The Cancer Fighting Benefits of Far Infrared Saunas
Ty Bollinger: Dr. Sahni, talk about far infrared saunas. I know that you’re a big proponent of far infrared. Talk about the effect that this can have on cancer.
Dr Irvin Sahni: Far infrared saunas, the way they work is relatively simple. They exploit or take advantage of a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that basically increases the temperature of the body, and creates hyperthermia without exposing the body to some of the negative portion of the spectrum which we know is the ultraviolet spectrum.
Go out in the sun too much you can get skin cancer – especially if you don’t wear sunscreen and you’re light complected. So a far infrared sauna takes a part of that spectrum that creates heat, but not necessarily damage in the way that being out in the sun does.
I think the American Indians were people who were doing these more ritualistic heat treatments on themselves long before far infrared saunas were around. Maybe they didn’t understand the science behind it, but they knew it was good for you. But basically what it does is it raises your body temperature and then your body has to release that heat.
The way we release our heat is by sweating and that sweating helps. The sweat helps carry the heat away from the body. So by stimulating that mechanism… people don’t realize this, but you excrete just as much urea through your skin, maybe more. I’d have to go back and look up the numbers, but a significant amount of toxins are excreted through your skin as there are in your urine or your stool. And in some cases, probably specific toxins, even more.
So by exposing yourself to a reasonable time frame and a reasonable level, a safe level of heat, you can just basically stimulate your body to accelerate that excretion of toxins and you can make that happen faster.
The other reason a far infrared sauna is so useful is that normal cells are able to withstand heat because of their normal anatomy compared to the abnormal anatomy of say a cancer cell, especially in relation to its vascular supply. And so a cancer cell doesn’t do well in a hyper-thermic situation. This has been shown in mainstream science to be the case.
So by exposing your body to that heat you’re selectively killing or eradicating those less viable cells, those cancer cells, without hurting your normal cells. And so a far infrared sauna is useful because it can help you sweat, excrete toxins, and in theory eliminate cancer cells which can’t survive the heat as well as the normal cells.
What was the brand sauna you guys talked about on the truth about cancer the portable one
Best is Sunlighten.
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Agreed! They were recommended by kris Carr…. and we love our sunlighten. My husband uses it every day.
How does the body excrete the dead cancer cells killed by the FIR HEAT?
urine !!
Sweat and urine
Right but what is process of breakdown? Does anything show up in urine ie High WBCS?
Does the near infrared sauna have he same effect?
How often is recomended?
What if you are using chemo can you use far infared as well?
Chemo kill good cell, its best to improve the immunity with acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine after chemo
What is considered a safe heat and for how long
St George Klinik in Germany uses Far infrared therapy only for all cancer type of patients. Soqi bed is also the best
Will it also kill cancer cells such as lung cancer deep in the body?
Hi thank you. I think I am gonna start an infrared sauna for my lymphoma. I am from Belgium. Is there a way I can get the message out here. I would like to help as much people as possible here
Hi Kevin –
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Have a blessed week!
Could this be used in place of chemo?
Hi Pamela –
We appreciate you reaching out to us about this.
Unfortunately, we are unable to give any kind of medical advice. The best advice we can give you is to consult with one of the doctors we interviewed in the Global series.
Please note that we are not able to select an expert for you.
We’ve created a page with the experts’ contact info as it was available to us.
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http://thetruthaboutcancer.com/experts-info-sheet/
We do have one more resource you may be interested in. During our Live Event 2017 series, Dr. Patrick Quillin suggested contacting The Institute of Functional Medicine to locate a practitioner in your area.
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Please feel free to reach out to these doctors as they would be more qualified to answer your question based on your condition.
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Dr Mercola says that NEAR infrared should be used because of health concerns with the FAR infrared . Please Do you have Information to clarify this?
Pat