Hi Matt, I see on your blog you have titles reserved for Sunlighten Signature reviews and that you are becoming an affiliate. Does this mean that you will be recommending them? This is what I see in your blog and just left wondering about it. I am looking at the Sunlighten Signature 2. I like the technology and the fact they have done some actual studies. What say you?
Lyme with high mercury, lead and arsenic 10 years detoxing and have only cut my mercury by half. Going to try sauna.
Liz
My Sunlighten Infrared Sauna Review & EMF Test Comparison (from an actual user, not a malicious competitor posting false allegations!) Sunlighten Price List Why I’m An Affiliate For Sunlighten And Recommend Their Saunas Sunlighten M Pulse EMF Levels Sunlighten Signature (low emf) Ratings How To Choose Which Sunlighten Model Is Right For You (and which accessories/upgrades you should consider)
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All right, last question of the day.
We have a question from Elizabeth.
It’s on sunlight and saunas.
It says, “Hi Matt.
I see on your blog you have titles reserved for sunlight and signature reviews and that you’re becoming an affiliate.
Does this mean that you’ll be recommending them?
This is what I see in your blog and just left wondering about it.
Looking at the sunlight and signature too, I like the technology and the fact that they’ve done some actual studies.
What say you?
I have Lyme with high mercury, lead and arsenic, 10 years detoxing so far and I’ve only cut out my mercury by half.
Going to try sauna.”
Let me check this page that you linked before I say something out of turn.
My infrared sauna review, oh sunlight and infrared sauna review from an actual user.
Not a malicious competitor posting, false alarm.
Yeah, that sounds like my writing.
I don’t know if you guys know this or not but it’s very common to have some competitor bashing where people will design comments that look like they’re from past customers that had a bad experience in order to try to garner some, sway people their way.
This is an old blog post that it’s my fault that it’s not updated.
What happened is in the middle of 2017, I think May, after I got my mercury amalgam fillings removed, I was in the functional medicine doctor’s office and she was harping on me that I needed to be in a sauna like yesterday.
Fast forward six months, by December I had either bought saunas, I was paying to use saunas somewhere, I can’t remember.
It’s been a long time, year and a half.
My plan was to try to develop some clout or something so I didn’t have to buy all the saunas and I was trying to sweeten the deal for sauna companies and saying, “Hey, if you give me saunas at wholesale or if you’ll let me use a dealer demo unit for a week so that I can test them, I’ll try to promote your company or I’ll try to give you free advertising on the blog.”
I was trying to do anything and everything that I could at the time to selfishly A, help myself first and then B, help other people in the process by sharing the information.
I shared a couple of things on saunas and people were like, “Oh my God, this is so helpful.
Share more if you buy anything or you do anything.”
What I was trying to do, I had a lot of stuff to pay for.
These functional medicine doctor visits were not cheap.
All this stuff was self-pay and I was willing to do anything to help myself and I wanted to make sure that I got a good sauna.
I realized early on that I was going to have to test them for EMS myself so I was investing money in EMF testing equipment, all this stuff.
It wasn’t really a big deal like in the grand scheme of things but at the time, I wasn’t a health blogger and I had no intentions of doing health content.
So to try to figure out a way to allocate funds for that was difficult in the beginning.
Later once I turned the blog into more of a lifestyle blog and I could add the business component, I was able to be able to do some of this stuff and write it off or turn it into business assets or expenditures or things like that.
That’s how I was able to get all the health equipment that I needed without raising my personal salary or doing stuff like that.
It took a little bit of creativity, it took a little bit of hiring people, it took a little bit of consultations with the CPA, went to a tax attorney also for a session.
So I think what happened is in December of 2017, I emailed the top 10 sauna companies in the world and I said, “Hey, I’m going to do this.
I need this stuff for my health.
I’m going to document it.
People like it.
They’re asking for more.
Is there any way that you can either send me a demo unit, send me to one of your dealers in a nearby city, let me test the saunas, let me make videos.
I’ll include all the information for your saunas for free.
I’ll give you free advertising.
I’m just trying to get what I need and make sure that they’re vetted and everything else.
And so I can do these detox protocols at home instead of continuing to pay at a spa and go across town, waste time and money and blah, blah, blah.”
So my intention was to create a placeholder for all these companies, but what happened was the response was extremely poor.
Like two companies responded out of the 10 or three actually.
One of them wasn’t favorable at all out of Canada.
I don’t usually talk about that company because they want nothing to do with me.
Even now, I reached out to them a few months ago and said, “Hey, I have a good track record.
I have a following, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.”
And this is not like I was a nobody to start with.
Before I got into saunas and had the health problems, I already had a million views on YouTube.
It was a small YouTube channel, but it had a substantial amount of views considering where I was at with it.
And so it was definitely a legitimate request, but a lot of the companies did not respond favorably.
Sunlighten did, however, respond favorably.
So what you’re seeing is the leftovers of a placeholder that I had expected to put in there.
Now, here’s where things kind of took a turn.
Sunlighten makes really high quality cabinetry.
The build quality of a Sunlighten cabinet is the best in the business.
The only thing better is like a commercial sauna.
The fit and finish is exceptional.
They usually weigh a lot.
They’re typically expensive.
They’re built really well.
But here’s where we kind of go in separate directions.
There’s nothing against Sunlighten.
They’ve always treated me really well.
In fact, I have a dome sauna that was sent over from Sunlighten months and months ago before I hurt my knee that I still haven’t tested.
They haven’t given me a hard time about it.
They’ve always been really responsive, great company.
Their sales team is a little aggressive for me.
On the customer side, before December of 2017, I looked at buying one of those.
They definitely have an aggressive sales team.
They’re a larger company.
They can hound the shit out of you.
You’ve got to be careful about that.
Any company can do that.
That’s just how they choose to operate.
But the real reason that you don’t see Sunlighten saunas on the certified sauna list is not because I hate them or not because of anything, really.
They just don’t test as well EMF wise as some of the other saunas.
It doesn’t mean that they make bad saunas or that people should get rid of them or any of that crazy stuff like you see in that sauna detox group.
That stuff is ridiculous.
“Oh, sell your Sunlighten sauna and buy a Clearlight.”
Dude, get out of here.
Unless you have children or you’re EHS sensitive or you have some type of chronic illness or something that you’re very sensitive to EMFs or whatever, I don’t think it’s worth selling the sauna to buy something else because it’s a temporary exposure limit.
So it’s not like you’re bathing in it or sleeping in it.
There is some contradictory research that I think is going to come out soon that discusses how EMFs affect the nervous system.
And so if you can stay in a parasympathetic state longer at a lower temperature, you can actually get a more, I don’t want to say complete detox because I think that’s a line of shit.
You can actually get an easier detox.
In the body and the lymphatic system and everything and the circulation is good, but you’re relaxed and your heart rate isn’t up too much and you’re still able to sweat without doing strenuous physical activity.
There is some research that’s kind of on the cusp of coming out that states you may in fact have more toxins in the sweat from a longer, more gentle duration of a sauna session like that.
So if that turns out to be the case and the EMF stuff turns out to impact that at all, that is going to matter.
But really what happened in 2019, we’re fast forwarding a year, two years, a year and a half is that I tightened up the EMF requirements for the blog, cleverleverage.com.
So you can go and see all the certified saunas, or certified saunas, you can go see all my old sauna reviews.
You can see the saunas I bought on Amazon that tested terrible.
Those saunas are on the do not buy list.
You want to stay away from those.
If you have one of those, sell it and get rid of it.
It’s the only time I’ll say that.
I do not agree with the Facebook sauna detox group herd mentality.
It’s sheeple leading people, you know, sheeple.
They have no idea what they’re doing.
They test saunas with tri-field meters and then post the results.
Half the time they’re using an acoustometer, which is an RF meter to measure an infrared sauna which typically has electric and magnetic fields in it.
This has nothing to do with sunlight in saunas.
It’s just across the board.
It doesn’t matter what brand it is.
That is stupid.
And, you know, they say that our members police sauna brands and all this stuff.
But then it’s basically like a cult.
It’s a clear light cult.
And you’ll see me promote certain clear light saunas.
It’s nothing against any sauna brand.
It’s just I don’t believe with a, I don’t agree with a cult mentality.
And it’s like Lowe’s opening up from home, across the street from Home Depot.
If there was only one way to do something, you wouldn’t have stores, you wouldn’t have options.
There’s never any one way to do something.
There’s never any one brand or one solution that’s the only way.
And that’s that cult mentality.
And they’re very, very against sunlight in saunas.
Now you don’t see me running around town saying that sunlight is the greatest thing since sliced bread because the EMF levels are just higher than I’d like to see them.
The build quality is great.
They just don’t pass the EMF test that I came out with in 2019 for certified saunas.com or they’re not on the list of certified saunas.
And as a general rule, the company as a whole, they’re just not focused on mitigating electric fields or having low body voltage or reducing RF radiation from smartphone controllers or things like that.
It doesn’t mean that they’re a bad sauna or that some people out there shouldn’t buy them.
It’s just that’s not in alignment with what we’re going for as a group here or what certified saunas is about.
Certified saunas is about certifying the saunas and getting rid of all this stupid bullshit with the EMF testing reports.
And Sunlighten is not the biggest proponent of this, by the way.
There’s other companies that are way worse and are the biggest components of, “Oh, third party EMF reports and blah, blah, blah.
Let’s take the heaters out of the sauna and send them to a lab and not test the sauna in its native environment.
And then we’re going to give that to our marketing team and tell you how low the EMF levels are.”
It’s just ridiculous.
It’s like pulling the wool over somebody’s eyes.
And people don’t understand that EMF is a plural term.
EMF stands for electro.
That part is electric.
Well, I ruined this one, didn’t I?
Don’t you hate it when the memory card is full when you’re in the middle of saying something?
Don’t remember what I was saying.
Had to switch that out on the camera there.
Sorry, Elizabeth.
If you’re going to buy a Sunlighten sauna, my official stance on it is I would get a signature instead of the impulse.
The magnetic fields are a little too high and an impulse for my liking.
Signature is a little bit better.
However, I think Sunlighten is updating saunas in 2019, but as a company as a whole or their company culture, I don’t think that they’re focused on mitigating electric fields.
So you might find low magnetic fields in a Sunlighten signature, but I would ask them what the electric fields are and try to get an idea of the body voltage.
And if it’s low, I think you’d be fine.
I’m not selling people not to buy a Sunlighten sauna.
It’s just that’s not really in alignment with the certified sauna stuff.
We’re looking for the ultra low, like the lowest foreign-friend saunas that you can find on the planet.
It’s just not in alignment with that.
It doesn’t mean it’s a bad sauna.
It doesn’t mean it’s not a good sauna for you.
It all depends on what you’re looking for.
And yeah, if you have any other questions, let me know.
There are, I don’t think you said anything about pricing.
There’s some good, there’s some good deals on the certified sauna list too.
I think the pricing you’ll find competitive.
Anyway, hope that helps.
If you have other questions, let me know.