Red and near infrared lights – can they help degenerative neurological diseases?
Coronets are being used in clinical trials – there’s much to celebrate!
It is a tad over two years since Ron Brown and I started designing the ideal trans-cranial red and near infrared light device for medical research. We based our design on two things:
The term brain fog is not an official medical term, but we all know what it means, and we have all experienced it. Serious and creative thinking is hard enough to do at the best of times, but when brain fog descends, it is even more difficult. Unfortunately brain foggery seems to happen more often as we get older which is even more frustrating…
Continue reading “Mental clarity vs brain fog”It seems so self-evident that sunlight is vital to life that it almost doesn’t need to be said. But what does light do to the body apart from enabling us to see things more clearly?
Continue reading “Light on the brain”In the last blog post, I told you about an excellent article called How and why does photobiomodulation change brain activity.
An ardent reader would know that I tend to wax lyrical about the way that red and near infrared light works directly and indirectly on the cell batteries, the mitochondria. The mitochondria contain special proteins that are able to respond to the light pulse. Some of these proteins are quite famous, like cytochrome c oxidase, which has been well studied and probably has its own fan club.
But guess what. Even if there is no cytochrome c oxidase present, mitochondria still respond to light.
Continue reading “Water and light…”I’ve been reading a journal article by Professors John Mitrofanis and Luke Henderson of the University of Sydney.
The title says it all: How and why does photobiomodulation change brain activity?
Continue reading “The Brain Orchestra”Prof Glen Jeffrey at University College London released the results of a small study looking at the effect of red lights (deep red 670nm in particular).
Prof Jeffrey’s work has been previously described in this blog. He and his team have clearly shown that deep red light is good for eyes.
Remember, though, only use LED lights.
Never ever use lasers on your eyes!
You can make your own eye light using LED strip and an old pair of glasses – here’s a link to a recent post showing a home-made eye light.
Red lights on the brain 