Podcast 415: Red and Infra-Red Light Therapy

The BodyGuard is a device that harnesses red and near-red light, using therapy known as photobiomodulation.

It restores immunity, energy and helps fight viruses.

Benefits include:

* Increased exercise performance and recovery

* Reduced inflammation and pain

* Boosted immunity

* Faster healing

* Improved sleep quality

* Increased testosterone

* Improved skin health.

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MARTIN: Hi, everyone! This is Martin Pytela for Life Enthusiast Podcast, and with me today is Charlie Shupp. Charlie is from a company known as Speed of Light, and we are going to be talking about light, and healing your body with light. Charlie, welcome!

CHARLES: Thank you! Thanks for having me!

MARTIN: Should we call it Speed of Light, or should we give it a different name?

CHARLES: Speed of Light is correct. And a specific product that we are going to talk about is called The Bodyguard.

MARTIN: The Bodyguard, yes! Light is one of those incredibly important things when it comes to human health. There are people who live on light alone, watching the photons come through their eyes and so on, I think we are not going to be that sophisticated, but there is a whole lot to be said about light entering the human body, right?

CHARLES: Yes, there is. We are not that much different from plants!

MARTIN: Right! There is something called a chromophore in every cell, right?

CHARLES: Yes, there is. Those chromophores and the mitochondria in each one of your cells has a photoreceptor on each one of them, and there are specific wavelengths that are absorbed by chromophores. But what is also extremely important is that there is a photo window, so only certain wavelengths can enter past your skin, and can reach the target for recovery.

MARTIN: So you guys have done some research about that, huh?

CHARLES: We have been in R&D for this product and development of our photobiomodulation technology for a little more than five years. It started kind of as a family competition where we wanted to start to use science and engineering to try and figure out how we can perform better and beat other family members in some endurance races that we would host every year.

MARTIN: That’s fantastic! Actually, talk about that a little, you found out that you can strap this thing on a person while they are working hard or putting out energy, right?

CHARLES: Yeah. That has been the driver for the startup of this product. A whole driver for our company has been to try and find an everyday product that people can wear and gain the benefits of light therapy without having to go outside naked at sunrise and sunset every day.

MARTIN: I totally appreciate the fact that you’re pursuing the peak performance, which of course I’d love to talk about. People who are healthy and want to do even better, but I suspect that the same technology will also work on people who are at the margins of health-seeking improvement.

CHARLES: Yes. I think that is really what The Bodyguard is specifically designed for. We designed the product to be something that can target some of the extremely important areas of your body, which are some of your ancillary breathing muscles, your lower back, lung tissue, things that have super important critical functions in your body. And the pivot that we made away from the peak performance specific product to The Bodyguard w...