Why Sauna?

Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt has written: “Peer reviewed literature shows that sweating during sauna therapy eliminates high levels of toxic metals, organic compounds, dioxin, and other toxins.” Dr. Klinghardt recommends Heavenly Heat saunas exclusively.

The following are quoted from various articles, statements, and studies on toxic metals:

1. “Analyses of the patient's sweat indicated that appreciable amounts of mercury were excreted by this route.”
2. “The mean concentrations of nickel and cadmium in sweat were higher than those reported for urine; that of lead was similar to urine.”
3. “By far the earliest known form of therapy” (to induce mercury excretion), “and possibly still the most effective, is the induction of sweating by the use of sauna or steam baths.”
4. “… sauna therapy of an individual with evidence of chronic mercurialism was effective at inducing a remarkable excretion of mercury via the sweat.” 
5. (In workers who have perspired profusely) ... “the total amount of mercury excreted in the sweat during 90 minutes ranged from 50% to 90% of that found in a 16-hour composite sample of urine (Lovejoy, et al.).
6. “Sweating does indeed increase mercury excretion. Probably an hour or two of sauna is the same as 50 mg of DMSA (a pharmaceutical chelator of mercury) every 4 hours for a day.” 

Dr. William Rea is considered the foremost expert on chemical sensitivity. He has used sauna detox with thousands of severely chemically ill patients. He has used a Heavenly Heat sauna clinically since 1994, and his patients have used them for aftercare since 1989. At the 2007 meeting of the “American Academy of Environmental Medicine”, Dr. Rea gave a talk on his detox program, and the data on the chart (see right) was presented.

# Printed with permission.

a. Clinical response to therapeutic agents in poisoning from mercury vapor. Sunderman, FW., Ann Clin Lab Sci. 1978 Jul-Aug; 8(4).

b. The excretion of trace metals in human sweat. Cohn JR and EA Emmett. Ann. of Clinical and Laboratory Science, Vol. 8, Issue 4, 1978.

c./d. Industrial exposure to mercury. Dr. Woodhall Stopford, Duke Univ. Med. Center. Biogeochemistry of Mercury, Amsterdam Elsevier, 1979.

e. From “Mercury Study Report to Congress, Volume V: Health Effects of Mercury and Mercury Compounds”, 1997, the United States E..P.A.

f. Andy Cutler, PhD., on the Autism-Mercury support group.

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