A Detailed Practical Guide to Dosing Red and Near-Infrared Light Therapy with Dr. Mark Cronshaw

The Energy Blueprint Podcast

Ari Whitten

Chronicfatigue, Energy, Hypothyroidism, Fatigue, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Chronicfatiguesyndrome, Adrenalfatigue, Howtoincreaseenergy, Adrenals, Hashimotos

4.7 • 751 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

I’m back again for my fourth conversation with Dr. Mark Cronshaw, an expert in the world of photobiomodulation (PBM), aka red light therapy. You know that when I have multiple conversations with a guest, I highly value their knowledge and want to go deeper with what they have to share.

If you want to get VERY technical and go deep with the topic of PBM, this episode is for you, and I recommend you listen to the prior 3 episodes we’ve recorded together.

In this conversation, Dr. Cronshaw presents what he calls his "philosophy of care" for using photobiomodulation to enhance healing, manage pain, and prevent injury. His approach focuses on a few fundamental questions:

Are you treating surface or deep tissues?
Are you seeking to stimulate healing/tissue repair or provide pain relief?

His multi-dimensional approach explains why different devices produce different results, enabling more strategic use of both professional and at-home light therapy tools.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Ari. Welcome back to the Energy Blueprint podcast with me today for, I don't know if this is round three or four or five. It's hard to keep track of it at this point is Dr. Mark Cronshaw, who is one of the top
0:22.8	experts in photobiomodulation, the science of how light interacts with human biology.
0:29.8	This is a very, very deep dive into the science of PBM, of photo biomodulation, and we get into a lot of different areas related to dosing,
0:41.3	related to controversial, contentious topics,
0:44.3	where there are disagreement among experts,
0:48.3	all kinds of things.
0:50.3	It's this continuation of the previous conversations that we've already had, the two
0:55.0	episodes or three episodes that I've already released on this, on the topic of PBM with Dr.
1:01.3	Cronshaw. So if you have listened to those, you know that this is very geeky, very sciencey stuff,
1:07.8	at times somewhat technical stuff. So keep that in mind.
1:12.6	Two things.
1:14.6	Let me be very clear about this.
1:16.6	Number one, if you haven't already, make sure to listen to the earlier podcasts with Dr. Cronshaw.
1:23.6	That will be very important background before you get into this conversation.
1:28.3	And the other thing is, again, just a warning, this is very technical, geeky stuff.
1:35.3	If you don't care, and probably a lot of you don't care, to get into the real nitty-gritty of PBM science,
1:42.3	you want maybe something more simple, you know, here's a few mechanisms of how it works, go by
1:49.5	this device, sit in this position and, you know, apply it in this way for five or ten minutes.
1:56.4	That's not what this is.
1:57.7	This is a very, very deep dive into the science of how this is working and a lot of
2:05.7	complex, controversial, nuanced issues related to what it does and how to best use it to get the
2:12.5	best results and how it's working and so on. So if you do want a very high level discussion
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