Evan Bernstein

They say they've got something a little plausible here, but the enthusiasm is racing ahead of the clinical evidence.

It was a 2026 study on how at-home red light therapy devices are promoted on social media, of course, and explicitly framed those promotions in the context of that limited evidence.

And we see this a lot.

It's all over wellness culture.

You take a real mechanism, you add some small studies, strip away all the caveats, and

And then you market it as some kind of life hack or life upgrade.

But before long, the modest possibility that something may help a little becomes almost a certainty that it will help a lot.

There's the hype machine for you overselling what it is actually doing.

So we have every reason, I think, to be skeptical.

Lots of reasons to be skeptical about red light therapy, except for some maybe very specific uses.

Oh, I see.

Right, and I don't think the products you're buying in the mall are doing that.

Basically.

And it's interesting what you brought up, Steve.

Is there a condition by which a person could have an ailment in which their cells are not producing enough energy?

That's what I was thinking as well.

Right.

Unless you have scurvy or something and need more vitamin C. Yeah.

Some of us don't hyper dose on vitamin C.

They seem to have studies, though, that say it's good for wrinkles.