A recent article in the Salt Lake Tribunetalks about how a cop believes a causal link between the meth labs and police illnesses has been established. Al Acosta feels that pulling apart between 300 and 400 meth labs during his career with the Utah Bureau of Investigations narcotics unit has cost him his health. Apparently fellow cop, Kelly Call, has been living on ibuprofen to deal with the systoms of meths exposure for want of a better word. But since enroling on a course of saunas he’s not touched the stuff.
Call is one of eight retired and current Utah police officers undergoing an Orem clinic’s detoxification treatment, which is based on Scientology teachings where toxins are sweated out of the system.
Experts are skeptical of the prospect of saunas fixing the problems cause by meth exposure but the officers undergoing the detox programme are convinced it’s working.
The treatments invove the officers sitting in a sauna for hours at a time. They exercise and eat a diet high in anti-oxidants and other nutrients that boost the excretory system. Officers claim they can smell the chemicals leaving their body. The officers are being recommended that they continue with the diet and visit a sauna a few times a week but warned that the detox should not substitute conventional medical treatment.
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