapy, we bypass the bloodstream and allow these same poisons to evacuate the subcutaneous fat storage sites into our sweat.
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