Just the other day I had a phone conversation with a patient, and the need for the use of an antiperspirant came up. My nurse was present and both the patient and Cindy, my nurse/receptionist, thought it would be a good idea to put the information in a newsletter, so here goes.
First, you need to appreciate that we live in a very toxic industrialized society. It is an unfortunate fact that the water we drink, the air we breathe and the foods we eat contribute to our increasing levels of ill health. The body has natural mechanisms to rid itself of toxic chemical overload, which in a natural environment work quite efficiently. However, in our chemically overloaded environment, our livers and kidneys are often overwhelmed, and a third line of detoxification is brought into play. That third line of detoxification is the skin.
Perspiration has been turned into a cosmetic problem with a negative image by the companies that make antiperspirants; nevertheless, perspiration is normal, and when it is interfered with problems can result.
Perspiration is an odorless secretion that becomes a mechanism of excretion when the toxic load is too great for the liver and kidneys to handle. When your sweat is loaded with toxic chemicals, it becomes food for the trillions of bacteria that normally reside on your skin. They gorge themselves on your waste and then eliminate their waste, and it smells. That bacterial waste smell is called body odor. If you’re healthy, your sweat doesn’t smell. Body odor is an excellent sign that your detox mechanisms are overwhelmed. Unfortunately, most Americans stink when they sweat.
You should be able to use a deodorant and have no problems with body odor. Most deodorants are just a little topical chemical drying agent with a touch of fragrance. If your body odor overwhelms your deodorant you are in the process of getting sick, or you already are.
Antiperspirants stop sweat, and therefore, stop the associated odor. However, the active mechanism in most antiperspirants is aluminum chlorhydrate. This chemical is absorbed through the skin and the aluminum is neurotoxic. Aluminum has been implicated as a contributing cause in Alzheimer’s as well as other forms of dementia. I do not use aluminum cooking foil, aluminum pans, aluminum cans (beer and pop), or antiperspirants. I would advise you to do the same.
So, now you have another problem because you have body odor when you don’t use an antiperspirant. That means that you are already so toxic that your body can’t eliminate the waste through the normal channels of liver and kidneys. You don’t want B.O. and you don’t want dementia and you don’t want to add another toxic chemical to your body (aluminum chlorhydrate); so what are the choices?
Probably the best detox tool, and I suspect one that will be in most educated households within the next 25 years, is the far infra red sauna. I take a sauna at least four days a week. It not only keeps my body detoxified but provides me a quiet time for meditation/introspection. Sauna has been shown to detox heavy toxic metals like mercury, cadmium, and lead, but also the ubiquitous plastic byproducts that are found in every cell of every animal on this planet.
I predict that within the next five years we will see sauna centers the way we now see tanning centers, where people can go and pay to get their toxic load reduced. Sunlight Saunas is a local company with a national reputation, and you can find out more about them by going to the Referral Network section under the Health Topics heading.
