Sweat Out Your Body ToxinsWritten by Rhea
In this toxic world where harmful chemicals enter your body on a daily basis, there is inevitable need to detoxify. You intake arsenic and heavy metals along with food you eat and water you drink. Even air that you breathe and which comes into contact with your skin contaminates your body with airborne particles and gases. Toxins will never cease to invade your diet and environment. The good news is detoxifying your body will not cost you a lot of time, money, and effort. Saunas, apart from their relaxing and soothing benefits, are proven to be one of easiest and most effective ways to get rid of body’s pollutants. Saunas stimulate sweating by subjecting body to a high temperature, from about 100 to 200 degrees Fahrenheit depending on whether one uses conventional sauna or much lower temperature of far infrared sauna (FIRS). When you sweat, toxic chemicals that have accumulated in your body are purged out of your skin’s pores. It is estimated that around 30 percent of bodily wastes are expelled from skin by way of perspiration. Further, waste products secreted through skin are more than common than those which are discharged with urine and stool. Health practitioners have noted that smokers who use sauna will often leave a yellow residue on their towels. Sauna owners also reported that a thick, black layer of accumulated tar build up on their sauna benches.
| | Saunas: An Effective Way to DetoxifyWritten by Jena
Do you constantly rage battles with thick smog and toxic chemicals in big city? Are you desperate for real clean living? We consume toxins daily—from air we breathe, food we eat, and even water we drink. Then, just when we think that we are safe at home, we come in contact with more, less obvious forms of toxins. Daily household toxins can come in form of cigarette smoke, dust, pet dander, mildew, cleaning detergents, as well as chemicals from bathing water. And vanity does pay its price because even soaps, lotions, ointments, creams, and deodorants we use everyday contain chemicals that are toxic to our body.Nowadays, with more toxins in environment than ever, “it’s critical to detoxify,” asserts Linda Page, N.D., Ph.D., author of Detoxification (Healthy Healing Publications). By removing and eliminating toxins, detoxification helps protect us from diseases and renews our ability to maintain optimum health. There are different ways to help our body detoxify, like eating plenty of fruits, and vegetables, taking Vitamin C and other supplements, drinking plenty of water daily, among others. One yet-to-be-explored means of detoxification however, is steam bath of Finnish origin, more popularly known as “sauna”. Yes, saunas not only improve blood circulation and provide tension relief after a hectic day, but they are now being recognized as an effective method of detoxification. Our skin is our body’s first defense against daily toxins which, therefore, makes it a major detoxification pathway. Many people’s skin, however, are very inactive. Many do not sweat. This may be caused by several factors like synthetic or tight clothing, sedentary living, or sun damage. This, then, is what sauna zeroes-in on. How? There is a layer of fat and oil just beneath surface of our skin. Heat from sauna raises skin’s temperature, causing these fats and oils to ooze out of skin’s oil glands. As sweat and oil are secreted, toxins dissolved in them are flushed out as well. By excreting these toxins and washing them off our bodies, our toxic load is lowered and cellular energy production is greater.
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