I Tested 5 Saunas for EMF… Are the Claims Real?

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I tested five different saunas for EMF — and yes, I even used that cheap little meter a lot of you are using. And let me tell you, it gets confusing fast. Some saunas matched what was advertised. Some didn’t. And some were straight-up weird.

We ran this test using both budget and professional meters, checking popular sauna brands that claim to be “low EMF.” I’ve tested over 40 sauna models over the years, and the results today show why you can’t always trust the marketing. Watch to the end to see which brands held up — and which ones didn’t.

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In today’s video, we test 5 saunas for EMF randomly. Hi, I’m Matt. If you’ve seen the 700 videos on the YouTube channel, you know this is not the first time we’ve EMF tested something. However, there is one thing different today.

I went out and ordered the cheap little EMF meter that you guys are using, did some preliminary results. The reason I have it on the board is because I don’t trust it. We get really weird readings with it sometimes. You can see in all the EMF testing videos over the last 6 years, we’ve done this several times.

And in I think over 42 sauna brands that we’ve been in, we’ve found some interesting results. But today, we’re just going to give you a quick run-through, test 5 saunas real quick so you can see the results. So, this is a Heavenly Heat Eco. It’s their smallest sauna.

Sometimes in really small saunas, because you’re close proximity, you can have a little bit higher EMF levels. But these guys pride themselves on craftsmanship. I actually haven’t checked this sauna since we received it. I don’t remember what the actual values are.

But let’s go in with the meters and see what happens. So, we’ll go right at the backrest. Can you see that, Aaron? Yes.

Okay. So, it’s difficult here to spot check certain areas because we’re using the board. But instead of using a grounding cable, the reason that we use the board is to also eliminate human interference, which can kind of collect electric fields and then discharge once you’re close to the source of an emission.

I’m sure there are certain spots of the heaters that can spike in certain areas, but I haven’t seen your cheap little EMF meter go off at all, which is a little alarming. I don’t know if this really works or what. All right. So, we got a value that’s not zero out of it.

Cool. That’s normal.

Usually control panels and stuff can only be shielded to be within a couple of inches but in the seated body position I don’t get any you know emissions in here. Just wanted to make sure your cheap little meter is working and now we’ll move on to the next sauna and see if we get anything.

Super clean just as advertised which I always love and let’s go to the next one. Next up is a Health Mate. This is a two-person Health Mate brand new model. I haven’t used this one too much but we do have it here.

One of the things that stopped this sauna from making the certified sauna list last year was some of these levels but if we come in here and look I mean we’ll see some decent levels. Not terrible, not something that I wouldn’t use but not necessarily the same advertised.

It’s not too too bad though. What’s your overall reading that you’re getting? I can’t tell because you have to do spot checks so you have to take one of these off and then go to a specific place. I don’t trust this meter at all because I don’t think that zero milligauss is accurate so it seems to me that there’s a delay.

It’s showing zero milligauss even when we get close which is obviously not replicatable on a professional meter which would be like one of these. This is a triple axis gauss meter so it is compounding XYZ which reveals a lower level which is cause for concern right but I think it’s just because this is a $30 meter and it doesn’t necessarily calculate in the same fashion.

It does match a tri-field so that’s kind of interesting. The other thing that matters is where the sensor is on the meter itself right so like the cornet meter the sensor is in a different spot on this meter than it is on this so when you stick it up next to a source right like your measurement is actually a different distance from it.

So we’re basically just using the board to take averages and show you you know in seated body position

you really don’t need to jam meters up into something. We’re just doing it to make sure that they’re, to make sure that this one is working, because I just don’t trust it. But it is a good indicator. Is it red or is it blue?

Is there something present or is there not? So this is a Health Mate. Average readings are 100, 200. It looks like milligauss wise.

I don’t know. I think it’s like four, five, something like that. And now we’ll move on to another one. Now we’re moving on to Clearlight Sanctuary.

Let’s check it out. So Clearlight Sanctuary. Relatively low, two milligauss, 15 volts a meter. Get a little more milligauss, one and a half.

Looking pretty solid. I mean, you could jam it in there and get something if you wanted to, but really seated body position, pretty good. Uh-oh. You guys with this meter, man, I don’t know what the deal is.

It just shuts off randomly in the middle of doing stuff. Oh, we have some missions there, sir. Boobity, boobity, boo. I’ve been telling you guys, a lot of people say, well, Matt, why do you say different things about the Premiere than the Sanctuary?

If you can’t see what’s happening, I don’t know what to tell you. But no, really, if you come in closer. The emissions on a Sanctuary are not the same as a Premiere, but if you come out to the knee or to the seated body position, you’ll end up being in the blue zone.

In the seated body position, though, we’re in really good shape. Overall levels in here, I mean, you can kind of see there are milligauss and volts per meter in the seated body position is really good. You just get some emissions from the full spectrum heaters in the front, but the other heaters are shielded correctly.

Now we have RadianHealth E2.5, one of my favorite saunas, both because it’s spacious and because I do a lot of testing in here. It affords me the ability to test out supplemental heaters. We’ve been ordering, you know, all kinds of.

stuff. We do the courses teach you how to mount heat lamps, not in this sauna specifically, we just use this one because it’s big enough to get all the stuff to the side, have room for a camera, and then I still fit. So in this sauna, let’s make sure it’s turned on.

This sauna is actually pretty difficult to get certain readings out of because it’s always tested really low. But let’s take a look and see how we’re looking. It’s hard to tell with this sauna if it’s even on or not a lot of the time. You have to basically take the meters off of the board and find the areas where the connector connects to the back of the wall and then you can generate a spike.

Otherwise, it just seems like the sauna is borderline unplugged from the wall. But that’s why we’ve always loved these because you can buy them and you really don’t have to worry about too much of this. Same thing for the electric. It’s probably the lowest in the industry.

It’s difficult, like really, really, really, really difficult to find the hot spots. But when you do, there will be one in here. There’s always a spot where there’s a connector or temperature sensor on the back of the heater. If I can find it, which you usually know where they are by heart, but today it is escaping me.

I don’t even know how to tell you what the average is in this thing. You’ll find some spots, like I said, where you can generate a spike. But generally, I don’t want to use the word zero, or I hate the terminology near zero EMF, because if it plugs into a wall, it’s going to have some level EMF.

But if there’s any sauna out there that’s very difficult to generate any meaningful averages, it would be this one. It’s almost nothing. There’s certain spots that you can find something but overall where you sit in this thing is no different than whether it’s unplugged from the wall, which is what we like to see because we can buy one and not have to worry about

like this it’s just peace of mind all right i have your microphone now i wonder if oh it’ll interfere with it you might want to be careful of that pal see how the camera guy tries to sabotage the videos and you guys defend him in the comments how dare you did you see that from the other day they said aaron don’t worry about your hair don’t listen to matt he’s just badgering you he’s badgering the witness for no reason don’t pay any attention to him i don’t remember what the averages are okay you’re going to beep at me all of a sudden great and then it doesn’t beep very unreliable this meter i don’t know what the deal is but you guys can look let’s see what happens on electric yeah okay so just like before let’s go that’s not terrible though i mean it’s just under 200 volts per meter 1.6 milligauss triple axis has it at almost two milligauss and this is pretty good i don’t think it’s terrible it could be worse three and a half at the backrest this meter that you guys are using is crazy to me i don’t know what it does or who makes it but it seems a little bit unreliable a little bit well i mean i can’t get it to go blue in here no matter what we do so even if i come like usually oh there you go usually if you come to the middle of the seated body position you can get all the meters to go blue right but i mean your shoulder is going to be over here i don’t know same deal not terrible though overall for this one a little lower when using the board but we’re also not getting the corners but it’s still

I don’t know 200 plus volts per meter maybe average three milligauss four milligauss in some areas i’m not spot checking it either we’re not really like finding the the areas from the other review but i mean it’s nothing like the ones from five years ago so i have to give them credit on that as we were filming this video we realized that we were mixing price categories and it’s unreasonable to think that a thousand dollar or two thousand dollar portable sauna is going to test the same as a six thousand dollar wooden sauna with emf shielding so we’re gonna do a part two i think you guys will love it it’ll serve you better we’re gonna test a two thousand dollar costco sauna maybe a life pro we’ll throw in a two thousand dollar or under dome some portable saunas the diy and you’ll have everything you need in two videos to get a really good idea of how products on the market test out