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move the light further away (note: light spreads out and covers a larger area the further you are away from it) and thus treat a much larger area of your body at once with the optimal light intensity and dose. Smaller lights are much more inefficient and time-consuming, and limited in what they can be used for. (More on this later!) In contrast, for treating deep tissues, you want bigger doses and higher power density (light intensity) for optimal effects. You want doses of 10-60J. So in general, you’d want to have the light much closer to your body with a much higher light intensity. That’s what’s needed to deliver optimal doses of light deep into your tissues. To sum up: With skin/surface treatments, you want to be further away from the light (which lowers the light intensity and covers a broader area of your body) for an overall lower dose. With deeper tissues, you want to be closer to the light (which increases the light intensity) for an overall higher dose. To make this very specific and practical, here are some simple guidelines: • FOR SKIN ISSUES: Assuming you have one of the lights I recommend, for skin issues (e.g. anti- aging benefits) and other more superficial (near to the surface) body issues, here are my basic usage suggestions: - Somewhere between 1-4 minutes from 12” away. (Note: For skin issues, I recommend going 12” or more away from the device, whereas with deeper tissues, you want to be closer and have higher power density to reach deeper into the tissues.) - Or 1.5-5 minutes from 18” away. - Or 2-8 minutes from 24” away. • FOR DEEP TISSUES: For deeper issues in muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones, glands, the brain, organs, etc., you want much higher doses more in the neighborhood of 10-60J. In general, this means that you want higher power devices and you want to be 6-12” from the device (as opposed to further away as with treating the skin) to get optimal doses of light to those deep tissues. The deeper the tissue you’re trying to treat, the closer to your body you want the light to be (i.e. 6” is ideal) and the higher the overall dose you want to do, so that you deliver adequate therapeutic doses to the deeper tissues. Also, for use on the brain, this may require higher doses (or doses on the higher end of the spectrum shared here) because it takes a relatively higher dose for enough light to penetrate through the skull and be delivered to the brain. Here are my general suggestions for treating deep tissues below the skin: - Using the light from 6” away for between 2-7 minutes per area is the ideal dose range. - Or 5-10 minutes per area from 12” away. (For treating deep tissues, I don’t recommend going further away than 12” away from your body.) If you get the lights I recommend, that’s really all you need to know. If you choose a different device than one I recommend, you’ll have to do the calculations yourself using the above equations. And now that you know how to do all this math, you can certainly do these calculations for yourself. The only tricky part is that actual wattage is often much lower than claimed wattage for many lights, so if your calculations are based on the claimed wattage instead of actual measurements using a PAR meter, your calculations will likely be off by a fairly wide margin. Reminder: More is not necessarily better! As you’ll see below, there is something called a “biphasic dose response” whereby doing too much can actually result in a lesser benefit rather than more. So don’t assume that “if a little is good, a lot must be better.” All you’re doing is decreasing the benefit by doing more than the recommended doses. Let me repeat that for emphasis: Doing larger doses than what I recommend will render less of an effect, not more. For those of you with health struggles, if you are very ill or your health is severely compromised, be aware that you in such state you’re more fragile and will not be able to tolerate as much of the light. A healthy young person may overdo the light and not really notice anything, but an ill person willPDF Image | Red Light Therapy Ultimate Guide
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