To illustrate just how powerful a detox these saunas provide, here are 4 excerpts from her book:
FIRS, the Only Sauna Proven Safe for Elderly, Severe End-Stage Heart Patients –
page 202
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.
The Heart as Allergic Target Organ – page 205
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).
You might be tempted to fall for the story that there is no way to get all these poisons
out of the heart, but you’re much too smart for that by now. The far infrared sauna
(FIRS) has been proven by specialists at the famed Mayo Clinic to improve heart failure,
even when nothing more could be done by medicine. And in Japan, clinicians and
researchers have confirmed its life-saving properties when nothing else could be done
to (Time, Kihara, Imamura).
But not any old sauna was effective, for example, the regular dry Finnish saunas actually
triggered worsening arrhythmias, increased hypertension and shortness of breath (even
at rest), and most heart patients could not tolerate them. In fact, some of these heart
failure patients could not even tolerate a hot bath or a hot day out of doors without
drawing closer to death.
How is the Far Infrared Sauna Different – page 208
The FIRS uses a patented zirconium ceramic infrared heater, emitting between 2 and 25
microns, with a third of the output in the 2-5.6 micron range for deepest penetration,
about 1.5 inches. Patented in 1965, it was used predominantly in Japan, and then use
extended to the U.S. since 1981. Safer, more economical to operate, lower in a EMF, and
inducing 2-3 times the sweat volume, while allowing a much more tolerable and safer
operating temperature, makes it my preferred tool for purifying detoxifying the body.
Naturally nothing stands alone, and a clean diet, environment and soul are, of course,
crucial components to healing the impossible.
In regular high heat saunas, plasma norepinephrine (related to adrenaline) increased
100-160% accompanied by subjective discomfort and intolerance. Adrenaline can, of
course, trigger arrhythmias or a heart attack. In contrast, FIR sauna was extremely well
tolerated and did the impossible. It improved the cardiac status of folks who were at the
end of their therapeutic ropes. Even though medicine had nothing more to offer,
congestive heart failure was reversed by the far infrared sauna.
FIRS Cures the Most Mysterious Cases – page 213
The bottom line is that folks with the most severe forms of heart disease and resistant to
all medications, tolerated the FIR with no side effects. Most importantly, it improved
their heart health in this Mayo Clinic study within three short weeks. Of course, it is
recommended to continue longer, say a year of daily or every other day saunas for an
hour or less to more completely lower stored chemicals that cause disease. Then it is
necessary to do them at least once a week for life, since the world will never run out of
ways to poison us.
It should not surprise you by now the mysterious joint pain in war veterans exposed to
Agent Orange also disappeared, as did a host of other pain syndromes. Schnare of the
U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) also showed that not only did sauna reduce
body levels of HCB (hexachlorobenzene) and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) in
electrical workers, for example, but it did this even though the men were continually
exposed at work.
