2024-02-21 11:00:00
Fatima Khalil wrote Wednesday, February 21, 2024 01:00 PM
A new study reveals that exposure to red light can help reduce… Sugar levels In the blood after eating, the study, published in the journal Biophotonic, found that shining a red light on a person’s back can help improve blood glucose levels.
According to the Daily Express website, the results revealed that repeating the light used for 15 minutes led to a decrease in blood sugar levels by 27.7% after eating.
Exposure to red light also reduced the maximum glucose rise by 7.5% after a meal.
The research team also suggested that prolonged exposure to blue light emitted from devices such as phones, laptops and televisions could have significant long-term consequences for human health.
Given the importance of LED lighting in modern life, researchers warn this could be a potential “health time bomb.”
They explained that blue light on its own can lead to blood sugar imbalances.
They noted that this could be partly remedied by spending more time in sunlight, which has a balance of red and blue light.
Professor Glenn Jeffrey, Professor of Neuroscience at UCL Ophthalmology, said: “We now live in a world where blue light dominates because even though we can’t see it, LEDs are blue dominant and have almost no red.
He added that long-term exposure to blue light may be toxic without the color red, as blue light itself badly affects organ functions and can lead to blood sugar disturbances, which may contribute in the long run to diabetes and the destruction of health.
The researchers recruited 30 healthy people, divided them into two groups – 15 in the 670nm red light group, and 15 in the no-light group. They were then asked to drink glucose dissolved in water and record their blood glucose levels every 15 minutes for the next two hours.
The study found that red light at a frequency of 670 nm stimulates energy production within mitochondria, the small energy centers within cells, leading to increased glucose consumption.
People exposed to red light showed lower blood glucose and lower total blood glucose.
“It is clear that light affects our bodies at a cellular and physiological level,” said Dr. Michael Bowner, lead author of the study and senior lecturer in neurobiology at City University of London.
“Our study showed that we can use exposure to red light for 15 minutes to lower blood sugar levels after eating,” he added.
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