Red light therapy biohacking is an individualized approach to wellness fueled by technology and the desire for greater control over our bodies. Common techniques used include nutritional (intermittent fasting, nutrigenomics), physical (cryotherapy/HIIT training), cognitive (nootropics) and genetic biohacking techniques.
Photobiomodulation therapy, commonly known as photobiomodulation, acts like photosynthesis to the body – increasing energy production and providing benefits such as:
Acupuncture
Red light therapy has quickly become an acclaimed wellness trend among fitness and beauty enthusiasts, drawing them towards its many health and beauty benefits, including improving skin health, stimulating hair growth, relieving muscle and joint pain relief, stimulating cell regeneration, improving sleep quality and more. Best of all, red light therapy is noninvasive treatment option that can be seamlessly incorporated into a comprehensive wellness journey.
Red light therapy should be combined with other forms of treatments, such as acupuncture, meditation, intermittent fasting and breathing exercises to optimize its efficacy and create synergistic effects. Combining red light therapy with acupuncture reduces stress levels while encouraging mental clarity and increasing cellular repair; using infrasound vibration devices such as Sensate stimulates your vagus nerve to help instantly reduce stress levels.
Red light therapy is often utilized by athletes to speed their muscle recovery and performance. This therapy targets mitochondria, increasing energy production for enhanced training sessions and performance. Red light therapy can also promote healthy circadian rhythms, blood circulation improvements and natural healing processes in the body. Red light therapy sessions should be kept short and regular so your cells can take in all available energy at one time.
Cryotherapy
Cryotherapy is an increasingly popular biohack that can provide pain relief, balance stress hormones, boost testosterone, reduce inflammatory responses and enhance muscle recovery while simultaneously improving circadian rhythm and skin health. All these benefits are achieved by inhibiting pro-inflammatory cytokines while activating anti-inflammatory ones – all things cryotherapy is designed to do!
Photobiomodulation therapy, more commonly referred to as PBM, uses non-ionizing wavelengths of light to penetrate the skin and activate cells by stimulating mitochondria (the powerhouses of your cells) to produce more adenosine triphosphate, the body’s energy currency.
Red and near-infrared lights do not cause DNA damage, while red and near-infrared wavelengths stimulate protein light receptors that enable mitochondria to absorb more energy and increase output.
Red light also stimulates collagen production, helping reduce wrinkles and increase skin elasticity while aiding hair growth, speeding muscle recovery, and alleviating any associated inflammation, arthritis, injuries or soreness pain. For optimal results, opt for red light therapy panels rather than masks and handheld devices as these offer greater power and spectrum coverage to increase benefits. FlexBeam panels provide full-body irradiation, perfect for targeting specific areas like crow’s feet or muscle recovery after workouts. Plus, their portable nature makes them suitable for traveling or incorporating into daily life routines. Visit an AEON Clinic consultation session today to discover how incorporating one into your wellness regime can enhance its benefits!
Meditation
Meditation can be an invaluable biohacking tool, both mentally and physically. It can reduce stress, improve productivity and sleep quality as well as heart rate regulation. Furthermore, it helps increase body awareness to allow better caretaking of yourself.
With so many types of meditation available today, it can be hard to select the one best suited to you. Some techniques involve simply watching your thoughts while others use imagery or music to relax you – all have one thing in common: they improve brain function while decreasing pain levels.
Red light therapy can be an invaluable asset in supporting overall health and wellbeing. Red and near-infrared wavelengths penetrate skin layers, activating mitochondria to produce more energy for cell repair while simultaneously improving gut health, balancing neurotransmitters, and supporting muscle recovery.
Red light therapy stands out from wellness fads by being grounded in research, offering real cellular benefits such as increasing mitochondrial efficiency and producing more ATP (cellular energy). Thus, making red light therapy an invaluable part of any wellness strategy; pairing it with meditation on a regular basis will maximize results from this biohack!
Intermittent Fasting
Red light therapy may seem like another unproven health trend in today’s climate, yet its legitimacy should not be doubted. Far from pseudoscientific folklore, red light therapy operates at the intersection of light and biology to provide profound therapeutic benefits at cellular level.
Red light therapy (LLLT) employs wavelengths of red and near infrared light to activate cells within your body and stimulate energy levels similar to how plants use photosynthesis for photosynthesis. This process helps nourish cells while encouraging their repair; when combined with a diet rich in essential vitamins and supplements it may also speed healing from exercise faster, reduce oxidative stress levels significantly and enhance overall cognitive function.
Cryotherapy is another biohack with proven effectiveness for providing pain relief, balancing hormone levels, increasing testosterone and decreasing inflammation responses. Red light therapy affects production of cytokines – proteins which serve as messengers between stress or inflammation in your body and red light therapy – so when combined together they become even more potency.
Though there are numerous biohacks you can try, the ones most likely to work are often those that you practice regularly. Many top biohackers utilize an “apple a day” strategy: just 10-20 minutes of red light therapy sessions every day or 3-5 times each week will do more good than longer and infrequent sessions.
Breathing Exercises
Red light therapy is an evidence-based approach to optimizing health, performance, and longevity. Working on the molecular level to stimulate mitochondrial production and reduce inflammation, this therapy makes for an excellent skin health tool and overall cellular repair remedy.
Proteins within our cells have the ability to absorb wavelengths of red light and use this influx of nutrient-rich sunlight energy to redistribute energy more evenly throughout our bodies. When combined with breathing exercises such as deep belly breath or “pursed-lip” meditation, this combination can have even greater benefits; breathing activates protein light receptors within cells, making red-light therapy sessions even more active for our proteins and helping them perform their jobs more effectively.
Longevity depends on more than a youthful complexion: It also relies on joint mobility, muscle recovery and the health of your gut microbiome. Red light therapy has been found to effectively address all three factors; especially when combined with short sessions such as those used by biohackers.
Red light therapy sessions can be accomplished through LED masks or handheld devices; however, full-body red light panels offer the most potency at providing powerful cellular-level benefits that will support other health practices more effectively – for instance when combined with intermittent fasting it helps regulate hormones more effectively by providing your body with energy it needs for hormone regulation.
Cellular Repair
Red light therapy is an innovative form of biohacking that activates your body’s natural repair mechanisms, improves cell health, increases energy production and promotes detoxification – making it a useful treatment option for conditions ranging from arthritis and fibromyalgia to acne and dandruff, while simultaneously increasing collagen production and supporting healthy circadian rhythms and sleep.
Near-infrared (NIR) radiation can penetrate more deeply into muscle and tissue than visible light therapy devices can. Modern red light therapy devices combine both visible red and near-infrared wavelengths to treat both skin and muscle tissue at once. Both wavelengths work by stimulating mitochondria, the powerhouses of your cells which produce Adenosine Triphosphate as your source of cellular energy currency.
Breathing exercises combined with red light therapy make an effective combination. Breathing exercises reduce proinflammatory cytokines while increasing anti-inflammatory ones; combined with increased oxygen flow from red light therapy, this allows your cells to heal more quickly while protecting from chronic inflammation damage. Red light also stimulates mitochondria to produce more ATP so cells can repair themselves more efficiently and regenerate better.
Red light therapy is an invaluable asset for optimizing health. It strengthens immunity, improves skin tone and elasticity, reduces fine lines and fades scars as well as accelerates wound healing time. At AEON Clinic, red light therapy is integrated into our holistic wellness programs with proven results for our clients – book a consultation now to find out how you can add red light therapy into your everyday routine!
