Beauty Tech
Perhaps, like me, you've seen ads for red light therapy and wondered exactly what that was all about. There are ads for masks and mats and a variety of at-home devices popping up everywhere, along with any number of salons and therapy centers that offer a range of treatments based on the technology. Most of it is aimed at enhancing our youthful good looks, or even restoring them. Basically, red light therapy, or photobiomodulation, uses low-level red and near-infrared light to stimulate cell repair. It is widely used to boost collagen for anti-aging, and it also will help reduce inflammation, accelerate wound healing, and promote hair growth. The results take a while, but the technology has fans. Given that it's not exactly cheap, and it does take time and patience, I have to give the testimonials a certain amount of credence. But technology is poised to take us much further when it comes beauty. For a while now, as we've discussed before in this column, users have been abl...