Strengthen Your Immune System
The rise in body temperature which occurs in the sauna simulates
a natural fever and stimulates our immune system. This can be
very helpful, for instance, in shortening the recovery time from
colds and flus. Saunas and other therapies that warm the body
are known as hyperthermic treatments. The famous Greek physician
Parmenides recognized the value of hyperthermia for health care
2000 years ago when he stated, “Give me the power to create fever
and I will cure any disease.”
Today, scientific research has validated Parmenides’ practices.
Many researchers have observed enhanced production and function
of immune system agents stimulated by Far-InfraRed and other
forms of hyperthermia.
Julie R. Ostberg and Elizabeth A. Repasky of the Roswell Park
Cancer Institute, New York, writing in the International Journal
of Hyperthermia (2000, Vol. 16 No. 1), have reviewed several studies
and explain that:
“The thermal effect of fever alone, such as that
mimicked in hyperthermia application, has been directly associated
with the augmentation of the immune response through enhancement
of T cell activation and proliferation, NK [Natural Killer] cell
activation, B cell function and neutrophil migration, motility
and chemotaxis.”
T cells, Natural Killer cells, B cells etc. are different types
of white blood cells. They use a variety of means to protect the
body by neutralizing and destroying disease-producing substances,
such as viruses, toxins, bacterium and mutated cells.
Researchers at the Niwa Institute for Immunology in Tosashimizu,
Japan, have added to the body of evidence verifying the
immunostimulatory effect of Far-InfraRed. As described in Alternative
Medicine Magazine (Issue 39, January 2001), the Japanese researchers:
“....reported that materials emitting Far-InfraRed
(FIR) energy appear capable of potentiating functions of white
blood cells. These functions include increased immune defense
response in which white blood cells surround and ingest small
living things (such as bacteria) and cell wastes.”
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