Originally Posted by Lavio
Is this the same type of radiation that is in tanning beds? I would guess not, since IR heating in that case would turn your soldier brown pretty quickly.
Are there any risks with IR heating? Skin cancer, heat damage to the inner tissues etc?
Lavio
Infrared radiation does not have the same frequency as the ultraviolet radiation used for tanning.
So your soldier will not tan, just warm up.
As to risks:
- no known cancer risk (to me, to be very precise, so do not sue me!)
- generally heat is beneficial to tissue if applied with common sense. Helps expansion and relaxes it in general.
- you can get burned, yes, like you get burned when touching a hot surface. That’s exactly why the common sense factor comes in.
IMPORTANT:
If you plan to have kids in the near future you should protect your testicles from the heat, because sperm produced decay when heat is applied. This by the way is a simple birth control method, if I remember well in some tribes of the American Natives the men used to sit on a hot stone for a while if they did not want to make babies that very night. Here in Switzerland there was for a certain time a “testicles bathing group” which tried to gain evidence about the reliability of that method. And after 4 weeks of daily bathing the balls in 45 degrees Celsius (113Fahrenheit) for 45 minutes. The sperm were counted and they were infertile for 4-6 weeks after that treatment. So heat can make men infertile,
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