Photobiomodulation
We use the Oxycell ProLux red-light bed, specific wavelengths of red and near-infrared light penetrate the skin and stimulate the mitochondria, your cellular power plants. The result is better circulation, faster recovery, healthier skin, and a quietly more resilient you.
Oxycell ProLux · Red-Light Bed
A traditional sauna
A traditional sauna is a small heated room or structure designed for dry or steam bathing, originating from Finland where it has been a cultural institution for thousands of years.
The room is heated by a wood-burning or electric stove (called a kiuas) that heats a pile of rocks to temperatures typically between 70–100°C (160–212°F). Water can be ladled onto the rocks to create bursts of steam (löyly), raising humidity and the perceived heat.
Interior
Wooden interior (typically spruce, pine, or aspen) that absorbs heat without getting too hot to touch
Humidity
Low humidity (10–20%) unless water is thrown on the rocks
Session
Sessions usually last 20–30 minutes, followed by cooling off (cold shower, plunge pool, or rolling in snow)
In Finnish culture, the sauna is a place for relaxation, socializing, and even spiritual reflection, historically, births and important rituals took place there.
Health benefits commonly associated with regular sauna use include improved circulation, muscle relaxation, stress relief, and skin cleansing through sweating. It's distinct from a steam room (which uses wet heat and high humidity) or an infrared sauna (which uses light waves rather than heated air).
Controlled amounts of stress creates an environment for resilience, triggering cellular repair mechanisms such as antioxidant defenses, autophagy, and DNA repair. You’re essentially training your cells to handle stress more efficiently over time.
Hormesis is the biological principle that a mild, controlled stressor triggers adaptive responses that make the body stronger and more resilient, the idea that “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” at a cellular level.
Sauna is one of the cleanest examples of hormesis in practice.
7 Steps
Photobiomodulation is dose-dependent: too little is wasted, too much is wasted differently. Here is how we put the right amount into your week.
Step 1
Recovery, skin, sleep, cardiovascular conditioning, we identify the specific outcome before designing the schedule.
Step 2
Red light (around 660 nm) for skin and surface tissue; near-infrared (around 850 nm) for deeper musculoskeletal and mitochondrial effects.
Step 3
Where appropriate, traditional sauna is paired with red light for combined cardiovascular conditioning, sweat detoxification, and recovery.
Step 4
Most patients run three sauna and red-light sessions per week. The Wellness Membership bundles three sessions per month at the entry tier.
Step 5
We coordinate light and sauna with hyperbaric, IV therapy and training, so the recovery week is engineered, not random.
Step 6
Skin, sleep, recovery markers and resting heart-rate-variability all give us measurable signal at the 12-week mark.
Step 7
Light and sauna become part of your weekly architecture, locked into a cadence, paired with your training week, and re-evaluated against your numbers every quarter.
Why it matters
Photobiomodulation is one of the cleanest interventions in longevity medicine, no needles, no medication, no recovery time. Specific wavelengths of red and near-infrared light upregulate mitochondrial energy production, improve microcirculation, lower local inflammation, support collagen synthesis in the skin, and accelerate soft-tissue repair. Paired with traditional sauna, you also get the cardiovascular conditioning of a moderate workout, heart rate up, vascular tone trained, heat-shock proteins activated.
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What's included
Done casually, photobiomodulation is pleasant but underwhelming. Done on a schedule, paired with the rest of your protocol, it compounds.
Mitochondrial-support supplements, CoQ10, NAD+ precursors, omega-3, magnesium, selected from your panel to amplify the photobiomodulation effects.
Red light (~660 nm) for skin and surface tissue, near-infrared (~850 nm) for deep tissue, paired with traditional sauna for cardiovascular conditioning.
A nutrient-dense, anti-inflammatory eating pattern that supports mitochondrial function, collagen synthesis and the recovery your light dosing primes.
Three sessions a week is the sweet spot, paired with sleep, training and recovery on a coordinated weekly rhythm so the gains actually compound.
Quick answers to the questions most people have before booking their first consultation. Still unsure? Our concierge team is one call away.
Have another question? Ask usRed and near-infrared light therapy use specific wavelengths at low heat to drive cellular effects (mitochondria, collagen, microcirculation). Traditional sauna delivers heat at depth for cardiovascular conditioning and sweat detoxification. We use them together because they are complementary.
Red and near-infrared sessions are usually 10 to 20 minutes. Traditional sauna sessions run 30 to 45 minutes. We typically combine them so a full visit is around an hour.
Yes. Red and near-infrared at the doses we use have an excellent safety profile. We protect the eyes during direct exposure and screen for the small number of contraindications during intake.
Three sessions per week is the sweet spot for most goals. Skin and recovery effects become visible at the 6-to-12-week mark; cardiovascular signals (resting heart-rate, HRV) show up sooner.
It looks like a spa treatment, but in our clinic it is dosed and stacked like medicine, paired with hyperbaric, IV therapy and training, against a goal you can measure. That is the difference.
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Three sauna sessions a month, paired with hyperbaric and IV therapy, are part of the 6-month YouZone concierge program. Start with a consultation to see the full stack.
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