Issue link: https://cp.revolio.com/i/1517684
www.AbbysHealthFood.com | # 62| Page 13 Infrared Sauna Detox Protocol Step 2: Eat Well Before Your Session And Hydrate Yourself Adequately What you eat has a huge effect on different detoxification processes of your body. Many different detoxification processes, which have complicated scientific names such as "P450 enzymes", "metalloprotein", and "NRF2", are all affected by your dietary choices. These choices then affect detox processes from the organ level to the cellular level. And even though there's no one-size-fits-all diet, a wide variety of plant foods is most important for aiding the detoxification processes specifically because they contain dietary fiber. I won't give any specific dietary recommendations though - the best principle is to ensure you've got a good mix of vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, beans, whole grains, tubers, and other plant foods in your diet. These foods should preferably be organic. During your session, when the infrared sauna works its magic, toxins will be released at many different places throughout your body. If you've eaten some fiber-rich foods in the last 16 to 24 hours, the body has a better ability to remove different toxins through your digestive system. Not all toxins are thus removed through your sweat, but the digestive system is sometimes even more important as a detoxification pathway. Removing toxins from your body is essential though. Different types of toxins play a major role in many different lifestyle-based diseases, such as diabetes, obesity, and blood vessel and heart conditions. Secondly, because toxins are also removed through your sweat, drinking sufficient amounts of water maximizes the detoxification process. During one sauna session, you can lose up to 2% of your body weight in water. If your body is dehydrated, you'll sweat less water on a relative basis but decreases the number of minerals excreted. These minerals, such as zinc, are necessary to eliminate toxins such as heavy metals, as they are paired with them during the sweating process. The question then becomes, "how much should you drink?" The answer to that question doesn't depend on how you measure your body weight. Whether you measure your body weight in pounds, kilograms, or stones, you simply divide that number by 50 to arrive at the amount of water you need to drink around your sauna sessions. So, if you weigh 50 kilograms, you'll need to drink 1 kilogram - or 1 liter - of water before, during, and after your sauna session to avoid dehydration. Make sure that you're not dehydrated before a session either though - drinking after a session doesn't compensate for dehydration before a session. Next up, moving on to the infrared sauna protocol third step: Sauna Protocol For Detox Step 3: Use Your Towel And Shower Effectively Your skin is not an impenetrable barrier but should instead be conceived the way your lungs operate: what goes in and what goes out matters. So, you already know that your body detoxifies through your skin. What you might not know is that toxins if they remain on the skin - will be re-absorbed into the body. Many examples exist, such as mercury in skincare products that enter the body through the skin, lead in lipstick and lip-gloss, and Dihydroxyacetone (DHA) in tanning lotions. Once you sweat during a sauna session, these toxins remain on your skin. Using a clean towel to wipe these toxins subsequently reduces their presence on your skin during a sauna session. But you can do more: Taking a short 1-minute hot shower before your sauna session will increase overall blood flow in the skin. Next, after your sauna session, taking a 1-minute cold shower allows the toxins that weren't taken up by the towel to be removed from your skin. Using that routine structurally around your sauna sessions will maximize the benefits of the sauna detox protocol. Now you have three different strategies, all to increase detoxification. And now that I've given you the three simple steps to maximize the sauna protocol, let's conclude: Concluding Thoughts: Follow The Routine Let me conclude with an analogy: If you're cooking potatoes, it matters whether you first wash your potatoes and then boil them, or whether you boil them first and then try to wash them. The latter strategy is kind of illogical. The same is true for this 3-step sauna detox protocol: exercising before you enter the sauna will give you far superior results to exercising after the sauna. The reason for this outcome is that by exercising before you enter the sauna, you'll aid the mobilization within the lymphatic system. Next up, the infrared light allows you to detox anything in circulation more effectively. The same is true for taking niacin: if you take niacin too far before a sauna session or after a sauna session, you won't attain the expected results. Same for showering in the manner which I've explained above. Lastly, the same is true for hydration and your diet. If you're entering a sauna dehydrated and only rehydrate after your session, sweating will have been impeded. Hence, it's important to be properly hydrated before you enter the sauna. The same applies to eating sufficient food high in fibers before your session: the body cannot remove toxins through the digestive system if they cannot bind to any fiber, and hence, preferably including some fiber within every meal of your day is highly recommended for the end result.