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| humidity drops rapidly as the walls absorb moisture. One time-honored way to take a sauna is to stay until you're thoroughly hot, then dive into a cold lake or roll in the snow and return for another cycle. That's one way to keep the circulation going! People who attend Native American sweat lodge ceremonies experience a similar sensation when they move between the hot, steam-filled tent and the cool outdoors. Saunas, sweat lodges, steam baths and hot water baths raise the body's core temperature in a mild and temporary fever that accelerates the elimination of toxins through perspiration. |
| Research in Finland, Japan and other-countries suggests that fat stored near the skin's surface can be discharged in sweat and, with it, residues of substances that cannot be expelled through the lungs or kidneys, such as stored cadmium, mercury, lead, nickel, copper and other metals from chemical fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, food processing and industrial chemicals. High-temperature sweat also discharges ammonia, uric acid and other waste products. Having grown up in a community that takes its saunas seriously, I agree with Finns who travel the world sorely missing this ritual: if you're used to a weekly sauna, you never feel clean without it. |
| Hyperthermia is not recommended for those with heart disease, circulatory problems, adrenal suppression, systemic lupus erythemotosus, hemophilia, multiple sclerosis or silicon breast implants. As this therapy raises the body's temperature, it is not recommended during pregnancy. |
| Intestinal cleansing. Enemas and high colonics clear the colon of toxins and reduce or eliminate the |
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