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How Using Red Light Therapy Can Speed Up Your Fat Loss

Photobiomodulation, also known as RLT, doubles your fat loss associated with exercise and boosts muscle building.

5 min readApr 12, 2020
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Everyone wants to maximize their benefits from exercising. If one of your goals is to lose fat, then Red Light Therapy (RLT) maybe your magic bullet. However, fat loss is just one of the many benefits associated with RLT.

Study One

This first study took 64 obese women between the ages of 20 and 40 years old and randomly assigned them into two groups. One group was the Exercise Training plus Sham light group (ET-Sham, n=32) and the Exercise Training plus Photobiomodulation group (ET-Photo, n=32).

This study used a wavelength of laser light at 808 nm. However, the foremost authority on photobiomodulation, Dr. Michael R. Hamblin, believes we achieve the same effects using LED lights of suitable wavelength and power. In many studies LED’s perform with equivalency to low-level laser lights. LEDs are far less expensive and more readily available than lasers.

Light treatment was delivered after each exercise session. The length of the study was 20 weeks. The participants in the study performed three exercise sessions per week. Each session included aerobic and…

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John Iovine
John Iovine

Written by John Iovine

Science writer, thinker, self-experimenter, focusing on personal development and health — www.john-iovine.com

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