Near infrared and red light therapy are fantastic for everything skin related! Such as reversing skin ageing, promoting collagen production, reducing cellulite, increasing fat loss, speeding up healing and wound repair.

Sounds too good to be true right?

Red light and near-infrared light therapy penetrate through the skin and stimulate an increase in circulation (new capillaries!) which increases collagen production and fibroblasts. Fibroblasts in our skin actually synthesise collagen and maintain connective tissue integrity.
Red and near infrared light therapy helps to clean up dead and damaged cells in the skin and increase ATP production in skin cells thus promoting skin and faster repair time.
Therefore not only improving skin tone but also reducing wrinkles and fine lines formed due to the loss of collagen as a result of aging.

Red light therapy can penetrate deeper tissues of the skin and target the stubborn fat cells that are difficult to eliminate by exercising and dietary efforts. YES this therapy can also support weight loss! It can help disintegrate fat cells thus facilitating their removal from the body. This would help to accelerate fat loss and reduce the symptoms of cellulite and improved skin tone.
Red light and near-infrared light therapies are believed to speed up wound healing by increasing circulation and supplying a wound with more oxygen and therefore nutrients which are needed for repair.

The symptoms of Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism can be relieved more effectively by undergoing red light and near-infrared light therapies. This treatment would work by destroying autoantibodies, supporting regeneration of the damaged tissues, and improving thyroid functions.

A Russian study conducted in 2014 conduded red and near infrared light therapy for 10 sessions with 347 women who suffered from subclinical hypothyroidism. Their baseline TSH averaged at 9.1 mlIU/L, but after 10 sessions the TSH was normalised in 227 (97%) of women. Their TSH averaged 2.2 mlU/L after the red and infrared light therapies.

Red light therapy stimulates collagen production in the joints and supports the healing of bones and joint tissues. This would provide relief from the symptoms of arthritis including joint pain, swelling, and restriction of movements.

Pain and stiffness in the muscles and ligaments could be reduced to a great extent by undergoing red light therapy. It stimulates healing of strained, injured, or sprained muscles, tendons, and ligaments and provides relief from pain.

Red light therapy can prevent degenerative changes in the brain and slow down the progress of traumatic brain injury, ischemic stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease as well as age related cognitive decline.

Red light and near infrared light benefits on brain health:

• Improves cognitive performance and memory
• Boosted and improved mitochondrial function of cells
• Improved cellular repair of damaged neurons
• Protective effect on neurons
• Decrease brain inflammation

The brain, among the muscles and heart have the greatest mitochondrial density. Mitochondria dysfunction, poor circulation and brain inflammation are very common in conditions such as traumatic brain injury, stroke, or Parkinson’s disease which explains the positive response to red and near infrared light therapy.

Neuroinflammation is a crucial pathophysiological finding in brain disorders which is why red/near infrared light can exude another benefit as it addresses the inflammatory pathways. It does this by reducing pro-inflammatory cytokines and increases anti-inflammatory cytokines.