Improving health and wellness by red light therapy treatments

Top benefits of red light therapy treatments

Initially, i was fascinated by one of the most well-known benefits for red light therapy treatment which is skin care. I always heard it was really good for our skin.

People use red and near-infrared light for facial treatments, weight loss and other purposes at spas . You see all those red light therapy masks on Instagram, Facebook, google and other social medias,  that was initially why I wanted to use red light therapy for my skin condition improvement.

It is said that red light therapy helps with collagen production which is good for anti-aging and for acne scars, improve skin tone, reduce and prevent wrinkles, and I am always looking for ways to improve my skin specially when it comes to wrinkle reducing, honestly, when I was reading about all the benefits for red light benefits I was like,  “this is too good to be true!” But once I start to understand how it works in the body then I understood why it would help in so many different areas of our health

A review of a research by Harvard professional Michael Hamblin PHD has found that red and near infrared light therapy can reduce the signs of damage DNA, damage and aging from UV rays it reduce wrinkles, it reduces colour patches, hyper-pigmentation and skin discolouration, it enhances collagen synthesis and collagen density, research has shown that it can enhance production of collagen by 31%, and it accelerates repair in the epithelial of the skin, combats other skin conditions like acne keloids burns herpes and psoriasis and speeds up would healing by enhancing skin tissue repair and growth of skin cells

when it comes to hair care, red light has also been shown to help with certain types of hair loss, red light has proven to help both women and men with various conditions to regrow hair and even thicken the diameter of individual of hair strands, red and near infrared light therapy has proven to help women with alopecia to significantly regrow and thicken hair and also proven to regrow hair in men with hair loss in several studies. Therefore, if you are into the hair care stuff, this is an added benefit.

Red and near infrared light can also help with cellulite, in fact, there was a study showed that red and near infrared light combined with massage led to a 71% reduction in cellulite.

The research regarding the use of red and near infrared light for treating anxiety disorders and depression is promising. Red and near infrared light improves the health of the mitochondria in the brain. The brain is rich with mitochondria, so this is where many people will notice the changes.

Another  benefit is mood and cognitive health. During Chinese New Year, the town where i live in was on a lockdown due to Covi- 19 pandemic, and the weather was cold and humid at that time, i was frustrated and moody because i was not able to go out freely. But  I’ve noticed that since I’ve started using the red light therapy my mood has been much better.

Several studies have indicated that people with depression have abnormal blood flow in the frontal cortex of brain, since red and near infrared light improve blood circulation to the brain, it’s reasonable to believe that this could be part of the mechanism at play.

fitness benefits of red light therapy treatment

This is something that I have been interested because I have been doing workouts, and I have been weightlifting, therefore, I have been researching what is good, muscles are packed with mitochondria so muscle tissue is particularly responsive to red and near infrared light therapy.

• increased muscle mass and strength
• increase endurance and energy
• reduced delayed onset muscle soreness
• speeds up muscle recovery
• promotes quicker healing of injuries
• reduces pain and inflammation
• reduces overall body fat
• and more….

So when you use red and near infrared light before exercise, it can help improve performance and endurance and can prevent muscle damage, and when you use it after exercise, it can help reduce oxidative stress and inflammation which will help speed up muscle repair and recovery, reduce healing times and injuries and reduce pain.

These are the few of many benefits of red light therapy, when I was learning about all this, it makes me want to invest in my own red light therapy device, because it is something that we have to continually doing, incorporate it into our daily or weekly routine.  And it saves time and cost compares with doing  red light therapy treatments at spa or clinic. but that’s going to add up over time and it can get quite expensive,  it can get quite expensive when the cost being added up overtime.

Having a piece of your own red light therapy panel is not going to break your bank as the price of  the device is considerably low.