Ari Whitten - The Ultimate Guide to Red Light Therapy: How to Use Red and Near-Infrared Light Therapy for Anti-Aging, Fat Loss, Muscle Gain, Performance, and Brain Optimization

The Ultimate Guide to Red Light Therapy

Ari Whitten

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The materials and content contained in this book are for general information and education only and are not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. None of the information in this book should ever be interpreted as a claim of treatment or cure of any medical condition. Readers of this book should not rely exclusively on information provided in this book for their own health needs. All specific medical questions should be presented to your own health care provider. Diagnosis and treatment of any medical conditions are strictly for you to discuss with your doctor.

The intention of this book is to provide information about the scientific research as it relates to red and near-infrared light therapy. We also have attempted to provide guidelines for using red and near-infrared light therapy devices safely. None of the information in this book, and none of the guidelines for safe usage of devices should ever be interpreted as claims of diagnosis, treatment, or cure of any medical condition.

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Contents

Introduction

If there were a pill that was proven to have powerful anti-aging effects on our skin, combat neurological disease, fight depression and anxiety, increase fat loss, speed recovery from exercise, increase strength and endurance, combat certain autoimmune conditions, fight hair loss, and speed healing from injuryall with little to no side effectsit would be a billion-dollar blockbuster drug. Hundreds of millions of people would be told to start taking it by their doctors every day. And doctors all over the world would call it a miracle drug.

Heres the crazy part: That drug exists.

But its not a pill. Its red and near-infrared light.

Red and near-infrared light therapy are one of the biggest breakthrough discoveries in health in the last half century. Scientists have quietly accumulated thousands of studies on the power of red and near-infrared light to enhance human health for the last several decades. And yet, most people have never even heard of it.

Most people think of light simply as the opposite of darkness. Darkness is the absence of light, and light is what illuminates and allows us to see things. Thats the typical way most of us think about light. Thus, the idea that light is getting into our cells and affecting human cell function is often met with blank stares or even people laughing at such a crazy thought. Indeed, most of us are completely unaware that light (very specific types of light) have a profound impact on our health, and are actually necessary nutrients, similar to nutrients from food. Unbeknownst to most people, there are literally over ten thousand studies that have been done on the relationship of different kinds of light to human health. Of these, it is red and near-infrared light that are perhaps the most interesting and powerful in their effects on human health.

But lets back up for a moment: What exactly are red and near-infrared light?

Red and near-infrared light are part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and more specifically, part of the spectrum of light emitted by the sun (and fire light). These wavelengths of light are bioactive in humans. That means that these types of light literally affect the function of our cells.

So whats all this talk of electromagnetic spectrum and spectrum of light? Lets take a look at the electromagnetic spectrum so I can show you more clearly what Im talking about

Electromagnetic waves range from 0.0001 nanometer (gamma rays and x-rays are very small waves) all the way to over centimeters and meters (radar and radio waves).

If you pass white light (like sunlight) through a prism, it will separate out the different colors based on their wavelengths. This is how we get rainbows as well, and you might remember this from school with the acronym ROY. G. BIV, which stands for red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.

Only a tiny part of this spectrumfrom roughly 400nm to 700nmis visible to the human eye.

At the highest end of the visible light spectrum is red light, which goes from a little over 600nm to approximately 700nm. Above the visible light spectrum is near-infrared, from about 700nm to a little over 1,100nm.

It is the red and near-infrared wavelengths specifically that have these amazing effects on our bodies. (Interestingly, even within that range, not all the red and near-infrared wavelengths seem to be created equal. Specifically, most research showing benefits of red and near-infrared light have used wavelengths in the narrow ranges of 630-680nm and 800-880nm. More on this later.)

As youre about to discover in this book, light in these red and near-infrared wavelengths have absolutely incredible effects on human health.

In this book, youll discover the incredible power of red and near-infrared light therapy and how it can help:

• Increase your energy
• Combat aging and make your skin healthier, reduce wrinkles, and help get rid of cellulite
• Speed up fat loss
• Improve muscle recovery and athletic performance
• Improve mood and cognitive function
• Speed healing from injury
• Improve metabolism and hormonal health

Sound too good to be true? Think again!

Red and near-infrared light have already been proven in over 3,000 scientific studies to do all that and more!

The Discovery of How Red and Near-Infrared Light Affect Human Cells

Within documented human history, it is now known that humans have been aware of the power of light to heal for literally thousands of years. Many ancient tribes worshipped the sun or given massive importance to it as a giver of life, for likely tens of thousands of years. But as far as the use of light for therapeutic purposes (photomedicine or photobiomodulation), one could say that it goes back over three thousand years to India. It has even been documented in the Hindu text Atharva Veda, written in 1400 BCE.