05/22/2022
This post is more of a public service about what cold lasers can and cannot do.
In my experience, cold lasers are effective for hastening the healing process of many types of musculoskeletal injuries and wounds. They are also effective for reducing joint pain and inflammation. They excel at both of the above.
Here's what a cold laser, and/or red light therapy cannot do: In my opinion, a cold laser is not effective for growing hair on a bald head. In my opinion, a cold laser is not effective for reducing fat.
Even though my big interest is animal chiropractic and selling animal use lasers, I still keep up with professional journals and talk to practicing human chiropractors. I also talk with hundreds of people each month, of which many share their experiences with cold laser therapists, both for humans an animals.
Here's something that really boils my blood. Some of the professional journals I read have large ads, many with multiple full page ads and the back cover, promoting wildly expensive red light therapy machines to colleagues, promising them they can make anywhere from $30,000 to $300,000 a month (yes, a month!) just by hooking a patients up to one of these magic fat loss machines which are suppose to reduce inches as they gaze. Some of these red light therapy companies claim a patient can lose 2 inches each visit. Really? If that's the case the patient would completely disappear after just 10 visits. Folks, if red light laser therapy really melted fat like that, it would be front page news every day for 10 years. Bottom line--it doesn't. I actually called one of these companies and asked them to produce a university or government based double blind study backing up their claims. They couldn't. Why? Because there aren't any--none that I can see, anyway. The only thing that will disappear if you go to one of these fat loss "therapists" who use red light therapy is your money. What nauseates me even more are the scripts given to these therapists who buy these ridiculously priced fat eradicators. These scripts robotically spell out word-for-word what to say, rather, how to scare and pressure a skeptical prospective patient who wants to lose weight, but is reluctant to spend $2,000 to $7,000 for a month worth of treatments. Yes, I have read studies that offer a very marginal sign that red light therapy, in theory, can reduce a teensy weensy, minute, tiny amount of fat. Maybe. And even if it can do that, the weight almost always comes back within a week after the therapy stops. Bottom line. If you want to lose weight, eat healthier, and save your money by not buying into red light therapy for weight loss. These therapists don't see fat people, they see fat pigeons.
Next, hair growth. I'll cut right to it--forget it. Ok, ok, a laser, in rare cases, might help grow minimal, baby-fine hair fuzz on a bald head that can only be seen with a high powered magnifying glass, and you have to get right next to the guy's head with the magnifying glass to see it. If you really want to do this, make sure you don't eat onions that day. I recently got a call from a man who just watched a well known TV doctor show who had a guest promoting his hair growth lasers. The guest had a laser hair brush and a laser helmet. The guest said both would produce hair on a bald head. The man who called me said he did a Google search and found my Vetrolaser website. Apparently, my lasers cost a lot less than the TV hair growth laser brush and he wanted to know if my lasers would work just as well to grow hair. I told him neither would work to grow hair, so in fact, mine would be just as effective. He then asked me if the laser helmet would be effective for male pattern baldness. I enthusiastically said, "Yes!" He was thrilled, and about to buy one, but he was confused. He said, "Wait a minute. Why does the laser helmet work for baldness but the laser brush won't?" "Well, I said, "there's a long scientific explanation for this phenomenon, and I don't have time to get into great detail, so I'll just tell you what doctoral research physicists concluded. You see, they said when you have the laser helmet on your head, no one knows you're bald. But once you take it off your head, it stops working. What these same researchers recommended for baldness is to buy a Green Bay Packers helmet. It's a lot cheaper, especially if you buy a used one from Ebay, and the green will compliment your potted plants."
Ok, I had enough fun for the day.
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