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🗓️ 7 December 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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In this episode, I’m speaking with Tom Kerber, a fascinating entrepreneur with a great deal of knowledge and experience (particularly on the engineering side) in the field of photobiomodulation, (aka modifying biology with light).
Approximately 20 years ago, a series of professional and personal events led Tom to shift his career from electronic development to LED device development (like the small blue light device your dentist uses to cure fillings…yes, Tom invented that!).
In part 1 of this two-part series, Tom and I discuss some of the most pressing questions about red and near-infrared light therapy with a focus on how different devices penetrate the body and affect deeper tissues, along with light therapy applications and case studies.
Tom has been developing tools and equipment to do a lot of sophisticated experimentation on penetration depth of red and near-infrared light (which is a much-needed contribution to the field), so I invited him onto the show to discuss his work, which evolved into a 2-part conversation.
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0:00.0 | Hey, this is Ari. Welcome to the Energy Blueprint Podcast. In this episode, I'm speaking with Tom Kerber, who is the founder of a company called Sun Power LED, which makes a number of really interesting |
0:22.3 | devices for photo biomodulation for red and your infrared light therapy. |
0:27.6 | And I saw a presentation that Tom gave at the London conference that happened recently |
0:34.7 | for photo biomodulation. |
0:37.2 | That's another term for how light affects biology |
0:40.3 | and generally is hugely overlapping with red and near infrared light therapy, though is technically more expansive than that. |
0:48.3 | So there was a big conference in London recently, and Tom, who I'd never heard of before, did a presentation there that was uniquely |
0:58.3 | exciting for me. And the reason why is that he, with his extensive background, not only in the |
1:05.5 | engineering side of devices, but also for testing these types of devices. |
1:11.9 | He utilized that knowledge to basically do a series of a long-running, I think, series of |
1:19.1 | experiments on the penetration depth of different types of devices, lasers, LED devices, |
1:26.2 | different wavelengths, red near-infrared wavelengths. |
1:30.6 | And this is a hugely important area in the overall field of photo biomodulation because |
1:38.5 | there's a whole sort of mess of unknowns and very contentious stuff that many people have different perspectives on. |
1:48.2 | And the real problem with it is that we just don't have really good data on penetration depth |
1:55.0 | of different types of light, different irradiances or intensity, sort of power output of the light. |
2:02.6 | There's other factors that go into this as well, as far as beam angle and the degree to which the light is collimated, |
2:13.6 | like in the context of lasers versus LEDs, the way that different light beams can potentially |
2:21.1 | overlap with one another, the degree to which different wavelengths of light penetrate the tissue |
2:26.8 | to different depths. |
2:28.2 | You know, there's really all of these sort of question marks that just looking at the body |
2:33.1 | of evidence, we don't really have great |
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