Wondering how you can prevent yourself from contracting COVID-19? There are plenty of things that you can do to strengthen your body’s defenses against all viruses, pathogens, microbes and all known diseases. Things like vaccines are cheap alternatives and vastly inferior to many of the natural approaches currently available.
Red light therapy in particular has been well studied for COVID and has powerful anti-inflammatory and immune boosting properties that can enhance your body’s metabolism, and improve the function of every single cell, organ and system simultaneously and without side effects. If you’ve already got COVID, then listen up, because red light therapy could cut your recovery time in half.
In this article, you’re going to see some of the powerful evidence that has accumulated, since the pandemic was declared in March 2020, showing that light therapy – and particularly red and near-infrared laser and LEDs – have proven safe and effective in facilitating rapid healing of severe COVID-19 patients.
Understanding COVID-19 Physiologically
It’s important to not get caught up in the fear pushed by governments and the media surrounding COVID-19. The way to transcend that fear is by understanding physiologically how the disease affects the body. A study from January 2021 showed that COVID is simply another case of widespread mitochondrial dysfunction, no different than virtually all other diseases in existence, including diabetes, cancer, heart disease, obesity, Alzheimer’s, etc.
“We demonstrate mitochondrial dysfunction, metabolic alterations with an increase in glycolysis… from patients with COVID-19… These data suggest that patients with COVID-19 have a compromised mitochondrial function and an energy deficit that is compensated by a metabolic switch to glycolysis. This metabolic manipulation by SARS-CoV-2 triggers an enhanced inflammatory response that contributes to the severity of symptoms in COVID-19,” wrote scientists.
And as such, this condition is easy to prevent and correct. The best medicines for the job are well known, inexpensive, safe and easy to obtain.
Typical Symptoms of COVID-19
The hallmark of a severe case of COVID-19 is pneumonia. According to a study in the journal Nature, the main pathology of it includes “intense damage to the air sacs of the lungs” caused by inflammation. Some scientists theorized that the inflammation caused by COVID-19 was somehow different than the inflammation that arose from other causes, but that theory turned out to be untrue.
The inflammation seen in COVID-19 patients is the exact same as any other inflammation, which in the case of COVID-19 is caused by collateral damage from the immune response to the virus. Since red light is one of the most powerful anti-inflammatory factors known, a powerful immune booster, and non-specific tissue-healing accelerant, we should expect great things from this powerhouse treatment on severe COVID-19 patients. Let’s look at some of the data that scientists have churned out since the pandemic’s inception.
Red light therapy: A Powerful Anti-inflammatory & Lung Healer
In 2021, Iranian scientists conducted a review to find out whether or not red light could treat COVID-19 lung inflammation and also to find out if it could heal the damaged air sacs caused by it.
Included in the review were 17 scientific papers and the study concluded that red light therapy “could significantly decrease the pulmonary edema, neutrophil influx, and generation of pro-inflammatory cytokines.” In other words, when used in COVID-19 patients, red light therapy can…
Reduce the fluid and swelling in the lungs that make it difficult for patients to breathe (dyspnea)
Reduce inflammation by quelling the production of pro-inflammatory signaling molecules
Accelerate healing of damaged air sacs caused by inflammation
“Our findings revealed that the PBM could be helpful in reducing the lung inflammation and promoting the regeneration of the damaged tissue,” they wrote, and recommended the use of either lasers or LEDs for treatment.
Case Studies of Red Light Therapy Healing COVID Patients
Dr. Scott Sigman has done some notable work in 2020 treating COVID patients using the Multiwave Locked System (MLS) laser. Working at the independent, not-for-profit Lowell General Hospital in Massachusetts, there have been two documented case studies of COVID patients who’ve gotten well after treatment by Dr. Sigman using the red light therapy laser – one in August, 2020 and the other in September, 2020. Let’s go over both of them now.
A 57-year-old African American Man Healed COVID Using Red Light Therapy
A 57-year-old African American man diagnosed with COVID-19 was admitted to the ICU for respiratory distress in August 2020 and in need of oxygenation. For treatment he was administered the low laser once-daily for 28 minutes each session for four days and a total of four treatments.
“He was discharged to a rehab facility one day after his last treatment. Prior to that, he was not able to walk, he had very bad cough, difficulty breathing,” Dr Scott Sigman said. And just one day after being at the rehab facility, he was able to complete two trials of stair climbing during physical therapy. The typical recovery time for patients in his condition is about six to eight weeks, and this particular patient was fully recovered in three weeks.
A 32-year-old Asian Female Healed COVID-19 Using Light Therapy
The second case study by Dr Sigman was on a morbidly obese 32-year-old Asian female with severe COVID-19 and published one month later in September 2020. After being admitted to the ICU, this patient received a total of four treatments over the course of four days, directly to the chest for 28 minutes per session. “Appreciable improvement in respiratory symptoms” was noted following her treatments and x-rays were taken to assess the condition of her lungs.
The Radiographic Assessment of Lung Edema (RALE) Scores by Chest-X-Ray confirmed the improvement of the lungs after Laser Therapy for the patient. “Not only did the chest X-ray dramatically clear, but important markers of inflammation, IL-6 and Ferratin, decreased after four days of treatment.” said Dr. Sigman.
Conclusion
Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020, scientists from many countries across the world have been exploring various treatment methods for victims of the disease. Without a doubt, one of the best ways they’ve found has been red and near-infrared light therapy.
Red light therapy has been found to accelerate the healing of damaged air sacs of the lungs that the disease so typically causes in its advanced stages, and it also eliminates the dyspnea or difficulty breathing that many people with the disease face.
Use of a near-infrared laser in a clinical setting has proven that in just four treatments of less than 30 minutes each session, patients can be back on their feet and doing multiple sessions of stair climbing within just a couple days.
Since publishing my bestselling book Red Light Therapy: Miracle Medicine, the technology and testimonials coming in never cease to amaze me, and the use of red and near-infrared light therapy against COVID is certainly no exception and has never been more appropriate. Red light therapy is here to stay.
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