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🧑 Human 🎲 Randomized trial, crossover 👥 14 participants ⌛ 2 days · 2018 · Germany (Duesseldorf)

Blue light exposure decreases systolic blood pressure, arterial stiffness, and improves endothelial function in humans

Stern · Eur J Prev Cardiol · 2018

The protocol this study used

Wavelength
450 nm
Dose
72 J/cm²
Sessions
2
Per session
30 min

What the authors concluded

Whole body irradiation with visible blue light at real world doses improves blood pressure, endothelial function and arterial stiffness by nitric oxide released from photolabile intracutanous nitric oxide metabolites into circulating blood.

Devices that emit this wavelength

Matched on wavelength within 15nm, since LED bins vary by roughly that much and a tighter match would be false precision. Where we have an irradiance figure, the session length is the time needed to reach this study's dose of 72 J/cm² at that intensity.

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Hooga Red Light Therapy Facial Wand
415 · 460 · 630 nm
Not published
$70
no irradiance published

Matching a wavelength is not the same as reproducing a trial. Session times assume the device's published irradiance is accurate at the distance it was measured, which on brand-claim figures is often optimistic. Where a device publishes both a peak and an average we use the average, and where it publishes a falloff curve we use the lowest figure, so these times run long rather than short. Clinical protocols also control for spot size, contact and skin type in ways a home device cannot.

Source

PubMed 30196723 →

Dosimetry extracted by Vladimir Heiskanen in Photobiomodulation (PBM) research - a comprehensive database. Citation resolved against PubMed.