Why Saunas Are Good For Detoxification

The main health benefit of sauna bathing is its ability to aid in detoxification processes.

Using a sauna is one of the easiest ways to detoxify. The best part is that it can be used by just about anyone (check with your doctor first if you have any health issues).

Let's take a look at three sauna detoxification mechanisms:

1. creating an artificial fever

2. lymph detoxification

3. liver and kidney support

Heat Therapy

Using a sauna to raise your body’s temperature has sort of a cascading effect, including

• creating an articial fever, which...
  
  
• activates your immune system, and this
  
  
• increases white blood cell activity, thus
  
  
• killing bacteria in the process.

Heat therapy, also known as fever therapy or hyperthermia, is an effective way to help your body kill bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses.

In his book Sauna Therapy, sauna expert Dr. Lawrence Wilson wrote:

Lymph Detoxification

Your lymphatic system is a huge part of your detoxification and immune systems.

Waste material is carried away from your body's cells by blood and lymph fluid.

Since sweating helps detoxify your body, sauna and steam bathing help support lymphatic function.

In fact, sweat is manufactured from lymph. So toxins that are present in lymph fluid can leave your body through sweat.


Liver and Kidney Support

Saunas help give your hard working liver and kidneys a break.

How?

Toxins that would normally burden your liver and kidneys can be eliminated through sweat. Because of this, the heavy sweating caused by the sauna heat gives your liver and kidneys a sigh of relief.

In Sauna Therapy, Dr. Wilson included this quote from Dr. Michael Lyon, MD:

"Since sweat is manufactured from lymph, toxins present in the lymph fluid will exit the body through the sweat. Because the liver and kidneys are not required for this process, these organs are largely unburdened by hyperthermic therapy and toxins are able to leave the body even when liver or kidney function is impaired."

Heavy sweating in a sauna helps enhance toxin elimination through your skin, unburdening your liver and kidneys.

The skin is often referenced to as your body's third kidney. Not only is skin your largest organ – but as you can see it also plays an important role in helping detoxify your body.

Health professionals say that it eliminates up to 30% of the waste material in your body!

Now that's a lot of waste!

Taking a sauna is sort of like taking a shower from the inside out.

Recommended Reading:

Detoxify Or Die - written by Sherry Rogers, M.D. This book has received an impressive average reader rating of 4.5 of 5 stars. The importance of detoxification is discussed, as well as why/how a sauna should be used.

Sauna Therapy - Dr. Lawrence Wilson writes about the importance to detoxify, and why sauna is the best method.



Detox with a home sauna

Read about sauna benefits

Return from Sauna Detoxification to the home page

New! Comments