Using Red Light Therapy to Targets Fat Cells
In weight loss, targeting fat cells is crucial, and red light therapy is particularly effective in this regard. At a wavelength of 635 nm, red light therapy activates the enzyme cytochrome c oxidase, which opens the pores in fat cells, causing them to deflate like a water balloon. The released fat then enters the bloodstream and can be burned for energy through exercise and a proper diet, leading to fat loss through fat cells.
To maximize results, it’s important to avoid counteracting these benefits with high-sugar or high-glycemic index foods. Studies have shown that combining red light therapy with exercise can enhance peak performance by 15%, compared to 10% with exercise alone. This synergy illustrates how working with your body can improve overall wellness.
How Many Inches Could You Lose with Red Light Therapy?
Other researchers revealed startling evidence from their study that red light therapy sessions at 635 nm with the light six inches away from the body three times a week for six weeks caused a 5 inch reduction in hips, abdominals, waistlines, and thighs, targeting the fat cells.
Another study, this time for only 2 weeks with 67 volunteers and 3 sessions of red light therapy per week led to a 1-inch loss in the waistline, 1-inch loss in the hips, and 0.65 inches from the thighs. You might be thinking that’s not much, but actually it’s not too bad for those who aren’t dieting, aren’t altering their diet in any way, and aren’t exercising.
Red Light Therapy Targets the Reasons Why You Gained Weight
The most common reasons why people gain weight include:
- They are under too much stress.
- They don’t sleep well at night or long enough.
- They aren’t particularly happy and run to comfort foods.
- Their body is inflamed.
- They continue eating during the day beyond regular meals due to appetite.
- Their metabolism has slowed down.
Red light therapy works on every one of these reasons.
When you’re under stress, your body releases cortisol and adrenaline. These two hormones cause the production of belly fat. Red light therapy decreases levels of these two hormones.
Red light therapy stimulates the production of melatonin. This is the hormone that is released while you sleep. It causes regeneration to occur in your body.
Red light is part of the full spectrum light therapy that is used to treat patients with seasonal affective disorder. However, recently red light therapy has been used with excellent success. The treatment helps bring the patients out of their acute depressive state faster than any other treatment plan, one psychologist from the UCLA Medical School stated.
Red light therapy is well known in the studies to decrease inflammation. When you have inflammation, you have blockages in the energy circuits of the body. Red light therapy clears out the inflammation.
Red light therapy also increases leptin levels while lowering ghrelin levels. This ends up causing a reduction in hunger. And with less hunger, there’s no reason to eat.
And if you want to know how red light therapy affects metabolism, it does so by increasing circulation to the cells of the body. Greater circulation means more cells are working at high capacity.
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