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155 // How a Far Infrared Sauna can help you detox [Hashimoto's Health Lab] · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Welcome to the Health with Hashimoto's podcast. Our summer series is the Hashimoto's Health Lab.
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  This series is going to be 10-minute episodes.
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  Every week, we'll talk about a specific tool or practice. We're going to cover
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  everything from environmental detox to stress reduction, energy boosters,
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  biohacks, and all of it is going to be designed to give you tools for better
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  health with Hashimoto's.
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  I'm your host, Esther Yunkin. I'm a registered nurse helping women uncover their
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  root causes and regain energy.
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  So these episodes are going to be short. If you are ready for a deeper transformation.
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  Check out the Holistic Hashimoto's course. It will help you identify your unique
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  triggers and root causes so that you can focus your own energy on what really
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  matters for your health.
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  Are you ready to explore a new strategy for thriving with Hashimoto's? Let's dive in.
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  This is the Hashimoto's Health Lab. I am sure that you have a story like the
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  one I'm going to tell you.
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  So if you have a chronic health condition like Hashimoto's, like any autoimmune
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  problem, you have been sick for years.
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  On average, it takes women four years and four different specialists to get diagnosed.
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  You've been dealing with things. You've been digging into it.
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  You've been trying to figure out what's going on.
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  You've been trying to figure out your root causes, how to fix things.
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  That's why you're listening to this episode.
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  And hopefully that's why you have been through the Holistic Hashimoto's program,
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  Holistic Hashimoto's course. I can't decide which name is better.
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  Anyway, in that course, I help you figure it all out.
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  Well, I was on a call with somebody. She was actually trying to get me to pay
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  to be on her podcast, but I could tell she had another angle as well.
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  And I was just waiting for it.
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  You know, you know that conversation.
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  Like she's asking specific pointed questions and she thinks that she knows more
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  than me about what I need to do.
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  You've been in that conversation before, right? Well, it finally turns out that
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  she had a product that she was trying to sell me and she thought this product
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  was going to cure everybody She didn't use the word cure because according to
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  the FTC You can't but she told me that so many people get completely better They're, you know,
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  they don't have Hashimoto's anymore when they use her product And finally I was like.
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  I don't know, she asked me something about one of my root causes.
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  And I was like, yes, I live in Minnesota. And one of my root causes is the cold.
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  And she couldn't counter that. And it took all of the wind out of her sails,
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  because she couldn't sell me anything to counter that specific stressor that I deal with.
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  And if you've listened to this podcast for a long time, you know that every
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  winter, I do have a flare because of the stressor of the cold.
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  And is her product helpful?
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  I'm sure it is. I'm sure it's helpful for a lot of people. But you have to know
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  your own root causes and triggers and then how to counteract those,
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  how to fix those, how to address those.
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  And for the cold, I invested in a sauna.
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  And that's what we're going to talk about in this super short episode is the far infrared sauna.
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  Now, back when I was in elementary school, I passed out for the first time and it was in a sauna.
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  So since that time, I have always known that I am heat sensitive.
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  If I go in a hot tub or in a sauna, I am pretty quick to throw up and pass out.
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  Not a fun experience. So when I was looking at saunas and specifically at getting
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  warm, because I want to address that trigger, and then also the exposome.
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  Did we talk about that last week, right?
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  The cumulative exposure of chemicals and toxins and different things against your body.
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  The sauna can help you get rid of those.
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  Last week, we talked about water filtration so that we kind of lower what's
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  going in we can lower the new things but how do we get rid of the old things
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  sweating is a huge way that we can get rid of those so saunas in general.
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  Can help you sweat that out. Far infrared saunas, or F-I-R, far infrared,
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  they penetrate deeper than traditional saunas so that you can sweat at a lower temperature.
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  And that is key if you have a heat intolerance, which a lot of people with Hashimoto's do.
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  We get cold really easy. So then our families are like, well, you must love the heat.
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  They're like, no, not actually. I'm a Goldilocks person.
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  I don't like the cold and I don't like the heat. It's not that I don't like them.
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  My body doesn't like them. So when I was looking at saunas, the far infrared
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  was appealing to me because number one, I can have a lower temperature and it penetrates deeper.
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  So you get more junk out. And that is important.
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  We want to get rid of the toxins and chemicals that are residing in us.
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  A lot of times your body wraps those things in a layer of fat and protects them in their fat cells.
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  So if you're losing weight, you know, if you're using the MindBody GLP-1 system
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  that I've talked about a lot, you also want to do the Protandim NRF2 because
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  that helps your detox pathways.
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  As you release weight, you're going to release the things that your body has
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  stored, has bubble wrapped in fat and stored for safety.
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  As you use a sauna, you also want to do something that helps your body get rid of those things.
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  So far infrared saunas are amazing.
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  Another thing I was looking at when I was looking at the far infrared was I
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  wanted something that was, you know, that was clean.
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  I don't want something that's full of chemicals and smells funny because that
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  would defeat the purpose, right?
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  So I was looking at different big, you know, the big box ones where you can
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  put it in your garage. You can go into it.
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  One person, two person. There's a lot of options when it comes to saunas.
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  But then one person sent me one that has a head out option.
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  So I had not been looking at far infrared saunas that have like the cloth that
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  zip up kind of like a pop-up tent.
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  But this one, I was immediately intrigued because your head is out.
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  And that means you are even more protected from the drastic temperature.
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  And I was like, oh my goodness, this is what I need. And so I got it.
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  And I will tell you next spring how things
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  go because I got it at the very tail end of winter but this
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  is a fast way for me number one to warm up and number
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  two to release the chemicals or anything that is in my exposome whatever those
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  toxins right if you know your root causes and triggers and if you have environmental
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  chemicals as one of your root causes or triggers or if you like me can't handle the cold,
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  maybe looking into a sauna would be something that you want to do also.
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  Now a sauna is not super cheap. This is going to be the most expensive tool
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  that we talk about this summer.
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  I was able to do it because my grandpa died.
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  He was 97. He had Alzheimer's. He was very ready to go, but I got a small inheritance
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  from him and my husband and I talked and this was one thing that was going to
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  have long-term effects.
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  If I can help with my every single winter trigger of the cold...
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  As well as getting rid of toxins, this is going to impact so many things.
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  And so that is how we looked at this investment into a sauna.
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  Because a far infrared sauna is an investment. I'm not going to quibble about
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  that. But here's what it does.
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  It helps you get rid of heavy metals. You sweat out lead.
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  You sweat out other heavy metals. You sweat out VOCs.
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  Those are the organic compounds, volatile organic compounds, the smelly things, BPA.
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  You know, we know to buy BPA-free plastic now, but we didn't always.
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  And the saunas detox or help your body detox from those things.
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  It lowers your thyroid hormone disruption.
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  Now, if you have a sauna, you always want to start slow and low if you can.
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  So I started actually with five-minute sessions because I was kind of worried.
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  I didn't want to throw up and pass out like in my history.
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  So start with super short sessions just a couple times a week.
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  Make sure you're hydrating very, very well.
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  You will sweat a lot. That's the goal.
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  So hydrate very well and then increase as tolerated.
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  The cost of an in-home far infrared sauna can range from around $150 to like thousands.
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  You can look at the different options available and and figure out what is right
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  for you what's right for your budget what is right for your household where
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  it's going to fit I have my this is not.
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  I was not planning on keeping mine in my bedroom, but I have mine in my bedroom
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  right now because I love to hop in it for just like two or three minutes right before bed.
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  Because even in the summer, my feet are freezing cold down to the bones and
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  hopping in the sauna for just a couple minutes warms me up so that I can fall asleep faster.
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  I don't want to be in there for too long because you don't want to go to bed
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  hot, then you don't sleep well either.
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  So figure out what's going to work for you in your home. That is what all of
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  these tools, what I'm doing this series for is so that you can figure out what
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  tools work for you, for your time, for your season, for your budget.
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  For your life, and figure out how to implement the best things possible so that
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  you can address your root causes and your triggers.
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  I bought my sauna from relaxsaunas.com straight from the company and I got the
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  silver one that you sit in. I just didn't want to lay in my own sweat.
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  I did look at the bed one because both of them have the head out option.
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  It is $1,700 right now as I record.
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  And if you use the coupon code HWH for health with Hashimoto's,
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  you will save $100 on that.
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  So I hope that this episode is helpful for you as you are looking for new tools
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  and options for having better health with Hashimoto's.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only.
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  Please discuss any changes with your trusted healthcare provider.
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  To take your next step, join our school community and explore the courses available there.
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  You do not have to figure your health out alone.
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  So that is school, S-K-O-O-L dot com, and it is the Health with Hashimoto's community.
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  I'll see you next time on the Health Podcast.