Epsom after Infrared? Too much?

I did infrared sauna today and I usually take my epsom bath at night - wondering if it's OK to do them on the same day or is it too much? I feel achy after my sauna.

This too is so individual to each of us. Those that can be overly sensitive to detoxing may not be able to do both, where others can easily do both in the same day and be just fine.

Did you decide to do the Epsom salt soak last night? How did you do? I hope you did well!!!

That's the type of reaction I always had when I would take an Epsom salt bath too. I learned to only use foot soaks because I found out how long I stayed in the full bath, or how hot the water was didn't change things.


Glad you are feeling better today, Hoagie!! I hope with continued rest and detoxing, you will get to feeling a bit better!

I learned to go with luke warm water, and only keeping my feet in the water for 7 minutes to start. Then I built up both the water temp and length of time I kept my feet in the water.

After slowly proceeding with raising both, it took a while, but I did get to the point where I could use very hot water (boy does that feel good!) and could keep my feet in the water for as long as I wished.

This is the same way we suggest starting all things - slow and low. While not everyone needs to follow such a careful schedule to increase the amount of time we detox like that - for some of us, there's no other way for us to be able to utilize these things.

Just remember, go slow and low (doses) of everything until you discover how you will respond, then slowly raise up the dose or time spent doing whatever it is.

Often this is a sign that we have a high load of toxins and/or bacteria we are dealing with, so everything must be done carefully, slowly and only as it's tolerated.

Best of luck, Hoagie!!!

PS I find the Bath soothes the muscle aches and relieves the herx.