What's the deal with these studies that claim to show that shooting tissue with red and/or infrared LEDs or lasers results in all sorts of improved outcomes?
There are a lot of randomized trials this, mostly in animals, but some in humans.
It seems very weird that this could work? Let's posit that it does work. The sun is a big source of energy in the same wavelength range (https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/climatebits-solar-radiation/ claims 49%, so wouldn't going outside dominate the impact of some red + infrared LEDs?
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