977 - The Powerful Effects of Red Light Therapy

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Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

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🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Red light therapy delivers scientifically-backed benefits that transform aging, thyroid function, autoimmune responses, and cognitive performance. In this episode, I’ll reveal how red light therapy optimizes your mitochondria health to fuel cellular energy production throughout your body, creating measurable improvements in overall health. Discover the most effective red light therapy devices and proven protocols that maximize your results. Listen now!

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➡️The Best Way to Treat a Sluggish Thyroid - New Study:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLuw1q2kvVM

➡️Hidden Blocks to Mitochondria Healing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4fiPcaQOBE

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➡️The Best Red Light Therapy Devices—A Clinical Take:

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➡️ Can You Use Red Light Therapy for Thyroid Health?

https://drruscio.com/red-light-therapy-for-thyroid/

➡️What’s True and What’s Hype? Red Light Therapy Pros and Cons:

https://drruscio.com/red-light-therapy-pros-and-cons/

📌Timestamps

00:00 Intro

02:29 How it helps energy production

06:30 Anti-aging & hair

08:12 Autoimmunity & thyroid

09:44 Gut health

10:20 Joint pain

11:25 Muscle performance & recovery

14:42 Sleep

16:48 Fatigue

20:00 Cognition

22:11 Summary of benefits scorecard

23:53 Red light devices

27:04 Usage recommendations

📖Featured Studies

📉Reduction in the Mitochondrial Membrane Potential in Aging:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37569671/

📉Collagen peptides reduce skin wrinkles and increases dermal matrix synthesis:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24401291/

📉Oral Hyaluronan Relieves Wrinkles and Improves Dry Skin: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34203487/

📉Photobiomodulation Reduces Periocular Wrinkle Volume by 30%: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36780572/

📉Skin rejuvenation:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17566756/

📉Arthritis: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37762594/

📉The nuts and bolts of low-level laser (light) therapy: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22045511/

📉Pattern Hair Loss: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34980962/

📉Treatment of androgenetic alopecia: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31746251/

📉Adult androgenic alopecia: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30706177/

📉Non-surgical treatments for androgenetic alopecia: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29797431/

📉Hypothyroidism induced by chronic autoimmune thyroiditis:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22718472/

📉Treatment of psoriasis: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21435024/

📉Treatment of recalcitrant psoriasis:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19764893/

📉Microbiome Changes in Humans with Parkinson’s Disease: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/12/1/49

📉Pain and function in tendinopathy:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34391447/

📉Plantar fasciitis: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30653125/

📉Chronic non-specific low back pain: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27207675/

📉Pain and disability in knee osteoarthritis:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31662383/

📉Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, including cyclo-oxygenase-2 inhibitors, in osteoarthritic knee pain:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15561731/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rucho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.
0:14.8	To stay up to date on the latest topics, as well as all of our prior episodes, make sure to subscribe in your podcast player.
0:22.2	For weekly updates, visit Dr.ruciot.com.
0:25.8	Welcome back. Let's discuss Red Light Therapy.
0:28.8	The longshore on Red Light, pretty much wherever it's applied, we do see documented benefits,
0:36.3	whether it's hair growth, anti-aging to the skin, improve cognition, less joint or muscle pain, reduced autoimmunity, so on and so forth.
0:46.4	So this is a therapy that I think is exciting. It's relatively inexpensive and safe, and one I feel you should consider as part of a health care plan.
0:58.4	The basis for how red light improves health is by increasing the ability of your mitochondria,
1:07.8	which every cell of your body is going to have a few hundred to over a thousand
1:12.2	mitochondria per cell, regularly will improve the ability of the mitochondria to make energy. And one
1:20.2	of the preeminent theories of aging is that energy demands of a cell outstrip energy supply.
1:31.8	And so the cell, whether it be hair, skin, what have you, start to exhibit signs of aging.
1:40.3	And this is what red light can help to counter.
1:43.7	And just to quickly show you two visual pieces of evidence. And this is what red light can help to counter.
1:51.7	And just to quickly show you two visual pieces of evidence, one study pre-post, this is from a scientific journal, by the way, clearly demonstrates improvements in skin appearance by
1:57.7	reducing the signs of aging.
1:59.5	And another study found visible improvements in hair
2:03.8	growth. Now, this extends beyond just superficial to things like joint, muscle, cognition,
2:12.4	sleep, and even energy levels in something like chronic fatigue.
2:26.9	So what I wanted to do today was go through the common applications and translate the science into a scorecard, grading A, B, or C.
2:32.6	So you have a rough approximation of the level of benefit to be gained by utilizing
2:38.9	red light therapy. And then we'll conclude with specific device recommendations along with
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