How to Detoxify the Skin

Female Speaker: Dr. Lepisto, you say that they skin is the largest organ of elimination, what's a good way to detoxify the skin? Christopher Lepisto: Right. So we take advantage of all the surface area in several ways. The first way is a classic naturopathic therapy called dry skin version. So imagine a nice natural bristle brush, right, you're thinking the one that you probably have, and you're working starting at your ankles or your extremities, working towards the heart in nice gentle brushes. You can use a -- with something it's a little bit irritating, a little too scratchy, usually what happens is, it's like an edge that you start scratching; suddenly you really want to get the rest of your body. Female Speaker: Right. Christopher Lepisto: So it really feels good and you'll start to feel a little tinkle at the ends and there is a nice pinkish color that may come to your skin. It does several things. Number one; it helps you exfoliate the dead skin cells off. Number two; it really helps the circulation, both circulatory of the heart and the blood vessels and the lymphatic system, which is kind of like the sewer system of the body. It helps clear the toxins that are in the system. Female Speaker: That's one way of putting it, the sewage -- Christopher Lepisto: Well, I know it's a little rough. The lymphatic system is a little more eloquent, it transfers the white blood cells which are at the body, also the lymph nodes are very important in immune functions. Female Speaker: What about Asana for helping the skin detoxify? Christopher Lepisto: Right. So that's another great way. Asana's, the Fins were on to for a quite some time. Now I am Finnish, half Finnish. Female Speaker: Okay. Christopher Lepisto: That my last name means group of older trees in Finnish. Female Speaker: Alright. Christopher Lepisto: Lepisto, yes. So I have an affinity and I grew up with Asana. But they knew long before we had demonstrable scientific evidence, all the benefits of Asana. One of those things that it really helps promote a skin detoxification. The key is you've got to Asana for a slow cooked and that means not above the 140 degrees, because at 140 degrees, the oil glance of the skin close and you are left with just the sweat glands being open. Keep in mind, most toxins are fat-soluble that are in the human body. The water-soluble ones are eliminated through urination but the fat-soluble ones, they quite often get -- they are stored in fat stores in the body including peripheral fat storers that are in correspondence with the skin. Female Speaker: Okay. Christopher Lepisto: So Asana is by the way also help with weight loss, because it's like a slow thermogenic process. It takes for example an infrared Asana, which I tend to enjoy and promote because you can more readily control the temperature. It takes about 15 minutes from room temperature, sitting in an infrared Asana and just starts sweating. That means a nice slow detoxification process. Even people that can handle heat, now the people with multiple sclerosis, lupus, other autoimmune disease can still tolerate in the infrared Asana, and that allows them to encourage the detoxification to the skin. Female Speaker: Thank you for that information.