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Hey guys, hope you’re having a great day today.
Another good question that I got via email is, “Hi Matt, I’ve read almost all of your blogs and comparisons for infrared.
I’m leaning towards the Clearlight 4 person.
However I’ve spoken to many of the usual vendors and none of them tell me the same information.
I’m getting disenchanted and disgusted.”
I feel for you, I really do.
That was my experience as a customer before I got into reviewing the Saunas and that’s one of the things that made me start reviewing them.
I’m like, “Man, I’m a fairly tech savvy person.
If I’m having this much trouble trying to figure this out for myself, I can only imagine like what my parents or my grandparents or somebody else would go through.”
It was just totally ridiculous.
And so when I started sharing some of the reviews or my experiences with the different companies or the brands or the things that I would buy from Costco and Amazon on the blog or on YouTube, I would get emails all the time, “Please share more of this.
Please share more of this.
I bought this and had this exact same experience.”
So in the beginning it was a lot of other people that were driving the continued reviews and things like that.
But this is a really good question.
I really want to share this.
“Today I spoke to a vendor in Southern California who carries both traditional saunas and infrared.
And he tells me that he is retrofitting many of the infrared saunas with traditional sauna equipment after two to three years because the homeowner’s bodies are building up resistance to the infrared and not feeling the same benefits of the far infrared.
The vendor says that traditional saunas have far infrared waves just like the far infrared saunas.
What say you?
Thanks.”
So this is a really interesting question.
And I would say right off the bat, this is the first time that I would say, “I don’t know.”
Never in my life have I heard of anyone claiming that people’s bodies build up resistance to infrared heat after two to three years.
If that is the case, I’m the prime candidate for it because I’m in saunas all the time.
I test them.
I use, you know, from somebody who’s exposed to them all the time.
I don’t think, you know, I think the first time that I used a sauna was in 2017.
It was well before the holidays.
So I want to say, and I’m guessing here, I’d have to like go back to my bank statements and see when the first time was that I paid to use a Sunlight and Impulse at a float tank place here in Orlando, Florida.
But I’m pretty sure it was around August of 2017.
It may have been July because my last mercury filling came out on May 2nd.
And then I was seeing the functional medicine doctor by June 2nd.
And then we did the blood work and another 30 days went around for the retest.
And then that’s when she said, “You need to be in saunas right away.”
Pretty sure within a week or two, I went out and started paying for sauna sessions like in blocks of 10 from one of those places.
But so between then and what is today’s date?
Today is March 8th, 2019.
I have not experienced any like sensation of my body building a resistance to infrared.
That seems very funny to me.
The first thought that pops into my mind is I wonder if the guy is just saying that kind of stuff to sway people one way or another.
But who knows?
I really genuinely don’t know.
I’ve never heard of that before.
Haven’t experienced it myself.
That’s pretty much all I have to say about it.
That’s a really interesting question and I thought it would be cool to share.
Maybe some of you guys can comment in the comments down below if you or anyone you know has ever built up resistance to far infrared heat, which now that I think about it, it’s a pretty weird thing to say.
That’s like saying that you’ve… because infrared is also present in sunlight of all types.
And so that’s like saying you’ve built up a resistance to the sun and it no longer works, which would be pretty comical.
But anyway, we’ll just leave that where it lies and I’d be curious to see if anybody has any comments out there.
There’s people that are far smarter than I when it comes to different types of light therapy and I’d be curious to hear your thoughts in the comments down below.
Let me know what you think.
Second part of that is I will tell you that what do I think about a traditional hot rock sauna or a traditional dry sauna that you typically add steam to or something like that.
Obviously we or I should… it’s not just me, but I live in Florida and most people in the South already have issues with different types of mold and mildew and things like that.
And so for a lot of people, you can’t really put a traditional sauna and just stick it in your bedroom somewhere without putting in a ventilation system or at least an exhaust fan or something like that.
If you’re going to be bringing in a steam sauna or a hot rock sauna or any of the dry saunas that have a potential misting situation going on and you stick that in a highly confined or controlled environment with no extra ventilation, you are bringing in excess moisture into an environment that is not really capable of dealing with it.
And so here in Florida, usually people would do an outdoor steam sauna or they would put it in the bathroom.
They would do a built-in where it’s also in contact with the exhaust fan for the steam shower.
I mean that’s why showers have exhaust fans or bathrooms have exhaust fans.
It’s the same situation.
And so for that reason alone, I mean I personally don’t have a traditional sauna or a steam sauna because of that.
I’m not in a situation where I could go modifying things and put in a ventilation system just to accommodate a sauna.
There’s no space for that in my bathroom.
It’s already built out, all that kind of thing.
So I generally tend to recommend and go with what I use myself and what generally works well for most people.
And so for most people, unless you’re doing a bathroom renovation or you have like an outdoor covered lanai, or I guess you could get a barrel sauna.
If you really want a steam sauna, a backyard barrel sauna would be pretty cool.
I saw a couple of them where I thought about buying one of these for Maine actually because one whole side of the barrel is like a dome glass.
So when you’re in it, if you put it like in the woods, you’d have a nature scene which would be super cool.
I mean obviously here in the heart of Orlando in central Florida, that’s not going to work in an urban environment.
All we’re going to see is people walking by.
There’s not going to be wildlife or anything.
So I don’t know how to answer your question overall as traditional.
The title was traditional versus infrared.
In my opinion, infrared is a little bit more flexible for most people in an urban environment.
If you happen to have more control over your situation or you’re doing build out or you can accommodate stuff like that.
I don’t know what I would say to…
I guess I don’t have anything else to say about the body building up resistance.
That is a concept that I’ve never heard of before, but I would like to know if anybody has any comments on it.
If it is an issue, obviously I’m going to be the first one to know about it.
Because I’ve been doing the sauna stuff now for almost a little over a year and a half I would say.
Let’s see, March to…
Yeah, about a year and a half.
So if what you’re saying is accurate, within another 6 to 15 months or so, I should be resistant to infrared.
So if that happens, I’ll be sure to let you guys know.
I’m sure you’ll hear about it because obviously I’ll be freaking out because all my saunas won’t work anymore.
I really don’t expect that to happen.
That seems a little bit crazy to me.
But hey, you know what?
I’m pretty open-minded these days.
Maybe there’s some merit to it.
That’s it for today’s question.
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I’ve got to figure out how to turn the camera off now because I dropped the remote.
Aha!