Best Saunas for People with Chemical Sensitivities, MCS, or Allergies
00:00all right next Q&A is going to be for people with MCS uh I'm going to read this to you because it's quite involved this is also for Sarah I'm going to post a link to this uh so that we don't have to type some of this stuff out I'll just talk to you Sarah says hi Matt I really appreciate these tips I'm disabled by severe MCS and a family member of mine is struggling with debilitating health symptoms after an amalgam filling removal went wrong I had that too by the way um exposing her to Major counts of major amounts of vaporized Mercury I know you had a similar experience yes I did infed sauna sessions have been a game changers for us both same for me so glad to hear it uh finding a sauna to purchase that we can tolerate has been quite the ride currently I use a sunlighten impulse at a local Float Center it had outgassed for one year with daily use when I first successfully used it the float Center just got a new sunlight about 6 months ago but I still can't even be in the same room with it I was going to ask you about that depending on how old it is it could also be a different Lumber type um if you figure out the year of the first one or
01:00maybe you can use your nose and tell me if there's a particular Lumber type that you're more or less sensitive to uh let me know I was going to go with the son Ray due to his Simplicity no glues but I'm grateful to find out from your research son is poor yeah I love what the Sonic Ray guys stand for um I would love to have more options for North americanmade saas uh just the heater layout is terrible like I have a sonay I've owned one for years I don't make reviews on them because I like what the guys you know stand for at the the same time I don't get a good sweat in there right that's the premise of using the sauna in the first place if you're going to get you know the benefits you need to be sweating well and the heater layout just doesn't allow for that uh I don't know how people say that they have a sonur and they love it I don't know if they've not tried some other saunas with better sidewall and frontal infrared coverage but the heater layout in the sauna Ray just having it in the corners most of your body is like especially in the front most of their layouts they heaters are from the knees down so your
02:00organs are literally not getting any far infrared at all that's one of the major benefits from infrared sauna use that no one talks about but it's kind of like an Unwritten rule that hey a lot of this is being caused by you know it's that's wild to me um question for you is do any of these Company allow full returns if the sauna doesn't work out I know you recommend radio and health for people to MCS but I don't have a garage to airis sauna out would risk it being stolen if I kept it in my porch to air out thank you for all you do gratefully Sarah so yeah so I don't know any companies specifically that offer a a a 100% risk-free return after enough time frame that you would need uh for the sauna to air out and so if you're seeing this on YouTube not just for Sarah but if you're seeing on this on YouTube and you have a friend or family member that you're trying to help with multiple chemical sensitivities what's happening if if this isn't personally for you is what's happening is your body is not your body
03:00I'm sorry the person that you're trying to help their body is experiencing an autoimmune issue right and a lot of times sensitivity is to certain things and it's different for some people than others sometimes it could be something as simple as like a perfume a dish soap um absolutely no scented candles and stuff burning in the house that filters throughout but I mean it could be down to like simple simple stuff like if you use the wrong dish detergent or something like the dishwasher like literally all kinds of sensitivities it could be sensitivities on the skin it could be sensitivities to the nose it could be an allergy something that's airborne and so while these folks are dealing with you know the multiple chemical sensitivity condition which does actually get better when they're able to improve their health markers that are causing this in the first place um generally they're working with a functional medicine practitioner and in relation to I don't want to get way out of context here but in relation to sauna a lot of times two two things can happen
04:00one they order a sauna because they're trying to help themselves and a lot of times you know they're having a flare up that's causing this condition like she mentioned if you have um an acute exposure to heavy metals or Mercury or something like that the body can't deal with that so having heavy metal poisoning is actually saving your life because it's depositing things in fat fat cells and instead of sending an absorbant amount of that compound to the organs that it can't process at once right because you would have organ failure worse complications so there's there's like a gratefulness of the intelligence of what's Happening here but your life is in shambles in the meantime because you can't understand it you don't know how to measure it it's kind of like EMF stuff but in a sense it's what's happening within right and so what happens is people are ordering saunas knowing that it helps them just like uh Sarah you know she's been renting sessions just like I did having great results however when you have a
05:00sensitivity to um all these things you can get a sauna that has a really strong wood smell which is usually why I recommend something like a radiant Health um you could try a Heavenly heat also is very mild things that you would want to stay away from are like a cedar sauna uh some of the older saunas like um healthmate some of the clear lights some of the sunlighten uh definitely stay away from the sunstream um what have else we had flareups with with you know you don't tend to get as many flareups with something like the saay or the Heavenly heat it's just the saay like you asked about the the heater layout is just not going to help you as much and there's two things happening here one in the manufacturing plant where they Source the wood from and also during the assembly process there can be things Airborne things dust all kinds of stuff that gets into the sauna while they're building it and once you unbox that and bring it into your house it kind of you know it kind kind of gets stirred up
06:00plus if you're if you're buying from a company that has a really strong Lumber smell and there's no Rhyme or Reason to this you can take two companies that make a Basswood or a Hemlock or even a cedar or a eucalyptus or a popler or this or that and you can put them next to each other and sometimes some of those Brands smell really really strong I'm not chemical chemically sensitive at all um but it's strong to where I don't want to use it or I'm uncomfortable because you have you want a mild smelling sauna anyway cuz once you close the door you're going to be in there for a while and that builds and builds and builds with the heat and so not only um can you have a sauna that has a super strong Lumber and so my recommendations are for me using them and not just once you know multiple different models different locations I know that the company generally has a super mild something that reacts well we've had a lot of MCS patients um bu these things so number one would be Heavenly heat and well radiant health first and Heavenly heat
07:00um the other thing is not doing the air out process so dep you know I'm hesitating because not every company packages their sauna exactly the same way so some of them are wrapped in plastic some of them are wrapped in styrofoam all of them are usually in cardboard boxes on crates all of them have um generally been sitting in a box truck for delivery or a warehouse w waiting for delivery so they have like a dust and stuff on the outside of the cardboard box so number one thing and Sarah already knows this cuz I can tell the way she ask the question number one thing for anyone else who sees this you do not bring those things inside I don't care if you have to lay the stupid thing out in the grass on the in the yard or driveway if you're in an apartment put in a parking spot have the guy with the pallet jack leave it right there right you take all the sauna pieces out you leave all the packaging the plastic the this the that if you're in an apartment I know Sarah
08:00you're saying that you know you're worried that someone might steal it I don't have another option for you because generally as you know what we're trying to do is get the components out of the packaging because they could have been sitting in there for months you know in the warehouse waiting for someone to you know buy this or have it delivered or whatever and so you've got styrofoam you've got a plastic bag you've got the cardboard you've got the dust you've got all this stuff that's kind of like sealed together we want to give the sauna Parts a chance to lean them up against the wall have all that stuff removed from them air out completely and also let the wood air out from the the sauna pieces themselves and so you take a lightly damp cloth and you just wipe everything down vacuum it off if you have a garage obviously you leave this outside um for up to two weeks to me that's extreme but for somebody who can have a flare up from doing the wrong thing hey you know do what you need to do 100% because if you do this right and this can work for you the benefit that
09:00you're going to get is like 100x right and so um number one thing that I would say uh oh I lost it where' it go for Sarah I don't know of any company that will give you a no risk and by no risk I mean usually there's either a restocking fee or you have to pay the return shipping or you know there's always some component of unless there's something wrong with it or it was damaged in shipping or this and that it's a very expensive item to ship around um it's expensive to store you know all this stuff you know the drill I don't know I would call and verify first right because no one is just going to let you keep it for you know an unknown number of weeks for it to air out and we don't know exactly how long that is um but I that is what you need to do 100% you need to let it air out then you bring it inside if possible put it together in the garage I know for Sarah but if you're another person that sees this you put it together in the garage
10:00and cycle it set it Max temp Max time wipe it down vacuum it out let it run for an hour cut off next day do the same thing next day do the same thing next day do the same thing so what you're doing is you're doing like a light little burnoff and you're also letting the wood and stuff air out not in the closed environment where you're going to be using it and so you can remove yourself from that part of the scenario and you can replicate what Sarah is saying she had a great result with an old sauna at the spa that she was renting sessions with but if you didn't catch it when they replaced it with a new one now it doesn't necessarily mean Sarah that that thing had the old one has aired out and that's why you're tolerating it it could be change in components uh if you're talking about a sunlight and impulse specifically they have um mesh uh grills in front of all the heaters right so that's not the best thing to play nice with you I would kind of you know I don't know if I would necessarily buy one of those in your case and if it's you're talking about five or six years ago for the old one
11:00that you bought I'm sorry that you used um there's a lot of things to keep track of here uh versus the new one they could have changed the wood type they could be different models um there could be different you know types of materials or Fabrics or things in the new one versus the old one so you'd really want to pay attention to all those things and my advice would be um reach out to the sauna companies that you're really thinking about purchasing from and just tell them what the deal is hey I'm having a really hard time I'm doing the best I can I don't want to buy your product and then you know try to send it back I'm not trying to screw you guys over but here's my situation I'm really trying hard to you know get myself this or that um and if that doesn't work um you could try something from a big box store I'm trying to think of what I would say there's not one that's going to be super low EMF and have no actually you might you might be able to try this one here um it was the one from the Black Friday thing the life Pro
12:00uh the review is not out on that I'm hesitant to mention it um it is I think it's like $2,000 or less but I think you might be able to send it back depending on where you buy it from um it's not going to be as good as a $5,000 one it's not going to have you know the heaters in the bench it's not going to be super low EMF it's not going to be perfect but I was thinking if a big box store had it kind of like you can get the dynamic from Costco this works better than the dynamic um I'm trying to think of a a big box store that would take it back for sure no questions asked uh well let me know I'm G to I don't want this video to go on forever but I wanted to do a video response so that if you or someone you know is suffering from multiple chemical sensitivities and you're like Sarah and you've tried to get a sauna or rented sauna sessions and had some success and you're trying to replicate at that you're you know replicate that at your
13:00house or you have a family member that's trying to do it for you or help you um this is like kind of the same scenario that we go through uh with everyone that's in this position so hopefully this is shedding a little bit of light on the right way to go about it uh a lot of times people think that you know sauna they can't tolerate or it's not right for them because they buy one get it home take it right out of the package turn it on don't clean it don't do any of the procedures that I've outlined in some of the other videos and then they have flareups and they're like oh I can't do that well you're missing out out on the long-term benefits that you'll get over the next 6 to 12 months if you just take it slow do what you need to do for your situation and get that sucker working for you so I'll see you in the comments if you're in the Facebook group I'll post a link to this in there let me know what you think and Sarah um send me a private message and if you need me to reach out to one of these companies for you or with you I'd be happy to do that we'll see you in the next video