Robert Whitfield MD and others discuss whether saunas damage medical implants. Whitfield warns that heat can cause acute inflammation and potentially melt implants, while speakers report fatigue and needing to nap after sauna sessions. Saunas may be risky for people with implants despite their reputation for reducing inflammation.
You know when you feel worse after a sauna session? That should tell you that's not the right thing.
Every single time. I would do the sauna, and you can ask Michael, I would need a nap. It was so weird. You would. I thought you were supposed to get energy and I would need to. And so what I kept telling myself was, oh, this is my body's way of intuitive. Intuitively telling me I need to rest. The sauna's telling it. But what it was.
You're acutely inflaming yourself.
I want everyone. And you gave me this example to think of a hot water bottle in a car. When it heats up, it's sort of like. It kind of like melts into itself.
The thing for you. I thought for sure your implant was infected. I would have taken it to the bank. I had it tested twice, actually, because I didn't believe it. And I'm somebody who believes in what I do. So you are melting your implant.
Oh, I.
Cranked that thing up. 220.
You know, I often say my architecture is either either from my wife or the groundwater. We don't know which. But Michael might have been trying to melt you.
Well, because I think. But I mean, if I. With more and more people doing this, that if you have an implant, you might want to think about this, because we never thought about this. We just thought, oh, you go into sauna and there's so many studies that show for inflammation and detoxification, that stuff. That sauna could be great, but maybe not for people that have implants.
