I have been using red light therapy for well over 10 years now. Being introduced to red light therapy when I visited the Living Foods Institute that was run by the amazing Brenda Cobb. The center is now closed after the Pandemic. (sad face).
One day I saw a flyer about a class Brenda Cobb was teaching about green living and healing your body. I went the the Institute and was hooked on natural healing, green smoothies, growing wheatgrass, detoxing, sprouting, reflexology, essential oils, and colon cleansing. My time at the Living Foods Institute and healing journey has forever changed my life.
One of the many therapies we used was red light therapy. It was not very well known about 10 years ago or in the mainstream. It is starting to catch on, like other alternative therapies and I want to share it with you.
Hooga Health – Red Light Therapy For Home, Office or Gym
We have a Hooga Health Near-Infrared Light Therapy Device. It features 60 dual chip LEDs emitting clinically proven wavelengths of red and near infrared light at 660 nanometers and 850 nanometers. It allows you to choose between red, near infrared, or both and also has built in cooling fans to dissipate any heat.
Now with Hooga Health Red Light Therapy, you can bring this technology home for fast pain relief at a fraction of the cost. HGPRO300 is a high powered, targeted red light therapy device designed to provide you with affordable, effective red and near infrared light therapy in the comfort of your home.
3 Types Of Light The Body Uses
There are three kinds of light that the human body uses and each one of them is used differently.
- UV light – From sunlight, produces vitamin D
- Blue Light – Affects our sleep cycles called Circadian Rhythms
- Red Light & Infrared light – Anti-aging, pain reduction, fat loss, detoxing benefits and healing benefits.
Infrared light therapy is essentially the same as red light therapy, except infrared energy is invisible, and it penetrates the body a little deeper than red light. Both types of lights reach deep into soft tissues, muscles, joints, and bone. Infrared light therapy is where light therapy gets serious.
“Low-intensity laser light will be standard equipment as a healing device for our aging population”
Laura E.Duval, Baylor College of Medicine, NASA Johnson Space Center USA (2006)
Red Light Therapy For Pain
Infrared Light Therapy can be used to help with pain:
- Arthritis
- Muscle cramps
- Tears and strains of muscles and tendons
- Pain in joints, muscles, and nerves
- Muscle spasms
- Stiffness
- Dislocations and fractures
- Varicose veins of lower extremities
Red light therapy can help to remove the pain right at the source. It can help to increase circulation, decreases inflammation, relax tense muscles and acts as a natural pain reliever.
Damaged cells lose their electrical charge. The energy supplied by red light therapy helps to recharge and regenerate the damaged cells. The red light helps to reduce inflammation and increases the blood flow to inflamed areas.
Red Light Therapy For Skin And Anti-Aging
Red light helps improve skin tone and texture, helps to control pigmentation spots, can help reduce pore size, encourage vibrant, healthier-looking skin, and reduce fine lines.
Anti-aging red light therapy stimulates circulation and repairs the elastin fibers within the tissue to help keep skin firm. I hope this is sparking your interest in red light therapy and you are eager to learn more about all it’s benefits.
Infrared light is the invisible part of the sun’s light spectrum with the ability to penetrate human tissue to stimulate many health benefits.
It can penetrate the epidermis layer of the skin, to stimulate your skin’s natural ability to produce collagen and elastin.
Red Light Therapy For Improved Health
Just like a plant, your skin and tissues absorb light and convert it to energy.
Red light therapy stimulates the mitochondria in your cells to produce energy, which can help to speed up your metabolic rate.
Red light therapy can help to stimulate repairing and re-generation of damaged cells.
There is a lot of research on red light therapy and I urge you to do your own research. NASA has been using red light therapy for many, many years with its astronauts to heal injuries in space and on the ground.
Infrared Sauna is another great way to get exposure to red light therapy.
Red Light and Thyroid Health
If you have a thyroid condition, starting the day with a few minutes of red light therapy directly on the thyroid gland can be a powerful weapon in your toolbox for recovery. Spend time with the red light on your neck and chest.
Brenda
Are the results permanent if you lose weight with red light do the fat cells die or shrink?
Laura London
Hi Brenda. My personal belief is that it is a combination of a healthy diet, and exercise that will help the weight stay off permanently. Red light therapy stimulates the mitochondria in your cells to produce energy, which can help to speed up your metabolic rate. Red light therapy can help to stimulate repairing and regeneration of damaged cells.
Megan
Wouldn’t the red light on the face cause fat loss then also ? That would be ageinh for the face .
Laura London
Hi Megan. That is a great question. The body uses the red light by absorbing light energy – especially at certain wavelengths – and our cells respond by carrying out their day-to-day functions at an improved level. Not only does this help with things like skin health and muscle recovery, it can help the body to process and release toxins.
Sheila
Laura,
Where do you get Red Light Treatments/Therapy?
Laura London
Hi Sheila:
You can purchase a hand help home device like the one I have at home https://amzn.to/33FFsmR. You can find red light therapy at salons. Another way to get red light therapy is using an infrared sauna. There are portable home versions, some spas and even fitness centers have them or locally where I live there is a sauna salon where you can use them by the hour.
Clearlight saunas used by Hippocrates Health Institute are a very good brand.