Your gut bacteria shape your brain health more than most people realize. Red and near-infrared light can penetrate the gut lining to heal a leaky barrier, where tight-junction cells fail to seal properly and let toxins trigger inflammation throughout your body.
The gut is very intrinsically implicated in the health of the brain. And now I think the whole research into microbiome is also exploding as people begin to understand how important having the correct microbiome profile is to brain health. So red light actually is very good at targeting the gut. The gut is a very easy access point. You can get a lot of light into the gut and you can probably, with near-infrared light, you can probably shine that light fairly deep and you're actually getting the surface of the of the gut lining. You know, most people today have what we call leaky gut. You know, it's just when the gap junctions, those kind of cells in the gut, don't knit together properly. And so people have systemic inflammation. I mean, a lot of people are walking around with systemic inflammation just because we're subjected to toxins and pollutants and all kinds of other things that interfere with how that gut knits together. Actually shining light onto that area, we already know that near-infrared light is very healing.
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