Is chromotherapy worth it to upgrade in your infrared sauna?
Video Transcript (AI Generated)
All right, there were a couple of questions in last night’s sauna session that I didn’t get to.
Just can’t stay in anymore, I was getting overheated.
One of them was on chromotherapy.
Wanted to take a minute and talk to you guys about chromotherapy.
Now I don’t publish a lot of content about chromotherapy in saunas.
Let me pull up the original questions so that I can preface this the right way.
I get a lot of questions about chromotherapy.
Actually, I don’t even need to read it to you.
Most of the questions that I get about chromotherapy are people that are shopping for saunas and they call around to sauna companies and they come into contact with a sauna salesperson or a manufacturer or whatever, and they sell them on the idea of some type of chromotherapy and all the benefits to it and all that kind of stuff.
And then generally they come to me and say, “Hey Matt, do you think this is valid?
“Is it worth upgrading to such and such chromotherapy?”
Blah, blah, blah.
There’s a couple of things going on here.
Number one, as a general rule, the chromotherapy lights that you find in an infrared sauna or any sauna are generally just low-powered LED colored lights.
The reason that I’m explaining it that way is because I do not want you to think that you’re going to get photobiomodulation or near-infrared therapy or any type of red light therapy from a photobiomodulation unit, a standard unit.
Usually PBMT lights or red light therapy devices are thousands of dollars.
And the small little LED lights that are pretty colored, that come with a little remote that you click on in the sauna, are not gonna have nearly the output of something like that.
So first of all, I don’t want you to buy into some kind of upgrade that is being falsely marketed or the benefits of such a thing are being portrayed as something similar to say like a Juve lamp or anything like that.
It’s very different.
And so I usually don’t put together material or content on chromotherapy stuff because I like to tread lightly here and here’s why.
Some people, I’ve talked to a lot of people that absolutely love their chromotherapy lights in their sauna.
And it’s because they can use a little remote control like this and they can set it to blue or purple or red or green or yellow or whatever color their heart desires.
And it creates this ambiance in the sauna.
They can turn off the reading lights if they’re not into that.
And it can really set the tone for whatever type of sauna session you wanna have.
Now, a lot of people, particularly women, claim and report to me that, hey, the blue lights in my sauna make me feel happy and energized and I like to use my sauna in the morning or yada, yada, yada.
Other people say the exact opposite.
I use red lights or green lights or whatever color suits them.
Purple sometimes.
In the evenings, it’s really relaxing.
The light allows my eyes to adjust and get ready for bed.
It makes a huge difference versus just using the sauna with reading lamps or with the full bright cabin lights, the natural light color.
And so, I don’t want to take away from anyone’s benefits like that.
So I’m just not one of those people.
I can use a sauna with chromotherapy lights or just regular lights.
It doesn’t make a difference to me in my session, but I’m just not a person that’s influenced by a color hue of the room.
But I don’t wanna deter people from using them because we have so many reports of people getting great benefits.
Like, people will say things like, it just puts me in such a better mood.
The color really makes me feel like I can stay in the sauna longer.
Or there’s all these different things, whatever it is for those people.
I just don’t like to be a proponent of chromotherapy benefits for, say, like a physical or a medical benefit, per se.
If it makes you feel better and it makes you wanna use your sauna more, hey man, go for it.
Get the chromotherapy lights, use them, love them.
There’s no reason not to.
Most saunas come with them standard.
But for the saunas that don’t, I get a lot of questions and people ask if it’s worth upgrading, if it’s worth buying a different sauna that has those lights in them.
So my general response is no.
It’s not worth an upgrade.
If they’re in there, great, use them.
If you like them, great.
If you’re like me, they’re in there.
I have them in almost every sauna that I have, except for one, and I just don’t use them.
But that’s, you know, I’m a weird cat.
You know what I mean?
But it shouldn’t, you know, the reason that I wanna be so delicate or that I don’t put out content and I’m careful about what I say about this is because if people, if you love that and that matters to you, by all means, go for it.
It’s not an expensive thing.
However, it’s like I said in the very beginning.
It’s not a red light therapy device.
You’re not going to replace getting a Juve lamp or some other type of PBMT device or even putting the incandescent bulbs in there DIY style, like I showed you how to do in another video for 100 bucks.
You’re not gonna get that type of intensity from a standard run-of-the-mill, you know, chromotherapy system or lighting system that comes by default from an infrared sauna company.
It’s very inexpensive for them to put those lights in there.
If you were truly gonna get some type of light therapy with a super high intensity, you know, it would be thousands of dollars extra.
So just be very careful of what type of paradigm you’re buying into when people talk about chromotherapy.
Now there’s other types of light therapy that people commonly get confused with chromotherapy, but that’s specifically what that is.
And so if you like that, or if that really makes things more pleasurable for you, or by all means, if there’s anything about, ’cause you know, it’s like going to, getting a gym membership, right?
Everything starts out great, you do awesome.
Maybe that’s a bad example, ’cause it’s so much easier to use a sauna in your house.
‘Cause all you have to do is walk into the next room, you can shower off, you don’t, you’re in the courtesy of your own home, you don’t have to worry about changing and stuff with other people around or, you know, all this stuff.
That’s probably a bad example, but the point is if there’s little things like that that will make you like the sauna more, use it more, enjoy it more, whatever, go for it.
Just don’t pay like 1500 to $2,000 more for some, you know, chromotherapy lights in the ceiling that are nothing more than, you know, some $3 LED fixtures with a separate power supply and a fancy remote, you know, that has all the colors on it and stuff like that.
So anyway, that are my thoughts on it.
If you have other questions that I didn’t get to in this video, let me know in the comments and I’ll see you in tomorrow’s video.