Liz Earle

Don't be too harsh with it, exactly, especially if your skin is broken or irritated in any way.

But you get used to it and you almost become healthily addicted, I find.

Ooh, so this is something that I am actually a fan of.

And I think, you know, when you think about red light, you know, what is it?

It's basically just the ancient practice of sunlight getting up at sunrise when we are surrounded by an abundance of natural red light and near infrared light.

Which is what we used to do in ancestral times.

We would get up with the sun and we would go to bed with the sun.

So that lovely light, that red light glow that you get early in the morning or at sunset has been shown to be incredibly beneficial.

And again, there are studies that show that it will help with inflammation, reducing inflammation, speeding up the production of collagen, for example, within the skin.

So I do think that there is merit.

And I think we're going to be seeing more

of red light therapy, sometimes known as photobiomodulation.

And there are clinical studies going on for all sorts of degenerative diseases and showing some quite impressive results, actually.

No, I mean, you do need to have a certain wavelength.

So it's normally 630 to 850 nanometers range.

So you can get various different devices.

If you are going to get a home use device, my advice would be to go to something that's FDA certified.

approved or medically certified you can get medically certified devices and you can have everything from a face mask that you that you wear to a red light panel that you sit in front of during the day for example you can have whole saunas filled with red lights there are lots of different ways of doing it and i think particularly because we've become so indoors yeah

and disconnected from that natural frequency, that wavelength, that I think as human beings we are actually meant to connect with.

And I think that there is some very interesting research when you look at circadian biology and the kind of rise of natural living and the circadian rhythm, red light very much taps into that.