Red light can reduce blood glucose levels, says study (15 minutes = 28% drop in blood glucose)

Medical Xpress / City University London / Journal of Biophotonics ^ | Feb. 21, 2024 | Michael B. Powner et al

[ConservativeMind]

These lights were used for just 15 minutes. An oral glucose tolerance test was given and was blood was drawn every 15 minutes over the next few hours. Blood glucose dropped 27.7%.

Red lights emitting in these frequencies are available from various places, but it’s not clear that one would want much exposure to the eyes. The test with mice used their backs and this test with humans didn’t have a working link to review.

I can see this helping prove why sunbathers can physically enjoy tanning so much, but UV rays, which are different wavelengths from these, are damaging to the skin.

[ConservativeMind]

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[metmom]

Red light as a few wavelengths is reputed to have many health benefits.

YMMV.

[TigersEye]

Once again we can thank our gooberment betters for deciding to limit our access to incandescent lighting.

I see red.

[peggybac]

I’m a big fan of laser therapy. https://celasers.com/laser-therapy-science

[Revel]

Wow.. I think I’ll go sit at the intersection and watch the red lights.

[DannyTN]

"Wow.. I think I’ll go sit at the intersection and watch the red lights."

I was going to go hang out in the red light district.

[Revel]

Good one.

[1of10]

“UV rays, which are different”

So is this saying I can get this benefit by going out in the sun ...?

Or do I need to get a “red” light ...?

Where do you get a red light ?

[martin_fierro]

[Fresh Wind]

This used to be considered quackery...

https://weirdnj.com/stories/mystery-history/spectro-chrome/

[odawg]

“Where do you get a red light ?”

Start with Amazon. They work for strained muscles and tendons, for sure. It was amazing.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Well, in that case, I’ll go out for a drive in the city. Sit in traffic at enough red lights, and NO CHANCE of diabetes!

[Chickensoup]

Have only incandescent bulbs in house.

Is it the effect on skin or the light’s brain effects via eyes. Or combination?

[WKUHilltopper]

So hang out in the red light district?

[ryderann]

I have a prism hanging in a window. Sometimes it shoots off a rred light and I try to stand in it for as long as it lasts. It’s been an instinctive move, but now I know why.

[dfwgator]

“ROXANNE……”

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

“Roxanne! You don’t have to put on de red light....unless you Type diabetic.”

[grey_whiskers]

Yeah, but waiting at red lights behind other cars always raises my blood pressure...

[ConservativeMind]

I know someone who had one.

My best friend’s grandfather, who I occasionally met, got one and used it. My friend told me his grandfather used it on himself and coughed up some dark substance, afterward.

As an early teen, I told him it was quackery and that he really needed to get to a doctor, as there was no known way anything “light” could make that happen.

Maybe I, and “medical science,” were wrong.

In the United States, our liberty should extend to colored light bulbs and we should not fear something like an American Medical Association that will be the reason your company goes out of business or that you are arrested.

People should meet on the battlefield of ideas. Legal issues should only occur between people directly hurt.