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    See the (Red) Light

    Red light therapy, cold plunges + more science-backed wellness in DFW

    CultureMap Create
    Jan 6, 2025 | 12:00 pm
    Altered States Wellness cold plunge

    C'mon, take a dip.

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    Though it's technically been around since the 1980s, biohacking feels like the trendy new buzzword for health and self-care.

    Also known as DIY biology, biohacking is the all-encompassing term for tips and tricks you can try to get your body to function at peak performance, recover better and more quickly, and maybe even extend your lifespan.

    Dallas and Fort Worth have plenty of spas and fitness studios that have embraced biohacking, offering red light therapy, cold plunges, salt rooms, compression therapy, IV drips, and more. In alphabetical order, here are just a sampling of where to go and what to try.

    Altered States Wellness
    Coppell, Richardson
    Introducing the 2025 Cold Plunge Challenge, where for $49 you get 10 cold plunge sessions over the course of 30 days. Immerse yourself in 40-degree water for two to five minutes during each session to enjoy such benefits as enhanced recovery, improved metabolism, increased energy, and stress reduction. Bonus: A portion of the proceeds from the challenge will benefit the Alzheimer's Foundation.

    Other services offered include infrared saunas, fire and ice therapy, compression, float rooms, and PEMF therapy, which harnesses electromagnetic fields to enhance cellular activity, in turn reducing inflammation, boosting energy, alleviating stress, and improving sleep quality.

    CYL Infrared Studio
    Dallas
    Infrared lymphatic rolling, also known as lymphatic massage and lymphatic drainage, maximizes body detoxification, and relieves pain and inflammation, plus reduces weight, cellulite and inches and improves overall appearance and wellness. Infrared saunas use the invisible light spectrum to heat your body directly from deep within your core, similar to how you may feel when vigorously working out. Many people say that their sleep vastly improves after each 30-minute infrared session.

    Evolve Human Optimization Labs
    Dallas
    Access cold plunge, red light therapy, compression sleeves, infrared saunas, and 20-plus other services and devices with a free day pass to this "wellness playground." You don't need an appointment, and can sample and explore everything at your own pace. Monthly memberships let you visit as often as your schedule allows.

    Fort Worth Float Company
    Fort Worth
    Try the traditional float, which means climbing into a tank filled with salt water dense enough to support you and minimizing as many external sights and sounds as possible. Or do a cold plunge to increase blood flow and reduce inflammation while also boosting your immune system. During the warming phase that follows, fresh blood will return and bring with it nutrients and oxygen to aid in recovery.

    Glow Sauna Studios
    Dallas
    This is billed as the premier infrared sauna experience, offering three-in-one infrared technology that unleashes a number of benefits in just one 30-45 minute private session. Sweating can help with detoxification, immune support, weight loss, pain relief, skin health, blood pressure regulation, and improved circulation.

    Haven Wellness
    Dallas
    Have you heard of the Wim Hof Method? It combines conscious breathing technique with cold therapy to increase energy, improve sleep, reduce stress, and strengthen your immune system. You can learn it here under instructor Bri Forrest, and pair your practice with a yoga or meditation class to really get in touch with your body.

    Recess Fitness Club
    Dallas
    This playground-inspired gym is already outfitted with swings, rope climbs, and even a two-story slide, but in 2025 it's branching out into biohacking. Cold plunges, infrared saunas, and metabolic testing are joining RecessRx, which provides members with 24/7 access to physicians, personalized lab testing, hormone therapy, peptide treatments, and more.

    R&R Aesthetics + Wellness
    Fort Worth
    If you want to tackle anti-aging at a cellular level, start here. In addition to traditional medspa offerings like injectables and facials, this women-owned studio also features an IV drip bar, halo salt therapy, high-dose Ozone therapy, and the BrainTap, a device that uses light, sound, and vibration to deepen your state of relaxation and synergize the mind.

    Restore Hyper Wellness
    Colleyville, Dallas, Frisco
    From cryotherapy — which can relieve pain and swelling while boosting mood and energy — to red light therapy — which powers up your mitochondria with low levels of near-infrared light — you can try out all manner of science-backed therapies here. Pause for IV drip therapy, which can help you hydrate and flush out toxins while replenishing vital nutrients.

    Restore + Revive Wellness Center
    Fort Worth
    Welcome to the Revive Room, where you climb into a zero-gravity lounge chairs, rest atop an infrared PEMF (pulsed electromagnetic field therapy) mat, don a LED light shield mask, and apply NuCalm bio-signal processing discs to your wrists and low-EMF headphones on your ears to gently tune your brain frequency. An organic weighted blanket and aromatherapy finishes it all off.

    SweatHouzz
    Dallas, Fort Worth
    This franchise utilizes state-of-the-art equipment to provide contrast therapy, cold plunges, infrared saunas, and even vitamin C showers to help you feel even more invigorated at the end of your session.

    The Wellness Center
    Fort Worth
    This physician-supervised facility offers an array of medical services, as well as workshops and health programs to balance both body and mind. Choose from a variety of massage services, including deep tissue, trigger point therapy, medical massage, cupping, scraping, lymphatic, and sports massage. Follow it up with IV therapy, which infuses a blend of all-natural vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and electrolytes directly into the vascular system to allow for full utilization, instead of traveling through the gastrointestinal system first.

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    Hottest headlines of 2025

    The 10 hottest CultureMap stories that had Dallas talking in 2025

    Stephanie Allmon Merry
    Dec 31, 2025 | 11:30 am
    Flower Mound is known for its outdoorsy offerings in places like Stone Creek
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    Editor's note: What was Dallas reading this year? Let's take a look. We've already covered the hottest headlines in dining, arts & entertainment, real estate, society, and city life, as well as the year's best and worst movies. Now we turn our attention to the most-read stories of all.

    This year, news about suburbs dominated our list; readers clamored to know which local cities were both the wealthiest and most affordable, the most "livable," and the best for working from home. They were also eager to keep up with local billionaires. And, of course, everyone wanted to know which restaurants had the most coveted reservations in town.

    Here, we present the most-read stories of 2025 in Dallas:

    1. Dallas-Fort Worth suburb blooms as No. 1 best place to live in U.S. One Dallas-area city took the top slot on a list of "the 100 Best Places to Live in 2025." The list — from relocation marketing platform Livability.com — put Flower Mound at No. 1 for its appealing size and affordability.

    2. Blooming Dallas suburb ranks as America's 7th most livable small city. Similarly, Flower Mound also claimed the No. 7 spot in a ranking of America's most livable small cities for 2025.

    3. North Dallas neighbor ranks as No. 1 most affordable city in U.S. A Dallas suburb landed on top of a list of the most affordable places to live: McKinney ranked No. 1 based on its relative cost of living and high median household income.

    4. The 2 Dallas restaurants where reservations are now impossible to get. Cafe Dior by Dominque Crenn is the restaurant inside the new Dior boutique in Highland Park Village, which opened at the start of the year. Zodiac Room is the about-to-close restaurant inside the storied downtown location of Neiman Marcus, which has had several imminent closure scares but now states it will remain open past the 2025 holidays.

    Dior Cafe interior Cafe Dior was a hard-to-get reservation when it opened in Dallas. SevenRooms

    5. 27 Dallas billionaires land on new Forbes list of world's richest people. More billionaires have made it onto the 2025 World's Billionaires List than ever before, according to Forbes. This year, 27 Dallas billionaires are among the richest people in the world, including Elaine Marshall, Lyndal Stephens Greth, and Jerry Jones.

    6. 5 Dallas high schools rank among America's best in 2025, per U.S. News. Five prestigious Dallas-area high schools are living up to their reputations for top-tier education after being ranked among the best high schools in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report's annual rankings.

    Dallas ISD The School for the Talented and Gifted The School for the Talented and Gifted in Dallas ISD is the 9th best high school in the country, and the top high school in Texas. tagmagnet.dallasisd.org/

    7. Techy Dallas suburb is No. 1 hot spot for remote workers in U.S. A SmartAsset survey of cities with the biggest remote workforces has revealed Frisco is the No. 1 city with the highest share of remote workers in the nation. The study found over 40,000 Frisco residents work from home, which is more than a third of all of the city's workers aged 16 and older (117,193 total workers).

    8. 3 affluent Dallas neighbors dominate new list of wealthiest U.S. suburbs. Three well-to-do Dallas-area communities — University Park, Southlake, and Colleyville — are among the wealthiest suburbs in America in 2025, a report confirmed. The three affluent Dallas neighbors were lauded in GoBankingRates ranking of the 50 wealthiest U.S. suburbs, based on 2022 and 2023 average household income data sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau.

    9. Dallas Caramel Company founder Rain McDermott dies at 52. Dallas entrepreneur Rain McDermott, who founded artisan caramel maker Dallas Caramel Company when she was only 34 years old, died in June after a battle with breast cancer; she was 52.

    Rain McDermott Dallas Caramel Company founder Rain McDermott Courtesy

    10. Award-winning Dallas burger joint opens location in Forney. Blues Burgers is from Howard and Catherine Baldwin, who opened the original Blues Burgers near Love Field in Dallas in 2014 (it closed in February 2025 so they could focus on this venture). They use Angus beef for their burgers, and make their own sauces and spreads in-house. They fry in beef tallow, and their sodas are made with cane sugar, not high-fructose corn syrup. They also do fried pies, made in house.

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