Welcome everyone. This is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and I am very excited today that we're going to be discussing an issue that is near and dear to my heart and that is near,, sauna detoxification because I am of the belief as are many

other experts in detoxification that is an essential integral component of that but not only

for detox but so many other biological benefits and today we are joined by Brian Richards, who is also equally passionate about this modality

and doesn't really have any formal health training, but has provided a resource that I think many could be benefit from.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today, Brian.

Thank you for having me, Dr. McCullough.

Okay, great.

Well, I'm so excited you're here.

We got so much great stuff to talk about.

And I guess it might be best to differentiate the difference types of infrared sonas and the vast

majority of infrared sonas are far infrared, which I still think is a useful

challenge. Unfortunately there's some down far infrared, which I still think is a useful challenge,

unfortunately there's some downsides.

So why don't you elaborate on those?

Well, most people understand what they see as an infrared sauna is indeed a far infrared

sauna. So far infrared, near infrared, it's a, the differences of wavelength. Near

infrared is more high energy. It's closer to red, so we call it near infrared. That's what an incandescent sauna is. But that's not what the typical infrared sauna is. The typical infrared sauna is far infrared, which are the very low energy infrared

wavelengths. They start out at 3,000 nanometers and up from there. So there's no photo

biomodulation from these wavelengths. They're only heating the body.

It's a very small portion of the sunlight's spectrum. Actually, only a few percent of the solar

radiation is far infrared. The biggest portion of infrared in the sunlight spectrum that

reaches the Earth is near infrared. And there's so much more going on with near infrared.

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