Tired of home sauna reviews that leave you wondering if you’re just buying in to high pressure sales tactics? Watch Matt go off at the cuff on some of the most common frustrations of buying an infrared sauna. Scammers won’t like this video….
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Are you sick and tired of every sauna company telling you that their sauna is the best or that this brand, you know, a sauna salesperson is going to say this is the only brand that could ever do you any good.
You have to spend, you know, $6,500 to get a home sauna that’s, you know, really going to allow you to detox heavy metals and all this stuff.
Or are you tired of infrared sauna company propaganda that says you’ve got to have full spectrum heaters in order to get a complete detox?
Or what about these other people that are in the other camp where they’re like, you know, they go to these heli conferences and they see these near infrared lamp bulb saunas and it’s like, oh no, you’ve got to have near infrared.
It penetrates deeper.
It’s going to reach all the way to the bone and detox this and detox that and blah, blah, blah.
So you’ve got all these people in all these camps and they’re all coming at you with all this information.
It’s just like completely crazy.
And then there’s the EMF stuff.
You know, there’s so much misinformation about the EMF stuff.
It’ll make your head spin.
When I was going through this and I had brain fog and anxiety and I was having just battling chronic fatigue, I’d wake up in the morning at seven by nine 30, 10 o’clock.
I could barely get off the couch.
I’d feel like I’d have to take a nap.
I was just struggling to make it through the day.
At the end of the day, the last thing that I wanted to do was talk to these fools and, you know, listen to them just go on it.
And that’s the other thing.
They just go on and on and on and on about, you know, the technological blah, blah, blah and the benefits of this and oh, you’ve got to have this.
And then they scare the shit out of you.
You know, oh, you can’t buy that because it’s super high EMF.
And it’s like once you realize that the majority of these people doing the selling don’t really test the saunas or even use them in their own house, you kind of, you sort of realize the smoke and mirrors that’s going on in the industry.
It’s very unfortunate because what happens is people like myself or maybe even you are suffering from health troubles and it’s really wrecking your life, right?
Or I’ll just speak for personal experience.
It was wrecking my life.
So the last thing I wanted to do at the end of the day was talk to these idiots and listen to them go on and on and harp about this and harp about that.
And at the end of the day, all they cared was, you know, give me your Visa or Mastercard, you know, $5,700 for a one-person sauna or something ridiculous like that.
Or, you know, I’d go on Amazon and see all these five-star reviews for a $1,000 sauna and everyone thinks that it’s great.
And that has a double-edged sword too.
You know, I bought a couple of those and they turned out to be garbage.
Some of them have formaldehyde and all kinds of adhesives in them.
Some of them are just built so poorly you could just put your fist right through the side of the wall.
Stuff like that’s not going to last.
So instead of, you know, people don’t realize that instead of spending $1,000 now, you should spend $2,000 now.
So the damn thing actually lasts five or 10 years or 15 years, however long you want to keep it basically versus something that’s going to break if you lean on it the wrong way.
And so it’s just, you know, infrared sauna reviews are so cumbersome.
And if you’re not familiar with the industry or you don’t have access to somebody that’s truly buying or testing the saunas like I have and that’s willing to tell you what not to buy, like most of the sauna companies will just badmouth or bash, you know, all their competitors and say, “Oh no, you know, that company could never be any good.”
You know, the biggest war in the industry is the clear light, sunlight war, right?
Let’s just put it out there.
You know, these guys just go head to head.
Some of them bash each other so hard that you wonder how they can even stay in business talking like that.
It’s just absolutely ridiculous.
But to think that any sauna, you know, isn’t going to provide any benefit is just crazy.
So instead of like trying to take each other’s head off, let’s just be reasonable about it and assess the construction of the sauna, what are the EMF levels, how effective is it, how long does it take to heat up because that’s a big one.
You know, the performance, a lot of the reviews on Amazon and Costco and things like that, these are homeowners who have bought a home sauna and they’ve used one sauna their whole life.
Maybe a steam sauna at the gym but never anything else.
So basically, if they buy something that’s a thousand bucks, 15, 25, one of the saunas I bought on Amazon, the J&H Lifestyles was $2,500.
When you get that home and you realize that it takes forever and a day to heat up and then you get in and it’s very low power, it takes another hour for you to start sweating and have a decent sweat, if at all, and you don’t realize until after you get this thing all put together in your house and that’s consuming a lot of waste electricity.
So how much are these things going to cost to run?
If you don’t have a good sauna, the number one thing is just the time wasting.
You don’t want to wait an hour to be able to use the thing and then it’d take another hour for you to be able to sweat.
And then the confusion that the marketplace creates, should I get a near-infrared tent sauna?
Well, I really don’t want to crouch down and get inside something that’s uncomfortable and then have to spin around on a stool like a rotisserie so that I can get even coverage on these bulbs.
There’s all these crazy things but if you listen to the latest podcast from whatever naturopath or functional medicine doctor went to a conference or something like that and they come back and they’re sharing all this info with you, it’s like, “Oh, you’ve got to use this tent sauna now because near-infrared blah blah blah.”
Let me break it down for you like this.
The near-infrared wavelength, if you look at it on the spectrum, the portion of the near-infrared wavelength that doesn’t heat anything up.
I’ve got a video that shows me sitting in front of near-infrared lights for like 90 minutes.
You don’t sweat.
It’s the far-infrared and the heat lamps and the other heat that’s generated from the device itself or the bulbs or it depends on which one you’re talking about that is making you sweat or giving you the sauna experience.
So yes, maybe there are other healing benefits.
Maybe there’s mitochondrial benefits, there’s energy benefits, there’s skin healing benefits to near-infrared but it’s really a separate therapy.
It shouldn’t be combined with a sauna.
A lot of this marketing talk and all this crazy stuff being presented at trade shows and health stuff and the natural healthcare practitioners are getting dragged into this because they go to these shows and they’re promoted or funded by sponsors and they teach them all this stuff which is basically, “Hey, it’s like Pfizer.
If they want to get a new drug in the market, you better watch out.”
It’s the same idea.
They get them to buy into the idea and then they come home and that filters down to all of their patients and then it’s in the podcast and then it’s in the interviews and the YouTube videos and then now all of a sudden there’s a new phenomenon that the far-infrared saunas that have been helping people heal for years, like decades, 20 years, are now all of a sudden null and void and near-infrared is the way to go.
But it isn’t until you actually use one of these things that you realize its shortcomings.
It’s not all sunshine and roses with a near-infrared sauna.
You do have to do your due diligence and get a low EMF far-infrared sauna but far-infrared is the real workhorse in any infrared sauna.
Don’t let somebody talk you into buying.
People out there say that you’ve got to have a full spectrum sauna.
You can get a two-person, I don’t know, basic far-infrared sauna that’s going to last forever, that has no frills, no high EMF, it’s got low body voltage, low electric fields, low magnetic fields, and no RF radiation.
This exists out there for less than $4,000 or around that mark.
Maybe there’s tax or some shipping fees if you live in Alaska that are going to be higher.
It all depends on where you are.
I don’t want to sugarcoat it and say that it’s like chump change because it’s not.
But basically it’s a one-time investment.
So if you divide that by five or ten years, we’re talking about a difference of $60 a month.
People spend more on their cell phones than they do on a piece of health equipment that’s going to improve your life.
And so people that are complaining about saunas spending $4,000 instead of $2,500 or whatever, a $1,500 difference is negligible over five or ten years or however long you keep it, 20 years, whatever.
The thing, the crutch, right, is where people get bogged down and it’s like this full spectrum thing.
It’s, you know, oh, you’ve got to have full spectrum heaters or else you’re not going to get all three wavelengths and you’re not going to get a complete detox.
Like I said before, it’s just like the near infrared thing.
The far infrared is doing most of the work.
The far infrared is what’s heating you up, increasing your core temperature, making you sweat, giving you the detox experience or the sauna experience as a whole.
And these people, the companies that are going to war with each other, basically trying to one up competitors, right, these guys don’t care if consumers get caught in the crossfire.
You know what I mean?
They just want to be better than the next guy because they think that’s going to sell more saunas.
When in fact, I know what it’s like to be in your position where you’re searching for a sauna, maybe you’re struggling with health problems, and it’s just so much effort to sift through this mumbo jumbo and you never know who’s taking you for a ride.
You just give up.
You’re like, you know what, I’m not buying anything today.
The people hound the hell out of you.
You’re like, you know what, stop calling.
Whenever I figure out what’s right for me, I’ll let you know.
Don’t worry.
I want this thing, but you guys are too pushy.
You make it sound like the price is never going to be this low.
There’s a sale right now.
I have to buy before the price goes up.
I mean, I’ve heard all of this.
There’s so many things that I could tell you.
Most people would call it a racket.
There’s so many different rackets with the infrared sauna stuff.
It’s ridiculous.
It’s like buying a cheap car for somebody going to college from a used car salesman that just slicked the hair back, doesn’t give a shit about anything, definitely doesn’t care about you, and it’s like, it doesn’t need to be that way.
It should be better so that people don’t waste so much time, and when I say waste so much time is that it took me five months to buy my first sauna.
That’s five months that I could have been detoxing the heavy metals from after my amalgam filling removal.
That could have been doing the niacin detox protocol.
That could have been introducing binders into my life, the intestinal binders to clean up the gut and do sauna stuff combined.
That stuff helped me tremendously.
It makes a huge difference, but it’s that five months that I completely felt like crap and I could barely get off the couch and daily life was a struggle.
I’m never going to get that back, and in hindsight, what gets me fired up so much that I want to do videos like this is if people would just educate in the right way, stop lying to consumers about EMF, stop lying to people and perpetuating this nonsense like there’s some zero EMF sauna out there.
There’s no such thing as a zero EMF sauna.
There’s a near zero or there’s an ultra low EMF like you find on certifiedsaunas.com or the saunas that I review and promote that you find on the list of certified saunas, but anything that plugs into a wall is going to have some small level of EMF.
It’s just the way that it is.
These scare tactics and this false scarcity like, “Oh my God, you got to buy today before the price goes up,” or “You got to buy before the end of the year before the price goes up,” or “Private message me to get a discount.
Our members get the cheapest rates on saunas,” and then you call the company directly and you realize that it’s the exact same price or within $50 of each other.
It’s like, “What’s wrong with this picture?
Who is suffering through this process?”
Because it’s certainly not the sauna salespeople.
It’s certainly not the sauna companies.
It’s you and I in a previous portion of my life when I was going through this.
Now I know all this stuff.
My job is to share it with you, try to make things a little bit easier.
That’s why I came out with certifiedsaunas.com.
Hopefully I’ll have the website done soon, but I do have the list of certified saunas up on my blog, cleverleverage.com.
What I would recommend that you guys do is take a look at, go to cleverleverage.com or just Google search, Matt Justice Infrared Sauna Reviews or Clever Leverage Infrared Sauna Reviews.
What you want to look for is nothing that I’m promoting.
What you want to see is the infrared sauna reviews from the last two years where I bought the sauna from Costco.
I bought the sauna from Amazon.
I bought the $1,000 sauna, the $2,500 sauna.
All across the map I’ve bought the worst sauna that I’ve ever seen.
I want you guys to go watch those videos, go read the blog posts, look at the pictures, look at me assembling those or taking them off the pallet in my garage so that you know what they look like, so that you know what to avoid, so you don’t have to waste the same amount of time and effort and money and get real frustrated and ultimately prolong you improving your health because that is the most unfortunate thing.
Go watch that stuff.
Make yourself aware of the scams.
I mean obviously if you want a shortcut and you just want a sauna today, some people are just tired of the mumbo jumbo and they’re just ready to order something.
They just don’t know who they can trust or they don’t know, you know, people that are talking to them over the phone, they have no idea if that person that’s trying to sell them on something even actually owns the damn thing themselves, right?
You’d be surprised.
Most of the people that talk bad about other sauna brands and try to sway your opinion in one direction, they haven’t been in the, they haven’t personally owned or been in the brand that they’re bad mouthing and to make matters worse, a lot of times they don’t even own the brand new like 2019 model of the company that they work for.
I don’t know about you, but I find that to be incredibly misleading.
Here somebody is guiding me on a $5,000 freaking purchase decision and they don’t even own or they’ve never even been in the competitor product that they’re bashing or that they’re telling me not to buy.
To me that is not qualified advice.
That is horrible advice, right?
This person is not qualified to advise me to swipe that card because that’s a lot of money and they have no idea what they’re talking about.
They’ve been prepped by the sales and marketing team and that’s it.
They’re not able to tell me from real world experience, you know, what is good, what’s bad and the worst part about it.
The thing that I hate most about sauna salespeople is that they don’t ask any questions.
They just talk and talk and talk.
Have you ever been on the phone with somebody that’s talking to you about saunas or trying to sell you a sauna or just even giving you information and you’re on the phone with them for an hour and you get off the phone and you’re really, you know, you’re not that much better off than when you started.
You might be about $5,000 poorer, which is okay if you ended up buying something that’s a good fit for you and the right thing for your situation.
But all these people have the same MO.
They don’t talk about what’s really important.
They don’t ask you what is your criteria for selecting a sauna.
What is most important to you in having a home sauna?
You know, for most of us or for me, I can just tell you what my criteria is.
Number one, I want it to be low EMF.
Not because some high EMF sauna is going to kill you.
Am I a huge proponent of using low EMF gear and stuff like that?
Absolutely.
The number one reason why is that saunas exist in the marketplace, especially infrared saunas that have hardly any EMF.
They’re not just low magnetic fields.
Most sauna companies would want you to believe that the term EMF stands for one thing.
And they show you a picture of a tri-field meter or a gauss meter and it’s got one level on it.
You might as well throw that stuff out the window.
It’s not even valid.
E stands for electro, M stands for magnetic, and F stands for fields.
The first two are separate things.
Electro is electric fields.
M for magnetic is magnetic fields.
That is two separate things.
You measure one with an electric field meter and you’ll get a measurement in volts per meter.
The second is magnetic fields that you measure with a gauss meter and you’ll get a measurement in milligauss.
That’s two measurements.
And I do a third as a backup.
I test body voltage to make sure that there’s no stray electric fields in the sauna that are being unaccounted for.
There’s no sauna company on the planet before 2019 that was advertising anything like that.
Now they’re starting to because I have pushed this stuff so hard, right?
The thing is, I don’t want to be a part of the movement that is using fear mongering to deter you from buying a sauna.
And what I mean by that is, I don’t want you to be afraid of buying a high EMF sauna because it’s going to kill you or do something like that.
It’s absolutely not.
People have, tons of people have used high EMF saunas, myself included.
You think back when I was sitting in the functional medicine doctor’s, I was sitting in the chair across the desk from a functional medicine doctor that was treating me and she said, “Matt, you need to be in a sauna like yesterday.
I don’t care if you can’t afford to buy one, whatever, go to a massage place, find a place to run a session.”
So I found a float tank place in Orlando, Florida.
I got my ass there.
I was using this thing, you know, religiously two times a week, maybe three if I could get there.
But you think that was low EMF?
No, that was a super high EMF sauna.
Did it still help me?
Absolutely.
Do you want to use something like that long-term?
Absolutely not.
The reason that I’m such a huge proponent of low EMF sauna stuff is because for the exact same price that you’re going to spend to buy a high EMF sauna, you can get one that has hardly any EMF in it from a reputable company that actually cares about that stuff.
And so my job with certified saunas was putting together the certified sauna list where I test all these things.
And we’re not just going to show you some fancy report with, you know, where the sauna companies have a third-party guaranteed EMF report.
If you read the fine print on that stuff, they take the heater out of the sauna, they ship it to a lab in another state, and then they test that by itself.
They even have pictures of it hanging from a forklift.
If that’s not deceptive, I don’t know what deceptive is.
You can see in my videos on live video, when I take an EMF meter or a whole bank of EMF meters in a sauna, it’s not just one heater that is contributing to the EMF.
It’s the wiring in the walls.
It’s all the heaters.
It’s everything that your body is subjected to.
When you’re in the sauna, you have to test the sauna in its native working environment.
You can’t take it apart, take a piece out of it.
You can’t send it to a lab.
You know, it’s just, it’s totally misleading.
People have no idea.
And so my whole thing is there are reputable companies out there that I’ve found.
There’s three of them right now on the list of certified saunas, probably more to come by the time you see this video, but three solid choices.
Two of them don’t even cost more than a high EMF sauna by another company that promotes the same exact stuff.
It just turns out that their sauna is not as good or as low EMF or as of the same quality.
Their company culture is just geared towards sales.
They run a call center and all this stuff.
But at the end of the day, there’s a few things that you’ll want to look at.
I’ve got some videos on the Consumer Reports scam.
I’ve got some videos and some blog articles on the Zero EMF scam.
There’s no such thing as zero EMF heaters.
All these companies would love to have you believe that.
All the companies like to complicate the hell out of the EMF stuff.
EMF really stands for two things.
So all the companies that say, “Oh, our sauna’s low EMF.
It’s under two milligauss.”
Okay, that’s great.
What about the electric fields?
Most of the time they’re sky high.
They don’t want you to see that stuff.
If you did, you’d never buy their sauna.
You know, they do things to discredit different types of EMF or say that it doesn’t matter or blah, blah, blah.
But anyway, I’ve got tons of stuff out there, tons of resources that I’ve put together.
There’s some advertisements going around right now that you should be aware of.
To me, they’re scams.
A lot of the advertisements will say things like, “Best infrared sauna as rated by Consumer Reports.”
I’ve got a video that you’ll want to check out or at least read if you’re at work and you can’t listen.
Go to the blog, cleverleverage.com and look at the pictures.
I logged into my Consumer Reports account just live so that people could see it.
Consumer Reports doesn’t ever test saunas.
It’s just not a genre that they do.
I log into my account and I search for saunas and I get zero results.
So I want you guys to know that.
So if you come across these advertisements where people say, “As top rated by Consumer Reports,” you know that it’s all fake.
And in closing, I’ll leave you with one thing.
I don’t want to push you into anything.
I want you to get the right sauna for you.
I know for myself, a criteria that’s really important is build quality, ultra low EMF guaranteed, easy to put together.
That’s a big one.
Some saunas can be really difficult to put together.
I like ones that are simple and quick.
I also like companies that have a no-nonsense sales process that aren’t going to hound the heck out of you if you give them your contact information.
I also like companies that you just call to order and for price.
I don’t want to put my email in.
I don’t want to get an autoresponder email every single day to buy someone’s sauna.
I don’t want to get hounded to death because that’ll just turn me off.
I’m never going to buy from somebody like that.
I just want to call, talk to somebody, leave a message, “Hey, call me tonight.
What’s the cost of your sauna?
What are your options?
What are your deals?”
If you guys do check out the list of certified saunas, there’s a coupon code.
It’s called mattjustice-500.
It’ll save you $500 off any sauna on the certified sauna list.
Sometimes there’s more or less of a sale going on, so the discount could be greater, but you’ll find all that stuff.
What I want to leave you with is just to be very aware of the top 10 lists.
You go on these websites and stuff and you see the top 10 saunas for 2019, or you’ll find some guys’ YouTube videos or some gals’ actually.
There’s females out there that do this.
They’re reviewing certain saunas and stuff like that.
What you really want to be aware of is if you do not see them sitting in the sauna brand that they’re talking about, if you don’t see them have pictures or videos of them unpackaging or assembling or using the sauna that they’re talking about, as a general rule, they don’t have personal experience with it.
They’re really not qualified, in my opinion, to advise you on a $5,000, potentially $5,000 purchase decision, even if it’s a thousand bucks.
If a guy or a gal hasn’t really used what they’re talking about, that’s not really somebody that I would want to listen to.
As a general rule, these top 10 lists, the best saunas of 2018, 2019, 2020, 20-whatever, if you don’t see real live stuff of them actually in it, chances are they’re either sitting at their computer, pulling up the company website and just telling you their opinion about it, but they’ve never actually stepped foot in it, which I think is misleading as hell and incredibly deceptive.
That’s my opinion.
The intention of this video is just to make you aware of this stuff, make you aware of some of the pitfalls that you want to look out for.
Then, obviously, I do questions of the week.
Sometimes I do questions of the day.
Whenever I do my nightly sauna sessions, I try to take a camera in there and the emails from the week, I’ll do questions of the week.
If you guys do have questions, let me know in the comments down below this YouTube video, or you can go on my blog, cleverleverage.com, use the contact form if you want to send me a private message.
Just tell me if you want to be anonymous or something in your question, if you want me to do a video for you.
That said, we’ve got two sauna rooms here.
I’ve got five saunas on site right now.
There’s a couple getting ready to be swapped out, testing new stuff all the time, getting ready to test some PBMT lights like the Juvelight and other competitors to that, some red light therapy devices.
If there is something that you guys would like to see, let me know in the comments, and I’ll see you in tomorrow’s video.
Have a great day guys.
I hope this helps somebody.