The Ultimate Guide to Red Light Therapy: How to Use Red and Near-Infrared Light Therapy for Anti-Aging, Fat Loss, Muscle Gain, Performance Enhancement, and Brain Optimization

by Ari Whitten

The basic idea is to just switch the light on and put your body in front of it. Okay, it’s a little more complicated than that, but really not much. The details to be aware of are: Optimizing power density/irradiance for the tissue you are treating by adjusting your distance from the light Getting the dose right Your body position Practical tips/strategies for specific goals Let’s cover each of these in more depth now. Optimal Power Density First, you must know the general optimal power density/irradiance for the tissue you’re trying to treat. I’m not going to go into detail on this one again, because I already covered in-depth in the earlier section on getting the dose right. The basic idea is that for treating the skin (e.g. anti-aging), you want to use the light from further away from your body (ideally 18”-36” with the powerful lights I recommend) to get lower power density and higher body coverage. For deep tissues, you want to use the light much closer (6”-12”) to get a higher power density and to deliver more light to the deeper tissues. Dose I covered dosing guidelines in the previous section on dosing as well, so please reference that for specific guidelines on how long to use the different light devices from the different distances away from your body. Also remember that skin and surface treatments need much lower doses than deep tissues, and that total body dose (adding up all the light delivered across all areas of the body you treat) also matters. Again, pleas...