The Red Light Report

Research: Photobiomodulation Prior to Radiotherapy & Full-Body Red Light Therapy For Augmented Sleep/Recovery

Dec 15, 2022

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Another solosode of The Red Light Repor t means another episode of exciting photobiomodulation research: the first article explores at how pre-conditioning cancer cells with red light affects the subsequent radiation treatment; the second article investigates elite athletes and how their sleep and recovery responds to full-body red light therapy.

Within these two articles, we continue to learn about novel ways that red light therapy can be integrated to positively impact health. This includes innovative ways to pre-condition our body with this healing light to reduce the amount of radiation necessary along with newfound results that full-body RLT may reduce the total time of sleep (but not sleep quality), meaning that it may actually improve the efficiency of your body (i.e., glymphatic system) to restore and recover your body while you are asleep. All very fascinating!

I continue to be impressed and excited by this research on a weekly basis and am delighted that I get to share it with you all. Be sure to light up your holidays and, as always, light up your health!

Dr. Mike Belkowski discusses the following:

4:36 - Effect of low level light therapy before radiotherapy in oral squamous cell carcinoma - research from December 2022
6:17 - Measuring dosages
8:16 - Mitigating side effects of radiotherapy
11:37 - Full-body photobiomodulation therapy is associated with reduced sleep duration and augmented cardiorespiratory indicators of recovery
16:04 - Connecting it to BioLight's study on HRV (Heart rate variability)
18:30 - Study results on athletic recovery
19:00 - Red light therapy beds
19:42 - Optimizing light irradiance
22:22 - Getting the correct amount of joules
24:12 - Back to the article at hand
24:29 - More is not better
30:22 - Athletic performance
30:57 - Study results
31:10 - Effects on sleep
33:20 - Article summary