Robert Whitfield MD and a colleague warn against aggressive treatments that can mobilize toxins and worsen patients before they improve. Intense sauna exposure, aggressive supplements, and detox methods can provoke harmful reactions. A careful, stepwise approach prevents making matters worse.
So there's, there's taking the elevator and there's taking the stairs. So basically in my, my population we're trying to be very intentional and very careful about how we approach supplementation, detoxification and surgical plans as well as plans for neuroplasticity because it's a very, very complicated equation in our patients and we don't want to make matters.
Yeah, and I totally agree with all of that. I think we have a similar approach and mindset that way. Like, like even sauna, I've had people where they go in for one minute of sauna like way prior to any perspiration happening and they still hurts from that. So I think there's this, like, there is, there's this impulse to like be like, oh, we have to get it out. But any of these things that mobilize, any of these things that kill any, like, they can actually make us worse before we actually see any improvements.
