Benefits of red light therapy

Red light therapy or photobiomodulation has a profound effect on the skin, improving wrinkles and generating new collagen (70% of the protein in skin)- can help with skin issues such as acne, psoriasis, rosacea and eczema along with decreasing the healing time of burns and infected wounds.

Other benefits:

Improved skin tone

Increased blood flow

Enhanced muscle recovery

Activation of the lymphatic system (body’s waste system)

Increases cellular energy production

Improves hair density and hair thickness.

Beneficial to metabolism and maintaining a healthy weight via the reduction of a certain protein (CTRP7) which is associated with glucose intolerance and insulin resistance.

Controls hunger- in sleep-deprived patients (which increases hunger greatly), study showed that red light helped control levels of the hunger hormones Ghrelin and Leptin.

Positively impacts thyroid health by reducing antibodies that point to an autoimmune disease.

Men- if used down below it can increase fertility and testosterone significantly. What I do is use a lamp without the shade and just stand over top of it.

Choose a bulb that’s between 600-700 nanometers. These are pretty cheap on Amazon and I believe I found one at Walmart as well.