Matt Justice Updates: Outdoor Saunas Coming – Costco Sauna – Red Light Therapy PubMed Studies

🚨 Matt Justice Sauna Updates! 🚨

Outdoor saunas, Costco alternatives, red light therapy breakthroughs, PubMed research, and the best sauna under $1,500 on sale this week — it’s all in this video!

Hey everyone, it’s Matt Justice from CertifiedSaunas.com back with some exciting updates you don’t want to miss. In today’s video, I’m walking you through what’s new in the world of infrared saunas and wellness tools I personally use, test, and trust.

🔨 First up — the sauna studio build is officially underway! I take you behind the scenes as we prep the property with a backhoe to pour concrete pads and run 240V electrical — all to support some powerful outdoor infrared sauna setups. If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to build your own outdoor sauna space from scratch, this will give you some real-world insight into the planning and prep work involved.

💡 I also give a quick office tour — yes, it’s still under construction, but I wanted to show you the layout and vision behind my new content creation zone where future sauna reviews, red light demos, and detox walkthroughs will be filmed.

🛑 We also touch on the Costco sauna hype — is it worth it, or are there better alternatives out there? Spoiler alert: I’ll show you a sauna under $1,500 that’s not only on sale this week but also delivers way more value in terms of heat delivery, safety, and longevity.

🔥 Speaking of quality gear — I review the LifePro Infrared Sauna and give you my honest take. Is it worth buying? What are the pros and cons? I break it down in plain English.

💡 Red Light Therapy and PubMed Studies: As always, I’m sharing real science, not just marketing hype. I touch on new red light therapy panels I’ve been testing and highlight clinical research from PubMed that supports its use for things like inflammation, neuropathy recovery, and mitochondrial health. If you’re serious about healing and longevity, this part of the video is for you.

📦 As always, I only recommend products I personally use and trust. If I mention a sauna or red light panel in this video, it’s something I’ve spent time with in the real world — not just unboxed it and read the brochure.

✅ Chapters in This Video

0:00 – Matt Justice Intro

1:20 – Outdoor Sauna Pad and Electrical Prep

4:50 – New Office Tour (Under Construction)

7:15 – Costco Sauna Alternatives Explained

10:30 – Best Sauna Under $1,500 (On Sale This Week)

13:45 – LifePro Sauna Review

15:10 – Red Light Therapy & PubMed Study Highlights

16:00 – Final Thoughts and What’s Coming Next

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Transcript

What’s going on, guys? I wanted to share a couple of updates.

I see Aaron’s using some software to chop my long-form videos into shorter clips. It looks like the tools—or some type of AI—are a bit off. Just wanted to let you know what’s happening and give you some updates while we’re still in the build process.

I’m still filming videos. Let me tilt this down for you—trying to keep it smooth—so I can show you what I’ve been working on. Whoops, wrong way.

This is a vertical red-light-therapy DIY bed. I have a longer video about it. Normally, these beds are horizontal: you lie down, a lid closes—kind of like a tanning bed. Commercial red-light beds cost about $25,000–$35,000. Instead, I took four panels and created a version you can stand in, getting the same results. It’s basically the poor-man’s DIY vertical bed.

While we’re building the studio up here, I’ve been working on a few other things. Let me walk around and show you. We’ve got quite a view coming together—let me see if the camera will focus. You can see the mountains in the background.

What I’ve been doing—you can’t see it from here, but the backhoe is over there—we brought in 21 loads of gravel for the equipment barn that goes in the back. So we’ve got two shipping containers with trusses that go in between. And I’ve basically been, I don’t know if you’d call it running dirt or doing site work or this, that and the other for the last four days straight. And so dump truck load after dump truck load, it’s been kind of busy.

Aaron’s been trying to help me out with, like I say, whatever tools he uses for, um, you know, I don’t know. I, I probably couldn’t edit my way out of a paper bag. So that’s his department. But I did notice, and you guys are right, the, the whatever was used, taking my voice and then like repurposing it from the long form videos was off, but I’m not going anywhere.

I’m still here. I want to give you an update on what I’ve been doing. We have a makeshift, I should show you that too, but the makeshift studio set up for the time being to try and record, uh, when I have a chance and I don’t fall over the ladder.

Um, also, I don’t know if you can see it or not. So let’s turn this, this way, the pad and it’s, I’m sorry, there’s a reflection on the glass. It’s really driving me crazy. I’m trying to figure out how to show you this.

Um, but the pad for the outdoor saunas is going to go right there. I don’t know if you can see it with the reflections. Oh, that’s better through the screen. So the pad goes right there and getting ready to start trenching in.

The electrical, we’ve got some concrete work to do. So all the outdoor sauna stuff will be, um, in the works very soon here. It’ll be pretty cool because we’ll be able to go from, I don’t know if you guys know this, but the way the studio is set up, we’ll have all the indoor saunas, you know, back in this corner, we’ll have a rolly film desk, you know, like this one that moves.

And then we can basically just pan to the outside stuff and it’ll all be right there. So I’m really excited about this. It should make a huge difference in the way we test biohacking products. We also have, um, some built in stuff, some custom.

some things going. We built this structure from the ground up with our bare bare hands. My uncle really helped me, friends and family, loved ones, but this is our new studio and in the time being just want to give you a quick update on what we’ve been doing.

I have been using some of these saunas a little bit. I’ve been testing the red light sauna. It’s pretty cool. I actually like it.

I spin this around. I’m not the greatest with the camera stuff, just like the editing thing. I really need, you know, Aaron’s help and get everyone’s feedback on how we can make this stuff better. But I really have been enjoying this because if you take it out, the sauna itself is like super spacious.

I really, really like this. What I’ve been doing is I’m not really a huge proponent of using red light therapy and sauna at the same time. Why? Because if you look at the PubMed research, it’s a little off, right?

Like there’s a little degradation in photobiomodulation conversion from what I can tell. And all Andrew’s stuff and his interviews and all the people who I’ve tried to learn from who are far smarter than I that know this stuff inside and out. You know, I’m really a sauna guy.

I’m not necessarily an LED or a laser guy, although I have used red light therapy to help heal the neuropathy in my feet after leukemia treatment. So it is important to me. I do think there’s merit. I do think what’s going on with my hair.

I got a weird haircut from someplace on the side of the road that I’ve never been to before. Cause I’m in the boonies and I was getting a little shaggy, but, uh, you know, it’s, it has been an integral integral tool in my wellness toolbox. It has helped me heal.

It has helped me improve certain things. I’m just not as fluent in certain stuff. Like, you know, specific wavelengths with a lens angle that actually changes how the body or the light is distributed toward the body and what that does.

you know, versus skin contact versus far away at this intensity versus that intensity. But the one thing that’s really consistent to me, and Andrew pointed this out to me a long time ago, and the more and more research I do and the more and more I learn, man, as a, as an average, right?

All the PubMed studies that show the benefit of red light therapy. And there’s like a gazillion of them. It’s crazy because saunas there’s really not that much research. Like we’re making correlative like we can correlate improvements to specific types of sauna usage.

So we come from layman terms, you know, I guess you would say seat of the pants improvements. Like we are watching hundreds or thousands of people get benefit from doing the same stuff. So it’s pretty, it’s like, it’s obvious, but with red light therapy and laser therapy, LED therapy, there’s a ton of actual documented research.

Whoops. That shows the benefit shows how it works over and over and over and over. What I noticed throughout all of these is that an average is 28 milliwatts per centimeter squared as an intensity and a treatment, like a treatment dosage, right? And that’s not for a super long time.

Yeah. There’s outliers. Yeah. It’s like up to 40 mid forties is probably upper limit.

And that’s being generous. Some of it’s low. Some of it’s in the teens. So this idea that we need to basically like hammer ourselves with 175 milliwatts centimeter squared, or try and get some panel that’s 150 to 200.

Um, it poses some questions to me, right? It poses like, uh, my spidey senses are kind of going off and it’s like, okay, well, maybe if you’re using it from across the room or at great distance or something like this, where the application is not, um, advisable or perfect by perfect.

I mean, we have people that are in saunas other than this one, and they’re waiting until the end of their sauna session to do their red light therapy.

Well, in something like this you don’t have to do that. You can just turn this on before the sonic is even pre-heated, get your red-light therapy in, and then, as the sonic heats up, shut the light off. Or, if you want to keep going and do a little overdosing, you can.

People in the other camp talk about overdosing on red-light therapy, saying you might reverse the positive effects. Do the research, look it up, and decide for yourself. After leukemia treatment I was bathing my feet in red light because I couldn’t walk. I bought every pair of shoes I could find—Amazon, the foot-care stores—trying to get around. I couldn’t walk to the end of the driveway, let alone around the block. It felt like walking on glass shards in half my foot while the other half was numb.

Movement routines, cold therapy, red-light therapy, sauna—all these things that mobilize tissue really helped me. But I was oversaturating myself with these panels, and I’m not talking about just sitting in a sauna like this.

Everyone warns about overdosing with this or that. Maybe they’re right—but if you have an acute issue, I’m not opposed to pushing the limits on what’s “acceptable.” I’d be a hypocrite if I didn’t admit that I push the limits. We’re talking skin contact, double panels: I put two panels on either side of my leg and laid my foot on them at night—sometimes for hours.

I’m more careful with others than with myself, but I’ve pushed the limits and think it’s okay for acute issues. I wouldn’t do it all the time, but sometimes you have to. Take that for what it’s worth.

You will, I don’t know. Um, you know, I don’t know all the right answers to everything. I’m just willing to experiment.

I’m willing to, uh, make mistakes. I’m willing to try stuff. And then we basically get to a point that works pretty damn good. Kind of like we’ve done with the saunas, except there’s so much more research with red light therapy.

There’s so much more, um, that we have at our disposal. Like there’s not really a lot of guesswork. So this idea that you guys are getting wrapped up into panels, devices, uh, wavelengths or intensities that is unnecessary is a little bit baffling to me. Um, you really don’t need that much intensity for that long.

I mean, five, 10 minutes a day, once or twice a day, once or twice every other day, once or twice a couple of times a week, you know, somewhere into 15 to 25 to 35, uh, milliwatts a centimeter squared at a good treatment distance, which means relatively close range, not using something across the, you know, the room.

This is just a crazy experiment of mine, just to see what happens, see if I can do stuff and cut down the time. Uh, and I’m just doing like an overall update video because I know guys said that I haven’t really been answering comments and doing this and doing that.

And you’re right. It’s because I’ve been building, you know, this place so we can do a lot more of this stuff. So got to do what I got to do for the time being. Um, been testing more of the life pro.

We have a life pro here. And I like it. There are some, you know, I don’t want you guys to think that, and I’m not showing my face on purpose, trying to show you this. I don’t want you guys to think that just because I say, you know, that something is a good buy, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s perfect.

It means in this price range for the things that I have tried, I think this is a good deal for you. I think there’s a lot of features about this sauna that, um, make it worthwhile. The biggest being, let me see if I can focus this for you.

The biggest being the heater layout. When, when I look at—let me crouch down here—when I look at what I look like in the Costco sauna, when I look at my sweat, I don’t get the same sweat that I get in this. Why? Because when I see this on a flare gun and when I feel this with my body, I’ve got heaters that go all the way to the floor.

It’s not that this thing is super low-EMF or that it’s much better build quality than a Costco or something like that. It just doesn’t leave me wondering where my sauna session is. It doesn’t leave me thinking, “Well, I just got done, why am I not covered in sweat?” This thing worked pretty well in, like, 60-degree Fahrenheit weather. Out of all the saunas I’ve tested, I think it’s because of the heater layout.

I’m trying to show you that it’s not like this thing is perfect; it has weird stuff too. If I told you it was perfect and then you saw this, you’d be like, “What the hell, Matt?” Or if I said it had amazing build quality way better than the Costco sauna, you’d say, “What are you talking about?” It’s not. These walls are thin too. It’s not perfect, but it’s nicer than the Costco sauna.

The EMF isn’t better. The build quality, I think, is a little better, actually. I like the way these walls are made over the Costco, because the Costco walls are super thin. And if you look up, I prefer the fit and finish of this over the Costco; it’s a noticeable difference to me. I like the control panel inside and outside—extremely helpful. You can see the outside too; I like the way it looks. It has a little valance panel with a light—whatever you want to call it—and to me that’s something you usually get on a more expensive sauna. The design just works better to me.

But it’s not perfect, you guys. I’d harp on this thing exactly like I’d harp on a Costco sauna or anything else. I don’t want to give you the wrong impression. All I’m saying is, for a little less money, you get a better sweat in something like this.

I’m also working on trying some more mini saunas. Now, this guy is interesting because it’s some no-name thing I can’t even pronounce—one of those Amazon brands. I’d have to give you a link; I can’t even find it twice, and I’m the one who bought it. They didn’t give it to me; I bought the dang thing. It’s like all the other mini saunas: the door is very narrow, and I have to kind of do that sideways move to get in. Once I’m in, it’s actually okay. It’s not low-EMF; it’s not top-tier build quality.

I’ve got to tell you, though: they nailed the assembly. This is like putting together a much higher-end sauna because it has slip latches—no buckles. If you know how much I hate buckles, you know how much I like these little latches. Zero buckles on this thing.

Most of the—whoa, I don’t know why that thing just flipped around; sorry, you probably just went spinning—I did too. Let me stop acting like I know how to run this stuff. Just wanted to tell you there’s an update: I’ve been testing things; this is what I’ve been up to.

But most of what I’ve been doing is right out here, and it’s going to continue for the foreseeable future—the next week or so. Hopefully, before long, you’ll see a concrete pad right out there and we’ll have some outdoor stuff underway. Pallets have arrived; shipments—I just unbanded and brought them in with the forklifts a few days ago.

Obviously, we have a ton of finish work and construction to do in here for the rest of the summer. I’m back and forth from here to Florida, keeping up with regular work and all of our projects there in Central Florida too.

A little update—hope you guys are doing well. We’ll see you in the next one. And tell Aaron to clean up those cherry-picked clips he’s been putting out there. I know you guys defend him in the comments, but maybe it’s time for you to see the light. We’ll see you in the next one.