- If you're sweating out toxins from like 10 years ago,
what are you sweating out?
- I can't talk about that on camera.
- What!
(cheerful electronic music)
And we're going to a sweat lodge this week!
- Gonna get sweaty.
Shape House, in Los Angeles,
it is renown for being a place where people
lose weight, you sweat out all your toxins.
And we're gonna debunk whether or not
this is actually a thing that works.
- Welcome.
I'm Sophie, I'm the founder of Shape House.
Now the technology that we use is this infrared heat,
which kind of provokes your body to think
that you're in a bit of a fever,
and it fights it by cooling down.
- Why is this better or different
than like an hour of Bikram yoga?
- When you're doing yoga, your muscles are engaged.
When you're here, because your muscles are so relaxed,
the water is able to go through better.
So when you're sweating,
that sweat has a lot more toxins in it.
- I'm not sure what sweating without working out
will do for me.
- I don't think this should or will be able to
replace a fitness routine.
And then we actually did it for the first time,
and it was really friggin' hard.
We got our... - We are...
- Fashionable suits on.
You know they tuck you in, (bubbly electronic music)
and they ask you if you need anything,
and then you sit in this bed and it's warm and cozy,
and they put the TV on for you,
and you're watching your shows,
and you're like, oh man.
Ready for a little me time.
And now we just sit here for 55 minutes.
- When you first get in the burrito,
it's actually really comfortable.
My feet are getting really warm.
- And then 20 minutes later you're like,
holy (bleep) get me out of this fire bed.
The most comfortable part of my body,
is this hand that's out of the... (giggles)
That's out of the suit.
- I'm getting super, super slimy.
- And I was like, I'm think I'm suffocating,
I think I'm gonna pass out,
this is the worst thing I've ever felt in my life.
Ooh!
A cool towel.
Oh, man.
That's wonderful for about 12 seconds,
and then it doesn't feel cool anymore.
- Earlier this summer, my AC at my house broke
during the heat wave.
This is pretty similar.
- It's like the longest (determined music)
10 minutes of your life, those last 10 minutes.
Are your hands tingly?
- [Girlfriend] No, oh my god are yours?
- Yeah.
- [Girlfriend] That's probably bad, that sounds bad.
- Then it finally beeps (bell dings)
and they come in.
We survived. - That was hot!
- It was real hot,
real uncomfortable.
- I feel pretty relaxed now.
I'm interested to see if
by the end of the week we have more resistance to heat.
Day two kind of sucked for me.
I have the worst headache ever.
I definitely didn't drink enough today,
After I got a headache on day two,
I actively prepared and hydrated a lot
for day three.
I'm not really (punchy hip hop music)
looking forward to today but I'm trying to like,
embrace the experience and what do they say on the wall?
- Surrender.
- [Girlfriend] Surrender and believe it.
(laughing)
- I think it's important to be proactive drinking water
even before the session,
not just during and after. - Yeah.
- Like constantly,
just drinking so much water.
- It's making me like appreciate and like really consider
how I hydrate my body.
- It's a learning process.
- Yes!
I kinda went into this challenge
thinking that just sitting in this
sweat thing for five days would be pretty easy.
But I think this is very difficult
in a very different way.
Every day
things kept getting a little bit better.
- Do you think this (cheerful electronic music)
what caterpillars feel like
when they're in their cocoons?
And like the second it's over,
and they get to spread their wing.
- Except I'm not as beautiful
as a butterfly.
- Oh no.
Especially not by the end of this.
- I've been drinking a lot of water,
so I'm feeling pretty good.
- And my sleep is basically unaffected,
still kinda restless.
Yeah. - Every time.
(girls talking simultaneously) (machine beeps)
Hear that sound?
- [Girlfriend] That's the magic beep.
- We're well done.
- Getting out of this bed
after sitting in it for an hour,
is the best feeling.
- [Worker] How're ya feeling?
- Relieved to get out.
- I can not say (thoughtful electronic music)
that there's any definitive change
in my body after a week of Shape House.
I could maybe see myself going back
like once a week, maybe,
to help kind of like keep my muscles
warm and loose and stuff.
- I really enjoyed taking an hour out of my day
to just be with myself,
not do anything with my body and relax,
even though it was a little uncomfortable.
And I really appreciated that humbling experience this week.