Academic Reports


Academic Studies Regarding the Use of the Sauna

Please note: The references referred to by Abstract and by number in the text below are in the review of the additional scientific evidence attached.

Studies show that residues from drug metabolism store in fat deposits for many years. These residues appear to influence personality in a negative way as well as contribute to drug cravings. (See Abstract 1.)

Mobilization of chemicals is not desirable if routes of elimination are not enhanced. Chemicals are excreted through many routes including feces, urine, sweat, sebum, and lung vapor.

The purposes of the sauna aspect of this program are two-fold.

Heat stress is a means of increasing circulation (28) and of enhancing the elimination of compounds through both sweat and sebum. It is documented that methadone (29), amphetamines (30), methamphetamines and morphine (31), copper (32), mercury (33), additional metals (34) and other compounds appear in human sweat. Enhancement of this elimination route is a key purpose of the sauna aspect of this program.

In addition to an increase in sweat production, increased body temperature results in heightened production of sebum, the material produced by the skin's sebaceous glands (35). In patients exhibiting "chloracne", a specific skin disorder caused by chemical exposure, the causative compounds may be detected both in adipose tissue and in sebum of the skin (36).

Though not a major route of elimination for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), PCBs may be found in sebum of exposed individuals (37). Both the concentration of PCBs and the quantity of sebum produced have been shown to increase during the detoxification program developed by Hubbard (38).

Completion of the detoxification program also results in improvements in psychological test scores, with a mean increases having been shown in Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale IQ of 6.7 points. Scores on Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory profiles decreased on Scales (4-7) where high scores are associated with amoral and asocial personalities, psychopathic behavior and paranoia. (See Abstract 3.)

Abstracts Of Published Papers Regarding The Hubbard Detoxification Method

  1. Reduction of Drug Residues: Applications in Drug Rehabilitation
  2. Precipitation of Cocaine Metabolites in Sweat and Urine of Addicts Undergoing Sauna Bath Treatment
  3. Evaluation of a Detoxification Regimen for Fat Stored Xenobiotics
  4. Body Burden Reductions of PCBs, PBBs and Chlorinated Pesticide Residues in Human Subjects
  5. Diagnosis and Treatment of Patients Presenting Subclinical Signs and Symptoms of Exposure to Chemicals Which Accumulate in Human Tissue
  6. Reduction of the Human Body Burdens of Hexachlorobenzene and Polychlorinated Biphenyls
  7. Excretion of a Lipophilic Toxicant Through the Sebaceous Glands: A Case Report,
  8. Improvement in Perception of Transcutaneous Nerve Stimulation Following Detoxification in Firefighters Exposed to PCBs, PCDDs and PCDFs
  9. Occupational, Environmental and Public Health in Semic: A Case Study of Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Pollution
  10. Human Contamination and Detoxification: Medical Response to an Expanding Global Problem
  11. Neurobehavioral Dysfunction in Firemen Exposed to Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs): Possible
    Improvement after Detoxification,
  12. PCB Reduction and Clinical Improvement by Detoxification: An Unexploited Approach?
  13. Xenobiotic Reduction and Clinical Improvements in Capacitor
  14. Treatment of Pesticide-Exposed Patients with the Hubbard Method of Detoxification.
  15. Neurotoxicity and Toxic Body Burdens: Relationship and Treatment Potentials
  16. Treatment of Children with the Detoxification Method Developed by Hubbard
  17. Reduction of the Radioisotope Cs-137 Using the Detoxification Method Developed by Hubbard

A Review of Scientific Literature Supporting the Detoxification Method
Developed by L. Ron Hubbard

Compiled August 1991 by the Foundation for Advancements in Science and Education

  1. Contamination with Synthetic Chemicals
  2. Reduction of Bioaccumulated Compounds
  3. The Detoxification Program Developed by L. Ron Hubbard
  4. Studies Regarding the Detoxification Program - Safety and Results
  5. Summary
  6. References

Additional Articles and Studies

Below are links to other published articles and studies regarding the efficacy of various component parts of the Second Chance Program

  1. The Townsend Newsletter - Health Status of Rescue Workers Improved by Sauna Detoxification
  2. Drug Residues Store in the Body Following Cessation of Use
  3. Urban Institute - The Criminon Program Evalution: Phase I
  4. Evaluation of "The Way to Happiness" program at CEFAS