infrared sauna

In our daily lives, we are exposed to hundreds of toxic chemicals that are harmful to our bodies. You may have heard of them: mercury, cadmium, arsenic, phthalates, BPA, to name a few. They are in the air we breathe, the water we drink,  the food we eat and the by-products of our bodies’ metabolic processes.

Usually, your body eliminates these toxins through your kidneys, bowel, skin and the mucosal linings of the respiratory tract and eyes.  However, due to the excessive amount of chemical toxins, it can build up in your body and create a harmful internal environment for your brain, muscles and other tissues.  If the body cannot eliminate these toxins, it isolates and sequesters it as far away from the vital organs as possible by storing it in fatty, adipose tissues, such as those found in the skin and brain. A build-up of toxins in the tissues can negatively affect your productivity, your energy levels, your quality of sleep, your resistance to infection and your overall health and function. Long term, it can create and promote chronic diseases like certain cancers.

A toxic environment creates an imbalance in the body’s systems, creating dis-ease and eventual disease.  Water retention and subsequent weight gain results from the body’s attempt at diluting the concentration of toxins in the body. Low energy, mood swings and poor concentration can result from poor quality sleep produced from this same toxic internal environment. Overall, a toxic buildup results in a negative momentum causing health to spiral downwards.

Detoxification through sweating is one of the more efficient ways of cleansing the body. Because the body has already sequestered and isolated the toxins in the skin, it can be coaxed into elimination through the body’s process of perspiration from your largest and most effective detoxifying organ: the skin!