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The Shocking Truth about Red Light Therapy!

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AsapSCIENCE

Biology, Life Sciences, Comedy, Youtuber, Science

4.92.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Today on Sidenote - we get into the shocking hype, data and science around red light therapy for hair loss and skincare. Scam or legit?

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0:00.0

Some of these studies are less consistent. There needs to be more robust research.

0:03.0

And by the way, this is brought to you by Red Light Therapy. Imagine it was all sponsored.

0:07.0

So we'll go to our sponsor now. Red Light.

0:09.8

Controversial subjects with the facts can be tense, but we are a sub-science here to make things make sense.

0:16.0

Today we are talking about Red Light Therapy. You might have seen the helmets, face masks, giant beds in health clinics, see celebrities

0:24.7

using these red light therapy machines.

0:27.0

We're going to talk about the science behind them, whether they're a complete like influence

0:31.1

or scam or if there's legit, interesting science.

0:36.8

Turns out there's actually lots of interesting science.

0:39.3

There is.

0:40.3

Period that I'm excited to talk about.

0:41.3

Um, it's, we're not just going to be like the annoying sort of like wet blankets today.

0:46.3

Yeah, which is exciting.

0:47.3

Yeah.

0:48.3

Obviously, like, I think what's interesting about this space is that there obviously is like that sort of scammy influencer vibe, especially as it relates

0:55.7

to seeing like certain products, right? And like not knowing a lot about it before doing sort of

1:00.4

a deep dive into the science of it, I would have assumed that this was almost entirely like a fake

1:06.7

space. Well, because it's usually like affluent white man or woman with a mask on their face

1:12.8

with red lasers hitting them, posting on Instagram stories. And you're like, that looks

1:17.3

dystopian. That looks wrong. That looks evil. So I'm going to hate that. It is so visually

1:22.0

stimulating as a product that it makes sense that it would be something that could go viral. Like

1:26.5

seeing the masks, even the panels that just shine bright red LEDs on you.

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