Detoxification and Heart Disease

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by Dr. Julian Whitaker

Published 02/04/09

When I was in college, I spent a year abroad in Sweden and, while I was there, I developed a taste for saunas. A group of us would sit in a hot sauna for 10 or 15 minutes, work up a vigorous sweat, and then run outside to cool off. The truly hardy would actually roll around in a snow bank before going back for another two or three rounds! I wasn’t doing this for my health; I did it because it was fun and because it was a very “Scandinavian” thing to do.

These days I’m still a sauna buff, but now I know that dry heat saunas confer a number of health benefits, from removing toxins to treating congestive heart failure and other cardiovascular conditions.

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