There’s a difference between an unintentional and an intentional experience.

For example, you could be wandering down Oak Street at night and unintentionally hear music coming out of The Maple Leaf. It might sound great, but it sounds a whole lot better if you intentionally go into the club and stand in front of the stage.

Likewise with heat and humidity. Living in New Orleans you no doubt gain some benefit from unintentionally sweating in the sauna-like weather - but it’s not the same as the health benefits you get from intentionally stepping into a real sauna.

Eric Trombly is the owner of Luxe & Leisure Saunas. He designs and builds custom saunas and steam rooms. Yes, in New Orleans.

If you don’t want to commit to putting a sauna in your home or business, you can go take a sauna   - and do a lot more for your health and wellness - at Uptown Wellness + Aesthetics on Magazine Street.

Uptown Wellness + Aesthetics is a health spa where you can get a wide range of services including cryotherapy, cold plunge, IV therapy, red light therapy, and cryo-sculpting.

Jacob Tramontin is the owner of Uptown Wellness + Aesthetics. Jacob is a recovering attorney who was president of Go Auto Insurance before discovering his calling in the wellness industry and investing north of $1m to create his Uptown wellness spa.

It can take a long time to figure stuff out. 

As a society, it’s taken us decades to come to the realization that what we regard as “health care” isn’t actually taking care of our health. Getting medical attention when there’s something wrong with us is actually taking care of illness or disease.

More and more we’re coming to realize that taking real care of our health means taking preventive care - and each of us individually has to seek that out. There are lots of things you can do to stay healthy. Among them, sauna and the services you can get at a health spa are legitimate options.

Out to Lunch was recorded live over lunch at Columns in Uptown New Orleans. This week, air conditioning problems in our regular meeting room chased the show lout of its regular spot into a delightful hotel room, Room 17 to be exact.

You can find photos from this show by Jill Lafleur at itsneworleans.com.

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