Health Improvements

Killing Germs

2007-04-26T17:33:00.000+01:00

Did you see the TV programme last night (Wed 25th April) about Giant Hornets and bees in a Japanese mountain valley? I couldn't take my eyes away from the TV! As well as being a fascinating programme in its own right, it also emphasised very strongly one of the benefits of the far infrared saunas that we sell at www.theultimatesauna.co.uk

I have been well aware that using the far infrared sauna has been good for killing bacteria and germs in the body, but it has always been difficult to know exactly how effective this process is. This TV programme, although in a totally unrelated way, very graphically showed its power.
The theme of the programme was that the giant hornets are a threat to all bees in the area (as well as other creatures), but there was a fascinating twist to the tale.

2 beekeepers and their hives were shown, each based in a different area. One had imported European bees and one had local Japanese bees. The Giant Hornets were large enough and powerful enough to regard these honey bees are a favourite delicacy, but their challenge was finding them. Late in the summer a hornet scout discovered the European bees and stopped for a meal. The bees put up a strong challenge but could do nothing and a number were killed before the hornet flew off. He later returned with about 300 mates and staged a mass attack with a view to getting into the hive. The bees valiantly fought to protect it but within about 3 hours about 30,000 had been killed. The remaining bees had to admit defeat before abandoning the hive to the hornets, who then went inside and plundered the larvae.

Sometime later a hornet scout discovered the Japanese bee hive. However these bees acted differently to the Europeans. They didn't attack the hornet. They simply watched. They even allowed it into the hive and carried on watching. The hornet decided to grab one of the bees with a view to eating it but as soon as it did it was the signal for the honey bees to strike with a mass attack. We literally couldn't see the hornet for bees, and being inside the hive it couldn't easily escape. Soon the hornet was dead. However, it didn't die because the bees were able to do anything to it, because its shell was too tough for them. It died simply because the bees' core temperature was 2 degrees higher than the hornet's and according to the programme makers "the hornet was literally roasted alive". From just 2 degrees!

From our point of view not only do we obviously have more tolerance to varying degrees of temperature, perhaps because of our size, but also when we are in the far infrared sauna we control the temperature at a level which makes us feel wonderful. That small rise in temperature however, obviously gives any germs living too near the surface of our bodies "a lot more than a headache".

This brings it home to me very strongly why in the 3 years I have been using my far infared sauna I have never had a cold or flu. So once again we say, "At the first sign of the cold or flu jump into the far infrared sauna". For more details see www.theultimatesauna.co.uk Enjoy it and may you keep improving your health!

2007-02-03T15:28:00.000+00:00

Are you a "Canary in a Cage"?

(re-published from September Blog)

In the early days of undergound mining, miners took canaries down with them to provide an early warning system of dangerous gas leaks. Canaries are very sensitive to these poisons and would readily die when exposed to them, so giving the miners a warning of the danger before they would otherwise be aware of it.We have a similar system operating today, but it is people rather than canaries, who are being sacrificed in the early warning system for the rest of us.

As most of us know, we live in a poisoned world. Over the last 50 or so years chemicals have been used in such quantities and used with such diversity that there is now no place on earth free from a chemical presence. From the Antarctic to the most remote deserts, from the deepest oceans to the highest mountains, everywhere is contaminated! Polar bears are so contaminated that their reproductive systems are being affected and there is fear that this may cause them to become extinct. The level of contamination in the breast milk of Innuit women is so high that if duplicated in milk on supermarket shelves it would be illegal to sell it! If scientists want an unpolluted sample they have to drill down through hundreds of feet of ice until they reach deposits laid down before chemicals started to be used!

It is easy to appreciate therefore that all the plants that we eat are contaminated by chemical toxicity, whether they are traditionally farmed using pesticides and chemical fertilisers or organically grown. Organic farming is evidence that chemicals have not been used in the farming process, but no regulations can control the movement of air or the toxins in it, when it travels across the country. The pollution from Chernobyl landed, amongst other places, in Wales. Where did the toxins from the Hemel Hempstead oil depot fire land? They certainly didn't skirt around the farms growing organic produce! Whilst these are horrifying extremes, the more serious problem for most people is the pollution caused simply by modern style living because it is taking place on a daily basis. And there is a force at work which is magnifying this problem exponentially.

Theo Colburn and others showed in their revealing book "Our Stolen Future" how Biomagnification of toxins rises exponentially to incredibly alarming levels when they took Lake Ontario as their test laboratory. Tests were made for PCB's, which along with Dioxins, Phthalates and others accumulate in the body and have been shown to have no natural way out again.

They tested microscopic organisms known as phytoplankton and discovered a level of toxicity, after a set period of growth, which they described as 250 units.These were eaten by tiny animals called zooplankton and mysids which absorbed those 250 units as a single meal. With one meal a day, after 180 days the Mysid contained 45,000 units and might in turn be eaten by a small fish. This fish ate these 45,000 units again as a single meal and in just 19 days, if eating one such meal a day, would themselves contain 835,000 units. Eating just 3 of those small fish the larger fish such as trout would then contain 2,800,000 units. With just 12 meals of trout we can absorb over 25,000,000 units of toxins. This is the exponetial effect of the food chain in action.

Obviously there is a limit to how much toxicity we can absorb before we become ill, and there is both massive and increasing amounts of evidence that shows that most of todays diseases are the result of a toxic build up. Eating food at the high end of the food chain (i.e. meat, fish, eggs and dairy) multiplies this toxic intake massively when compared against eating lower in the food chain. On a personal basis, if we wish to maintain our health, we each need to do what we can to minimise the amount of toxins that we take in. However, even with the utmost diligence we will still absorb toxins and we also need to do what we can to remove those that we do absorb.

Regular detoxification, in a variety of different ways is an essential for good health in the 21st century. For a free report on the various detoxification methods see http://www.theultimatesauna.co.uk/contact.htm . For details on how to detoxify what Dr. Sherry Rogers calls the worst of these toxins (i.e. the chemicals) see http://www.theultimatesauna.co.uk/

Despite the known harm of toxicity to life on earth, man's activities continue to increase the levels in our environment. In addition many of the products in use today will gradually break down over a number of years continually giving off toxins as they do so. Even if every pollution causing activity were ceased today, the toxicity in the environment would continue to increase for some time because of all the chemically produced products in our society. Obviously pollution causing activity will not completely cease today, and we will almost certainly continue to actively increase toxicity levels for many years to come.

On a society wide basis there is a limit to how much toxicity we can absorb before our food sources are killed off, (as they are affected by the toxins just as we are) and before it overwhelms us and kills us as well. Experience tells us that those in political power, because so often their major concern is simply to be re-elelected, will only take action on such matters when the majority make it clear that that is what they want. This is only going to happen when enough people fall seriously ill or die, and the connection is made between these deaths and the pollution, for the general public to call "enough". Those who die from these toxins are collectively "The canaries in the cage" for the rest of us. What about you? Do you accept responsibility for your own health? Are you mining the wealth of information relating to health improvement which is increasingly available? Or are you happy to be a "canary"for the rest of us?

The value of measuring pH levels

2006-11-05T20:47:00.000+00:00

pH is the measurement of the acidity or alkalinity in a substance.

Measuring this in ourselves is a useful indicator of future health levels. Whilst we maintain pH at the optimum level our health is likely to be good. Let it vere away from that optimum and we are likely to have health challenges.

The pH level of 7.0 is neutral. Any figure lower than 7.0 is acidic and anything higher than 7.0 is alkaline. We operate most efficiently in a slightly alkaline environment and the body maintains our blood at around 7.3. If that varies by more than about 0.2 either way we will die.

A few thousand years ago when we lived in harmony with nature we did not need to concern ourselves about pH levels as our lifestyles and environment in most cases naturally created the conditions that led to the appropriate pH levels within the body.

Unfortunately over time we have adopted habits that have taken us away from this harmony with nature and for many of us it has resulted in an acidic internal environment which the body is constantly attempting to neutralise. This movement away from nature has increased over time exponentially and in the 21st Century it has for many people become a really serious issue which is undermining our health.

Whilst the pH level of the blood is maintained at around 7.3, the pH levels of the other systems of the body vary considerably. For optimum health our saliva needs to be slightly acidic (around 6.5 - 6.75) in order to start the digestion process and the urine is likely to be around 6.5 to 6.8, as it carries away the excess acidic waste products. The more we move away from those figures the more we are putting stress on our systems and making it difficult for the body to mainatain the appropriate level of 7.3 for the blood. People with serious illnesses such as cancer often show pH levels as low as 4.0 in their saliva or urine.

The 3 things which are perhaps the most significant in their influence on our pH levels are Toxins, Stress and correct Diet. Using the Ultimate Far infrared sauna www.theultimatesauna.co.uk on a regular basis will dramatically reduce the first of these three as well as help reduce the second, which helps make it so much easier for the body to maintain optimum levels.

Knowing what our levels are is like knowing how well or ill we are likely to be in the near future.
If we maintain our bodies at the optimum pH level it is hard to get ill!

Wrinkles Gone With The Ultimate Skin Care

2006-10-09T15:23:00.000+01:00

Wrinkles gone for ever? Is this a wrinkle in time to help those
whose lifestyle has accelerated their skin ageing? It certainly
seems so. Read on...

A recently reported study conducted by Ju Hee Lee, Mi Ryung Roh, and Kwang Hoon Lee in the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology Research Institute at the Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea reported

"IR (infrared radiation) may result in beneficial effects on skin texture and wrinkles by increasing collagen and elastin in the dermis".

They also suggest that Infrared may have use in treating photo-
aged skin. So it's possible that wrinkles and skin blemishes
caused by bad skin care, sunbathing or maybe even sunburn can be reduced with an infrared sauna.

The study report called "Effect of Infrared Radiation on Skin Photo-Aging and Pigmentation" is available online and contains a
pair of before and after photos showing one of the subjects with
plentiful eye wrinkles before treatment and an obvious reduction in eye wrinkles afterwards.

A summary of the study and a link to the full PDF report (with
the before and after photos) can is available.

All the study subjects reported good improvements in their skin
texture and roughness. The objective clinical assessment of the
subjects skin found

"that the content of collagen and elastin produced by the fibroblasts increased after infrared radiation".

The study doesn't categorise wrinkles as forehead wrinkles, neck
wrinkles, eye wrinkles or other skin wrinkles but given its
success with eye wrinkles shown in the photos and the fact that
collagen is increased by the infrared it seems likely that other
wrinkles are equally improved.

The amount of collagen and elastin increased was related to the
length of time the subject was given infrared over the six months
of the study.

Of course plastic surgeons use collagen (derived from animals) to
inject under areas of a patients skin to reduce or eliminate
wrinkles.

How Does Infrared Compare
To Collagen Injections?

Injecting collagen requires a physician and has the following
issues:

tends to make the area injected red and swollen for about half an hour
Not completely pain free
It only lasts between 3 to 6 months so you have to go back to freshen up the treatment site
you need to be tested to see if you're sensitive to the collagens by injecting some under the skin on your forearm
and then monitoring it for 4 weeks

These disadvantages simply don't happen if you use an infrared
sauna for your skin care and to improve skin condition. Using the infrared sauna regularly gives your body the chance to naturally increase your skin's collagen.

Infrared Sauna Skin Care
And Wrinkle Reducer

Whilst reading this report I remembered a lot of the stories my
customers have been telling me about how their infrared sauna is
improving their skin.

In fact I put a few of them up as testimonials on the Ultimate Sauna Infrared Sauna web site.

To save you from going on the Ultimate Sauna site here are two of
the skin-related testimonials:

"Within just 2 weeks I noticed an improvement in both my Eczema and my Asthma"
(Jim Hayes, Aylesbury Buckinghamshire)

"Since buying it I have used it a couple of times a week, which is the only difference in my lifestyle. I haven’t had any eczema in the last 18 months"

(Darrel Stone, Arlesy, Bedfordshire)

Do You Want to Spend Money
on Wrinkle Creams Forever?

Just think of the amount of money we've all spent on skin care, on wrinkle creams, anti wrinkle creams and simply experimenting to find the best wrinkle cream.

This study tells us in no uncertain terms that,

"Following 6 months of treatment, all patients reported good (51-75%) improvements in skin texture and roughness."

And further says,

"patients noted fair (25-50%) improvement in color tone of the skin".

Yes I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But personally
I'd like to have fewer wrinkles so the beholder doesn't have to
search for the beauty!

Check out the Ultimate Sauna Infrared Sauna web site for more
information on infrared saunas.

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Are Artifical Sweetners Killing You?

2006-09-14T09:52:00.000+01:00

Since I posted about the dangers of Aspartame I've come across a site that gives you much more scientific information and real world case studies of the problems it creates.

In fact the site claims Aspartame, and I suspect other artifically created sweetners can apparently cause the following:

seizures and convulsions
dizziness
tremors
migraines and severe headaches (Trigger or Cause From Chronic Intake)
memory loss (common toxicity effects)
slurring of speech
confusion
numbness or tingling of extremities
chronic fatigue
depression
insomnia
irritability
panic attacks (common aspartame toxicity reaction)
marked personality changes
phobias
rapid heart beat, tachycardia (another frequent reaction)
asthma
chest pains
hypertension (high blood pressure)
nausea or vomitting
diarrhea
abdominal pain
swallowing pain
itching
hives / urticaria
other allergic reactions
blood sugar control problems (e.g., hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia)
menstrual cramps and other menstraul problems or changes
impotency and sexual problems
food cravings
weight gain
hair loss / baldness or thinning of hair
burning urination & other urination problems
excessive thirst or excessive hunger
bloating, edema (fluid retention)
infection susceptibility joint pain
brain cancer (Pre-approval studies in animals)
death

In addition to those complaints it's thought Aspartame can produce the symptoms or worsen the following:

fibromyalgia
arthritis
multiple sclerosis (MS)
parkinson's disease
lupus
multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS)
diabetes and diabetic Complications
epilepsy
alzheimer's disease
birth defects
chronic fatigue syndrome
lymphoma
lyme disease
attention deficit disorder (ADD and ADHD)
panic disorder
depression and other psychological disorders

Are you a "Canary in a Cage"?

2006-09-10T19:03:00.000+01:00

In the early days of undergound mining, miners took canaries down into the mines with them to provide an early warning sytem of dangerous gases leaking into the mine. Canaries are very sensitive to these poisons and would readily die when exposed to them, so giving the miners a warning of the danger before they would otherwise be aware of it.

We have a similar sytem operating today, but it is people rather than canaries, who are being sacrificed in the early warning system for the rest of us.

As most of us know, we live in a poisoned world. Over the last 50 or so years chemicals have been used in such quantities and used with such diversity that there is now no place on earth free from a chemical presence. From the Antarctic to the most remote deserts, from the deepest oceans to the highest mountains, everywhere is contaminated! Polar bears are so contaminated that their reproductive systems are being affected and there is fear that this may cause them to become extinct. The level of contamination in the breast milk of Innuit women is so high that if duplicated in milk on supermarket shelves it would be illegal to sell it! If scientists want an unpolluted sample they have to drill down through hundreds of feet of ice until they reach deposits laid down before chemicals started to be used!

It is easy to appreciate therefore that all the plants that we eat are contaminated by chemical toxicity, whether they are traditionally farmed using pesticides and chemical fertilisers or organically grown. Organic farming is evidence that chemicals have not been used in the farming process, but no regulations can control the movement of air or the toxins in it, when it travels across the country.

The pollution from Chernobyl landed, amongst other places, in Wales. Where did the toxins from the Hemel Hempstead oil depot fire land? They certainly didn't skirt around the farms growing organic produce! Whilst these are horrifying extremes, the more serious problem is the pollution caused simply by modern style living because it is taking place on a daily basis.

And there is a force at work which is magnifying this problem exponentially.

Theo Colburn and others showed in their revealing book "Our Stole Future" how Biomagnification of toxins rises exponentially to incredibly alarming levels when they took Lake Ontario as their test laboratory. Tests were made for PCB's, which along with Dioxins, Phthalates and others accumulate in the body and have been shown to have no natural way out of the body.

They tested microscpic organisms known as phytoplankton and discovered a level of toxicity, after a set period of growth, which they described as 250 units.

These were eaten by tiny animals called zooplankton and mysids which absorbed those 250 units as a single meal. With one meal a day, after 180 days the Mysid contained 45,000 units and might in turn be eaten by a small fish.

This fish ate these 45,000 units again as a single meal and in just 19 days, if eating one such meal a day, would themselves contain 835,000 units.

Eating just 3 of those small fish the larger fish such as trout would then contain 2,800,000 units.
With just 12 meals of trout we can absorb over 25,000,000 units of toxins. This is the exponetial effect of the food chain in action.

Obviously there is a limit to how much toxicity we can absorb before we become ill, and there is both massive and increasing amounts of evidence that shows that most of todays diseases are the result of a toxic build up. Eating food at the high end of the food chain (i.e. meat, fish, eggs and dairy) multiplies this toxic intake massively when compared against eating lower in the food chain.

On a personal basis, if we wish to maintain our health, we each need to do what we can to minimise the amount of toxins that we take in. However, even with the utmost diligence we will still absorb toxins and we also need to do what we can to remove those that we do absorb. Regular detoxification, in a variety of different ways is an essential for good health in the 21st century. For a free report on the various detoxification methods see http://www.theultimatesauna.co.uk/contact.htm . For details on how to detoxify what Dr. Sherry Rogers calls the worst of these toxins (i.e. the chemicals) see http://www.theultimatesauna.co.uk

Despite the known harm of toxicity to life on earth, man's activities continue to increase the levels in our environment. In addition many of the products in use today will gradually break down over a number of years continually giving off toxins as they do so. Even if every pollution causing activity were ceased today, the toxicity in the environment would continue to increase for some time because of all the chemically produced products in our society. Obviously pollution causing activity will not completely cease today, and we will almost certainly continue to actively increase toxicity levels for many years to come.

On a society wide basis there is a limit to how much toxicity we can absorb before our food sources are killed off, (as they are affected by the toxins just as we are) and before it overwhelms us and kills us as well.

Experience tells us that those in political power, because so often their major concern is simply to be re-elelected, will only take action on such matters when the majority make it clear that that is what they want. This is only going to happen when enough people fall seriously ill or die, and the connection is made between these deaths and the pollution, for the general public to call "enough".

Those who die from these toxins are collectively "The canaries in the cage" for the rest of us. What about you? Are you going to be one?

2006-09-07T15:03:00.000+01:00

How Seriously Are you Taking the Evidence of Health Issues?

In response to the publication of studies showing that eating meat is a cause of colon cancer, John Morgan, president of Riverside Meat Packers, California, announced on May 7th 1976:

“We shouldn’t jump to conclusions and do something foolish just because some study seems to say something that we know from common sense isn’t true. Beef is the backbone of the American Diet and it always has been. To think that meat of all things causes cancer is ridiculous.” (1)

On March 13th 1982 John Morgan died of cancer of the colon. (2)

(1) Reported in Riverside Herald, Riverside, California in Article entitled “Meat-packer defends beef”. May 8th 1976

(2) Obituary column page C-11 in Riverside Herald, Riverside, California March 14th 1982

The Dangers of not being vegetarian!

2006-09-01T21:25:00.000+01:00

The Danger of not being Vegetarian

(Re Published)

For many years vegetarianism was regarded as an eccentric fad. It was a choice between eating exclusively good wholesome fruit and vegetables or a diet which also included meat, dairy and eggs. Whilst there have always been powerful arguments for the benefits of the vegetarian diet in the past the carniverous alternative had its supporting arguments. However the world is changing and the case against meat, fish, dairy, and eggs has become so powerful that we are exposing ourselves to serious danger if we ignore it.

Now this might sound as if it is over dramatic, but as detailed in the last blog, John Morgan, the president of Riverside meat packers in California urged caution before accepting the evidence which had been produced, and 6 years later he was dead from the exact cause that he had dismissed!

As we all know, we now live in a poisoned world. From the Antartic to the highest mountains, from the deepest oceans to the most remote deserts, no place on earth is free from toxic chemicals! If scientists want an unpolluted sample they have to drill down in ice which is hundreds of feet thick until they reach ice which was deposited before chemicals started to be used! Studies by WWF (formerly World Wildlife Fund), World Health Organisation and others have been done on toxins in the body. Those tested come from all walks of life, from all geographical regions, and all types of lifestyle. In each and every individual that has been tested there has been a cocktail of hazardous chemicals.

And this is the key which makes anything other than vegetarianism so dangerous.

If this is the type of world we live in then I am sure that we can understand that all animals will also be contaminated with these toxins. Tests has shown this to be true. Why the above is so dangerous to us is because of the food chain. If we are vegetarian we obviously eat just fruit and vegetables. The plants grow and we eat them. Its a 1 step process. If we eat meat or dairy or eggs then we are eating food which was created through that animal eating something else. In some cases the animal ate fruit and vegetables and we ate the animal, which makes it a 2 step process, but in some cases the animal ate another animal which would make it a 3, or more, step process.

Theo Colburn and others in the book "Our Stolen Future" which was published 10 years ago in 1996 shows how the food chain multiplies the toxic effect.

It has been show that chemicals like PCB's, once absorbed saty in the system gradually accumulating. Theo used Lake Ontario as her laboratory and showed how biomagnification exponentially increases the accumulation and the effects of chemicals such as PCB's. They explained that the simplest forms of life there are phytoplankton and zooplankton.

Without being specific we will use the term unit as an undefined measure, purely to demonstrate this multiplication effect. If these plants and creatures absorb 1 unit per day from the water and soil, then once they are say 250 days old - approximately 8 months - they will be contaminated by approximately 250 units.

Mysids which feed on the plankton absorb 250 units therefore in a single meal. If they live for 180 days and they have one meal a day then they will contain 45,000 units of PCB's when they in turn are eaten by a small fish.

If the small fish likewise lives just a little over 18 days then by the time it is eaten by a larger fish it will contain 810,000 units. If the small fish survives just long enough to have 3 meals before being eaten by a bigger fish such as a trout, it will contain 2,430,000 unites.

If the trout is able to have just 10 meals before being eaten by us it will contain 24,300,000 units , which we take into our bodies at one single meal! This certainly gives vegetarianism a certain attraction!

If you think that you can avoid this scenario by eating sheep, cattle or chicken becaue with them the food chain is shorter, you may be interested to know that farmers have discovered that a cheap and effective way to fatten up these animals is to feed them fish meal! As you will appreciate the fish that makes up the meal is almost always from unknown fish, and so the position that they were in the off chain will also be unknown.

The really scary part to all this is that the information given here comes from figures which are at least 10 years old, which in turn was generated by activities which will have taken at least a few years to filter through to the creatures being studied. In other words it is drastically out of date and the current figures will be so much worse. And what will the figures be like in the future when today's activities have filtered through to have their effect?

I only tell you all this because fortunately for us on a personal basis there is an answer. According to Dr. Sherry Rogers there is only one answer. She states in her wonderful book "Detoxify or Die" that the only way, which is proven with before and after data, to remove some of the worst of these toxins, is through the use of a far infrared sauna. To either buy or just see more details of her book and far infrared saunas, go to www.theultimatesauna.co.uk

Health Retreat

2006-08-30T18:06:00.000+01:00

I've just come back from a health retreat in Norway, and wanted to tell all of you about it. The web site is www.yourhealthretreat.co.uk. The venue was incredible - the clinic was sited in an absolutely amazing location. By looking one way we looked down the length of a wonderful lake and by then turning 180 degrees we looked down the length of a fiord. By turning 45 degrees and walking up the mountain track we came to the edge of Norway's 3rd largest glacier. It was like seeing history in motion. You could see that as the ice melted, the rocks that it contained would be deposited in the valley, and some of those rocks were enormous! In addition there were perhaps half a dozen waterfalls that we saw in the locality, each of which must have been over a few hundred metres high. An absolutely wonderful venue.

Whilst we were there we ate only raw food - and that too was really a bit special. It was all prepared by Peter Pure who runs The Raw Food Party www.rawfoodparty.com We had fruit smoothies, breakfast cereals, lasagne, chocolate biscuits, cheesecake (oh the cheesecake!) etc. etc. - and all made from raw food, and in some cases wild food. Each morning we went out and collected the ingredients for the smoothies - blueberries, red currants, stickleberries (I'd never seen them before, but they are like small purple gooseberries), plums and even a few raspberries - all from the wild! Peter's philosophy is that everything should be both nutritious and tasty - and it is!

We also had posture straightening with the Egoscue method. I didn't realise that I wasn't straight until they showed me, but now I have my exercises and soon that will be a thing of the past.

There was kinesiology, massage and Energy healing. As we know we are holistic beings, and this was certainly a holistic health retreat. Awesome!

In addition to all that there was something that happened that I found particularly interesting.I
As you all know, we supply free radical test kits and the measuring chart for the kits are marked 0-5 with 5 being the highest level of ree radical activity. Again as you probably know, we need a certain amount of free radical activity, because the body uses it as part of the imminue system. However too much and we increase the risk of disease and increase our ageing rate. 18 months ago I took the test and scored a 5, showing that I had far too much activity going on. Whilst on the retreat, both Peter Pure and I tested ourselves.

Peter's depth of nutrition is amazing and his diet is incredibly healthy, and has been for most of his life. However he scored around 4-5.

I am still learning about nutrition but since taking my previous test 18 months ago I have used my sauna a couple of times a week. When taking the test last week I was hovering around 0-1, which is just about perfect. As you can imagine I was pretty chuffed. We still need to find out why Peter's was so high, but he lives in London and the best guess at the moment is that it is down to heavy metals. We'll let you know if we get any information. In the meantime I am just enjoying the pleasure of having one of the benefits of the sauna confirmed in such as personal way.

Pesticides Can Set-off Parkinson's And MS

2006-08-10T16:46:00.000+01:00

The Daily Mail (yesterady) published an article by Sean Poulter which highlighted a study by The Energy & Environmental Research Centre at The University of North Dakota.

The results showed rats brains and guts changed when exposed to pesticides. The brain area affected by pesticides was shown to be the same ones invovled with Mutliple Sclerosis. Areas of the brain that are linked to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's were also found to be damaged.

The article also mentions research by The Harvard School of Public Health which found that people in contact with pesticides in 1992 were 70% more likely to develop Parkinson's within 10 years.

This ties in with another US study which showed that country school children and teachers were also affected and made ill by pesticides.

This is pretty much as already indicated in Dr. Sherry Roger's book "Detoxify or Die" and of course an infrared sanua is the only way to remove these man-made toxins.

2006-08-10T16:17:00.000+01:00

A friend of mine, Mike Nash, the author of the book Aggressive Health sent me an email the other day, with a high alert sign attached to it. The message is critical, and I can do no better than duplicate it here, which I do below.

He starts off with a quote from one of his subscribers.
"In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick. She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain.

By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick...she just knew she was dying. She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughters name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of.. She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to FL (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd.

On March 19th I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS. (Multiple Sclerosis) I recalled an article a friend of mine E-mailed to me and I asked my sister if she drank diet soda? She told me that she did. As a matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment... I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda !!! I E-mailed her the article my friend, a lawyer, had sent.

My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk!!!! The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but she sure felt a lot better. She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would call me when she got home. Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners of any kind... In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda... and literally dying a slow and miserable death. When she got to FL March 22nd, all she had to take was one pill, and that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a complete recovery . and she is walking!!! No wheelchair!!! This article saved her life."

If it says "SUGAR FREE" on the label, DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!! I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on "ASPARTAME," marketed as 'NutraSweet,' 'Equal,' and 'Spoonful.' In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United States in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant. I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.

I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. Many people were being diagnosed in error.

Although MS is not a death sentence..., methanol toxicity is! Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. The victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a life-threatening condition.. We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas. In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, (when in reality, the disease is methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss returned and hearing loss improved markedly. This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia.

During a lecture, I said, "If you are using ASPARTAME (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc.) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting, pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss..., you probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!" People were jumping up during the lecture saying, "I have some of these symptoms." Is it reversible?" Yes! Yes! Yes! STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified with it!!!

This is a serious problem. Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice; a nurse stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence! Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you crave carbohydrates. It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight! These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin and is used primarily to preserve "tissue specimens."

Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body!!! Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the "diet products" and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period. Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some physicians, who believed that they had a patient with retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame. The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control.

Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance. Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE. Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, seizures, depression, manic depression, panic attacks, uncontrollable anger and rage. Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics, as well.

Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and AHD have had complete turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet. So called "behavior modification prescription drugs" (Ritalin and others) are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first place! Most of these children were being "poisoned" on a daily basis with the very foods that were "better for them than sugar."

It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.

Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e., mental retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER be given artificial sweeteners. There are many different case histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other neurological disturbances due to the use of NutraSweet. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to convince people that Aspartame is to blame for their child's illness.

Stevia, which, which is a sweet herb, NOT A MANUFACTURED ADDITIVE, helps in the metabolism of sugar, which would be ideal for diabetics. It has now been approved as a dietary supplement by the FDA. It is known that for many years the FDA outlawed this true sweet food," due to their loyalty to MONSANTO Chemical Company."

Books on this subject are available: EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT KILLS written by Dr. Russell Blayblock (Health Press 1-800-643-2665) AND: DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE-written by DR H. J. Roberts, also a diabetic specialist. These two doctors will soon be posting a position paper with case histories on the deadly effects of Aspartame on the Internet. According to the Conference of the American College of Physicians, "We are talking about a plague of neurological diseases directly caused by the use of this deadly poison."

Herein lies the problem: There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included 100 different products and strong objection was made concerning it's use. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings and still, nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED!!

There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly chemical and there will be thousands more introduced. Everybody wants a "piece of the Aspartame pie." I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is. And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the Conference of the American College of Physicians? This has been recently exposed in the New York Times. These cannot criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are required to endorse their products.

Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children and infants. The bill would also institute independent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in the general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes and behavioral symptoms. The bill was killed. It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you're informed now!!!! YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW!!!! Please print this out and/or e-mail to your family and friends. They have a right to know too.

Mike Nash has a web site at www.aggressivehealth.co.uk

Failed Drug Trial Men Shorter Lives?

2006-07-30T12:53:00.000+01:00

In the Sunday Times today David Leppard writes that "VICTIMS of the disastrous "Elephant Man" drugs trial have been told they face contracting cancer and other fatal diseases as a result of being poisoned in the bungled tests. One of the six victims was told last week he is already showing definite early signs of lymphatic cancer."

The fact that they suffered so bady because of the drug trial is bad enough. According to Leppard "The men had been told by doctors they would not suffer any life-threatening illnesses."

If the problem is due to significant breakdown of the genetic make up of the men's bodies it is likely that currently science can do little for them.

However, if it's due to the toxins from the drug it would be well worth trying the infrared sauna approach - obviously it's a new drug so we don't know whether an infrared sauna would help but it has to be worth trying if the problem is not gene-damage linked.

The Secret Detox Tool

2006-07-25T19:16:00.000+01:00

Where Did This Secret Detox Tool Begin?

The secret I'm referring to is the infrared sauna.

Infrared saunas were thought to have originated from research done
by NASA in the sixties or eighties. Which decade depends on the web site
you read.

The Secret Tool Was Not Created At NASA

I've looked at the NASA products spin-off database from their developments for space flight and I can't see any references to NASA producing the far infrared sauna.

However, digging a bit further I found an article by Dr. Aaron M Flickstein titled "Research on Far Infrared Rays". In it Dr. Flickstein notes that,

"Dr. Tadashi Ishikawa, a member of the Research and Development Department of Fuji Medical, received a patent in 1965 for a zirconia ceramic infrared heater used in the first healing infrared thermal systems."

He then goes on to say that only Japanese medical practitioners used infrared systems for 14 years. Until 1979 when they were released for public use.

Infrared therapy was further refined and started selling in the USA around 1981.

So it is conceivable that NASA began using it for astronauts in the mid 1980's as some sauna web sites claim.

How You Can Get The Full Detox Benefits
From An Infrared Sauna

If you want the full detoxification benefits of an infrared sauna it is important that you use it the right way.

An infrared sauna heats tissues to a greater depth compared to a conventional sauna. So you do need to decide whether to get checked out first before your infrared sauna session.

People Who Should Check Before Using An Infrared Sauna

Those on medication

Specific chronic or acute illness

Implants

Getting pain

To explain a little further:

If you're on prescription medication you should check with your doctor or pharmacist whether the drug volume should be reduced or increased when using far infrared.

If you have a specific ailment you must talk through with your doctor exactly how you intend to use an infrared sauna. There may be no problem, however your doctor may be aware of certain diseases that should not be heated higher than your "normal" core body temperature. Because this is relatively new technology your doctor may not be aware of it.

If you have silicone or metal implants or heart monitors or pacemakers it makes sense to check with your doctor whether heating with infrared heat will affect it, and you! Of course in the unlikely event that you feel any pain stop using the sauna.

People Who Should Not Use An Infrared Sauna

If you've an internal infection, such as a tooth cavity, an infected joint injury or other infection you should wait until it has healed before using the infrared sauna.

Pregnant women are wise to stop taking saunas until after birth as the infrared sauna does heat down to a deep level of tissue. We know of no study that says it's harmful but it's just not worth any risk to the unborn child.

If you're prone to excessive bleeding you should avoid infrared saunas. This is because heating causes vasodilation which in the majority of people is beneficial. In haemophiliacs and others with a higher bleeding risk it can increase the likelihood of bleeding.

Who Benefits From An Infrared Sauna?

Athletes, footballers, golfers, in fact anyone who has an active life style. What's more the infrared sauna can promote faster healing of sprains and other injuries.

(leave 48 hours before using the sauna to allow swelling and heat to reduce from the injury first).

Infrared heat will help recovery, with or without injury because:

Infrared heat increases the extensibility of collagen tissues
Infrared heat reduces stiff joints
Infrared heat reduces muscle spasms
Infrared heat helps with pain relief
Infrared heat increases blood flow to promote healing.

So it's also useful for people with arthritic conditions and also with leg or body ulcers because of the deeper penetrating heat and the ability to get the blood flowing faster.

Skin conditions such as eczema, acne, nettle rash Psoriasis and even blocked pores are all helped by infrared sauna therapy.

There is quite a list of medical conditions that are all alleviated or improved with infrared sauna therapy.

A large number of studies have been conducted by Japanese and other researchers showing the benefits of far infrared therapy. It's taken a while and people are now talking about this secret detox tool.

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Far Infrared Sauna - A Life-Saving Detox Tool

2006-07-19T15:15:00.000+01:00

Whilst researching the original birth of the Far Infrared Sauna I came across an article by Dr. Sherry Rogers titled "Detoxification using Far Infrared Saunas."

Obviously, given that we sell infrared saunas and also Sherry Roger's best selling book "Detoxify Or Die", my attention switched in that direction immediately and I read the article.

Although she says that a Far Infrared Sauna is the only method known to remove man made toxins, with before and after data, in her article she is even more emphatic about her recommendation for using a far infrared sauna. She said,

"...I used to hesitate to recommend something as expensive, but when you
realize the lifelong incapacity and expense of diseases such as heart disease,
chemical sensitivity, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, chronic pain syndromes,
migraines, Alzheimer's, or any others caused by chemical and metal toxicity, a
sauna is cheap."

As she goes on to say "Add to that the fact that it may be the primary "cure" or solution to the problem, and it is a win-win situation."

Whilst none of this comes as any suprise Dr Rogers is supported by a growing body of evidence of the usefulness of infrared sauna therapy. Much of the research is done in Japan and China where the infrared sauna has been in place for a much longer time than the English speaking nations.

Have They Found A Marker to Show Possible Future Brain Disease Problems?

2006-07-04T18:31:00.000+01:00

You may remember back in May 2006 we asked if you suffered from oxidative stress.

Back then we showed a free radical test that could help indicate a marker that showed that stress so that you could deal with it before you got diseases like Parkinson's or others.

As you know Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's disease and other brain problems are in a growing band of diseases that are thought to be caused by oxidative stress. Oxidative stress being the cell damage caused during metabolism when the oxygen in the body assumes ever more chemically reactive forms.

The exact connection between oxidation and these brain diseases has been missing until a new study just reported today in the journal Biochemistry. The study by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine shows damage is linked to nitration of proteins ( which is a natural byproduct of oxidation).

The study was carried out on nearly 8,000 different, detectable proteins in the mice brains. The study has said that neurodegenerative diseases leave a marker that could be used to predict the earliest stages of brain disease.

The markers relationship to protein does make me wonder whether it could also be used as a test for "Mad Cow Disease".

Others believe that detecting the marker before possibly permanent damage occurs would help doctors cure "incurable" diseases.

You can get free radical tests to show whether you're subject to oxidative stress. These tests allow you to monitor your own levels and do something about it.

Oxidative Stress - What Is It?

Oxidative stress is cell damage caused by too many oxidants, including free radicals, peroxide and oxygen ions. As I've noted before these oxidants are necessary in the body for proper cellular function. It's only when they're present in excess that they become harmful. And it's only where the body is unable to resolve the excess that problems can appear as disease.

Other Causes Of Brain Disease

A large recent study at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) shows that people who report exposure to chronic low dosage of pesticides have a 70% higher incidence of Parkinson's Disease than people who don't report such exposure.

The study also looked for other Parkinson Disease links with exposure to other substances such as asbestos, coal dust, stone dust, chemicals, acids, or solvents. It found no link for these.

Remember an infrared sauna is the only proven method, with before and after data, to remove man-made chemicals from the body. So an infrared sauna is to going to be of major assistance in helping the body remove pesticides and residues, because they are all man-made. Read Sherry Rogers book Detoxify or Die for her information on pesticides like Dioxin, a very strong pesticide.

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Quest 2006 (Your Natural Health Show) - It Blows My Mind!

2006-06-30T09:50:00.000+01:00

I've just looked at the Quest 2006 (Your Natural Health show) programme.

I’m staggered they’ve managed to shoehorn in so many workshops and cram in such a vast amount of music into 3 days.

The organisers are cordially inviting us to "join international authors and workshop leaders to explore the 21st century Mind, Body and Spirit". I look forward to it.

This Mind, Body and Spirit Festival is at Newton Abbott racecourse in Devon and starts on the Friday 7^th of July and goes on to the Sunday 9th of July.

We'll be there, complete with infrared sauna, on stand 73. If the weather gets hotter we might end up being cooler in the infrared sauna! Come and have a chat we're a friendly bunch.

Why Go To This Show?

Simple, last time we were here, last year, we had a great time. The show is brilliant as there's a vast choice of workshops, music, exhibitors and therapists.

The ticket costs are detailed in the Quest programme and start at £6 for an adult day ticket and £2.50 for children. You must pre-book for those prices. There's an order form with the programme.

Oh yes. And you can camp too - prices in the Quest 2006 programme.

Watch Out For The Art

Artists can apply to exhibit materials in the specially created art exhibition. And if you like buying art there promises to be quite a display for you to choose from.

Great Music

The show organisers have bands and singers performing each night and at lunchtimes and they include:

Neuneuneu – Amazonian Indians
Bliss
Daughters of Elvin
Scott Jasper and Sue Garlick
Tim Wheater & Natalie Shaw
Daughters of Gaia
Touch The Earth
Danu Fox
Cat von Trapp
Mark Robson
Madrum
Kangaroo Celtic Moon
Carolyn Hillyer and Nigel Shaw
Dom DiCicco
Vanessa Vine

As well as the stage performers you can get into FREE music workshops like “ A Celebration of African Rhythms” with Lynda Aiano & Andrew Dawson. You can bang the drum to your heart’s content, experienced drummer or not.

What Are The Workshops About?

They’re based on the show’s theme of Mind, Body and Spirit.

I’ve cherry-picked 4 workshops as examples of what’s happening over the course of the show.

Timothy Freke is a best-selling author. His books include Daily Telegraph Book of The Year “The Jesus Mysteries” and the “Goddess”, cited by Dan Brown as an inspiration for “The Da Vinci Code”

Malcolm Stern gave the keynote lecture on conflict for the Association of Business Psychologists in 2004. He is the co-presenter Channel 4's “Made for Each Other.” His latest book called, “Falling in Love / Staying in Love”, is about relationships

Fire up your life with Rob Sandford whose free talk shows how to discover how lifestyle and attitude changes can transform your quality of life

Laughter Workout - run at speed by Joe Hoare. - A good cardiovascular and abdominal workout

Most of the workshops I’ve picked out are free. Other workshops are free or costs range from £2 or £3 to £10 or £15. All workshop prices can be seen clearly in the show programme.

We’ve produced a report about How To Detox and you can get a complimentary copy when you come over and visit us at stand number 73 in the Exhibition Hall.

Whatever you decide on the Mind, Body and Spirit show is something I really want to go to and take part in. So if you can make it too we'd love to see you.

PS We're doing a special Quest 2006 show bonus, valued at just a shade over £700, mention this blog and we'll let you in on it too.

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The First 9/11 Mercury Poisioniong Death Wont Be The Last

2006-06-29T14:22:00.000+01:00

The 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York didn't just kill thousands of people in the two tower blocks. It also condemned others to a lingering illness caused by over 2,400 chemicals and environmental toxins thrown up into the air which have been settling as fine dust taken in by breathing and eating. This was estimated in a report that investigated the environmental problems caused by 9/11.

They've calculated that for lead alone there was 200,000 to 400,000 pounds from the computers and other hardware.

Another heavy and toxic metal: Mercury is estimated to have been vapourised from half a million light bulbs.

Detective James Zadroga of the New York Police Department was the first emergency service worker to die from mercury poisoning, as reported on 8th January 2006.

Mercury Poisoning Kills Hundreds And Ruins Lives of Thousands

The Japanese Minamata bay was only re-opened in the 90's after a 26 year ban on fishing.

The reason?

A factory had been pumping mercury waste into the bay for many years. The fish became contaminated. Fishermen caught the fish and fed their families with them.

The result was that 900 people died from mercury poisoning

Those who died suffered from convulsions and other equally serious symptoms.

It affected the children who were born during the decades that the mercury waste was pumped into the bay.

Over 12,600 people were recognised as victims of the disease.

The problem?

It took many years before people faced up to the poisions there were putting into peoples drinking water and their food.

What About New Yorks Toxic Iceberg?

The one person to die is likely to be one of the first badly affected. He is probably the tip of the toxic iceberg. Many others will struggle on with symptoms that are not diagnosed as toxin-related.

The problem is that when the 9/11 attack occured many tons of toxic material including mercury and lead were vaporised in the intense fires. Effectively they were dumped all over that area of New York.

The result is that people with mercury, and lead, poisioning will continue to appear, unless something is done to reduce or eliminate the toxic loads the original workers, their replacements and the residents now have.

The Olive Leaf Wholeness Center report on their toxin treatment of a group of sufferers does show that heavy metals can be removed from people's bodies. They also used infrared sauna therapy to mobilise heavy metals from the tissues, along with lipophilic antioxidants because many toxins including mercury and dioxins are stored in body's fatty tissues (as noted in Detoxify or Die, Sherry Rogers MD,Sand Key Company, 2002).

So the way to reduce people's toxic load has been proven in their report.

The Buncefield Oil Depot

In Hemel Hempstead an enormous oil depot burst into flame and burned for several days. That also created an enormous amount of toxins in the immediate area. Have doctors there noticed any impact yet? When they do remember the Olive Leaf report which reports on the methods they used to detoxify people and includes the use of infrared saunas.

Detoxify or Die - Which Would You Prefer?

2006-06-16T12:14:00.000+01:00

Environmental toxins swill round in our bodies all the time.

Apparently 100% of Americans have styrene (a known carcinogen) in their blood from drinking from styrofoam cups.

This is the type of information that can be found in Dr. Sherry Rogers book, "Detoxify or Die".

It's also reported in the Vitality magazine article titled Detox or Die which explores some of the points made in Detoxify or Die.

The magazine article notes the proven connections between toxins and diseases:

"The EPA confirms that 100% of all people in the world have traces of heavy metals like mercury, lead and cadmium in their blood which target the immune system, the memory areas of the brain, and the nervous system. These come to us through dental amalgam, paints and the like to give us Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, Myasthenia gravis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. These connections are proven, and published in the mainstream literature. This year, the Journal of the Canadian Medical Association published an excellent series of articles "

Just so that it doesn't appear to be all doom and gloom the article also notes:

"The successful treatments of environmentally mediated disease include specialized diets, Far infrared sauna treatment (probably one of the very best detox and healing treatments!), specific detoxification protocols for various substances..."

What amazed me as I read this article was almost the final paragraph which related to a special diet given to test subjects and it noted about the results of the diet:

"A 500% increase in beta carotene is what Harvard researchers used to turn cancer genes back into normal genes – the chemistry necessary to reverse cancer.”

If you've got Sherry Rogers book Detoxify or Die and you haven't read it check out this article to see what you're missing. Then read the book it might save your life.

If you haven't already got it buy it from Amazon - "Detoxify or Die."

Do Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Exist?

2006-06-15T18:28:00.000+01:00

Researching infrared saunas on the Internet and I came across an interesting paper by Stephen Barrett M.D.

If you've been diagnosed with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity it's going to be a little puzzling.

His conclusion, which I've shown in full, was:

"Multiple chemical sensitivity" is not a legitimate diagnosis. Instead of testing their claims with well-designed research, its advocates are promoting them through publications, talk shows, support groups, lawsuits, and political maneuvering (such as getting state governors to designate a Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Awareness Week). Many are also part of a network of questionable legal actions alleging injuries by environmental chemicals.

Many people diagnosed with "MCS" suffer greatly and are very difficult to treat. Well-designed investigations suggest that most of them have a psychosomatic disorder in which they develop multiple symptoms in response to stress. If this is true -- and I believe it is -- clinical ecology patients run the risks of misdiagnosis, mistreatment, financial exploitation, and/or delay of proper medical and psychiatric care. In addition, insurance companies, employers, other taxpayers, and ultimately all citizens are being burdened by dubious claims for disability and damages. To protect the public, state licensing boards should scrutinize the activities of clinical ecologists and decide whether the overall quality of their care is sufficient for them to remain in medical practice.

Where does that leave those people with "Gulf War Syndrome?" Certainly there is no doubt that people can be persuaded that they've been exposed to dreadful toxic chemicals that impact their lives and the result of their belief is their symptoms.

Equally you can't say the World has no toxic problems. The World Health Organisation believes that 95% of disease is caused by environmental factors.

A study at Georgetown University Medical Center conducted research into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. James Baraniuk, MD, assistant professor of medicine and first author, said,

"For years, patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have suffered from painful symptoms for which there is no blood test, diagnosable physical condition or any method for doctors to measure improvement. Our research provides initial evidence that chronic fatigue syndrome and its family of illnesses may be legitimate, neurological diseases and that at least part of the pathology involves the central nervous system."

Here is the evidence that CFS exists despite doctors saying that it was psychological and was not a physical disease at all.

It's taken years to arrive at the conclusion that CFS is a real disease.

In a similar way chemical sensitivity may not act in the way doctors currently think. Therefore the tests they carry out to establish whether people have sensitivity may be inadequate.

That said, the paper I quoted originally does note some cases where the practioners involved appear to have been uninterested in their patients welfare.

So as always it is vital for sufferers to carry out their own research before undergoing strict/harsh regimes to remove toxins.

The Ultimate Sauna Company has produced a report called "Do It Now: Detox or Die" which describes a number of different ways to detox. To get a Free copy request it at the web site at The Ultimate Sauna Company

Far Infrared Saunas On Show At L-Shed In Bristol on 10th June

2006-06-01T21:02:00.000+01:00

Far infrared saunas from The Ultimate Sauna company are to be demonstrated at the Vegan Fayre in Bristol on Saturday June 10th.

Admission is free, which is great because there's so much going on there. Check out their web site for more details. They've got 127 stands and about 60 speakers, including me.

I'll be at our stands (53 and 54) during the day and my talk is called "Detoxify or Die" and will be at about 4pm..

To find out more about the saunas and how they can save electricity, are better for the environment and help you to wellness come and chat to us or check out our web site.

Don't worry about missing the World Cup kick-off for England as the organisers have put in a large screen so you're not left behind in the action.

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Did You Know These Studies Improved Heart Patients Symptoms?

2006-05-25T19:45:00.000+01:00

The American College of Cardiology reports on the successful treatment of "impaired blood vessel functions in patients with high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking and high cholesterol"

The study authored by Dr. Imamura, et.al ( Kagoshima Japan) followed 25 men who each had at least 1 of the risk factor above.

Each patient was treated in an Infrared Sauna for 15 minutes once a day for 2 weeks.

The results showed the following:

Significantly lowered blood pressure
Significant weight loss
Significantly lowered blood sugar
Significantly increased blood flow
Lowered cholesterol
Lowered triglycerides

A much later study by Miyamoto H, Kai H, Nakaura H, Osada K, Mizuta Y, Matsumoto A, Imaizumi T from the Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan investigated the safety and efficacy of repeated use of infrared saunas by patients with chronic systolic heart failure.

Each patient in this study was treated in an Infrared Sauna once a day for 4 weeks.

After the 4 weeks it found that in 13 of the 15 patients studied symptoms had improved.

The reports conclusion was that using an Infrared Sauna was safe and improved symptoms and the chronic Congestive Heart Failure patients ability to tolerate exercise had improved too.

These studies and a previous post build up the strong evidence that demonstrates that the infrared sauna improves heart symptoms and the general quality of lives of patients too.

Cardiovascular Disease Helped By Far Infrared Therapy?

2006-05-17T11:48:00.000+01:00

Cardiovascular Disease is one of the most common illnesses of the western world.

A study from 2004 in Cardiology in Review has looked at whether a far infrared sauna is an effective therapy for congestive heart failure.

The authors summarise their findings by saying that there are suggestions that the far infrared sauna "can be an effective therapeutic modality for patients with cardiovascular disease, especially for those with congestive heart failure."

That's good news.

However, as the authors point out double-blind studies would be difficult to evaluate in a sauna.

However, the story doesn't end there...

In the Japanese Circulation Journal a study was published, the same year.

The study used 30 patients with Chronic heart failure (CHF) and split them into two groups. One group was given daily infrared sauna therapy for two weeks. The control group was put into a room with a controlled temperature.

The study concluded that "Repeated sauna treatment improves ventricular arrhythmias in patients with CHF".

Looking at this research it certainly showed an infrared sauna helped the patients in the study.

Are You Affected By Oxidative Stress?

2006-05-08T23:45:00.000+01:00

What Are Free Radicals?

Free radicals are created in the body in almost any cell action. They're also created as the body eliminates toxins.

Free radicals are unstable charged molecules that need to combine with another stable molecule. When the two combine they create a new stable molecule.

This is a natural process and your body's immune system uses them to destroy viruses and bacteria. So they're a required support for the rest of your body's defence mechanisms.

With our current rushed lifestyles and our intake of highly processed food and drink free radicals can build up and cause harm to your body. Because the free radicals may run out of viruses, bacteria or other foreign bodies to attack so will attack your own body's cells.

Unwanted free radical build-up and attack of healthy cells is known as "oxidative stress".

Damage to your body's cells can cause any number of diseases including accelerated aging, and a number of other illnesses, such as:

Alzheimer's

Asthma

Arthritis

Cancers

Cataracts

Crohn's disease

Diabetes

Eczema

Parkinson's

Excess free radicals may also contribute to the following problems:

Autoimmune diseases

Bowel disease

Kidney diseases

Liver diseases

Lung diseases

Skin conditions

How Are Free Radicals Created?

The primary source of free radicals is after your body cells creation of energy. Some of the oxygen used in the process is not consumed. Consequently it becomes a free radical.

Most heavy metals absorbed into your body's tissues are charged and may also have the effect of creating free radicals in your body. These metals include everyday one such as aluminium, calcium and iron.

Our modern life style can generate stress, which in turn releases hormones which produce free radicals.

Restricted or low blood supply, such as during heart attacks, strokes or injury can cause free radical production.

External factors such as pollution, UV, common chemicals and pesticides can also create free radicals.

Are You Under Oxidative Stress?

So now we know just how much free radical activity is going on in our bodies what should we do about it?

We really need to know whether we're under "oxidative stress" before we start treating ourselves for excess free radicals.

One marker of excessive free radical activity is the level of Malondialdehyde (MDA) which is created by "lipid peroxidation". MDA molecules are particularly potent in bonding you're your body's genetic blue print (DNA) during periods of "oxidative stress". This causes a mutation of the DNA which may result in various health issues, such as cancers, arteriosclerosis, cardiovascular problems, arthritis.

The Ultimate Sauna Company has a simple and inexpensive urine test that can show the level of free MDA in your body.

The test can be done at home and you don't even have to send it away to be analsyed as the test results show up after just a few minutes.

So when you find out whether you have excessive free radicals, what then?

Antioxidants are used in the body to bond with the free radicals and prevent their action on your body's cells.

Naturally occuring antioxidants can be absorbed from any of:

Barley

Broccoli

Cabbage

Brussels sprouts

flax hulls

Ginkgo biloba

Green tea

grapeseed extract

Kale

pycnogenol

Spinach

Tumeric

Wheatgrass

Other green plants

Other sources of antioxidants are thought to come from:

Vitamins A, C and E

Glutathione

Selenium

Zinc

CoQ10

Alphalipoic acid

DHEA

Melatonin

EDTA

All these require effort to find and use and you're not even sure if you're taking the right amounts of food or other sources of antioxidants.

An infrared sauna has been proven, with before and after results, to reduce the levels of heavy metals and other toxins in your body. Removing their ability to create free radicals gives you a better chance of not falling prey to the degenerative diseases we looked at before.

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Do You Have These Symptoms Of Environmental Illness Without Even Realising?

2006-04-20T23:06:00.000+01:00

As toxins increasingly swamp our body's systems doctors point to people they diagnose as "environmentally ill".

Japan has been using Infrared technology for many years to reduce toxic loads and has numerous studies on the benefits of far infrared saunas.

One great western example is from Canada. Randy Gomm became a distributor of Far Infrared saunas exactly because his entire life changed after detoxification.

Randy had been a fireman until he was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and was unable to work.

He was ill for eight years during which time they found he had toxic overload from his job.

During those 8 years he looked into fibromyalgia and discovered
that sufferers and also chronic fatigue syndrome sufferes had high
toxic loads. He also found that if the toxic loads were reduced
"...their symptoms often improved dramatically."

In fact he used detoxification on himself and found that he could
return to work.

Dr. Doris Rapp a past president of the American Academy of
Environmental Medicine said, "Everybody in this country needs to be detoxified because we've all become 'toxic dumpsites.'"

After she saw a Far Infrared sauna used in Germany she began
using a far infrared sauna herself.

So how do you know you've got a toxic overload?

Overload symptoms are varied and include head, joint and muscle pains, susceptibility to colds, increased allergic reaction, chemical sensitivity and increased skin problems. In fact studies by the WWF and others show that each and every one of us is contaminated by multiple hazardous chemicals. They may not have us at death's door at the moment, but they are nontheless undermining our health, and they are bioaccumulating. This means that they are continually increasing in our bodies with no way out (unless we take specific steps to remove them)! And make no mistake, this threat to the health of every one of us is serious - and it's continually getting worse.

However, if we do remove them, all aspects of our health are improved. Our energy increases, our ability to fight serious diseases improves, our appearance improves (stronger hair, clearer skin, stronger nails, brighter eyes) etc. and we hold back the ageing process. Quite simply our bodies function more as they should when they do not have to overcome the adverse effects of these toxic substances.

In "Detoxify or Die" Dr Sherry Rogers says that a Far infrared
sauna is the only way, which is proven with before and after data, to remove the worst of these toxins.

A far infrared sauna plugs directly into normal domestic mains,
and requires only a 10 - 15 minute warm up. Even heart patients - especially heart patients - benefit from its use, but do speak with your doctor first. He or she may be unaware of it benefits, in which case the Ultimate Sauna company will be more than happy to supply details of scientific studies, done by instituions which he or she will recognise and almost certainly respect, proving the benefits. Alternatively they can supply details of doctors or dentists who are already aware of the benefits and recommend them accordingly.

A far infrared sauna doesn't cost as much as a conventional
sauna to buy or to use. You can have the luxury and the pleasure of a sauna and know that at the same time you are taking important steps to look after your health too.

As the Finns say "Whilst we might want the best sauna in the world, it is far more important to get the world into the sauna."

And as Dr. Rapp says, "If far-infrared saunas work, why wait to use
them?..."

Scientists Find Cancer Killing Vegetable Compounds

2006-04-11T12:43:00.000+01:00

Scientific American's article on Cancer Killers reports on a study by University of Pittsburgh pharmacologist Shivendra Singh.

The study shows that when cruciferous vegetables (cauliflower, broccoli, brussel sprouts and cabbage) are chewed it helps to control human prostate tumors grafted into mice.

Other vegetables that show promise include ginger and hot peppers.

The scientists found the chemical released by chewing made the prostate cancer cells kill themselves (a process called apoptosis).

After 31 days treatment the tumours of the mice treated with the chemical (Phenethyl-isothiocyanate) were nearly twice as small as the control group.

If you look at Dr. Sherry Roger's book: Detoxify or Die, you'll see the evidence that shows the toxins that surround us can cause the diseases and cancers we get. At least in Dr. Roger's book you also get shown the ways to reduce the risks of disease and ways to remove toxins.

Other studies reported in Scientific American article show:

Hot peppers killed human pancreatic cancer in mice
Ginger powder killed ovarian cancer cells in test tubes