We all know the power of the Sun and the amazing ability for life to thrive in its presence. But did you know that you can treat hair loss and a range of skin conditions using red light therapy? Red light therapy for hair loss has shown promising results in research, is completely natural, safe, and can help slow hair loss with no side effects.

If you are one of the millions of men and women in the world who are losing their hair, you know how difficult it can be to slow down thinning or baldness, let alone restore natural hair growth. Creams, pills, and surgical treatments are often advertised as solutions. However, they often have side effects, leading many people to look for natural, safe, and non-invasive solutions.

Red light therapy for hair loss holds great promise as a long-term answer—some studies have even shown it can reverse baldness and restore natural hair growth. Later in this article, we will highlight one of these studies and show you how red light therapy works for hair loss.

Understandably, hair loss has a huge emotional impact on men and women. While some people like the bald look, it's not for everyone; and it is rarely a desirable option for women suffering from female pattern baldness. If you're getting poor results or dealing with the side effects of conventional baldness hair restoration treatments, it is worth learning more about red light as it may offer an alternative solution.

Red light therapy, RLT for short, was discovered by accident in the 1960s to treat hair loss. Science has advanced significantly since then, and red light therapy is now available to treat a number of issues, not just hair loss. For example, a full-body treatment on one of Bronzed Angel’s Mon Amie Collariums can help reverse the signs of ageing by tightening the skin through the production of collagen that lies underneath. If this sounds far-fetched, think of it in terms of our bodies responding to light in much the same way that plants respond to sunlight: by producing more energy at the cellular level. Red light therapy really does have countless benefits.

When you lose hair, it falls out, but hair follicles remain even if they stop producing hair and go dormant. So when you lose hair naturally (we usually lose 60-100 hairs a day out of hundreds of thousands), new hair either slowly replaces the lost hair, or the new hair becomes thin and weak, or hair growth stops completely. Therefore, the key point is to bring the hair follicles out of their dormant state so that they can perform their functions again.

But hair growth will slow down or stop completely if the hair follicle cells do not function properly. This is where red light therapy comes into play to restore hair growth and increase hair thickness. Red light penetrates through the skin to the base of the hair follicles. When red light photons are absorbed by the skin and reach the hair follicle cells, they interact with light-sensitive receptors in the mitochondria, which are the energy-producing organelles within cells. This interaction stimulates the production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the main cellular fuel.

Impressive results were achieved during a clinical study of women with Androgenetic alopecia (AGA) in 2017. AGA, also known in women as female pattern hair loss, is caused by androgens in genetically susceptible women and men. The thinning begins between ages 12 and 40 years, the inheritance pattern is polygenic, and the incidence is the same as in men. A group of women aged 18 to 60 received red light treatment every other day for 17 weeks, while the control group received artificial treatment. Participants who received red light recorded a 51% increase in hair count compared to control participants who received a placebo.