Dr. Robert Whitfield explains how sauna heat can degrade plastic implants and leach phthalates into your body. He describes personal symptoms after sauna use and medical tests that confirmed the contamination, then cleared.
Remember when you asked me if I used a sauna,
which
we have a sauna, and you asked me, how do you feel after you use a sauna? I'm like, oh, my gosh. I've never thought about heating plastic in my chest at least once or twice a week at the highest temperature that the sauna goes to. I'm like, here I was thinking, oh, I'm sleeping so good. I was probably just doing a number on my body.
Yeah. You know, I got in a bunch of trouble for that because the process is leaching. So when you heat something up, say, like the. The. The plastic water bottle, the phthalates which are in the plastic get into the water, and then you drink the water, then you increase the phthalate burden. Like, none of this is that complicated. I always say, like, if you go in your sauna and you don't feel well after you get out of the sauna, I wouldn't keep going in the sauna with your implants because I don't know how to. How to guide you. Like, that's a fair statement. Yeah. And then after we did her surgery and repeated the test, they were all gone. So that's really the. The take home is. Yeah, everybody's different.
