A-listers praise the health benefits of infrared saunas, but are they safe? Katie BecKer investigates
Hollywood’s juicing crowd has a new obsession. Infrared saunas — said to detox the body using heat-generating invisible light — have made fans of Gwyneth Paltrow, Miranda Kerr and Cindy Crawford, and many A-listers now have custom saunas in their homes. Frank Lipman, the New York integrative-medicine doctor to Maggie Gyllenhaal and Donna Karan, encourages patients topartake in infrared to help clear toxins, and he raves about his personal Clearlight sauna. “My muscles relax, I sleep better and I just feel calm and energised,” he says. Meanwhile, infrared-dedicated spas (in Sydney, we love Alkaline and Health Space clinics) and infrared-heated yoga studios (try Melbourne’s Hotbox Yoga) are popping up everywhere. But although some believe infrared light therapy is a cure-all — studies indicate that it may encourage weight loss, lower blood pressure and relieve pain, and research for cancer-treatment support is ongoing — new, cutting-edge skincare products claim to neuturalise damage from infrared, citing studies that conclude it can lead to premature skinageing. So is infrared good for you or bad?
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