Helios Natural Medicine

Helios Natural Medicine on Kilburn Street in Burlington offers infrared sauna within a naturopathic practice.

Naturopathic medicine is licensed in Vermont, which is not true everywhere — the state regulates naturopathic physicians as primary care providers with prescribing authority, one of a minority of states to do so. That gives practices here a clinical footing that similar operations elsewhere lack.

Where sauna sits in that framework is worth understanding. The evidence for heat exposure is genuinely encouraging, particularly the Finnish cohort research associating frequent sauna use with cardiovascular outcomes across decades. It is also observational rather than experimental, which means it shows association rather than proven cause, and frequent sauna users differ from non-users in many other ways.

Infrared specifically warms tissue directly at a lower air temperature than a traditional room, which makes longer sessions comfortable and suits regular use.

Kilburn Street sits in Burlington’s South End, the former industrial district that now holds the city’s arts and maker community. Lake Champlain is minutes west. Appointments book in advance.

Burlington’s South End Art Hop each September turns the district into an open studio weekend, and the waterfront bike path runs a few streets west along the lake.