Advanced Weight Loss & Metabolic Reset Retreat in Mystras, Greece

The programme starts with diagnostics. A 55-minute medical and holistic consultation uses biofeedback profiling to build a picture of your health, followed by a 30-minute wellness consultation that borrows from Five Element and bioenergetic testing. From there you sit down with the nutritionist for a 60-minute session covering your diet history, eating patterns and goals, with follow-ups at 20 and 30 minutes and a one-month remote check-in after you leave.

The 3GL Plus analysis is the spine of the week. Euphoria developed it with Eucrasia, a Greek health-tourism company, and it looks at glucose, glutathione (one of the body's main endogenous antioxidants) and glycogen. Glucose and glutathione come from a finger-prick blood sample; glycogen efficiency is estimated by capillary ergometric scanning; and a urine sample is analysed by high-pressure liquid chromatography for more than 12 active metabolites and metabolically significant amino acids. The team also runs a PNOE resting test to measure your resting metabolic rate and respiratory exchange ratio, and a separate active test on a bike or treadmill to assess cardio-respiratory function, fat-burning efficiency and muscle composition.

Other tests across the week include body bio-impedance analysis for fat mass, muscle mass and total body water; a blood panel with a follow-up draw; an OG scan for heavy metals and minerals; an AGE Reader to measure advanced glycation end-products in the skin; and a five-minute ECG. The emotional side gets attention too — a 90-minute group workshop on emotional eating uses mindfulness techniques aimed at emotion regulation and appetitive traits, since emotional eating is a known predictor of poor weight-loss outcomes.

Practical treatments fill the rest of the days. There are four 40-minute sessions with the Human Regenerator, a cold atmospheric plasma and PEMF device used for cell regeneration and pain; two 30-minute NanoVi inhalation sessions, which deliver antioxidants that penetrate the mitochondria; and three 20-minute phototherapeutic revitalisation sessions using red light and far infrared. Acupuncture or colourpuncture, pressotherapy, lymphatic drainage, detox cupping with fire cups, and a Five Element balancing massage are all on the schedule, along with three Biologique Recherche body treatments including the Algae Slimming & Detox wrap.

Training is one-to-one. You get sessions of 55 and 30 minutes with a personal fitness trainer, plus EMS full-body training. The centre itself has a salt room, infrared sauna and pool, and the week closes with a 30-minute wellness feedback session where your mentors hand over final lifestyle recommendations and a 60-minute online Methodos follow-up workshop a month or so later. Accommodation is in the retreat's own rooms on the Mystras property, set among the hills above Sparta with views towards the Byzantine ruins.

What's included

- 7 nights accommodation on site - Daily personalised nutritional plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner - Daily personalised biofunctional smoothy and snack - Medical & holistic consultation with biofeedback profiling (55 min) - Euphoria wellness consultation with Five Element and bioenergetic testing (30 min) - Nutritional guidance session (60 min) - Follow-up nutritional guidance session (20 min) - 1-month follow-up nutritional guidance (30 min) - Emotional aspects of health and weight balance group workshop (90 min) - 5 Element lecture (60 min) - Follow-up medical consultation (30 min) - Euphoria wellness feedback session (30 min) - Euphoria Methodos follow-up online workshop (60 min) - 3GL analysis (15 min) - 3GL assessment (15 min) - Respiratory equilibrium resting test by PNOE (15 min) - Ergo physiological scanning, active test by PNOE (20 min) - Urine test (15 min) - 2 x Body bio-impedance analysis (15 min each) - Blood test (15 min) - Follow-up blood test (15 min) - OG scan / heavy metal and mineral analysis (20 min) - AGE reader A.G.E.S. test (15 min) - ECG (5 min) - 4 x Human Regenerator sessions (40 min each) - 2 x NanoVi inhalation treatments (30 min each) - Acupuncture or colourpuncture (50 min) - 3 x Phototherapeutic revitalisation, red light / far infrared (20 min each) - 2 x Pressotherapy (30 min each) - Rectal ozone therapy (15 min) - Emotional transformation session (55 min) - Group mind detox or meditation (25 min) - Medical & homeopathic consultation (55 min) - 5 Element balancing treatment (50 min) - Personal training session (55 min) - Personal training session (30 min) - EMS full body training (30 min) - Salt room session (20 min) - Infrared sauna (20 min) - Detox cupping massage with fire cups (50 min) - Lymphatic drainage (50 min) - Biologique Recherche algae slimming & detox body treatment (80 min) - Biologique Recherche anti-C slimming program (80 min) - Mineral molds for cellulite, detox and body toning (110 min)

What's not included

- International and domestic flights - Airport transfers unless arranged separately - Travel insurance - Personal expenses and gratuities - Treatments and services not listed in your programme inclusions - Additional spa treatments booked on site - Alcohol and drinks outside the personalised meal plan - Medical costs arising from pre-existing conditions