#RED INFRARED SKIN#

I’m oversimplifying a bit because the full extent of the health benefits of each of these colours is very extensive.

#RED INFRARED SKIN#

Green light can accelerate wound healing, for instance, blue light can make you feel more awake, and yellow light can improve skin health and appearance. What many people don’t know is that all of the different parts of the visible light spectrum also affect their health ( 7 8 9 10 11 12). Your eyes can see these colours, which is why this part of the light spectrum is called “visible light”. The colours include violet, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red, and all the intermediate colours in between. The second type of light, visible light, consists of all the colours of the rainbow.I won’t be focusing on ultraviolet light in this blog post because both the infrared sauna and red light therapy don’t use any UV light. This UV light is invisible to the human eye. UV light exposure also gives you a nice tan. The first type of light, UV light, is what potentially gives you sunburns and can also help create vitamin D in your skin ( 4 5 6).

I’ll only use down to earth descriptions of these three different types of light that we’re going to explore. In the rest of the text below, I’ll try to avoid words like “wavelength”, “frequency”, and different mathematical calculations as much as possible.

In the picture above, you only have to focus on three things ( 2 3):Įven though that sounds complicated, stay with me. By Philip Ronan - Own work by the original uploader, CC BY-SA 3.0, ( 1 )

Red infrared