Diabetes mellitus, a chronic disease in which endocrine hormone abnormalities cause excessive blood glucose concentrations, triggering multi-organ damage.
The number of adults aged 20-79 years with diabetes globally in 2021 is a whopping 537 million, or 7 out of 100 people with diabetes. Avoiding food, measuring blood glucose and taking insulin every day brings countless life troubles and psychological anxiety to the majority of patients and their families.
Fortunately, “Science and Technology Daily” recently a heavy news, to the majority of “sugar friends” to bring good: City College London, the University of London and the University College London scientists to work together to carry out the latest research shows that 670 nanometer red light irradiation in a person’s back for 15 分, can reduce blood sugar levels!
Red light irradiation lowers blood sugar devastation
Diabetes itself is not scary, it’s the complications that are scary, and the DCCT (Diabetes Control and Complications Trial) and European studies have long confirmed that controlling blood sugar can effectively slow the development of complications in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
The usual approach to controlling blood glucose is lifestyle intervention with oral administration of some type of hypoglycemic drug. しかし, as the disease progresses, it will become more and more difficult to lower blood glucose, and multiple hypoglycemic agents, even insulin, will gradually be needed to control blood glucose. These invasive drug treatments may bring unexpected side effects to patients. And as a non-invasive, non-pharmacological technique known for its safety, red light physiotherapy has the potential to minimize side effects and bring more benefits to diabetics.
As it turns out, mitochondria are known as the cellular “energy factories”, which utilize oxygen and glucose to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which provides energy for important cellular processes in the body. When 670 nm red light stimulates mitochondria, the mitochondrial membrane potential and production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) can be increased through photobiomodulation (PBM), a process that increases the demand and consumption of glucose, thereby lowering blood glucose levels.
Experiments showed that this red light stimulation reduced blood glucose levels by 27.7% after glucose ingestion and reduced maximum glucose spikes by 7.5%. So Dr. Bonner, the lead author of the study, says we can use a single 15-minute exposure to red light after eating to help reduce potentially damaging glucose spikes in the body after a meal.
This latest study, published in the German Journal of Biophotonics, a leading international scientific journal, suggests that Although this study was conducted in healthy individuals, its non-invasive, non-pharmacological technique has the potential to positively impact postprandial diabetes control by reducing the damaging fluctuations in blood sugar in the body that lead to aging.
Dr. Bonner, Senior Lecturer in Neurobiology at the School of Health and Psychological Sciences at City, and Professor Geoffrey, Professor of Neuroscience at the Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, also said that this improvement in the production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) from nucleosides leads to changes in signaling that propagate throughout the body.
Red light is widely used in recreational therapy
Photobiomodulation (PBM) of red light is primarily photochemical, not thermal. The effect achieved by red light irradiation is mainly through the transfer of red light energy into cells to stimulate new cellular vitality.
Earlier authoritative studies have confirmed that long-wavelength light between about 650-900 nm (from the visible to near-infrared range) increases mitochondrial ATP production, which lowers blood glucose and improves animal health and longevity. In previous studies, 670 nm light selectively irradiated to the backs of mice has been shown to improve ATP, and thus symptoms, in both a Parkinson’s disease model and a diabetic retinopathy model.
The maximum absorption of red light is mitochondria, red light irradiation increases the activity of catalase in mitochondria, which can increase the cellular metabolism, increase the content of glycogen (not only stores energy, but also breaks down into glucose to regulate the concentration of blood glucose), increase the synthesis of proteins and increase the decomposition of adenosine triphosphate to promote cell synthesis, healing of wounds and ulcers, hair growth and bone fracture healing, accelerate the regeneration of damaged nerves, increase White blood cell phagocytosis, remove free radicals in the body, so that the blood viscosity decreases and oxygen-carrying capacity significantly higher, regulate immune function, improve fat accumulation, delay skin aging, so red light in the clinic can treat a variety of diseases.
As a non-invasive, non-drug technology, red light physiotherapy is harmless and is used by many large tertiary hospitals to relieve patients’ pain.
Merican Light Energy Research Center and a number of universities, medical research institutions through a number of clinical verification has also proved that through a kind of red light irradiation called photodynamic health cabin, can penetrate 1-4cm under the skin, on the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular and other circulatory system disease improvement, tissue and nerve pain repair, postpartum rehabilitation, as well as physical restoration and cosmetic surgery and so on, there are obvious effects. Together with the use of LED cold light source, light-emitting diode way for the light source, low heat generation, no thermal radiation, even if beyond the treatment time, will not produce thermal damage to the human body, and does not contain any radioactive substances.
