A friend recently gave me an "anti-aging" LED device with red and amber LED lights, as well as infrared lights. The lights are similar, apparently, to the "Gentle Waves" treatment offered in some Spas. The lights are purported to stimulate collagen in the skin and promote cell repair. Some users have reported anecdotes of faster than usual disappearance of facial fillers such as Restylane. Could this be true, and could it also possibly metabolize facial fat or cause facial fat loss?
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November 11, 2015
Answer: No clinical evidence for LED fat metabolism
A paper recently precented at the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery by a physician's group from McGill University and RoseLab Skin Optics Research, Montreal, Canada shows a reduction in uo to 64% of the treated areas in the melanin index in patients treated with LED therapy. This...
Even though no immediate visual impairment may incur after undergoing a couple LED treatment sessions without eye protection, if this continues, one may have an accelerated risk of getting cataract formation. I advise that appropriate goggles specific to the wavelength of LED...
Hi Essential. If you are looking for improvement to the neck and jowls your best bet for dramatic and lost lasting results is a surgical procedure. Absent of that, you have dermal fillers ( to help with jowls) and radiofrequency or lasers to help with your neck. If the texture of the skin is ...
