Phil Wilson: Hi Dr. Bill can you introduce yourself?
We're gonna be talking about the Relax Sauna and your experience with it.

Dr. Akpinar: Hi Phil it's great being with you today, and it's an honor for me to share some of my wisdom. I have training in dentistry, medicine, anesthesiology, acupuncture, and other various areas related to integrative healing. I have been involved with the Relax Sauna for over a decade. I want you to know, and I want everybody out there to know, that I highly recommend this and I have benefited tremendously, as have my patients and family.

Phil Wilson: Now you wrote a book called No Sweat, Know Sweat.

Dr. Akpinar: Yes.

Phil Wilson: What inspired you to write the book?

Dr. Akpinar: No Sweat, Know Sweat is regarded as the definitive guide to hyperthermia and detoxification therapy. What inspired me to write this book is that I would feel very good after uh, sweating. Any activity that involved sweating increased the body temperature. Certain type of activities and of course sitting in a sauna. I did a lot of research on the subject and I found a wealth of scientific information that supported the fact that sweating or creating the creation of fever is a very beneficial health practice that's been used throughout the centuries and you can find this in virtually every culture, from the Russians to the Scandinavians to the Ottoman Empire to the Aborigines to basically any part of the world that values health and and detoxification protocols.

Phil Wilson: You talk about far infrared saunas in your book...

Dr. Akpinar: Yes.

Phil Wilson: ...and then, go ahead.

Dr. Akpinar: Yes, far infrared sauna is a very unique a very effective means of achieving a detox and using a method of heat generation without having to sit in a sauna for hours... and the penetration, the degree of penetration of course is very high, an inch and a half to two inches.

Phil Wilson: I think when you wrote the book you were recommending one of the wooden saunas that you knew about, and since then I think someone introduced you to the Relax Sauna...

Dr. Akpinar: Yes.

Phil Wilson: and What was your experience of using the Relax Sauna compared to the other saunas you had been promoting?

Dr. Akpinar: Well any method of creating sweat and detoxification is great you know. I recommend this whether it's hot yoga, steam, infrared, but after using the Relax Sauna I realized that I was able to achieve a sweat much more rapidly... that it utilised an incredible technology that I hadn't found in any other sauna. I think all saunas are great, but my personal preference, at this point especially, when I travel, when I go somewhere is to take the Relax Sauna... oh and it's portable, takes up very little space and it's highly effective.

Phil Wilson: What do you know about the technology of the Relax Sauna.

Dr. Akpinar: Well the technology utilizes nano technology and this is a very unique feature of the Relax Sauna this involves atomic, molecular, submolecular, technology that greatly increases the surface area (of the heating element) and makes the heating element very effective and I have not been able to find this technology in any other sauna.

Phil Wilson: Now you've had really good success with your patients can you elaborate on... somebody, I know I was at your office today and many of your patients raved about what the Relax Sauna did for them.

Dr. Akpinar: Yes. Um, this particular sauna is used by so many of my patients. You know at first sometimes we tell them to purchase the sauna and to check it out and people can't make the link between disease mitigation, eradication when used with other protocols, and the use of a sauna in our society... we still haven't evolved to that point where people can actually associate fever creation with health and wellness. But when I tell people who are suffering from different disorders some very health threatening, life-threatening... when I tell them to you know utilize the sauna, purchase a sauna. At first they can't really make the connection. After educating them and inspiring them to read my book and giving them background information, many of them purchased it, and they're very happy with it.

It really is an effective means of improving cardiovascular function, immune system function, helping bring cancer and other life-threatening diseases under control, infections... It's an anti-aging protocol. It'll help get rid of heavy metals and other substances, chemical substances, in the body. In effect it is one of the oldest forms of medicine in the world.

Phil Wilson: and hanging out with a number of your patients today at your office I would say it's an understatement that they like the sauna. They seem to love it... as if they're talking about a loved one.

Dr. Akpinar: Oh yeah, they did, they're attached to it once they start, they use it continually and I think one of the reasons is um I teach Qi Gong (Chi Gong).

Phil Wilson: Yes.

Dr. Akpinar: and I've written the very nice very informative and easy-to-read book called Shaolin Yoga Qi Gong. This is a style that I have used, and helped create, and I teach this to many of my patients as well, because that is kind of... like I call Qi Gong and yoga 'stirring the pot'. You know you have like something cooking in a pot. Its congealed. If it's around the corners. That area is gonna be... it's like the Chi in the body. It's gonna stagnate. But when you create heat, internal heat, you're doing Qi Gong, you're doing heat. You are actually moving the life force, and energy, and one of the most interesting qualities about this sauna... and I call this - 'Qi Gong Sauna' and I spoke to dr. Chang and dr. George Hong, the originators, and I've given a lot of technical support, and a lot of input into the development and the improvement of this sauna.

One of the features is that this sauna resonates in the frequency of a Qi Gong master's vibrational frequency. Thats somewhere between 8, 12, 13, 14 Hertz and that's a very beneficial resonance. It's actually the Alpha rhythm, which coincides with, and is in synchrony with the human body.

Phil Wilson: Now in Taiwan they say that the Relax Sauna is like being in the presence of a Qi Gong master.

Dr. Akpinar: It is. Because I use Qi Gong for healing, and a person who's well-versed in Qi Gong can emit the Chi from the palms of the hands is well utilized the chief of healing. There's many different types of Qi Gong. But when I practice Qi Gong, and when I sit in the sauna they're remarkable similarities in the feeling that I get.

Phil Wilson: and how would you compare the difference of the Qi Gong energy and the Relax Sauna compared to other saunas that you experienced.

Dr. Akpinar: Well it's very unique because of the frequency. and Because of like these two points really make this sauna, set this apart. I love all saunas. I think any heat production, any detoxification protocol is better than none. I always tell this to people whatever you do just sweat. But this sauna is unique in that it, you know, we have the Qi Gong frequencies. We have the nanotechnology. It's really a unique feeling when you come out of this sauna. Within a few minutes the endorphins the Dymorphans the (indecipherable) they're flowing. The circulation has been improved, the cardiac output is definitely improved, and you know, the interface between the brain and the vascular the vasculature the what we called choroid plexus comes alive... and a lot more oxygenated blood goes to this area of the brain helping produce a greater degree, and a more quality (improved) degree of cerebrospinal fluid, which we know has a lot of neural chemicals and neurotransmitters which help maintain and improve immune system function.

Phil Wilson: Now most other saunas have emitters all over... all over the wooden sauna, all over the tent, and the Relax Sauna tent is a mirror, so there's no EMF anywhere where your vital organs are, but a lot of people are saying that EMF is quote dangerous. You know even though, you know appliances and massage tools and toasters have you know, more EMF than the Relax Sauna. In your car is about half the the EMF... have you, have any of your patients who may be sensitive to EMF complained? Or have your, I mean... elaborate on your experience of the so-called EMF that the little bit that comes out of the Relax Sauna radiators by your feet.

Dr. Akpinar: Yeah, this is, this seems to be like the new duck-and-cover fear that was generated back in the 50s. Actually that was a lot more real than EMFs. The sad reality is we are surrounded by tons of EMFs. We're sitting here, cellphones coming off of towers... We don't realize sitting in a car, working any kind of electronic instrument.

I have never had reason to be concerned about any EMF coming from the Relax Sauna. After doing my research, I'm convinced that EMFs are here to stay. In this highly technologically developed, so to speak, Society of ours they're flying all over the place and you know it's just gonna be. It is a way of life, and there is really no compelling reason to single this out and create this massive anxiety and fear that's being created about EMFs because all electronic devices emit EMF. You need very sophisticated instruments to really split the hairs and read out... I mean instruments that are hundreds of thousands of dollars. Not these handheld little joke instruments that people use... make oh Ah-ha this is no good because it emits EMF. That's unfortunately, it's one of the fallacies and it's one of the neuroses.

Phil Wilson: Yeah, Now what are some of the experiences that some of your patients have had with the Relax Sauna? If you can relate one or two of them.

Dr. Akpinar: Oh of course ultimately lowering in blood sugar.

Phil Wilson: Yeah.

Dr. Akpinar: Decrease in obesity, which in itself is an epidemic. Better sleep. Because inflammation is reduced in the body and that is a big, huge cause of worry because obesity, inflammation, sleep apnea go hand in hand. When you bring that inflammation where you're getting rid of toxic load in the body, sleep improves. When sleep apnea takes place, obstructive or other forms, lifespan gets cut radically I mean it'll take from, statistically, 14.6 years off a lifespan where as diabetes takes somewhere around five six. Smoking seven to eight. So the quality, the quantity... the restorative nature of sleep is very important. We see weight loss of course, 400 to 600 calories burned in a single clip. We see a diminution of the viral load bacteria fungi, a lot of different microorganisms. We see a lot of elimination of heavy metals and toxins. We have a lot of 911...

Phillip Wilson: You've documented a lot of this?

Dr. Akpinar: Yes. We have 911 responders... these first responders right, heros who were in 911. The ones who have survived and are thriving are the ones who utilized detox measures including sauna therapy. So in a cardiovascular level you have improvement, diabetes you have a decrease, blood pressure you have decrease, better sleep, sound immune system, Nitric oxide levels will go up. So the whole spectre, the whole neuroses and a threat of this edie phenomenon which is pretty mean...

Phillip Wilson: Yes.

Dr. Akpinar: ...is being brought under control because you know, like all vasculature, the vasculature of the region is enhanced. So it really has a profound effect on nitric oxide production and release sold it I mean we could count these that there the benefits are voluminous but generally speaking, use of sweat therapy in sauna therapy, will improve your health and it's believed it'll extend your life.

Phil Wilson: Now you are a Qi Gong master. You are an oriental medical doctor. You are an acupuncturist. You are a medical doctor and you're a holistic dentist. and You're Surgeon General for the state of Hawaii.

Dr. Akpinar: For the Nation of Hawaii, yes. The real state, which is the nation. Hawaiian people are the real Hawaiians, so no one's like the Native Americans and I worked with a lot of Native American people's a lot of indigenous peoples all over the world I've worked with the aborigine people in the Amazon, Native American nations and my goal is to put these protocols into all of these different groups arm through my affiliation with Nobel as the health and wellness director of the World Peace One organization, which is Nobels organization, and also through the United Nations which is working very hard to help bring the things of living higher in many different parts of the world.

Phil Wilson: You also have created a university?

Dr. Akpinar: Yes.

Phil Wilson: ...and Can you talk about this University you created?

Dr. Akpinar: Yes. I've been vice president, medical director of the University of Natural Medicine. I've also created the first spiritually based Naturopathic University known as the University of Health and Spiritual Sciences. It's the old paradigm turned new. Essentially, you know, one cannot dissociate spirituality from healing. In our teachings, in our courses, we integrate the spiritual component into the healing model, into the healing equation.

Phillip Wilson: So uh, calling the Relax Sauna the Qi Gong sauna is an example of this. Where the spiritual energy from the Relax Sauna resonates and calms, it's a parasympathetic movement... what else can you say that the Relax Sayba energy does.

Dr. Akpinar: It's a very fair approximation, it's a very fair representation of the word Qi Gong sauna. Because this, to my knowledge, is the only Qi Gong frequency based sauna and I know this for a fact because I am a consultant. I'm one of the scientific consultants to the company. I'm really in close touch with developmental components of the sauna.

Phil Wilson: Well I appreciate all the comments you've made about the Relax Sauna and they can find out more about the Relax Sauna at RelaxSaunas, with an 's', dot com. and Dr. Akpinar they can find out more about you where...

Dr. Akpinar: at our offices Center for Healing it's (seven, one, eight) - four, two, eight - two, seven, eight, zero. and I wish everyone health, wellness, prosperity and we hope, and we sincerely pray that they utilize some of the wisdom that we have developed over the years, that we know is effective, and that have helped many people throughout the world.

Phil Wilson: I understand you were voted Best Cancer Doctor in New York in 2007.

Dr. Akpinar: I was honored in the Big Apple Ball yeah by the American Cancer Society, as one of the honoree's man of the year. So I was very honored to be part of that honoring.

Phil Wilson: So you've helped a lot of people in their healing process.

Dr. Akpinar: I hope to help many more.

Phil Wilson:  (laughing) Hey great... Well thanks so much dr. Bill I appreciate your time.

Dr. Akpinar: It's been my pleasure.

Phil Wilson: Okay great.