Short excerpt from Robert Whitfield MD advising caution with infrared sauna use. He describes patients who heat to ~170 (°F implied) experiencing 'feeling crummy' due to excessive detoxification/Herxheimer-like reactions, and recommends pausing sauna use for about 90 days and using binders when resuming to help manage detox.
So if you're in your infrared sauna and you're up to 170 and you feel crummy, when you get done with it, you're probably detoxifying too much. So that's more like a Herxenheimer reaction. I just have my patients who are going to engage with us, stop doing ir, sauna, any kind of sauna, because heating seems to make my patients more symptomatic. I'll just have them pause that, and then 90 days after, we'll have them resume. We have some guidance about taking a binder with it, et cetera, so that it does help you detoxify. But if. If you have something in your body that's leaching, then you're going to make that detoxification process more complicated in each person.
