I needed to disable self sign-ups because I’ve been getting too many spam-type accounts. Thanks.
Photobiomodulation - Infrared LED Therapy
Click to access nihms921441.pdf
Mechanisms and Mitochondrial Redox Signaling in Photobiomodulation
An excellent 2018 review by Michael Hamblin of PBM's many effects. Retinoid clues scattered throughout.
Edit: oops, put it in the wrong place.
Crazy stuff. The Willard’s Water thing still blows my mind, and the connection you’ve made there with the near infrared light therapy is fascinating. Thanks for all the info, @hillcountry ! 😁
I regret to say that I still haven’t experimented very much with light therapy yet (though I did use it a PlatinumLED BIOMAX panel 15 minutes a day for about 5 days in a row while visiting my parents, and decided I do want to get a light for myself at some point), but I wanted to FINALLY come by and share my parent’s results from NovaThor treatments 2 to 3 times weekly for around 2 months (can’t remember the exact amount, but it was whatever NovaTHOR usually recommends to clients).
Both of them experienced an observable increase in energy and positive mood, which I must assume is partly due to a reduction in pain (one of them has chronic pain/celiac/digestive challenges, while the other has thyroid issues). I was surprised by how much more relaxed and agreeable both of them were! And my brother, who was unaware of their therapy treatments and thus unaffected by researcher bias 😋, also remarked on this.
They ended up buying the PlatinumLED panel, and three of us in the family (my husband, myself, and my mother) who tried it out on injured areas (strained muscles) noticed extra heat sensation where the pain was while using the light.
One thing I would recommend to people who are skeptical but willing to give it a go, would be to get an app, or use a checklist system, that would allow you to track and score your mood/energy/pain levels while using the treatment.
Sometimes people who are ill, especially with an illness involving mental health changes, have denial issues—they’ll start a treatment, everyone will notice their improvement, and then they’ll quit the treatment and regress. After regressing, they’ll say the treatment “didn’t work.”
I use an app called “eMoods,” which you can customize with whatever symptoms you want to track, and it will plot them on a graph for you along with your treatments so you can clearly see correlation. When I had bipolar symptoms, this approach was recommended to me as a way to keep myself from abandoning treatment plans during manic or depressive episodes. Here is a link to the eMood Tracker for anyone interested: https://emoodtracker.com/
Would love to read anyone else’s experiences with this therapy while detoxing from vitamin A, if anyone wants to share. 🙂
I have tried the Vielight in the nose for about a month about 6 years ago. At that time I was not following the low Vitamin A diet and was very toxic. I soon ran into big problems : could not sleep anymore, had very painful deep sore erupt at sites on lymphatic nodes.
I got scared, especially because I was suffering very badly from ocular rosacea, it made it worse.
It took me ten years to get rid of the rosacea. I think it damaged my eye, worsening cataracts.
The rosacea started getting better on high thiamin. It got so much better that it only appeared once, in a very light form, since avoiding vitamin A. I think it is cured.
Anyway, I am still very interested in photobiomodulation. Obviously it speeds up Vitamin A detox. But how can it be safe when the poison burns so much going out?
I might try it again when there are no discernible detox symptoms.
@ourania Crazy! Thank you for sharing that. It does make sense that it can be an agitator if the right nutritional support and diet isnt already in place.
My parents got me a mini PlatinumLED panel as a gift, and I have been scared to use it while increasing my fiber intake. But I will be experimenting with it soon!
The high dose thiamin is MAGIC for me, too. Im so glad your rosacea is cured! 😁
@puddleduck Are you taking FFTD?
It seems that it alone allows the cells to keep hold of their potassium, I wrote about it in the Thiamine story thread.
Avoiding potassium leakage, might be the same as the vitamin D effect that @Orion was mentioning?
@ourania Elliot Overtons article about that was so interesting. I love Dr. Lonsdale and the Hormones Matter site, but I am actually taking Thiamin HCL as used by Dr. Antonio Costantini in his High Dose Thiamin therapy.
I know Dr. Overton noted that FFTD was better than thiamin HCL in that one study in vitro, so I hope the body makes better use of thiamin HCL after digestion and everything. 😝 Anyway, it is helping me so I am going to stick with it until I run out.
I really enjoyed reading your thoughts and experience with thiamin in your thread, thank you!