Our bodies collect energy from the sun through the skin and eyes. Oxidation of fats and sugar are also catalyzed by light. The sun’s energy stimulates our body's metabolism just as those same rays stimulate photosynthesis in plants.

Even with adequate nutrition, without light, our bodies can't properly absorb certain nutrients and we may become malnourished. Skin damage, suppressed immune function, fatigue, and other ailments may be the result of lack of sufficient exposure to light. Eyeglasses, smog, windows, windshields, cosmetics, and suntan lotion all filter out a portion of light spectrum and contribute to this problem.

As most of us learned in high school health and science classes, the sun’s rays include infrared, visible light, ultra-violet, x-rays and gamma rays. The largest portion of the sun’s energy is in the infrared part of the spectrum. While this particular band can be felt as heat, it is invisible to the human eye.

These days I've been noticing lots of disease processes from too little sunshine. We all need about 20 minutes of sunshine per day to help convert calcium in our bodies to prevent osteoporosis and osteopenia. A little sunshine at the right time of the day is very healing. Too much can be damaging. Skin problems, depression, and arthritis benefit greatly from sunshine.

It seems like ninety percent of our lives are now spent indoors under inadequate lighting conditions. We work, study, sit at our computers, and entertain ourselves inside.

Planet Earth itself, plants, and animals all send and receive far infrared (FIR) waves. It is interesting to consider whenever we are close to another human or animal, we are both sending and receiving FIR energy.

Far infrared waves have special regenerative effects on the body. When the body is exposed to FIR waves, whether those waves are from the sun, FIR lamps, FIR saunas, reflected by specially treated fabrics or ceramic items, there is an increase in warmth. This warmth stimulates the detoxification and healing processes.

We got rid of our "toxic" microwave oven a while back after I was finally convinced of how it damages our electromagnetic fields and protein in our food and body. I really was unaware of how often I used that microwave. It took me weeks to remember to take out the next nights dinner from the freezer. Had I not had my FIR ceramic plate to defrost that food twice as fast, I would have not had many a dinner at all let alone on time!

Early consumer access to far infrared was in the form of those red-colored far infrared heat lamps still available in many hardware stores. I still use these kinds of lamps for birds. It keeps them warm and they can't see the red color, so can get a good sleep, which is so important in the healing process, but now days, we have other options.

In the 1960’s NASA discovered mineral compounds that were able to generate far infrared waves. Businesses world-wide jumped at the opportunity to produce a wide variety of products using these new fiber compounds. I use many of these products for my own health such as FIR comforters, knee and wrist wraps, and one of my favorite kitchen gadgets, a FIR ceramic thawing plate.

Have you experienced the pleasing warmth of a FIR sauna? I love them, but they are really expensive, so I don't have one. Instead, I sleep under a FIR comforter every night.

Heartburn: The FIR comforter, along with eating for your blood type, is my secret weapon for heartburn. I used to take quite a few Tums and Maalox tablets. Some foods just didn't sit right with me. Once I incorporated these two things into my lifestyle, the antacids got so old, I threw them away. That was over six years ago. Think about it this way… FIR energy (sun energy) is known to speed the ripening of fruit. As the fruit ripens it becomes less acid. A far infrared comforter works in a similar manner for stomach acids and for lactic acid. Here's a typical scenario for sore muscles…

Sore muscles occur when lactic acid builds up in the body faster than the body can detoxify it. My husband, Michael was the first person to introduce me to these products. He has a friend that is an "older" athlete who looks forward all winter to the beginning of baseball season. Joe purchased of a FIR quilt just as the season started. For he and his baseball buddies it started off with a weekend of double headers, that’s two days, with two games each day. At the end of the first day, he was tired and very sore. Arriving home, after the second game he showered, had a bit of dinner with his family, and wrapped himself in the FIR quilt for a late afternoon nap. He also slept the night under that same FIR quilt.

He awoke the next morning full of anticipation, knowing there was another great day of baseball ahead. When he arrived at the ballpark and began practice, all his fellow players were whining about how sore they were. It was then that he realized, while he could "feel" his muscles, he really wasn’t sore at all. His buddies were amazed at how agile and quick he was. When they questioned him about not being stiff and sore, he told them the only thing he had done differently last night was to sleep under a FIR quilt.

Everyone knows it, men sleep warmer than women! At least that's the way it is for most men and women, and that creates a rather challenging sleeping situation. Enough blankets to keep one partner warm and the other is roasting, or hanging half out of the bed to find relief. Too few blankets and the woman is usually freezing (unless they are going through menopause and experiencing hot flashes.) Either way, their sleep is disrupted and neither gets the quality, regenerative night’s sleep they need.

When the FIR quilt is added to the bed, and the other blankets removed, both partners sleep comfortably. The fact is that the FIR quilt is able to accommodate both sleepers needs. The FIR fibers emit waves that raise or disperse excess heat to adjust our body tissues to just the right temperature level. After the tissues are at this perfect level, the remainder of the rays pass through the comforter harmlessly.

These days, FIR products are used by athletes to warm up body parts prior to competition and also, to help alleviate muscle strain and discomfort after injury. The next time you are watching a game on TV, look at the wrists, elbows, and ankles of those athletes and you are certain to notice some of them wearing FIR wraps.

The only downfall I find to this product is that it only comes in off-white. Putting another blanket on top of it lessens its effectiveness. I have known people to make a cotton coverlet to protect their comforter from cats and dogs sleeping on the bed, though, and they say it works great. Although it says you have to dry clean the product, we wash ours in Woolite on the gentle cycle, shake it, and air-dry it by hanging it over the deck railing. I would not recommend this for the comforter that has magnets in it.

Want to be free of antacids and stop GURD within two months? Dare I say permanently? It's a totally do-able thing.

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Page Last Edited 07/10/08

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