Re: Health Lies Exposed eAlerts - heat treatment

[Guest guest]

Hi,

This won't hurt unless of course you don't burn your skin. It will

cause the local blood vessels to dilate and the bloodflow to

increase, so this can be beneficial.

I find the comments on FIR hyperthermia seriously questionable. For

one thing, home saunas should be used to promote a deep cleansing

heavy sweat, and not to see how high you can elevate core body

temperature. This is not only dangerous, but I also don't think you

would be able to raise the temperature to the extent necessary

anyway.

Whole body hyperthermia is most typically done with a combination of

near-infrared heat lamps and pharmaceutical agents to raise body

temp to around 107F. This is computer-monitored and controlled in a

clinical setting. You cannot do this at home nor should you try.

FIR saunas are sometimes used as an adjunct between sessions.

There is some evidence that if tissue temps in a tumor are

repeatedly elevated but shy of lethal levels, the tissues can become

conditioned to be more heat-tolerant. You, in a sense, achieve the

opposite of the desired effect.

Most hyperthermia is not whole-body, but instead targets tumor(s)

directly, usually with radio waves (diathermy), ultra-sound, or

microwaves.

In Physical Therapy, these modalities are all classified as " deep

heat " . Infrared, both near and far, are consodered " superficial " .

I have been in the sauna business for 18 years and have grown to

caution people about FIR health claims as they are often more

promotional than scientific although I greatly believe in the value

and benefits that can be derived from all kinds of saunas.

Hope this is helpful.

Bob

Owner

Heavenly Heat Saunas

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> Hi.

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> , thanks for the great links. There is SO much to learn,

and I am just begininning! (with some trial and error as well)

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> Infrared sauna has also been mentioned on this group. I happen to

have 2 hand-held infrared massagers (about $10/ea) in the 2 rooms of

my home that I'm in most of the time. Since reading about heat

treatment for cancer, I have been using them on the cancer-effected

areas of my abdomen, in particular. I mostly let it sit there with

a thin layer of cloth between device and skin, and then slightly

move the position, until the entire area has been heated and feels

hot. Initially some spots get so hot it hurts, but when I'm

finished the entire area feels really good. Is this silly? Can

this help? Hurt?? I'm just trying to use all the resources I have

on hand at the moment.

http://www.healthliesexposed.com/articles/article_2005_10_7_0033.shtm

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> " 10. In Germany and Mexico, alternative biological treatment

centers for cancer have had great success with whole body

hyperthermia, which involves heating the tumors without destroying

healthy tissue. What can you tell me about this treatment method?

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> Comment: ... Tumor sites are dense tissue, which hold heat and

self-destruct. Healthy tissues are porous, which release heat

through the skin pores by sweating. By bringing the body core

temperature to a slight fever in a far infrared hyperthermia sauna,

it triggers the immune regulators like interferon, interleukin-2 (IL-

2), natural killer cells and white blood cell production to fight

the cancer cells from the inside. Cancer cells die at an

intracellular temperature of 112 degrees F. without destroying

neighboring tissue. Since tumors cannot release heat like porous

tissues can, the temperature will shoot up to 112 degrees F. in the

tumor while your core body temperature remains around a safe range

of 103 degrees F. Again, whole body hyperthermia methods can only be

performed outside of mainstream medicine. "

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[Guest guest]

If I remember correctly, the Hyperthermia treatment requires that the body

is immersed in the tub up to the nose which is the only part of the body,

except perhaps for the eyes????

Maybe someone has changed this a bit but I suspect if you want a 103 degree

fever this is what you might have to do. I did not know about the tumor

getting hotter than the rest of the body. Now I know.

Then there is the newer treatment plan of using a dry sauna type cabinet

which someone hopefully will educate us on. So many such treatments do

cost a pretty penny and might not be available to the average person.

Joe C.

[Guest guest]

My brother had heat treatment @ vci. you must be aware not to have a morphine

patch while doing it. I do not know if they had success with pancreatic cancer.

they do radiation first and from the Cantron Hope Meetings, I understand you

should never do radiation with pc! It cost $3,000 a week. It was not successful

for my brother, they stopped taking him one week and he died, but they did

increase his morphine and he was stage 4. I was not impressed with the clinic or

doctors!

Debbie---

doverto wrote:

> I find the comments on FIR hyperthermia seriously questionable. For

> one thing, home saunas should be used to promote a deep cleansing

> heavy sweat, and not to see how high you can elevate core body

> temperature. This is not only dangerous, but I also don't think you

> would be able to raise the temperature to the extent necessary

> anyway.

> Whole body hyperthermia is most typically done with a combination

of near-infrared heat lamps and pharmaceutical agents to raise body

> temp to around 107F. This is computer-monitored and controlled in a

> clinical setting. You cannot do this at home nor should you try.

> FIR saunas are sometimes used as an adjunct between sessions.

> There is some evidence that if tissue temps in a tumor are

> repeatedly elevated but shy of lethal levels, the tissues can

become conditioned to be more heat-tolerant. You, in a sense, achieve the

opposite of the desired effect.

>

[Guest guest]

My father, surgeon-oncologist used widely tumor heating in his

everyday practice. I participated in his investigations some years

ago as electric engineer.

As I know, light tumor heating is well known pre-

radiotherapy method, using to activate cancer cells. It cause tumor

tissue be more sensitive to X-rays. But such heating itself, without

be completed by serious treatment may increase cancer growth.

Even if supposed low temperatures (42-45 C) being exposed for long

time can damage cancer cells, it seems rather troublesome to support

such temperature on entire tumor volume, where blood flow acts as

natural cooler. As I remember, we measured tissue temperature close

to very hot area around working electrode and saw that it was not

higher 40C in deeper layers. I suppose, if you heating your body in

sauna, you heating only higher layer of your skin to relatively low

temperature and, possibly, go in serious trouble.

In our application we use standard electro surgery equipment, which

can perform volume heating till 60-80C. And we still were worried

regarding " low " temperatures around affected area. You can see some

photo illustration on http://www.oncology.50megs.com/

Also, there are other resources, related to high temperature

hyperthermia, e.g. http://www.celsion.com/technology/tech.cfm

Yuri Eisenstark

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> If I remember correctly, the Hyperthermia treatment requires that

the body

> is immersed in the tub up to the nose which is the only part of

the body,

> except perhaps for the eyes????

>

> Maybe someone has changed this a bit but I suspect if you want a

103 degree

> fever this is what you might have to do. I did not know about

the tumor

> getting hotter than the rest of the body. Now I know.

>

> Then there is the newer treatment plan of using a dry sauna type

cabinet

> which someone hopefully will educate us on. So many such

treatments do

> cost a pretty penny and might not be available to the average

person.

>

> Joe C.

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Becky:

I'm really behind on my emails here as you can tell. I wanted to ask you

what store did you get your handheld infrared massagers at? Do you still

feel that they are helping you?

~Amber

<<Infrared sauna has also been mentioned on this group. I happen to have 2

hand-held infrared massagers (about $10/ea) in the 2 rooms of my home that

I'm in most of the time. Since reading about heat treatment for cancer, I

have been using them on the cancer-effected areas of my abdomen, in

particular.>>