Light therapy goes back thousands of years, there are references to it in ancient Greece and ancient Egypt of applying different colored lights to the body for therapeutic effects. In 1903, a Danish scientist by the name of Finsen was awarded a Nobel Prize for his contribution to the treatment of diseases with concentrated light radiation, opening the science of phototherapy.
The science was originally named Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) as Lasers were being developed starting in the 1960s, but has since been renamed Photobiomodulation (PBM) because lasers are not the only light sources to provide therapeutic benefits. Photobiomodulation describes how light can create a biochemical change in the body. Light sources include Lasers, LEDs, and broadband light, in both the visible and near-infrared spectrum.
Going back over 10 years ago, it was the general consensus in the scientific community that light therapy was snake oil, despite the fact that naturopaths, acupuncturists, and chiropractors were all using low-level light therapy devices with their patients with extraordinary success. But because the scientific community had not yet found a way to document exactly how this was working, they wrote it off as quackery and dismissed the importance of phototherapy in general.
The good news is that over the course of the last 10 years, this has completely changed, and the science of photobiomodulation has made its way into medical schools, with publications such as the Journal of Biophotonics specifically dedicated to the scientific study of light therapy.
You may be asking why it has taken over a century since the award of a Nobel Prize for this science to find its way into medical schools and be taken seriously. The answer is the discovery of penicillin and the development of antibiotics in the 20th century. These treatments were originally so successful that light therapy was not viewed as necessary, the science was not further developed, and the use of light therapy was eventually supplanted by antibiotics. With current issues around the overprescribing and growing resistance of antibiotics, science is coming full circle, with blue light therapy being studied at Purdue and Boston Universities to cure MRSA infections that resist antibiotics.
How exactly is light converted biochemically to signal our bodies to respond to it? Russian researcher Tiina Karu has identified the precise biochemical converter of light in the mitochondria that uses different frequencies or wavelengths of light to signal in a way that cells can understand and respond to with biochemical changes.
This, in fact, is the science behind one of the most remarkable new therapies available in 2019, LifeWave’s X39 Stem Cell wearable technology, a patch that uses infrared light to stimulate the skin and activate receptors in the body, signaling mitochondria to elevate a peptide, which in turn activates stem cells already in the body, providing numerous benefits in the area of regeneration and anti-aging.
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