If the benefits come from mild hyperthermia, doesn't that mean they can also be achieved by having a bath that is slightly too hot?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/well...
Toxins are naturally occurring poisons of plant or animal origin. Not heavy metals, not man made toxic chemicals. The word is widely misused.
If you have been poisoned by a snake, octopus, or platypus, seek medical help rather than the sauna. Stung by a nettle, maybe.
No, mass spectrometers are not that hard to operate.
> subjectively one feels better and thinks more clearly
How is that related to toxins? Is coffee also removing toxins because it helps me think more clearly in the morning? Is complaining about public transport to a friend also removing toxins because it makes me feel better?
> Saying that something is not affirmed by science is not equivalent to saying it is denied by science.
Thankfully science has given us tools to base our conclusions on more than our fallible subjective impressions and whimsical correlations. "It seems to help, must be that we're removing something bad" is how you get bloodletting.
Science can strictly speaking not prove any truth, so the incompleteness theorem is irrelevant. Science tries to establish useful models. A model's usefulness is determined by its ability to predict the future (roughly speaking), whereas models whose predictions turn out untrue are eventually discarded.
It is perfectly fine to throw in hypotheses for how things work - that's how science advances. But there is a fine line between suggesting a causation and assuming that it is true just because it makes sense but hasn't been scientifically tested yet. That's more or less the opposite of science, which is (I guess) why there has been a relatively strong response to your statements. That way lies healing crystals.
Could you elaborate on this?
It's still unclear how you think the concentration of these things on the skin will be lower with sweat dripping down (and evaporating) than when surrounded by a hundred liters of bathwater though.
This seems nonsensical. During the activity, bathing has your sweat diluted by a factor of at least 100, whereas your skin remains covered in sweat in a sauna. Afterwards, you remove the sweat (rinsing and/or towel) in both cases.
Your sweat in a dry sauna is a way for your body to cool itself, while you always “feel wet” you’re actually constantly evaporating sweat off you.
In fact, if you ever stop sweating in a dry sauna, leave. You are de-hydrated and it’s no longer safe for you in a sauna.
And even in the context of dry sauna, are you saying the mentioned toxins will all evaporate? Because if not, they will actually accumulate on your skin (whereas in a bath they will be diluted by the bathwater).
Health benefits from dry sauna start at a minimum of around 170ºF, but more typically at 180ºF, and often up to 195ºF. A "slightly too hot bath" would be around maybe 110ºF. Water at 170ºF would scald you within seconds.
Infrared sauna typically heats up to 150ºF, but this heats you from the inside, and so has a similar efficacy to 180ºF dry sauna.
Remember your core body temperature need only change a degree or two to trigger strong responses from the body. After about 5 degrees you're into hyperpyrexia which is life threating.