SPOTLIGHT | Red Light Therapy Masterclass - Boosting Health at the Cellular Level with Bryant Meyers

Have you ever wondered how specific wavelengths of light can boost your health and vitality? Discover the transformative power of red light therapy - also known as Low Level Light Therapy (LLLT) or Photobiomodulation (PBM) - with Bryant Meyers, a leading expert in energy-based therapies. Together we delve into the practical aspects of integrating red light therapy into your everyday routine for optimal health benefits. Learn about the significant differences between red light and far infrared light therapy, including their effects on circulation, detoxification and mitochondrial function. We get clear about how red and near-infrared light penetrate deep into the body, stimulating mitochondria and enhancing cellular energy production. Bryant shares how these therapies can improve collagen production, aid in recovery and combat inflammation - likening our body's use of light energy to solar panels converting sunlight into electricity. Bryant offers advice on selecting the right equipment for effective results, emphasizing the importance of specific wavelengths and irradiance levels while balancing natural sunlight exposure to maximize benefits without risking skin damage. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the benefits of red light therapy for improved vitality and well-being.

Bryant Meyers is an author, speaker, and expert on both Red Light Therapy and PEMF technology - dedicating his career to educating others on harnessing energy for healing and optimal health. Bryant's work empowers individuals to tap into the transformative potential of energy-based therapies.

Do check out our longer guest episode with Bryant - PEMF Therapy & Frequency Devices.

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Speaker 1 0:04

Welcome to the future of wellness, exploring self transformation and holistic healing to unlock your inner potential. Hosted by Christabel Armston and Keith Parker. Hello and welcome to this Spotlight episode. Today, we're joined by Bryant Myers, author, speaker and expert on both red light therapy and PMF technology. Dedicating his career to educating others on harnessing energy for healing and optimal health, bryant's work empowers individuals to tap into the transformative potential of energy-based therapies. Welcome back to the future of wellness for today's Spotlight episode.

Speaker 2 0:45

I'm glad to be here. This is going to be a nice little topic here. Red light, one of my favorites, along with PMF.

Speaker 1 0:55

Looking forward to it, and we've already unearthed some confusion just in talking to you in the opening few minutes here, so I'm looking forward to learning more today. For those unfamiliar, could you explain initially what red light therapy is and how it works at a fundamental level? So what is it that makes it unique compared to other modalities in energy medicine?

Speaker 2 1:11

Yeah, red light therapy is. It's using light to create energy in the body. So the interesting thing about red light is we do get it from the sun. In fact, a big portion of the sunlight is both the red and near infrared, which is used in red light therapy panels, and the interesting thing is, nature's learned how to harness this energy, or this light energy, to create ATP and energy in the cells, in the mitochondria, and it does this in a similar way that solar panels work. It's just, you know solar panels. You're getting a photon of light, and it creates like an electricity that goes to your house, and each solar panel is rated for a certain wavelength, and so, in the cells, the mitochondria has cytochrome C oxidase, which has this range of wavelengths that can absorb just like solar panels light to create electricity, which is the form of ATP. So the electron transport chain is like an electrical flow that's ultimately creating ATP energy. So the interesting thing about red light, though, is the deepest penetrating of all the wavelengths of light. So you can do a little experiment with a flashlight in a dark room. You ever do that. You put your flashlight on the other side of your hand and you can see the light come through. What color comes through? It's red, right, and that's because red light and near infrared are the deepest penetrating wavelengths of light of all the wavelengths, so the deepest penetrating. So it's no accident nature has harnessing the deepest penetrating wavelengths to create energy. Again, we're like a 3D solar panel. We have all these little mitochondria that have the porphyrins Porphyrins think of porphyrins as solar panels, because you can make a solar panel with porphyrins and that's what cytochrome C oxidase in the mitochondria is.

Speaker 2 2:56

We are literally, well, we're kind of hybrid engines, right, we can't 100% harness energy from light alone. We do need food, but people don't realize that we do photosynthesize like plants, it's just not 100%. We do still require food for the energy production, but a lot of people don't know that light also creates energy in the body. That's a big part of how our mitochondria work and if we don't get sunlight and light therapy, we're not going to have optimal levels of energy and health. So we are beings of light. We literally are beings of light and we can use light to create energy, just like plants can Just not 100% like plants.

Speaker 2 3:41

Just briefly, what is a porphyrin? It's a molecule. The easiest way for me to describe it is. It's like a light absorbing molecule. It's like a ring-like carbon structure. It's one of the most important molecules in all of nature. Chlorophyll is porphyrin based. Again, this is what absorbing light. It's like a little mini solar panel.

Speaker 2 4:02

Hemoglobin is a porphyrin, has porphyrins. You have liver detoxing enzymes that have porphyrins. Cytochrome C oxidase, which is again in the mitochondria, one of the most important molecules in your whole mitochondria cytochrome C, because that's where oxygen is literally anchoring and docking as the final electronic scepter to create ATP energy. So these porphyrins are the ring. It's like one ring to rule them all kind of thing right. It's like the most. In fact, there's an article I wrote or I read that was like this is perhaps the most important molecule in nature, kind of question mark. I mean it's debatable, but you can make a good case for porphyrins as being the most important because they're like. They're the ones that are like little mini solar panels that are absorbing light and creating energy for plants and, in the mitochondria, for animals could you just describe so red light therapy.

Speaker 3 4:52

People basically buy panels that have the emission of the frequency of red light, right?

Speaker 2 4:59

so the the very specific what they found. Uh, tina karu and others have found that again in the mitochondria, the cytochrome C oxidase not to be too technical, it's where oxygen gets docked in the mitochondria, because we all know we need oxygen to create energy right, and it's the final electron acceptor. By the docking of oxygen, red light therapy helps to improve oxygen docking and then it helps to boost the electrons, like a solar panel, into a higher energy state that ultimately creates more ATP. So, red light therapy. They found that the wavelengths that you need are between roughly 600 to 670 or 680, and then again 800 to 870 or 880.

Speaker 2 5:42

Those ranges are what cytochrome C oxidase resonates to, because that's what has the maximal biological effect to interact with cytochrome C. And it's just like most solar panels are rated for a wavelength. I mean, certainly most solar panels have peak wavelength resonances. So too we have a peak resonance in the 600 to 700, 800 to 900 range, roughly, resonance in the 600 to 700, 800 to 900 range, roughly. So that's why you see most red light panels with, like 660, 850 is a common. Even better yet is doing 630, 660, 810, 850. So the better you can cover those biologically active ranges, the more photons of light your mitochondria can absorb to create energy.

Speaker 1 6:23

Our focus today is on red light therapy. I mentioned there at the beginning. Some confusion came up when we were talking pre-recording. I think this is going to be really helpful for our audience If you could briefly explain the difference between what red light therapy is and far infrared therapy.

Speaker 2 6:38

With red light therapy and light therapy you're using light to create energy. It's exciting electrons, the photoelectric effect. So this is not thermal. This is not heating up like photosynthesis in plants is not about heating the plant up. It's about absorbing light and boosting electrons to higher energy states that create ATP energy in the plant, because ATP is the universal currency of energy in all of life. So creating that electrical flow is what red light is doing, both in plants and animals. So it's more of a again non-thermal interaction with light and biology to improve. In plants it improves the functioning of the chlorophyll and the whole process of photosynthesis. In animals it helps to power up the mitochondria to produce more ATP. But in either case, red light and near-infrared are working to increase mitochondrial function.

Speaker 2 7:33

Far-infrared now is the thermal effects of light. These are longer wavelengths because the atoms and molecules are too small. These longer wavelengths do jiggle and rotate and move atoms around and that's why things get hot. People don't sometimes realize well what makes something hot. Hot it's the atoms are jiggling faster. The faster they jiggle, the hotter it gets. So far infrared will jiggle the molecules in your body and heat things up. So it's good for detox. It's good. Yes, it does indirectly help circulation and lymphatic movement and so, but it's a thermal effect. You're sweating, I mean you know it's heat because, and when you're out in the sun you feel the warmth from the far, more of the middle to far infrared wavelengths you know the visible light doesn't have. You're not feeling the heat from the visible light, you're feeling the heat from the infrared, and about half of the sun's output is infrared. The other half is visible UV roughly 50-50, not exactly, but about so most of the light from the sun, or about half the light from the sun, that we don't even see it because we don't. Our eyes can't, you know, can't see anything that's infrared or, you know, even near infrared. We about 700 to 750 nanometers, which is like your deep red. You go beyond that and it just becomes invisible. So, some of these red light panels, it looks like half the bulbs are turned on and the other half are turned off. Well, no, the 850 ones, you just can't see them because our eyes can't tune into anything above 750 nanometers.

Speaker 2 9:05

Again, the difference between bioelectricity and thermal and heat. Right, electricity and heat are different things. Boosting electrons, creating electrical flow, is not the same as heating something up or jiggling the molecules, and that's important. A lot of people get confused. They think, oh, red light therapy, I have a sauna. Is that the same? No, it's not the same thing, but they're both good. Actually, I recommend both far infrared sauna and a good red light panel setup, or a bed, if you can afford it at least, or a full body red light panel setup. Most of the red light pads and little things are not that great. The radiances are too small. That's why you have to get like a panel, because you need little fans. If you get enough irradiance, you need fans to cool it down, because you're not going to get that in a mat.

Speaker 3 9:56

Thank you for clarifying the difference between the two. It is really helpful. What might red light therapy be suggested for in terms of conditions or the kinds of benefits people may experience from it?

Speaker 2 10:06

I know you mentioned about like oxygen docking, et cetera In my book on red light therapy I have a whole chapter on all the benefits. There's so many, it's all A to Z. But most clinics that have red light beds or panels they're using it for some of the main reasons are for skin, because it does improve collagen, helps with wrinkles and skin. It's being used now a lot for pain relief and injuries and recovery and also for believe it or not body sculpting, weight loss and cellulite. But the primary mechanism why red light works for all these things, it's working in powering up the mitochondria, because mitochondria dysfunction is at the root of chronic inflammation in most disease. If you really kind of drill down, like why we get cancer and heart disease and all these things, drill down and drill down, you get down to inflammations there all the time. But what's even beyond that is mitochondrial dysfunction is the source, primary source of inflammation is the ROS from mitochondrial dysfunction. So Alzheimer's is being linked to my.

Speaker 2 11:10

It just means the mitochondria aren't working properly. Sometimes they shrink, sometimes you lose the number of mitochondria and the mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell right. So think of a city with power plants and some of them are closing down. You're not going to get as much power, you might get more blackouts right. So as we age our mitochondria diminish in number and quality and size and that's not good. That means our ATP levels and we know this from good research that as we get older, atp declines. So I would say the primary reason why red light helps the body to heal itself for just about everything is it's increasing ATP, it's improving mitochondrial function function and it's been shown to increase the number of mitic. It's called mitochondrial, mitochondrial biogenesis. Where you can, red light therapy can help to increase the number of mitochondria as well as their size and quality and function, and by doing this you shut off inflammation, turn on healing. All this happens from increasing atp. How?

Speaker 3 12:10

much is being outside in the sun, a substitute for this.

Speaker 2 12:15

I mean again, the sun is. I mean, if you look at, I think it's like 37 or 40% red and near infrared. I mean it's again, if you can spend more time in the sun, you are getting red light therapy. Now the downside is, unlike red light panels don't have UV, so you're not going to get a sunburn. Or if you go, spend too much time in the sun, you get a sunburn and cause skin damage where you won't get that with red light. But the problem also is that the average person is spending 93% of their time indoors or inside cars. We're not getting enough sunlight. That's the other problem I mean. So yeah, in a perfect world, if we could spend time out in nature, we'd be getting nature's PMF, we'd be getting barefoot, we would be getting natural microcurrents from the earth, and if we were out in the sun, we'd be getting red light therapy naturally from the sun. But people don't do that.

Speaker 3 13:03

What would be your recommendation for natural sunlight therapy? How much time should a person spend a day outside? If you?

Speaker 2 13:10

start to get a sunburn and you're starting to peel, the next day you know you've done too long. It's that simple. Just don't get burned. So if you're just red or tan and you're not peeling, you're probably fine. But if you're out in the sun and you're constantly getting burned and you're constantly peeling, that's when you start to increase your risk for type of problems with the skin. Right, but to I mean the sun is very therapeutic. So I mean I recommend people getting their full solar panel out in the sun, which, if you have the privacy to do it, great. If not, you can wear like a little speedo or something. But the more skin, the more skin you got exposed, the better.

Speaker 2 13:46

In the early 1900s they had um heliotherapy clinics in europe where they would they would heal tuberculosis, all kinds of stuff, with the sun. But they do it high in the Alps, high in the mountains, because they felt that the mountain air was also part of the healing. Try to take as much of your clothes off as you can If you're going to do heliotherapy within reason I mean, if you're in a neighborhood, you got to be respectful but get your full solar panel out in the sun. It's really therapeutic to do that.

Speaker 1 14:16

We recorded an excellent episode with you regarding pmf therapy and talked about how people can make use of the mats and the different frequencies for healing purposes. How is it that somebody would go about um, putting a red light therapy protocol, say, into their life? Are they looking to purchase a panel? Is it something that's used daily, weekly, uh, what? What might that look like?

Speaker 2 14:34

In my opinion. You want to get a full body setup, okay, then you want to do front and back. So don't settle for cheap red light. It's just like PMF. Don't get these little full body mats that are like little sleeping bags that got red light on the top and bottom. The irradiance is the power. This is important. You need a certain amount of power or radiance for red light to be therapeutic. A lot of these cheap mats that we talked about in the last video that have red light in PMF and far-infrared the radiance is Christmas tree light, it's decoration.

Speaker 2 15:05

You're not getting therapy from an irradiance below 5 milliwatts per centimeter squared. So you need at least to me, at least 30 milliwatts per centimeter squared, which is only going to come from a panel that has fans to cool it. Because if you lace red light into a mat, you know it's underpowered, because it would be. You know if they use the high power bulbs it'd be a fire hazard. And then you want the right wavelengths. You know you want your. Ideally you know 810 or 850, then you want your 630 660. That's a common blend, and if you throw in a 900 plus, that's. That's good for other things too, but it's a little beyond the scope of this. I would say the the mitochondrial benefits are the main thing, and that we know cytochrome c works at absorbing 600 to 670, 680, and again 800 to 860, 870. So, and again, most panels do have the wavelengths right.

Speaker 3 16:02

I really appreciate your insights here about red light therapy. If people are interested, they'll be able to go and check out your site. You have a lot of great resources on a YouTube channel et cetera, and we'll make sure to put those resources on the episode page.

Speaker 2 16:17

You can read my book for free right now on red light therapy wwwredlightbooknet. And then you know, bryantmyerscom. People want to contact me. All my contact information is there.

Speaker 1 16:33

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