Hippocrates, Father of Medicine, used steam bathing, stating "Give me the power to create a fever, and I shall cure any disease." This is the exactly what researcher are finding to be true. Fever is one of the body's most powerful defenses against disease. Fever raises the body's temperature above normal in an attempt to destroy invading organisms and sweat impurities out of the system. Fever is a highly effective and natural process of curing disease and restoring health, and has been recognized as such for thousands of years. Hyperthermia deliberately creates fever in the patient in order to utilize
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You may consider a home sauna to be a luxury, an item that offers pleasure and comfort but is ultimately inessential to your well-being. The results of years of research, however, may just convince you of what sauna enthusiasts have believed for centuries - that sauna use offers tremendous health benefits that simply cannot be denied. A main objective of any sauna bath is to make you sweat, and sweating is a natural, necessary function of the human body. It's one way the body can rid itself of extra heat and water and eliminate harmful toxins that have built up inside it over time. As Dr. Sherry A. Rogers writes
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