Research and News on Light Therapy
Light resides at the core of energy medicine as a non-invasive and powerful tool for building cellular health. Thousands of studies have been done on light therapy and how it can positively affect our health in many different degenerative illnesses. While we make no claims, represenations or warranties regarding the ability of any specific products to cure, mitigate, prevent, repair or heal disease, we do find research on light therapy to be quite informative on the wise and intuitive ways that the body’s natural ability to heal and thrive is guided by light.
Red Light Lowers Blood Pressure
This study found that shining red light on the abdomen was "able to induce a long lasting hypotensive effect in hypertensive rats and vasodilation by a NO dependent mechanism." This means their blood pressure regulated and they had increase flow in their vascular...
Blue Light Lowers Blood Pressure
This study investigated whether blue light can decrease blood pressure and increase vascular function in healthy subjects. They found that blue light exposure "improves blood pressure, endothelial function and arterial stiffness." The mechanism for this benefit was...
Light and Microbiome Health
Shining light on a healthy gut. The healthy gut bacteria known as microbiome is an important part of our health. These researchers state that the "human microbiome is intimately associated with human health, with a role in obesity, metabolic diseases such as type 2...
Light and Nitric Oxide
Nitric oxide is the signalling molecule that opens up our vascular system, signals our immune system, normalizes our blood pressure, helps us release toxins and increase vitality. We have long known that light helps our body to release and utilize this critical life...
Digestive Health and Light
This study found that shining near infrared light on the digestive system had a significant positive effect on the health and diversity of the microbiome in mice. The study found, "There was a significant (p < 0.05) difference in microbial diversity between PBM-...
Recovery from Stroke and Brain Injury with Light
This abstract looks at how shining red and near infrared light into the body shows strong possibility for assisting the brain in recovery from stroke and traumatic brain injury. The article looks at light therapy, photobiomodulation (PBM)'s strong efficacy, "In...
Shining a Light On Depression
This is an interesting article because it looks at helping with depression by shining light directly into the brain through the skin to assist mood and major depressive disorder rather than just passively being around say a light box. The overall conclusion of this...
Shine with light for a healthy gut
We have been experiencing positive results with digestive challenges and our lights for years and we have also seen positive results with infrared light and gut health with Autism Spectrum. It is great to see that this small study on mice with red and near infrared...
Stopping disk degeneration with light?
This study suggests that light therapy can be a "novel tool for treating" symptomatic disk degeneration. The researchers state that shining low level light of the right wavelength and intensity "is efficacious for enabling tissue repair, exerts anti-inflammatory...
Muscle Recovery – Light Therapy works better than ice.
This review of 5 studies took a critical look at whether light therapy is truly better than the standard use of ice post exercise that you will find in training rooms all over the US. Bottom line, the training rooms look to be in the dark ages - shining red and near...