McCall McPhersonFounder, Modern Thyroid Clinic.

Infrared Therapy: What Infrared Does to Your Heart & Nervous System #shorts

24 Mar 2026 · 2 min

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In this short video, McCall McPherson emphasizes the critical public health burden of heart disease, noting it kills more people annually than all cancers combined and urging risk reduction. He then cites a five‑year study of 169 congestive heart failure patients that compared those receiving infrared therapy to a control group, reporting a striking 50% reduction in hospitalizations and deaths for the infrared group. McPherson also references recent research showing infrared exposure shifts autonomic balance from sympathetic to parasympathetic activity, as measured by heart‑rate variability markers, suggesting a calming, restorative effect described as an "internal hug" for the body. He underscores both the scientific validation and the real‑world benefits experienced by users of infrared therapy.

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Heart disease kills more than all forms of cancer combined every year, and heart disease is really something that we should be looking to reduce risk on.
169 patients with congestive heart failure who were studied over 5 years. The 5 years compared people who did infrared therapy and then people who did not. And in the infrared group, there was a 50% reduction in hospitalization and death. So pretty powerful, pretty important. And so if you know that it helps reduce by 50% of patients with congestive heart failure, just imagine some of the benefits that it can provide you. So that's one of my favorite data points for the use of infrared on having your heart get healthier. And I bring it up because there was a recent study that showed infrared positively impacts the shift between the sympathetic nervous system to the parasympathetic nervous system as defined by the markers. We're monitoring the markers for heart rate variability, which is the key one if you're measuring your strain on your nervous system. You're sitting in a relaxing environment that's like giving you this wonderful hug to your body from the inside out. And there's all the studies to validate everything that I'm saying, as well as not only the studies, 'cause the studies are great, but to me what really matters is the impact like on people that are using it.