Hack Your Health

Your guide to biohacking in Dallas-Fort Worth

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In today's TikTok world, there's a hack for everything — even your health. Biohacking is the all-encompassing term for all the tips and tricks you can try to get your body to function at peak performances, and maybe even extend your lifespan.

The Biohacking Conference — touted as the health, longevity, and well-being event of the year — is happening in Dallas May 30-June 1 at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in downtown, with more than 100 biohacking brands and activations under one roof.

But if you happen to be busy that weekend or just want to dip your toe into the biohacking waters on a more local level, here are some studios and clinics around Dallas-Fort Worth that offer biohacking services.

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Haven Wellness: Cold plunge is another health trend likely taking over your social media feeds. But 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.

Evolve Human Optimization Labs: 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.

Glow Sauna Studios: Summer in Texas is sweaty, but this is the good kind that actually leaves you feeling better than when you arrived. It's 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.

SweatHouzz: With locations in both Dallas and 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.

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R&R Aesthetics + Wellness: 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 + Revive Wellness Center: 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.

Canyon Ranch Fort Worth Wellness Club + Spa: This swanky wellness club and spa is also home to the first-ever CR Vitality Studio, designed by scientists and doctors to incorporate the latest technologies, treatments, and strategies. What's actually in the studio is hush-hush, but it promises to increase energy, improve recovery and regeneration, aid in sleep, and improve overall vitality.

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Dallas neighbor dazzles on new list of happiest cities in America

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A new happiness study has ranked Plano one of the happiest cities in America this year, and it once again landed on top as the happiest city in Texas.

Plano has moved up on the list and ranks as the 16th happiest U.S. city in 2026. Last year, it was 17th.

WalletHub determined the happiest cities in America based on 29 relevant metrics based on "positive-psychology research" across three main categories: emotional and physical wellbeing, income and employment, and community and environment. As with most WalletHub studies, it compared the 182 most populous U.S. cities.

Fremont, California claimed the top spot as the happiest city nationwide for another year. Bismark, North Dakota and Scottsdale, Arizona, respectfully, rounded out the top three.

Here's how WalletHub ranked Plano across the three key dimensions:

No. 15 – Emotional and physical wellbeing
No. 22 – Community and environment
No. 72 – Income and employment

Plano and its residents have continued improving their city year after year, whether its through opening new bakeries and restaurants, inviting fun pop-ups for locals, or having a strong job market.

Plano's happiness far outshines the rest of North Texas; according to WalletHub, Irving is the 70th happiest city in the country, the third-happiest in Texas, and the second-happiest city in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro. Garland ranked farther behind as No. 92 nationally, and more DFW cities ranked even lower: Grand Prairie (No. 106), Dallas (No. 111), Fort Worth (No. 113), and Arlington (No. 119).

The report additionally found that Dallasites spend the third-most amount of time at work in the nation. The city ranked No. 180 in the national analysis of U.S. cities with the "fewest work hours."

WalletHub also emphasized that money doesn't buy happiness — after a certain point.

"For decades, researchers have explored the science of happiness and identified several core factors, including mental well-being, physical health, strong social ties, job satisfaction, and financial stability," the report said. "Still, income has its limits — studies show that earning more than $75,000 a year does not lead to greater happiness."

Six-figure earners in Plano aren't necessarily as happy as those who don't make as much, as a separate financial study from SmartAsset revealed these big earners are only taking home about $72,653 after taxes and adjusted for the cost of living.

This is how other Texas cities ranked in the report:

No. 39 – Austin
No. 128 – Houston
No. 135 – Lubbock
No. 137 – El Paso
No. 140 – Laredo
No. 143 – Amarillo
No. 150 – Brownsville
No. 154 – San Antonio
No. 155 – Corpus Christi

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