Why Sweating Is The Best Way To Get Rid Of Toxins

While most of us assume that sweating during a workout or in a sauna may be good for us, my hunch is that most of us don’t know why. The fact is, sweating is one of the best ways to remove toxins from our body and medical research can actually explain how this happens.

We live in a world where industrial toxins have become so prevalent that none of us are free of exposure. In fact, the umbilical cord blood of a newborn baby can be sampled and will reveal an average of over 200 synthetic chemicals, some of them with carcinogenic potential.

Heavy metals such as mercury, lead, cadmium and arsenic are abundant in our environment and endocrine disruptors such as phthalates and bisphenol A can be found in our blood and urine.

The heavy metals arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury are suspected carcinogens and can be toxic in all sorts of ways to your body. They can have negative effects on the heart, brain, kidney, and immunological systems. Heavy metals are present in water, food, dental amalgams, cigarettes, and industrial emissions.

Sweating has been considered a therapy since the Roman baths, Aboriginal sweat lodges, Scandinavian saunas, and Turkish baths.

Recently, infrared saunas have become available that are cooler than other saunas but penetrate the skin deeper to promote sweating and toxin excretion.

As I review in detail in my book, a series of studies performed in Japan show that treatment with an infrared sauna, known as waon therapy, improves artery function and reduces the rate hospitalization and death in patients with heart disease.

Optimal health is in part a balance of toxin-toxout. In other words, you need to be aware of sources of toxicity (like those plastic water bottles), and you need a process to eliminate stored chemicals.

The Whole Heart Solution provides an overview of the most important environmental chemicals at home and work and offers strategies to help you eliminate them from your life to achieve optimal health.

It's become trendy to see posts on social media declaring "too many people are counting calories and not enough are counting chemicals."