For many decades, scientific evidence has found that heat can maintain and enhance the wellness of the human body. Scientists have researched different ways in how to develop more effective forms of thermal heat therapy that target specific areas and enable deep heat penetration.

Traditional forms of heat therapy can be hazardous, uncomfortable, unhygienic, inefficient and ineffective. Traditional saunas create exposure to extremely high temperatures causing heat stress which can have detrimental effects on health, especially for people with heart challenges or needing to sustain blood pressure.

Thermal compression's and wraps are uncomfortable, heat is easily lost, temperature does not remain constant and maintaining a thermal compression or wrap can be problematic and inconvenient.

Research and development in the sixties - notably most extensively in Japan and also Germany - introduced the Far Infrared Ray (FIR) thermal technology. This revolutionized thermal technology to an effective, safe, natural, hygienic, and efficient approach to thermal treatment.

Today there are multiple health and medical professionals internationally who rehabilitate and look after numerous physical challenges by using heat therapy for humans and as well as animals.

Relief for sports injuries via thermal therapy is one example, whilst detoxification is another - research PubMed.gov for worldwide medical citations.

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Japanese Far Infrared products:
The Japanese have extensively researched Far Infrared Technology for use in the fields of healing, preservation, cooking, drying and heating. Well over 150 significant patents were granted between 1977-1987.

List of Far Infrared products available in Japan today:

- FIR sleeping pads and heaters - Instant warmth even though air temperature remains cool - Infrared sauna.
- FIR plastic plate to keep fish and vegetables fresher and longer in your refrigerator.
- FIR ovens replacing harmful microwaves - Cooks more uniformly than conventional.

- FIR ceramic paper and ceramics.
- FIR fabrics - socks, gloves, jackets, car seats - Wool and cotton impregnated with ceramic insulating powder.
- FIR fabric keeps body warm in a cold environment whilst providing passive FIR health benefits.

- FIR hair dryer - Cooler and faster, reduces damaged hair, now popular worldwide.
- FIR clinical treatments - FIR panels for incubators in maternity wards.

Evolution of Far Infrared technology:
Japanese and Chinese researchers and clinicians have completed extensive research on far infrared heat therapy and report many amazing discoveries. In Japan, there is an 'Infrared society' composed of medical doctors and physical therapists dedicated to further Far Infrared heat research. Their findings support the outstanding health benefits of Far Infrared thermal therapy as a natural method of healing.

Dr. Tadashi Ishikawa, a member of the Research and Development Department of Fuji Medical, received a patent in 1965 for a zirconia ceramic infrared heater used in the first healing infrared thermal systems. Medical practitioners in Japan were the only ones using infrared thermal systems for 14 years. In 1979, they were finally released for public use.

The technique has been further refined into far infrared thermal systems that have been sold in the USA since the 1980's. One use of Far Infrared heat in the USA was in the form of panels used in hospital nurseries to warm newborns.

There have been well over 700,000 far infrared thermal systems sold in Asia for whole body treatments. An additional 30 million plus people have received localized far infrared treatment in Asia, Europe, and Australia with FIR lamps, which emit the same 2-25 micron wave bands as employed in a whole body system. In Germany, physicians in an independently developed form have used whole body Far Infrared therapy for over 80 years.

Far Infrared therapy close to the body for maximum benefits.

Far Infrared technology is generating outstanding results and is rapidly gaining worldwide recognition and acclaim: The benefits of far infrared technology are truly phenomenal beyond the initial feelings of well being and relaxation. A wide variety of far infrared units are available to the public internationally.

Many traditional saunas now incorporate Far Infrared, but the accuracy of the benefits must be taken into consideration due to factors such as:

1) The distance from the source of Far Infrared to the body - FIR waves need to be close to the body as the further away from the body, the less effective.

2) The effectiveness of the actual elements used to generate the Far Infrared heat.

3) The range of microns emitted - 7-11 microns being the most beneficial to the human body.

Scientific research:
"Quality experimental and clinical scientific studies from Japan in 2003, have shown FIR to result in more rapid wound healing which was independent of changes in blood flow and skin temperature. FIR helped this healing by stimulating a group of cells called fibroblasts to make more collagen which is a very important part of good wound healing and tissue repair.

FIR and the gentle tissue warming has also been shown to help improve the 'health' of the cells that line our blood vessels, which if left untreated may increase the risk of heart disorders. Some other exciting work in progress in Japan strongly suggests that when certain herbal plants are subjected to FIR that their anti-cancer activity is enhanced."

Source: HTE Australia, New Zealand, Europe - Volume 1, Issue 88, Feb/March 2005. Professor Neil Piller, Flinders University, Australia.

Far Infrared thermal therapy clinical studies have steadily progressed worldwide - numerous medical citations are available on PubMed.

There are many hyperthermic associations, numerous journals, and a growing number of hyperthermic oncologists including:

1) The European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology.
2) The International Clinical Hyperthermia Society.
3) Journal of Clinical Oncology.
4) International Journal of Hyperthermia.

Most of these Far Infrared resources are found in Asia and Europe.

"Give me the power to produce fever and  I'll cure all disease." - Parmenides, 500 BC.

Far Infrared heat and the elimination of toxins:

When toxic gases such as sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide or toxic substances such as lead, mercury, or chlorine meet large water molecules, water clusters encapsulate them. Where these toxins accumulate, blood circulation is blocked and cellular energy is impaired.

Elimination begins when a 8-10 micron Far Infrared wave is applied to these large water molecules and the water begins to vibrate. This vibration reduces the ion bonds of the atoms that are holding together the molecules of water. As the vibration continues, breakdown of the water molecules occurs and encapsulated gases and other toxic materials are released.

 Hyperthermia using Far Infrared
- Thermal Oncology.

Orthodox Oncology:
1) Operations remove visible cancer cells. Unseen malignant cells are left behind, not uncommonly showing up within 5 years or thereabouts.

2) Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are both unable to distinguish between healthy cells and malignant cells thus damaging and killing both, besides causing the cancer to proliferate even further, and also damaging respiratory cells in normal cells, overloading them with toxicity.

All three modalities are considered detrimental to health and invasive protocols. Thermal (heat) therapy and immuo-therapy are non-invasive.

In America the mainstream thinking on cancer treatment is slowly but surely undergoing change due to education of the public via the internet, and due to the failure of outdated Western orthodox protocols that are expensive but more importantly, far too frequently, simply don't work.

Toxic 'band-aids' are no longer acceptable to thousands of people who are now choosing safe, non-toxic protocols, with emphasis on a natural whole food, alkaline diet which the traditional medical establishment generally refuses to discuss or support.

Elimination of Toxins: Far Infrared heat is a recognized method for removal of toxicity from the body for cells poisoned with heavy metals (aluminum, mercury, cadmium etc), environmental chemicals, and toxic drugs.

Circulation: Cancerous cells cannot exist if circulation is smooth and continuous. Good circulation in the capillaries leaves no room for a cancerous cell to stop and take hold - a malignant cell has to stop moving to proliferate.

Far Infrared heat helps capillaries to expand, promoting circulation and increased oxygen, thus providing protection and prevention against proliferation,

The cancerous cell's positioning, or settling down, is directly related to the capillaries, which are at the end of the blood vessels. The cancer cell tries to position itself by going through the capillary. If it goes through, there could be no settling down or positioning of the cancer cell - which is what happens if there is good blood circulation.

If the cancer cell fails to pass through the capillary because of some functional disorder in the circulation, the cell could easily position itself. Healthy circulation - without functional disorder - leaves no way for the cancerous cell to settle down and position itself. The cell may then be killed by the immunocyte (the immunity cell).

Scientific Fact:
Far Infrared heat above 40C (107.6 degrees F) weakens and kills cancer cells.

"Targeting the disease and its macro environment is a modern goal. One of these targets is the blocking of tumor angiogenesis (the growth of blood vessels that feed tumors). Blocking the formation of vessels is slowing down cancer growth, facilitating apoptosis - the programmed cancer cell death - and preventing tumor metastases respectively cancer spread throughout the body.

We could show almost ten years ago, that hyperthermia has also a marked anti-angiogenetic effect. The tumor vessels are not as well built as normal capillaries; they are less organized and cannot constrict and relax as normal capillaries.

In the early phase of hyperthermia, when the temperature in tumor tissue is rising, the vessels relax to increase the blood flow to the tumor tissue, but as soon as the temperature goes higher then 40°C the constriction of the blood flow stops, it comes to formation of micro thrombi causing hypoxemia in the cancer tissue, which together with other important mechanisms induce apoptosis and cancer cell death. So hyperthermia is an elegant form of anti-angiogenesis."

- Extract from article written by Dr. Friedrich Douwes, Klinic St. Georg, Germany - Integrative Cancer Therapy Concept.

The Klinik St. George Hospital in Bad Aibling, Germany, treats 2,500 German and 2,500 foreign patients each year. Their cancer regime is a week of detoxification and strengthening the immune system with diet and nutritional supplements, followed by two weeks of localized far Infrared hyperthermia therapy and low dose chemotherapy. This regime has produced great success in combating various cancers. - www.klinik-st-georg.de

Both Europe and Japan have multiple organizations, societies and journals which can be found online.

a) Three online resources include:
esho.info - thermaltherapy.org - hyperthermia.com

b) Current thermal therapy clinical trials worldwide: clinicaltrials.gov

Here are just a few countries that use hyperthermia oncology: Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Ukranine, Hungry, Turkey, Iran, India, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Japan.

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Hyperthermia Oncology
 in the USA:

Although hyperthermia is used extensively in Asia and Europe - especially Japan and Germany - it is only recently in comparison, being researched and utilized within the USA, acknowledged and attested to by the American Cancer Association and the National Cancer Institute on their respective websites.

The American Food and Drug Association approved an American microwave hyperthermia system (BSD-2000 - made in Utah), to be used specifically for cancer management, which is required to be used in tandem with radiation or chemotherapy.

Note: Radiation burns the body!

Integrative Therapy:

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is the U.S. government’s principal agency for cancer research. The NCI states that "Hyperthermia is almost always used with other forms of cancer therapy, such as radiation therapy and chemotherapy."

The NCI fact sheet states:
"Hyperthermia (also called thermal therapy or thermotherapy) is a type of cancer treatment in which body tissue is exposed to high temperatures (up to 113°F).

Research has shown that high temperatures can damage and kill cancer cells, usually with minimal injury to normal tissues.
1 By killing cancer cells and damaging proteins and structures within cells.
2 Hyperthermia may shrink tumors."

The entire NCI fact sheet on hyperthermia may be read here: www.cancer.gov

Hyperthermia supports chemo and radiation.
There are countless medical citations attesting to the use of hyperthermia with chemo and radiation on PubMed. Evidence worldwide shows that hyperthermia is effective in supporting chemo and radiation - there are no contraindications.

Go to PubMed.gov for citations, case studies and conclusions.

Far Infrared Research
Far Infrared medical facts, Japanese data, and more info on toxin elimination.