Short YouTube clip (a #shorts) featuring a conversation between an unnamed sauna user and Robert Whitfield MD. The user reports feeling sick (headache, nausea) after frequent sauna use and had assumed she was "detoxing." Dr. Whitfield characterizes the mechanism as "leaching": when implants or heated materials are warmed, plasticizers and heavy metals can leach from shells into tissues, potentially causing symptoms; he advises avoiding further sauna exposure if one feels ill after a session.
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I'll say. The first video, how I found you was when you did the Skinny Confidential podcast, and there was a clip of you that was going pretty viral. When you were talking about girls who go into the or into the sauna and they're melting their implants. And I was a sauna girly. I am talking. I would go two or three times a week, and every time I would do the sauna, I would feel so sick, I would have a headache for the rest of the night. I would feel nauseous. And I'm like, well, clearly I'm detoxing. And when I saw that video of you, I was like, it just all clicked. I'm like, no, I'm not detoxing. I'm actually putting more toxins into my body.
The correct term for what she was doing was called leaching. So if you heat up something, think of like a plastic water bottle. If you heat that up, the plasticizers, the things that make the plastic hard, are phthalates. Those phthalates will leach out of the plastic water bottle into the water. Then you'll drink the water, and you'll increase your phthalate level. So what she was doing was getting overheated the shell components, the heavy metals in the shell were leaching out of the shell into her tissues. And she would feel terrible, just like you're talking about afterwards. If you feel bad after you get out of the sauna, then don't go back into the sauna.
