Dr. Paul Anderson
The Incredible Impacts of RED-LIGHT THERAPY
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Dr. A discusses the growing popularity of red light therapy, exploring its benefits and the medical parameters of the red end of the light spectrum.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:38 What Is Red Light Therapy?
03:49 Benefits of Mixed Red and Near Infrared Spectra
05:37 How Red Light Penetrates the Skin
07:50 Systemic Effects of Near Infrared Therapy
10:13 How Red and Infrared Light Boost Mitochondria
12:00 COVID Recovery and Light Therapy
12:43 Dosing Basics: Light Wavelength and Power
14:24 Individual Reactions to Mitochondrial Activity
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what I want to talk to today about are benefits that can be found in the spectrum of red light therapy and this one I want to get into why is it becoming so popular why are we hearing about it so much and what are the parameters around which the red end of the spectrum of light works medically speaking welcome to my YouTube channel I'm do a and I have been involved in teaching and research in the integrative and naturopathic Community for 30 years now and I've been seeing patients for decades and I use this channel to answer a lot of questions and do patient education so let's dive into this so the first thing is what is you know quote red light therapy because you might think well you know am I going to paint a light bulb bread and you know that'll help heal me somehow and to to a degree that might happen but normally we talk about red light therapy especially under the opes of the medical therapy called photobiomodulation and there's other names for it as well phototherapy Etc what we're really talking about is either using light in the red end of the photodynamic spectrum or in the near or far infrared end of the spectrum to effect healing what we want to talk about today is what we call Red SL near infrared or red n and the reason I talk about that is that's the most commonly used especially over the counter but really in North America probably the most commonly used medicalized type of medical light therapies that you're going to find so these are really very useful and we just want to demystify a little bit so the spectrum is measured in a small unit of measurement called nanometers and it has to do with the wavelength that that color occupies in the Spectrum so red is going to be somewhere around 600 to 700 nanometers give or take either direction and depending on the chart that you find online you'll see it scooted one way or the other but somewhere up there in the 6700 range and then infrared nowadays is divided actually into three categories infrared a b and c which you also will hear talked about as near Mid and far infrared so those are going to start where red light ends so we're going to start around 700 to 1400 nanm for near infrared and then 14 to 3,000 for for Mid or B and then above 3,000 for far infrared but because most of the light therapies that you're going to see and especially the over the counter ones or the things that you might see recommended online are going to fall in the red/ near IR you're going to be having either a broad group of LEDs or laser devices or whatever that are going to generate six to 700 to cover red and then 7 to 1400 NM to cover near infrared and a l a lot of times what will happen because the modulation is kind of manipulated by the types of light devices that are in the either the tool or the pad or the light device Etc is you'll usually have some red ones that are tuned to a certain red Spectra like 610 is common so you're well into the red end of the spectrum and then you're near infrared might be 810 might be 880 Etc so rather than having sort of this Broadband of 600 all the way to 1,400 you're actually going to probably have like I said 610 630 650 something like that to hit red and then something in the neighborhood above 800 like in 810 880 8850 sometimes other things so then you're hitting red and near infared now one thing that you want to look at on devices if you have them or maybe you're going to a clinic to get them is some devices have just one setting at a time some devices are only red or only near infrared and then some devices have the opportunity to have multiple settings or cycles and there's different benefits we'll talk about next with regard to the different Spectra and how deep they get past your skin and then what kind of benefit that's going to have Downstream on your cells so for example in a clinic that I send people to they have multiple different types of devices but one is is a light bed and the light bed has the option of red only or near infrared only or a cycle going between red and near infrared or a continuous where all of the light devices are on the same time so you're getting continuous red near infrared as you go so you can do this a number of different ways now in order to do that with most of these medical light beds those can be the more expensive type of light devices Etc so if you're looking you know for a lot of the online product do your due diligence on the company make sure they're actually you know rated and UL listed and they sell the proper things but it possible say you're going to get a pad which is real common and you're going to do therapy for some chronic illness or healing from a surgery or something like that then if possible want to have a combo of a red Spectrum like a 610 650 whatever and a near infrared like an 810 880 something of that nature so they're both mixed in there you still get benefits with both but if you can get both going at the same time in my mind you get sort of a broader coverage if you will so the next question that comes up which is really the question we should all be asking is from a medical point of view or a biochemical point of view what is going on why do these light wavelengths go through the skin but then what are they doing once they get there well the first thing is that when we're looking at red and near infrared what we are going to get is red light is going to penetrate through the skin and it's going to get all the way into What's called the subcutaneous tissue so that's a fat layer okay now in the back of your hand it can be very thin or almost non-existent microscopic so to speak in other areas like the fleshy part of your arm it might be a centimeter thick it might be thicker than that depending on how big the person is so the first step is to get into the subcutaneous so red light giv to the subcutaneous and you might say well that doesn't seem very far but here's the reason it's important in the subcutaneous tissue and around it is a giant network of literally billions of tiny capillary and arteriolar beds Etc so there's a lot of uh circulating blood going through so the red light's going to have access to that it's also going to have access all the way from the top of the skin through to the subcutaneous to cells of our immune system that are hanging out in different places so we usually think of cells of the immune system hanging out you know in the bone marrow or or floating around in the blood or in the lymph nodes or something like that which is true but also we have immune cells all over our body that are not in any of those places they're in our tissues and they are sort of First Responders so the red light is going to get to the tissues itself we also have access to that superficial layer of fat the subcutaneous fat that and if you were to cut somebody open in different areas what you would notice is once you got past the dermis you would see a layer of yellow fat cells and that is the subcutaneous fat what you'd also see there is a big network of very tiny blood vessels like we mentioned so red gets all the way down into there which is really pretty good and then near infrared and further into the Spectrum goes through the subcutaneous into the muscle itself now once you get to the muscle you're picking up all of the things on top that we just mentioned in the epidermis the dermis the subcutaneous the local immune cells and the vascular Network and then once you hit the muscle you get pick up two huge things one is the muscle so your skeletal muscle below the subcutaneous fat is what moves you around one of the most large organs in your body that has highly metabolically active cells so we're going to get right to them and their you know mitochondria and their cells and their metabolism but the other thing about the muscle tissue is we now add not just the fine layer of you know billions of little arterials and capillaries and things of subq but now we're adding a lot of massive blood flow that we have access to so once we get into the near infrared and further end of the spectrum we now get to the muscle tissue which not only affects all the above mentioned things but but also it affects everything flowing through the muscle your muscle is extremely well profused with blood which is not just going to stay here so if I put a you know red n infrared pad on my shoulder and my arm I'm not just treating the muscles and and the skin and the subcutaneous there I'm treating the massive amount of blood flow that's going to flow through that area that the pad is on and so you can start to see that you're going to have a systemic effect now as I said red is fine all on its own you get a 610 pad or a 650 or a 680 pad you're going to get red light effect you're going to affect all those surface tissues you're going to affect the immune cells you're going to affect all those miles of capillary beds and the subcutaneous fat Etc if you add on or you cycle in red Plus near infrared then you're going to add in the deeper layer the bigger amount of metabolic tissue being the muscle and then the larger amount of blood flow going through which means also then the red blood cells white blood cells and other immune cells are going to benefit as use near and fored type of procedure so there's lots of different ways to do it but when it comes to dosing what we really thinking about what dosing is what kind of spectrum can I get then how long should I do it and then how often but before we get to that let me just break down what is the benefit for my cells well once red and near infrared light get to the mitochondria inside your cell they're going to do a group of things the first thing is they're going to directly turn up the energy inside of your cells and they're going to do this through affecting the mitochondria and the rate at which oxida phosphorilation goes through your mitochondria so your cellular respiration is going to speed up so that's the first thing the energy is going to go up when you raise energy one of the things you will do especially if you've been sick but even under the best of circumstances is inadvertently you're going to create cellular respiration but you can throw off a lot more oxidants a lot more free radicals Pro oxidation well it turns out that a nice benefit of red and Nan for red light depending on how deep they're going is that they directly decrease the free radical buildup and the oxidated formation so you're getting the benefit of energy without the benefit of oxidation because a red light is taken care of that and then through those and some other means you are going to help the cell not only to Kickstart and to work faster but you're going to help the cell to build up more healing capacity because if you have a sick cell that is running slowly and the mitochondria in the cell are running slowly it cannot heal like it ought to this is one of the reasons why in the medical research and now with some human research that's been done people who got exposed to Red near and fored therapy for example in their lungs had better outcomes when they were hospitalized with covid and during the darker days of covid when we were trying to get people over long covid and getting them out of the hospital may be very sick we did a lot of Home Therapy where they would just order a red light MAT online or two and they would do a therapeutic red near infrared over wherever was bothering them might have been their pelvic organs might have been their chest could be just about anywhere where you do that now to wrap this up the final part is kind of the dosing and as we say at the beginning of all of these this is for information only I'm not your doctor so you shouldn't take anything I say as medical advice just explaining how these things work if you are going to do photodynamic medical therapy please work with somebody who's licensed to do that but the basics of dosing essentially are going to be light wavelength power and then times those three aspects of dosing but generally speaking for example when we would have our patients get home from the hospital from covid and they were going to do a red near infrared mat therapy you know over their chest let's say that lingering pneumonitis or something like that what we would do if they could get two mats is have one on the back and one on the front because that mimics the research that was done and then we would have them run them with red near infrared both running and then we would run them for somewhere between 15 to 30 minutes on both sides of them two to three times a day now again if you're going to be doing more medicalized therapy or lowlevel laser therapy or something with a lot more wattage power Etc you really need somebody who knows exactly how to dose those things but with these home units that's what we were doing so if they were acute meaning they did just recovered at home where they just got home from the hospital we would have them do that every day for maybe two weeks and then kind of titrate backwards to whatever they needed it might have been 5 days a week after that for a little bit or 3 days a week Etc but generally the more you can do on the front end the better now the one thing that you do need to keep in mind is whether you're doing it over your shoulder or over your chest or your pelvic organs or maybe the big muscles in your legs you need to remember that you're going to be kicking up your mitochondrial activity which kicks up the metabolism so if you're prone to things you know like feeling woozy when you don't eat for a while or something like that metabolism going to speed up now it does actually level your blood sugar out but still if you if you haven't been eating in a long time you might feel very hungry afterwards you might feel like you don't want to go to sleep so we we recommend people don't do it right before bed unless they know it makes them tired some people it does but because of the mitochondrial increase in activity some people would actually feel this increase in energy and then they'd be like well I was planning to go to bed but and and then now you stay up for a while and kind of burn that energy off that's the one caveat that you want to think about with it generally speaking the pads that you can get over the counter are going to be red near infrared or both they're going to be at a wattage that's fairly moderate but it's still going to penetrate like we said and they're going to be ex extremely safe so used as the manufacturer recommends they're going to be extremely safe if you're going to do anything else that kicks it up a not into laser therapies or other stuff please work with a healthc care provider who does that type of therapy all right well this is one of a series that we're going to do about red light therapy I'm Dr a thanks so much for all of you who have joined a subscriber to the channel if you haven't please like share subscribe 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Thanks from Brazil! I am a functional and regenerativa Doctor, and I have been using photobiomodulation for a decade with excelent results
Can you review kts? Prostate therapy
Doc, you are the man! Thank you very much!!!
Do you need to wear goggles every time you use the devices?? Thx
Has done nothing for me
Thank you
Can you suggest a good product?
Where can I get effective Red light therapy items that are reasonably priced and tried by many people
I bought a full spectrum grow light because it was so cheap compared to the Therapy panels. I hope this is OK.
Left without being clear of what red light does for you. Great to hear about different types ect.. lots of you get benefits but what is the benefit?
Can red light therapy help cancer patients
Exquisite!!!
Most devices have far less red intensities than does sunlight. Sun has all other wavelengths, but how does a low power LED or even laser, deliver more red light than just sitting in the sun?
Do you know if this red light would help people with neurofibromatosis 1 ? It's in my spine and starting to effect my legs making it painfully difficult to walk.
Shalom and thank you Dr. A for sharing this.
Light is a powerful force indeed.
Who edited your video it is kind of disturbing to watch.
Been using red light for awhile and I appreciate your detailed explanations. Very helpful
have you done any further studies with Red light therapy WITH methaylene Blue/asorbic acid ?
if you're " increasing blood flow" , how would that affect cancer cells who are busy creating blood vessels to feed them ?
Does it help for brain fog and fatigue?
Sitting on a bench facing a red light affect the body from the rear such as a sore back
Clearly explained, useful information. Thank you.
thank you very much for the education and information sharing Dr Ander..
I have a FAR Infrared Sauna. How does that compare to what you have been talking about with Red Light and Near Infrared?
i just built a little setup for healing my turf toe. feels amazing!
I have red/ infrered pod, love it , my overall health has improved significantly, my hip pain diminished . I go naked into it. I wanted to use it for mu elderly mum, but she would not take her clothes off, would it still be beneficial if she was in her nighties?
love this so much !
I’m afraid that because of the heat produced in NIR, it will burn necessary fat in my face. 🤷🏼♀️
Dr Anderson. Can you please explain the benefit of red NIR red light 600-850 for 10-20 minutes to organs and which ones done under the feet. Thank you I appreciate. I have a Joovv 600 -850.
Thankyou, very informative. ❤
Thank you for this Great Video 👍🏼😍
What is disgraced Cardinal Law doing on YouTube with quack science??
Wow….great video
UVB light is higher frequency and more effective. I use the BluRoom. People have been healed of cancer with it.
So what about radiation
Is this going cause cancer ?
There is an easier way. No expensive equipment, no need to be able to use for 20 mins a day. It's wearable phototherapy – regenerates stem cells in your body every day. Cost of a cup of coffee a day! Ask me how, happy to send the links / science / Testimonials. Proven by science and patented – it 100% works
I am on Warfarin, a blood thinner, for artificial heart valve. Is Infrared okay with blood thinner, and is there a safe level, a safe system to use either this or Red Light therapy?
Best explanation on YT.
Go out at the sunrise where there is red and purple light
Can it help with motor neurones disease
What do you think about red light therapy with Malasma skin condition?
I wonder if thats why its so relaxing to look at fire in a fireplace or woodstove
Has anyone used Ultralux Health Box? It has Red and NIR options.
Best explanation!
Is this type of therapy a cure for morgellens?