Re: Pondering: detoxing mercury using a sauna. Sauna now contaminated?

[Guest guest]

That is an interesting question. I don't know the answer to it (no one

has commented on this possiblility that I know of) and it is one that

only Andy might know the answer to.

I would direct your attention to the file section where there is a

file of Andy's comments on saunas. He likes traditional saunas. There

is a gentleman who is in the sauan business ---Bob someone?? If you

search onibasu.com there are lots of posts on saunas and you might find

your answer there. I did a lot of research on saunas early on in my

detox process and never came across a post discussing this, but then

again I wasn't looking for that specifically.

Good luck!! Let us know what you learn. Colette

> My wife and I are considering building or purchasing one of those

> fancy dry saunas. It seems like a worthy investment for long term

> health as well as getting this mercury out. I have been using one of

> the tent looking portable steam units and the results are amazing.

>

> Would the mercury leaving my body render the sauna toxic? I hate to

> put that kind of money into an investment only to ruin it and get hit

> again.

>

[Guest guest]

If you search past messages on sauna you will find Andy does agree they are

helpful, however, he does NOT recommend Infrared saunas as they heat the body

unevenly which is not good physiologically. He recommends the traditional

convection (air heating) types.

As far as contaminating the sauna, I would say a simple solution is to bring in

a couple towels to sit on and towel yourself with. Any mercury will then goes

down the drain when you wash the towels. We are talking small amounts of

mercury with any single sweat, and Andy's comments about a child soiling a

carpet in school in his interview on " autism one radio " would apply.--Jon

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/adult-metal-chelation/message/37257

http://autismone.org/radio/?archive=698

Pondering: detoxing mercury using a sauna.

Sauna now contaminated?

My wife and I are considering building or purchasing one of those

fancy dry saunas. It seems like a worthy investment for long term

health as well as getting this mercury out. I have been using one of

the tent looking portable steam units and the results are amazing.

Would the mercury leaving my body render the sauna toxic? I hate to

put that kind of money into an investment only to ruin it and get hit

again.

[Guest guest]

Bob at Heavenly Heat Saunas is the guy Andy recommends talking to.

And as Colette said, by searching archives and in the Links and Files section,

you'll find comments by Andy and Bob about saunas, and you'd probably find a

phone number and/or email for contacting Bob.

As far as your question about your sweat contaminating the sauna, here are my

thoughts, but it would be best to ask Andy or Bob, and see if I'm on the right

track. The mercury would be in your sweat, not in the steam, and it is

recommended that you wipe yourself off frequently with a towel while in the

sauna, so if you would do this, and make sure any surface you touch is covered

by a towel, then the wood shouldn't get contaminated. So you should sit on a

towel, probably have your feet on one, and have another one to wipe yourself off

with, and then not leave them in there, but launder them right away, I think

this should keep the wood from absorbing it.------------Jackie

In frequent-dose-chelation cann7899 wrote:

That is an interesting question. I don't know the answer to it (no one

has commented on this possiblility that I know of) and it is one that

only Andy might know the answer to.

I would direct your attention to the file section where there is a

file of Andy's comments on saunas. He likes traditional saunas. There

is a gentleman who is in the sauan business ---Bob someone?? If you

search onibasu.com there are lots of posts on saunas and you might find

your answer there. I did a lot of research on saunas early on in my

detox process and never came across a post discussing this, but then

again I wasn't looking for that specifically.

Good luck!! Let us know what you learn. Colette

> My wife and I are considering building or purchasing one of those

> fancy dry saunas. It seems like a worthy investment for long term

> health as well as getting this mercury out. I have been using one of

> the tent looking portable steam units and the results are amazing.

>

> Would the mercury leaving my body render the sauna toxic? I hate to

> put that kind of money into an investment only to ruin it and get hit

> again.

>

[Guest guest]

Concerning infrared saunas...wouldn't you get the same effect from

standing with your back facing the sun? Your back side would get a

lot hotter than your front side...not heating your body evenly...

I've used an infrared sauna dozens of times before reading about Andy

Cutler and really think that they helped and still use them.

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> If you search past messages on sauna you will find Andy does agree

they are helpful, however, he does NOT recommend Infrared saunas as

they heat the body unevenly which is not good physiologically. He

recommends the traditional convection (air heating) types.

>

[Guest guest]

Heating half your body and not the other half is something your body handles

just fine.

Heating a few small areas comprising 10-20% of your body intensely, and not the

others

(as in many of the low quality brands of IR sauna) is not something most

people's bodies

handle well.

Andy

> > >

> > > Concerning infrared saunas...wouldn't you get the same effect from

> > > standing with your back facing the sun? Your back side would get a

> > > lot hotter than your front side...not heating your body evenly...

> > >

> >

> > Not really. The IR from the close proximity of the sauna is more

> > powerful.

> >

> >

>

> I know the saunas are more powerful...but the sun can get pretty

> intense where I live (SoCal) and standing in it will make you start to

> sweat similar to an infrared sauna. It wasn't how powerful it is, but

> just the fact that there are times when the body is heated unevenly.

> Even in front of a fire in cold weather your body will get quite an

> uneven heating. I am considering getting a little portable steam

> sauna though, just to try and feel the difference as I never used one

> before.

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