Short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video ("What You Need to Know About Infrared Saunas & Implants") featuring Robert Whitfield MD. Speakers warn that people with breast implants should avoid infrared saunas; they note that infrared (IR) penetrates deeper and that the effects on medical devices (implants) are unknown.
Okay. What other things are we not told? If you have breast implants, you should not be doing this. You should not be doing this.
IR is supposed to penetrate deeper, right?
And you're talking about infrared sun.
Infrared sun is supposed to penetrate deeper, not as much high temp. Nobody knows what that does to devices.
Medical devices.
Yeah, it's never been studied. So I do have people get more symptomatic. So if you're in your infrared sauna and you're up to 170 and. 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 gonna engage with us. Stop doing ir Sauna, any kind of sauna. Cause 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 you have something in your body that's leaching, then you're going to make that detoxification process more complicated in each person.
