Exposing the skin to red and near-infrared light can improve skin health, accelerate wound healing, and reduce markers of cellular aging by boosting mitochondrial function.

“Red light passes into the deeper layers of the skin, activates mitochondria, which increases ATP and directly or indirectly reduces these reactive oxygen species.”

Incandescent light is healing for the body, while synthetic LED light lacks the necessary healing wavelengths.

“So, when you're indoors in an environment that's not really natural to humans to be indoors like this, when you have incandescent lighting, you're bringing the natural nature's light indoors and it has this healing effect. So it's not just being used to see things, it actually is healing.”

Sun and red light therapy provide important therapeutic benefits for cellular and metabolic health by penetrating deeply into tissues.

“There is a increase in the efficiency of the mitochondria so this is the key point because if in fact with the theory of mitochondrial aging that we're having a decrease in the efficiency of the mitochondria as we get older if there is something that we can do to reverse that or to at least prevent ”

Natural sunlight, particularly the red and infrared wavelengths, is essential for optimal mitochondrial health and balancing the inhibitory effects of blue light.

“Blue light and isolation is known to inhibit mitochondrial function on the surfaces on your skin eyes and proximal brain regions but red light and infrared light actually have the opposite effects when red and infrared light interact with mitochondria it actually stimulates mitochondrial energy prod”