Alexander Liendo
Founder & Editor, The Well Vetted
A 15-year executive chef and food and beverage director who now vets the cold plunges, saunas, and red light therapy gear worth your money.
Alexander Liendo spent 15 years as an executive chef and food and beverage director in high-end kitchens. The job was a daily exercise in judging quality: equipment, materials, suppliers, and whether a product did what its maker claimed.
A meniscus tear and burnout ended that career. Through recovery, Alexander started using cold plunges and saunas, and he has used them since. That first-hand routine is what turned an interest into working knowledge of the gear, its trade-offs, and the point where marketing stops matching the product.
He founded The Well Vetted to apply a chef's standard to that gear: how it is built, whether it justifies its price, and who it is actually right for. He vets every cold plunge, sauna, and red light device the site covers, and writes the comparisons and buying guides himself.
How Alexander vets
Every product earns its recommendation against the same four checks.
Build and materials
How a product is made, what it is made of, and whether it survives daily use.
Real value
Whether the price is justified by what you actually get, measured against the real alternatives.
Honest fit
Who a product genuinely suits, and who should save their money and buy something else.
Verified specs
Dimensions, performance, warranty, and pricing confirmed independently, not copied from the listing.