| For thousands of years, humans have used the | | | | The way this works is simple, and has been proven |
| principle around which the sauna is based to cleanse | | | | in many cases, most notably in efforts to detoxify a |
| their bodies of impurities, from the physical to the | | | | body that has become addicted to drugs or alcohol. |
| spiritual. In Rome, the poor and the elite alike used | | | | During the normal metabolism process, the body |
| public facilities, which included steam baths and | | | | does not have the outside pressures it needs to |
| saunas, on a regular basis, as they sought remedies | | | | successfully rid itself of many chemicals that can get |
| for various ailments as well as stress. In North | | | | trapped in fat and in the water that runs through our |
| America, many different native cultures would use | | | | bodies. The body can transfer the chemicals into the |
| the idea of a sweat lodge for healing and before | | | | water, but the water must find a way out. That way |
| ceremonies, in order to rid themselves of harmful | | | | out is through sweat, and the sweat that we see in |
| spirits. | | | | a sauna is impure water, containing chemicals our |
| The idea that a sauna can assist in cleansing | | | | body does not need. |
| one’s body, therefore, is nothing new. But we all | | | | But what about an infrared sauna? Does it work the |
| know that just because a body of | | | | same way? |
| “knowledge” has existed for a while, it is not | | | | The answer is a resounding yes; in fact, an infrared |
| necessarily true. For instance, in medieval Britain | | | | sauna will work more efficiently than a traditional |
| almost the opposite way of thinking held sway; | | | | steam sauna when it comes to getting out the toxins |
| people believed that a bath would rid the body of oils | | | | that plague our bodies. Infrared rays are able to |
| that would help to stave off illness! In this article, we | | | | penetrate deeper and faster than steam heat, and |
| will look at the veracity of the claim that saunas can | | | | that means that in the same amount of time, your |
| help to cleanse. | | | | body will be able to get rid of more chemicals and |
| So, does using a sauna actually work when it comes | | | | other toxins, and ones that may never get out with |
| to getting toxins out? | | | | traditional steam heat. |
| The good news for sauna enthusiasts is that in the | | | | So if you are concerned about the myriad of |
| case of the sauna, the Romans, the Cheyenne, and | | | | chemicals and other contaminates that are in your |
| thousands of other global cultures were right; saunas | | | | body due to every day living, the use of an infrared |
| do help to rid the body of many built up, harmful | | | | sauna may be just the thing to get the worries – |
| chemicals. | | | | and the toxins! - out. |