Pam Montgomery
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 SWEAT LODGE
Sweating for purification has taken place in one form or another for centuries, in Finnish saunas, Turkish hammans, Roman bathhouses, Russian banias, Irish sweathouses, Mayan temescals, and Native American sweat lodges. All of our ancestors engaged in sweating for purposes of physical and spiritual purification. Who knows how the original sweathouse came about? What we do know is that humans, from the beginning of time, revered the magic of fire. In the sweathouse the mysterious power of fire is captured in the form of hot stones. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Another fat burning rule is that when exercising you should sweat. Yes, sweating is important. It is your body's natural ventilation system working when heat is produced. Heat burns fat and sweat helps flush out your body's toxins. If you are not perspiring when you exercise, you are probably exercising far below your target heart rate. If you do not need a workout towel to wipe off your sweat when you exercise, you will need to gradually work up to that point. sweat is good. It means you are achieving results. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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 The composition of sweat is similar to that of plasma, except that sweat does not contain proteins. sweat is a filtrate of plasma containing electrolytes and metabolic wastes. After secretion, it moves through the sweat ducts, where salt and water are reabsorbed. Because sweat resembles plasma, water-soluble chemicals, including some drugs and metal ions, can be found in sweat. However, sweat is not a major route of excretion.
Drugs excreted in the saliva enter the mouth, where they are usually swallowed. The concentration of some drugs in saliva parallels that in plasma. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 When the wei qi is deficient, people can get sick more easily, sweat too much or not enough, and develop sores that won't come to a head. In addition, by strengthening the wei qi, this herb reduces excessive sweating, menopausal sweating, and night sweats and promotes suppuration of boils and carbuncles.
Astragalus enhances immune system function and helps prevent colds, influenza, bronchitis, mononucleosis, pneumonia, infection by the coxsackie B virus (the major cause of myocarditis), and other forms of external evil. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 Some overweight individuals never sweat. Some elite athletes do not sweat that much during exercise, because they are so efficient at making ATP (65% energy, 35% heat) that they never get into the 100% heat production of UCP3. They usually sweat after they are done as they are cooling down and dissipating heat. Compared to the overweight non-sweater who struggles to make ATP (thus does not even get 35% heat and can not do normal sweating from increased ATP synthesis during exercise). This is reflective of an inability to burn sugar and fat, classic insulin and leptin resistance. |
Pam Montgomery
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| During the solstices, equinoxes, and many cross-quarter days between them, we honor the turning of the wheel of the year with a sweat lodge. We don't follow any particular sweat tradition, but we keep in mind that all our ancestors before us sweat in some fashion so we remember them through our sweating. This is an opportunity for our community to come together, regardless of religious persuasion, to pray in a heartfelt and mindful way. In preparation, we select stones from the surrounding area that will hold the fire in them—granite and lava rocks are especially adapted to this. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Heat burns fat and sweat helps flush out your body's toxins. If you are not perspiring when you exercise, you are probably exercising far below your target heart rate. If you do not need a workout towel to wipe off your sweat when you exercise, you will need to gradually work up to that point. sweat is good. It means you are achieving results.
Even if you start out at the low end of the moderate intensity level of 55 percent of your maximum capacity, over time you will be able to increase your intensity and duration as your body becomes more conditioned. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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| Some elite athletes do not sweat that much during exercise, because they are so efficient at making ATP (65% energy, 35% heat) that they never get into the 100% heat production of UCP3. They usually sweat after they are done as they are cooling down and dissipating heat. Compared to the overweight non-sweater who struggles to make ATP (thus does not even get 35% heat and can not do normal sweating from increased ATP synthesis during exercise). This is reflective of an inability to burn sugar and fat, classic insulin and leptin resistance. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Body odor is something that's strongly affected by what's being emitted by your sweat glands. And remember, armpits are designed to sweat. I know that may sound insanely simple, because everybody knows that armpits sweat, but I'm saying that armpits are supposed to perspire. Yet people go to great lengths to prevent their armpits from sweating using deodorant products containing toxic chemicals and derivatives of heavy metals like aluminum. |
Pam Montgomery
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| We don't follow any particular sweat tradition, but we keep in mind that all our ancestors before us sweat in some fashion so we remember them through our sweating. This is an opportunity for our community to come together, regardless of religious persuasion, to pray in a heartfelt and mindful way. In preparation, we select stones from the surrounding area that will hold the fire in them—granite and lava rocks are especially adapted to this. Each stone is prayed over as it is placed on the wood base. |
Bottom Line Health
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| When to Skip Your Workouts
Do you believe that you need to sweat out a cold or the flu at the gym? If so, you're mistaken. Your body doesn't sweat out toxins during exercise, according to the War Memorial Hospital in West Virginia. Rather, your immune system works better when it's not stressed.
Moderate exercise can help boost your immune system, thereby decreasing the chance that you will catch a cold or the flu.
But a hard workout when you are already sick can impair your immune system for several hours, making your illness worse. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 For night sweats and hot flashes, wearing clothing that wicks absorbs sweat and wicks moisture away may help the sleeper feel more dry and comfortable (see Resources section).
Men's Hormones and Sleep Disorder
A man's testosterone levels start to slowly decrease beginning around age 30, then decline more rapidly around age 60. Signs of andropause (sometimes referred to as "male menopause") are usually noticeable by the time men reach their midfifties, though some men may experience symptoms sooner. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Green tea - see articles about green tea
Broccoli and cruciferous vegetables - see articles about broccoli
Lycopene and tomatoes
Infra-red saunas and sweat lodges - because sweating expels toxins
Chlorella - see articles on chlorella, or check out a recommended chlorella product: Rejuvenate! From IntegratedHealth.com (product to be launched soon)
Pomegranate seeds - see artiles on pomegranate or http://www.ats.org/news.php?id=32
Omega-3 oils / chia seeds - available from GoodCauseWellness. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Total body cleansing, including liver cleanse, kidney cleanse and digestive cleanse
Supplementation with trace minerals like selenium
Regular physical exercise that makes you sweat (sweating is the body's way to eliminate toxins)
Completely eliminating all smoking, eating processed foods and using common personal care products or cosmetics (which contain cancer-causing chemicals)
Daily consumption of medicinal mushrooms like Reishi (recommended brand: www.MushroomScience.com)
Daily consumption of anti-cancer rainforest herbs (like Cat's Claw or Una de Gato: See http://www.newstarget. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Small amounts of zinc are also lost from the body in skin cells, the menstrual cycle, sweat, semen, and hair.
Zinc is returned to the intestines in pancreatic juice and cell secretions
Liver stores excess zinc as metallothionein
Unabsorbed zinc may be eliminated in the stool
Small losses in skin cells, the menstrual cycle, sweat, semen, and hair
Figure 12-4 Zinc is returned to the intestines.
Summary for Zinc
Main functions: in enzymes, with hormones, protein structure, and diverse functions.
RDA: 2 to 6 mg for children and 8 to 13 mg for adolescents and adults. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 No exercise that makes you sweat for one and a half hours before bed (doing things that make you sweat in bed are OK).
ž No caffeine, caffeinated beverages or food, or caffeine in pills for at least three hours before bed, or as long as your body dictates.
ž No eating for three hours before bed, so you can avoid reflux issues that can disturb sleep.
YOU Tip: Find Your Pain. Some sleep problems don't arise because of worry or melatonin problems. Some are caused because your back hurts like the dickens. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| If you do not need a workout towel to wipe off your sweat when you exercise, you will need to gradually work up to that point. sweat is good. It means you are achieving results.
Even if you start out at the low end of the moderate intensity level of 55 percent of your maximum capacity, over time you will be able to increase your intensity and duration as your body becomes more conditioned. I have a tough time exercising above 70 percent of my maximum heart rate. |
Dan Buettner
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 The sun beat down and sweat soaked our clothes. Occasionally the jungle would open and we'd catch a sweeping view of Nicoya, spilling down the mountain to toast-brown flats that stretched all the way to the slate-blue line of the Pacific Ocean.
Perhaps an hour into our trek, we rounded a bend and came upon a two-room shack outside of which a shirtless man was fiercely chopping wood in a small jungle clearing. "Hello, I'm Dan Buettner," I said, extending my hand. "Do you know where we might find the village of Juan Diaz?" He put his sweaty, calloused hand in mine and let me shake it. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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| They usually sweat after they are done as they are cooling down and dissipating heat. Compared to the overweight non-sweater who struggles to make ATP (thus does not even get 35% heat and can not do normal sweating from increased ATP synthesis during exercise). This is reflective of an inability to burn sugar and fat, classic insulin and leptin resistance. Calories just pile up in the blood (sugar, triglycerides, and cholesterol) as this person heads towards type II diabetes.
In both situations the adrenaline resistance sets in causing blood pressure to rise. |
Pam Montgomery
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| The heat and steam cause the body to sweat, transporting both physical and spiritual impurities out through the skin. The steam emits negative ions, which have myriad physical benefits. The sweathouse is a sacred container, not unlike a womb, with its dark, warm, and wet environment where one returns to shed that which does not serve, emerging reborn anew. Others may liken it to a temple because of the reverent nature of the prayer offerings. Being in a lodge is an opportunity to pray for oneself and others. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 This increased production of D affects the production of collagen in skin, the growth of sweat glands, hair follicle life-cycles, and muscle and bone. The positive effects of sufficient vitamin D on hair follicles and sweat glands enhance your cooling efficiency during exercise.
The fuel burned during exercise varies with the type of exercise. During short, quick activities such as sprinting and power lifting, the body uses glucose. |
Tom Bohager
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CYSTIC FIBROSIS
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a congenital metabolic disorder in which secretions of the exocrine glands (which produce mucus, tears, sweat, saliva, and digestive juices) are abnormal, affecring the respiratory, digestive, and reproductive systems. Excessively viscid mucus obstructs the body's passageways (including pancreatic and bile ducts, intestines, and bronchi), and the sodium and chloride content of sweat increases throughout the patient's life. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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| After secretion, it moves through the sweat ducts, where salt and water are reabsorbed. Because sweat resembles plasma, water-soluble chemicals, including some drugs and metal ions, can be found in sweat. However, sweat is not a major route of excretion.
Drugs excreted in the saliva enter the mouth, where they are usually swallowed. The concentration of some drugs in saliva parallels that in plasma. Saliva may therefore be a useful biological fluid with which to determine drug concentrations when it is difficult or inconvenient to obtain blood. Excretion of drugs into hair and skin is minimal. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| We may not like to see sweat on treadmills or public speakers, but we want to see it on you. While we recommend different kinds of physical activity in different circumstances (including resistance exercise, walking, and stretching), the way to improve heart function is to sweat more than a kid in the principal's office. Why? Cardiovascular activity lowers both the top systolic (the pressure being exerted when your heart contracts) and the bottom diastolic (the pressure in the arteries when the heart is at rest) numbers of your blood pressure. |
Ron Garner
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 As blood flow increases to cool the body, a cardiovascular conditioning and calorie-burning effect occurs and sweat is produced. Since many toxins are stored in body fat, as fat cells are heated they release toxins into the sweat which is then eliminated via the skin. And because internal organs are largely unaffected by the sauna's direct hyperthermic effects, detoxification can be achieved without placing stress on the liver or kidneys.17 Dr. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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| Many overweight people notice they sweat easily upon exertion, yet this is not associated with any pleasant energy production, like normal sweating during refreshing exercise. This occurs because the body has become very ineffective at burning sugar and has shunted the calories into heat production via UCP3 as a defense mechanism.137 This causes an abnormal overexpression of UCP3 and UCP2, which in turn directly damages the pancreatic beta cells eventually causing diabetes.138
Some overweight individuals never sweat. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Saunas or sweat baths using eucalyptus or other essential oils relieve colds, flu, catarrh or bronchial conditions and may even alleviate an asthma attack. Of course, a sauna or sweat bath should be followed by a tepid bath or shower to lower the body temperature gradually and avoid catching a chill.
In flotation tanks, the latest innovation in the realm of hydrotherapy, common salt (sodium chloride) is used not only to soothe aching muscles but also to support the patient's body-weight, making flotation more comfortable. |
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