Improve Your Immune System with Aesta

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Fever should be seen as an important physiological defense mechanism against disease. It is not the enemy! Fever is the human body's most visible response to viral or bacterial infections; and a very effective one indeed. During a fever, the body heats up to eliminate viruses and attack foreign agents. One of the most immediate physiological effects of the fever is the acceleration of metabolic processes in general. Fever increases oxygen uptake and renders white blood cells more aggressive against bacteria, fungi or viruses. FIR heat therapy induces an "artificial fever" by heating up the body but without the pains of an illness. Subsequently, the body wards off invading organisms much more easily because the immune system is activated consistently by the "artificial fever". Studies also show that colds and flu-like illnesses are reduced dramatically if treated in the early stages with FIR heat therapy.

We have all heard of "spontaneous remission."  A spontaneous remission is the disappearance of a major disease without any immediate medical cause. As Lewis Thomas, MD, once said: "The rare but spectacular phenomenon of spontaneous remission of cancer persists in the annals of medicine, totally inexplicable but real, a hypothetical straw to clutch in the search for cure. . . . No one doubts the validity of the observation."
If you check the medical literature, you find that while there is no single cause for all the spontaneous cures of cancer, the majority of such patients experienced an acute infection just prior to the regression of their tumor. This is a striking fact. These infections were usually accompanied by fevers. This microbial attack stimulated some powerful immune responses. The riled-up immune system then turned on and destroyed a different kind of enemy, the tumor. It was as if an army had mobilized to fight one adversary but continued marching to defeat a second, even more dangerous, foe.

Our own ingenious solutions to the cancer problem seem puny compared to the perfectly natural way that the body sometimes gets rid of it. Why not learn from and harness this tremendous natural force? Shouldn't medicine imitate Nature and its ingenious cures rather than trying to devise artificial treatments that are detrimental to what the body does best? Many of the mysteries of medical history can be explained by the untutored activation of the immune system.

The Aesta Sauna Dome and the Aesta Ion Mat create a false fever that can kill potentially dangerous viruses/bacteria and increase the number of leukocytes in the blood, thereby strengthening the immune system. The leukocyte, macrophage, NK cells and T cells are activated (the immune power is strengthened over 200 times by raising the body core temperature up to 3.5 degrees C)  As well, you perk up your immune system by sweating at a lower more comfortable temperature than a conventional hot sauna. This also enhances circulation and oxygenates the tissues. What's more, the gentle healing heat opens the nasal passages and assists the sinuses to drain. Persons suffering from chronic sinusitis may experience either short-term or lasting relief of sinus headaches as well as find it easier to breath after a sauna session.

"Give me the power to create a fever, and I shall cure any disease."
Hippocrates, "The Father of Modern Medicine" (2,000 years ago)

Hyperthermia, from the Greek words "hyper", meaning high, and "thermos", meaning temperature, can simply be defined as the elevation of the body temperature. In humans a fever is a physiological thermic resource.  Hyperthermia represents a natural immune approach in combating disease since it involves inducing an exaggerated version of the body's own fever state.

Most illnesses are accompanied by a fever. During a fever, the body heats up to eliminate viruses and attack foreign agents. This is direct evidence of the profound healing effects that occur when body temperature rises. Fever acts as a defense mechanism against a number of processes such as infection. One of the most immediate physiological effects of the fever is the acceleration of metabolic processes in general. Fever increases oxygen uptake and renders white blood cells more aggressive against bacteria, fungi or viruses. False fever created by Far infrared Rays, within physiological limits, can have many beneficial effects and will not produce any harm to normal cells that are able to cope with the higher metabolic demand. Recent studies also show that colds and flu-like illnesses are reduced dramatically if treated in the early stages with FIR heat therapy. The Aesta Sauna Dome and Aesta Ion Mat raise the core body temperature and give the user the gift of enhancing one's own immune systems processes.