Celebrities including Gwyneth Paltrow and Sabrina Carpenter are posing in fashionable infrared saunas - which claim to ease anxiety and help with high blood pressure Luxury gyms, including London's Soho House, offer infrared sauna treatments READ MORE: Is TikTok's hottest health fad worth the sour taste? Gen Z are sipping on 'tadpole water' mixed with chia seeds to lose weight - but they admit the slippery texture 'makes them gag' By Alanah Khosla For Mailonline Published: 13:29, 11 August 2024 | Updated: 13:47, 11 August 2024 e-mail View comments If you think a trip to the steam bath is the pinnacle of luxury, you might want to think again because there's a newer and supposedly more effective version - the infrared sauna. It's a device that's quickly garnered support from celebrities across the globe, with the likes of health-fad queen Gwyneth Paltrow and singer Rita Ora raving about its benefits. Unlike a typical sauna that warms the air to heat the body, the infrared sauna uses red light to heat the body directly without warming the air, bringing about similar effects but at a lower temperature.
Because users can experience a sweat for longer given the reduced temperature, it allows for a more intense effect, which, in turn, is said to help ease mental health issues like anxiety, muscle pain and conditions including high blood pressure and chronic headaches. Individual sessions typically start at £40 per 30 minutes in the UK's capital, but the health-conscious can get the.