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  • Red Light Therapy’s Benefits on the Mood

    Red Light Therapy’s Benefits on the Mood

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    Red Light Therapy's benefits have been proven through many studies that have been conducted. The lack of natural light impacts every cell and all body activity. Human beings were created to be able to utilize sunlight to ensure optimal health. Healthy light is vital to the functioning of every cell, and a deficiency of light can result in chronic disease. Insufficient sunlight is known...
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  • World Thank You Day

    World Thank You Day

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    Today is World Thank You Day. You probably know what it means... We tend to express our gratitude to others when we feel that we owe them something, when we have gained from their efforts, and when we would like to share our feelings about them. Sometimes demonstrating gratitude is an "obligation" or an "expectation," but sometimes it's just a spontaneous "thank you" to...
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  • How do you stay healthy during the holidays?

    How do you stay healthy during the holidays?

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    Dinners, parties, gatherings, HOLIDAYS are around the corner! Whether it is Christmas, Hanukkah, or New Year’s, this period of the year is known to be rich in gatherings with food and beverages filling the table! How can one be healthy during the holidays? For many years this is a question we all ask ourselves at this time of the year… Let’s break down this...
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  • Bipolar Disorder

    Bipolar Disorder

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    Bipolar disorder (BD) is a mood disorder marked by a combination of episodes of depressed and elevated mood. It usually appears in the late teen years or early twenties. During the depressive episodes, individuals present low mood, lack of self-confidence, feelings of hopelessness, and disturbances in sleep and appetite. On the other hand, manic episodes are ch​​aracterized by euphoria, increased energy, irritability and rapid...
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  • Epilepsy PBM

    Epilepsy PBM

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    Epilepsy is a very common condition, to be more specific, the fourth most common when it comes to neurological disorders. It affects the brain and is the cause of recurring seizure. Seizures are a wide range of bursts of electrical activity in the brain that  momentarily affects its functions. A variety of symptoms can come along with the seizures. Around 2.6 million adults had...
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Timeline

1903

Red light therapy first gained prominence in 1903, when Danish physicist Niels Ryberg Finsen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology, for his pioneering work on the therapeutic and physiological effects of light treatment from artificial light sources and his invention of light therapy for skin tuberculosis.

1967

Hungarian physician, Endre Mester, developed the first low-level laser therapy device in 1967 and tested its effects on skin cancer. He later used the device to show the effects of laser light on wound healing processes. In the 1960s LED Therapy was being used for treatment of chronic pain, arthritis and associated conditions, joint rehabilitation, and soft-tissue injury along with other medical ailments in Eastern Europe and in the USA for equestrian rehabilitation.

1990’s

The study of Red light therapy grows vastly, with trials being done at leading research centers and institutions like . Many professional sports teams and athletes begin using LED therapy to aid in sports related injuries, and physical therapists discover recovery times up to 50 times faster than without Red light therapy.

2000

NASA discovers red light therapy is effective for treating pain while maintaining astronauts' muscle mass while in space, and reports a 40 percent improvement in musculoskeletal training injuries treated with the light-emitting diodes - and publishes a press release stating “NASA scientists have found that cells exposed to near-infrared light from LEDs, which is energy just outside the visible range, grow 150 to 200 percent faster than cells not stimulated by such light. The light arrays increase energy (ATP and nitric oxide) that speed up the healing process.”

2002

Despite being used effectively for nearly a decade the FDA approves the first low level laser therapy devices to treat inflammation, acne and pain

2015

Jessica Charles develops the first wearable Red Light Therapy device and launches Nushape, bringing clinical grade light therapy to the home user at a fraction of the cost paid for in office visits.

Nushape exists to develop top-tier, industry-leading LED light therapy devices for photobiomodulation. Implementation of specific wavelengths of LED light can effectively enhance bodily processes by improving mitochondrial health, ATP production; ultimately aiding the cellular ability to work faster, stronger.