You see this is how these kind of things grow legs and walk off into the distance.
The
general wisdom is that
your body does not sweat toxins.
There is a whole myth that has been usefully multiplied by the alternative health and well being industry,
that you can take toxins out of the body in some manner other than its own natural processes.
And this is where you come across as not understanding the topic. This is the opposite of the claim. The claim is that the therapies or whatever you want to call them are in fact using a natural process but speeding it up. It is very true that the body does excrete things in sweat other than water.
But what? Well, for one example, it is known that sweat is one of the ways the body excretes Lead. Which IS a toxin. What else? Here's a paper you might find interesting:
Recent Developments in Sweat Analysis and Its Applications (hindawi.com)
Hmmm I haven't found one yet that actually does chemical analysis to support OR reject therapeutic uses. Then again, most of the therapeutic claims are not based on purging toxins. Of course this raises the question "what are we de-toxing anyways?"
What does Paltrow even mean when she uses the word "de-tox"? Presumably she's not talking about heavy metals. Oh wait, she was advocating use of a sauna to treat feelings of fatigue, and never made any claims about de-tox.
Yeah her claims were about feeling less fatigued. Not about "curing the virus", but about alleviating feelings of fatigue. The only Covid connection was that she listed that as WHY she was feeling fatigued.
Oh yeah, anecdote time. One of the guys I went to high school with in the 90s had a father who had issues with heavy metal exposure to the point he nearly died... his blood was so toxic it would kill parasites(like mosquitos or ticks) that drank his blood. Regular sauna usage was something he used as part of treating this.. and his treatment regimen worked. Obviously you're going to tell me "but that doesn't prove the sauna had any benefit!" Well that's all the information I have. Someone I've met in person did use saunas as part of treating dangerously high heavy metal levels in his blood and he got better.
Obviously there's a limited variety of things your body can sweat out. But some things are useful in that regard.
It's a lifestyle con ... er ... sales pitch. Everything in the promotional videos is white or pastel colours, in luxury mansions by the sea filmed on glorious days, and populated by shallow, intense clones. It sells to wealthy twits with so much money they can throw it away on indulgence.
yeah it's not marketed towards "lower income" people. It's for people with a lot of extra cash. Who probably don't really care if it works as advertised.
