For years people have been told to protect themselves from the sun, that too much exposure can damage the skin and lead to cancer. We are cautioned against sun tanning whether on the beach or in a booth because of the inherent dangers in this activity. Yet, no one is warning people against the infrared rays that are used in infrared saunas.
The sun is also made up of infrared rays so why aren’t people being warned about the possibility of cancer when they use these saunas?
Infrared Rays And Their Potential To Cause Cancer
The sun is made up of three types of radiation. Visible light, infrared, and Ultra Violet. Visible light is what makes the colors we see in the sun, infrared light is the heat we feel. Except in very extreme cases, neither visible nor infrared light will cause cancer.
It is the sun’s ultra violet rays that do all the damage that causes cells to mutate and leads to cancer. Tanning beds depend on the Ultra Violet rays to give you your tan and thus are using the rays that are most harmful to achieve their goal, which in turn can provide the same risk of cancer as tanning out of doors.
Infrared Saunas on the other hand filter out the UV rays and use only the infrared rays of the sun to provide their benefits. By doing this these saunas actually provide people with all the healing benefits of the sun with none of the risks. In fact, it is believed and studies show that using an infrared sauna may actually help to prevent cancer and in some cases may help people to fight cancer better than they can with traditional cancer treatments.
To explain how an infrared sauna can help with the fight against cancer you need to understand how the immune system works to prevent diseases.
How the Immune System Works
The immune system is an intricate and complicated system in our body. Basically, however, the job of this system is to protect the body from invasion by bacteria, viruses, toxins and other foreign substances that our bodies don’t need and can prove to be harmful to the body and its organs.
When these foreign substances enter our bodies the immune system sends out white blood cells to fight the objects and prevent them from harming us. Fevers are a sign that the immune system is at work. A completely healthy and functioning immune system can fight off any disease and help us to stay healthy.
However, there are many things that can weaken the immune system such as improper diet, lack of adequate rest and the constant bombardment of bacteria’s and toxins themselves. When the amount of unhealthy foreign matter reaches a level that the immune system can no longer fight all the battles at once we get sick.
Cancer is one of the diseases that a healthy immune system can fight. Cancer is caused by a normal cell mutating into an abnormal cell that cell then reproduces itself and other abnormal cells are formed. We all have abnormal cells in our body, when these mutated cells number enough they start destroying the healthy cells in our body.
A healthy immune system keeps these mutated cells from multiplying and doing any real damage but, once the immune system is not longer strong it cannot fight these cells effectively and they begin to grow at an alarming rate. So, in order to prevent cancer or to help the body fight cancer you need to keep the immune system strong so it is able to do its job.
That is where an infrared sauna helps. It helps to rid the body of some of the toxins that weaken the immune system and may actually help to destroy cancer cells as well.
How An Infrared Sauna Helps The Immune System To Fight Cancer
Our bodies take in toxins through the air we breathe, the food we eat, the cloths we wear, the ground we walk on and even from some of the medicines we take to stay healthy. It is believed that the excess of toxins weaken the immune system and may actual play a part in the formation of cancer cells.
Once in the body toxins mix with fat cells and there they remain poisoning our immune system and overburdening it. There are just too many toxins for the immune system to be able to fight them all. Lowering the levels of toxins in the body increases the immune system’s ability to function but, getting rid of toxins is not a simple matter.
However, infrared saunas can help the body rid itself of toxins such as PCBs, hexane and clean the body of heavy minerals such as mercury, lead and cadmium.
It does this because the heat of an infra red sauna can penetrate 1 1/2 to 2 inches into the body, where it can melt the fat that is under the skin’s surface and then when the body perspir es the melted fat and the toxins it contains are forced out of the body with the perspiration where they can be washed away.
This detoxification removes many toxins and leaves less for the immune system to contend with. In addition, the heat from the sauna does many other things that help the immune system as well.
Because the sauna heats deep into the body it is believed that it can actually kill cancer cells which are weaker than healthy cells and they can be destroyed by the rise in body temperature. In addition, the heat from this type of sauna can improve circulation and oxygenation all of which can help to restore the immune systems functions.
Many doctors are now encouraging patients to use infrared saunas as a means of hyperthermia fever therapy in addition to traditional cancer treatments as a non evasive form of therapy to help win the fight against cancer.
So while the sun’s Ultra Violet rays may damage your skin and actually cause cancer, its healing infrared rays when used in an infrared sauna that filters out the UV rays may actually help to prevent cancer in some people and help others who have the disease win the battle against cancer.
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