On April 27 to 29 2012, Intranasal Light Therapy dropped into San Francisco at the New Living Expo.

What response from the folks at San Francisco! Knowledgeable, open, honest….you packed our booth! There were so many people that did not have to be taught about the technology and how it works (one shouldn’t be surprised with this in the Bay Area). You could work it out how it can benefit you.

I was not surprised at the number of people that experience efficacy during just one session. We already knew that many people with conditions around the face and neck areas (such as congestion, sinusitis, headache, fatigue, breathing issues etc.) would respond positively during one session. That is because of the proximity of these areas to the light.

Oh yes, as we have found out from our other shows and experience; those who meditate at a high level can feel the impact of the technology in raising the quality of “awareness”.

However, it is the generosity of some that motivate them to openly share their experience with strangers at the show. What great “word-of-mouth”. In particular, thank you, Pam and Cheri!

I continue to receive positive feedback from those who obtained our devices at the show. Yes, all, if you are reading this article and own the Qi-Light or RadiantLife LT, please use them regularly – once a day if possible.

We shall be back next year!

On April 27 to 29, 2012, come to booth #409 (under “Vielight”) at the New Living Expo 2012 in downtown San Francisco. Experience Intranasal Light Therapy for yourself.

In addition, I shall be giving a lecture at 12.30 pm on Sunday, April 29 at room 8. You will hear real stories of how this technology has helped real people with a surprising array of illnesses and disorders, including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, dementia, stroke, sleep disorder etc. How can this be possible? Snake oil? Or is it the next healing breakthrough? Decide for yourself by listening to what I have to say, and see what I can show.

Looking forward to meeting up with my friends in the Bay Area again!

Probably the most widely recognized expert on Intranasal Light Therapy, Prof Timon Liu will be in Toronto to give a landmark lecture on this technology on Monday, April 23rd 2012 at the MaRS auditorium from 5.30 pm to 8.30 pm. More information can be found on the MaRS event page.

So, if you are going to be in the area, I guarantee that you are in for an “enlightening” time, well worth the three hour event. However, this will be a serious scientific event packed with in-depth facts and evidence, so you’ll need to stay awake even though it is held in the evening. I know because I have seen the materials. This event is planned to initiate further clinical investigations in Ontario on how this self-administered treatment can be used to address some serious diseases.

Prof Liu will be expound further the basic philosophy that many of you have already heard from me: that homeostasis is a fundamental key to enable your body to fight off virtually any disease and disorder. Light of a certain dosage directed through your nasal cavity our way is probably the most elegant (OK, some may not agree with this, but consider the alternative!) and effective way of achieving this.

You may have already been helped by the technology.The knowledge you gain here may help you to explain to your friends and relatives why it may also help them….or at least explain why this intranasal light therapy works for you.

By the way, seating is limited, so you’ll have to register early.

The few HIV-AIDS patients and other patients with general low white blood cell count syndrome have responded amazingly well with our Intranasal Light Therapy devices. Read the evidence on the MedicLights webpage on HIV. Thanks, Nathan (of MaRS) for giving giving us the recognition in your blog post! And, thanks to those who have shared their bloodwork results!

I love the chart of Shane’s CD4* count, so here it is again:

Go to the evidence webpage to appreciate what this chart on CD4*T count means.

I have seen enough evidence and have enough understanding of the biomechanism behind this technology’s success with compromised immune systems to be confident of its power to heal. The key lies in the signalling created by the light illumination that results in enhancing the effectiveness of the immune system. One of the effects of this is the proliferation of white blood cells that include the CD4*T cells.

Of course, to have the necessary credibility, we need it to be supported by a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. That would be the next stage.

In the meantime, we want to share this opportunity for HIV patients to possibly reverse their condition with a low cost solution. On our part we can make the device even cheaper to HIV patients just to ensure that they do not pass this opportunity. All we need is to be kept in touch with the results of their subsequent bloodwork. With this data, we may be able to persuade the right parties to support us for the desired medical studies.

Please spread the word to anyone who wants this opportunity and contact me through the contact information here.

Intranasal Light Therapy is coming to Vancouver, BC, to the Annual Wellness Show on 17th to19th February 2012. We’re at booth #219 under Vielight Inc. We’ll also be making available devices for visitors to try out. See if something something positive happens to you right away (about half would feel the difference). It is especially effective immediately for people with sinus, congestion, migraine, fatigue, blurred vision, systemic pain.

The first time that I was diagnosed with prediabetes during a routine medical when I was in the Bay Area about 5 years ago, I was surprised. I had not felt any different and had been doing a lot of walking. The medical center gave me counseling about the need and how to change my lifestyle and diet, which I had a hard time complying with.

When I was cleared of this a year later, during another medical, I was just as surprised. I had learned by then that diabetes cannot be reversed. The only thing I had done differently was to take care of my general health the with the regular use of the Intranasal Light Therapy device. Since then the diabetic condition has never surfaced again in medical check-ups.

We now have a collection of testimonies from diabetic patients: prediabetics like myself, full-blown diabetics on medications, including type 1 diabetic patients. For some, there is a need to adjust the medication so that they do not get hypoglycemic.

I should not have been that surprised if I had faith in the collection of evidence even though they are not published in “gold standard” peer-reviewed journals. The sheer number of papers in itself should provide some credibility to the evidence.

Evidence that support the positive outcomes provided by Intranasal Light Therapy for diabetic patients can now be viewed on the Mediclights website.

The keys to the success of Intranasal Light Therapy for treating diabetes lie in its ability to do several things well:

1. Restore systemic homeostasis – balancing oxidant/antioxidant levels, blood sugar levels etc.
2. Improve microcirculation to improve blood supply to the extremities
3. Managing hormonal production
4. Help release nitric oxide

In addition, I would theorize that the light, through the nasal cavity, would also reach the hypothalamus in the brain to stimulate it to restore balance in the sugar level. This is possible because this therapy has been found to positively affect patients with dementia and various diseases of the brain. See for example the outcomes with stroke patients.

As the result of these activities, typical diabetic conditions such as the following can be controlled:

1. Peripheral neuropathy
2. Retinopathy
3. Cardiovascular diseases
4. Fatigue

The phone conversation starts with Bela exclaiming, “It works!” I wasn’t sure what worked because Bela had never told me earlier why he wanted the Intranasal Light Therapy device.

Then he made it clearer: he had a massive stroke about 5 years ago that left his left side paralyzed. Sheer determination steered him to a virtually complete recovery through a strict regimen of uncompromised quality nutrition and good lifestyle (without pharmaceutical drugs). He had lost 60 pounds too.

Recent weeks had given him cause for worry. He was having warning signs that another stroke attack was impending. His fingers had been “tingling” – something I guess his own experience and education had taught him to watch out for. Doctors will recognize this as a danger sign in a patient that has already suffered a stroke before.

According to him, the result of the Intranasal Light Therapy was immediate. After the first 25-minute session, the tingling had stopped. He feels stronger and more energetic, as well as some other noticeable improvements in his well-being.

That got me to want to share the evidence pertaining Intranasal Light Therapy and Stroke recovery.

Given the evidence that supports this treatment for recovering stroke patients, Bela’s experience shouldn’t be a surprise. Chinese published studies on Intranasal Light Therapy are loaded with successful outcomes related to the autonomic neural system such as stroke. The effect of irradiating the brain with low level laser (of the infra-red wavelength) is gaining recognition in western medicine publications. Evidence of neurogenesis (formation of neurons) have been recorded on laboratory mice, suggesting vast potential in this area for stroke rehabilitation. View more details of all these evidence on the MedicLights website.

Intranasal Light Therapy has a big advantage in stimulating neurogenesis that helps with stroke and even other neural degenerative diseases and traumatic brain injury: the nasal cavity is close to the brain (the light points straight to the brain), and there are not a lot of tissues in between, especially when compared to trying to irradiate the brain from outside the thick skull (excuse the pun). “Transcranial” (over the brain) light irradiation should require some serious maths and tuning when aiming at different areas of the brain.

About a year ago, “optogenetics” was selected by Nature to be the scientific “Method of the Year 2010″. Research groups are into using light to control the brain. Worth checking out if you have not come across this scientific method of the future. It is an intricate process but it stamps the future of using light to influence the brain. Transcranial application works well on mice. For the human being, Intranasal Light Therapy method of irradiation just makes more sense.

By the way, Bela says that he is happy to share his experience.

About 4 months ago, I posted a cautionary-oriented article about cancer risks with intranasal light therapy. Since almost every other person asks about cancer risk with this “irradiation” method. I just have to do further research on this. As the result, I have now put together more comprehensive evidence for this complicated subject of Intranasal Light Therapy effect on cancer on the mediclights.com website.

I should firstly say that with our thousands of devices in the field over the past 4 years, nobody has come back to us to say that he or she thinks that it is causing cancer. It is also fitting to say that none of the users we know of has been afflicted with this disease. That is of course not a perfect validation that this technology helps with cancer. Therefore let’s take a look at the scientific evidence which has been posted on the abovementioned web page.

The first statement that needs to go out is that Intranasal Light Therapy does NOT cause cancer, as supported by scientific evidence. If there is a tumor in the nasal cavity area, it is more likely to help to neutralize it rather than stimulate it.

The next issue to note is that it seems particularly good at systemically helping to prevent the onset of cancer. The process of restoring oxidant-antioxidant homeostasis, the redox signaling, the stimulation of the T cells (for cleaning up potential cancer cells) are biomechanical processes that help to prevent cancer. This is not ignoring the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle through good nutrition and exercise.

Although another modality called “photodynamic therapy” is better suited to directly treat cancer tumors, Intranasal Light Therapy has the credentials to alleviate the pain and chronic fatigue associated with both the metastasized cancer and the conventional cancer therapies (chemotherapy and radiotherapy).

The “carpet bombing” nature of conventional cancer therapies destroys white blood cells, leaving the patient highly vulnerable to new infections. The ability of Intranasal Light Therapy to proliferate white blood cells also means that this could be a low-cost, effective tool to assist in recovery/rehabilitation after the conventional cancer therapies.

Look around us, and it is clear that a large number of deaths of family and friends are caused by cancer. Cancer cells are already present in our bodies, being kept in check by a healthy body. It only takes an imbalanced homeostasis to set loose the cancer cells, which can be triggered by cigarette smoking, absorption of toxic substances, certain viral infection, or any of a long list of cancer-causing events. The carcinogenic effects of many of these can be neutralized with regular use of the Intranasal Light Therapy.

Therefore, use your device regularly!

I’ve always been careful about what to say about the reaction of users with epilepsy to our Intranasal Light Therapy, a form of light irradiation therapy. It’s not an area that has much research done with light irradiation therapy. The bottom line is that based on the scientific facts and evidence, it should help BUT do it with care. That is because although we now identify which area of the brain is affected, there could be a multitude of possible causes; the origination could be from genetic factors, aging or trauma of some sort, manifested over 5 different widely accepted classifications and numerous “syndromes”. There is also the need to consider the alleged potential for contra-indication when light irradiation therapy is in use.

First and foremost, devices with PULSED visible light, especially in the 5-10 Hz range should not be used (often used in externally applied hair-growth and pain management with low level laser treatments). In fact pulsed light could be a good way to induce an epileptic attack!

Having said this, the recent animal study by Radwan et al suggests that daily laser irradiation (90 mW at 830 nM) of the cortex and hippocampus region of the brain could have a positive outcome on nervous system injuries such as epilepsy.[1]

The study investigated the effect of laser irradiation on the levels of  neurotransmitters in the cortex and hippocampus regions of the brain of epilepsy induced mice. Focusing on this study’s relevance to epilepsy through the hippocampus pathway: one speculated mechanism for some forms of inherited epilepsy are mutations of the genes that allow defective sodium channels to stay open for too long, thus making the neuron hyper-excitable. Glutamate, an excitatory amino-acid neurotransmitter that’s often combined with sodium, may be released from these neurons in large amounts, which triggers excessive calcium release in these post-synaptic cells. Such excessive calcium release can be neurotoxic to the affected cell. The hippocampus (see the figure below), which contains a large volume of just such glutamatergic neurons  is especially vulnerable to epileptic seizure, subsequent spread of excitation, and possible neuronal death.

Radwan et al found that after a session of laser irradiation, the level of the excitatory glutamate activity were reduced to the original restive state, thus calming the epileptic activities.

I would hypothesize that the hippocampus would be more easily treated if red light (as 830 nM is infra-red) is directed to it through the nasal cavity. There is much fewer tissue layers to penetrate (in particular the dense skull (pardon the pun)), so shorter wavelength than 830 nM and output energy lower than 90 mW would be sufficient for treatment. Based on this, it is feasible that our low level laser of 655 nM and 5 mW would at least achieve the task of controlling the release of the active glutamic compounds systemically in the area of the hippocampus.

The cerebral cortex is like the “skin” for a large part of the fore brain. As Radwan also finds positive outcomes from illuminating the cerebral cortex, it is notable that much of these areas are close enough to the nasal region that the Intranasal Light Therapy to illuminate them. For the same reason as for the hippocampus, one would expect similarly positive outcomes using this therapy.

Summary

We can summarize as follows:

1. We would expect no negative outcome (no harm) from the use of Intranasal Light Therapy for epilepsy PROVIDED that the light is not pulsed.

2. We expect positive outcomes for many (probably not all) epilepsy patients using Intranasal Light Therapy; the low level laser version in particular.

3. Because of many patients’ sensitivity to light, the treatments should be monitored to see they are particularly sensitive this too.

References

1. Radwan N M, El Hay Ahmed N A, Ibrahim K M, Khedr M E, Aziz M A, Khadrawy Y A (2009). Effect of infrared laser irradiation on amino acid neurotransmitters in an epileptic animal model induced by pilocarpine. Photomed Laser Surg. 27(3): 401-409.

I am overwhelmed by the numerous supporters and well-wishers at the Vielight booth at the recent Whole Life Expo. Our standard-size booth was pretty much overrun at times, and we were told that ours was among the busiest at the show.

How can we not? Even to my surprise, the majority of customers said they experienced healing during the 25-minute session with the Intranasal Light Therapy device (and we were not even intending to openly let customers try the devices – because we were poorly prepared to do this) . I know that many left disappointed that the wait time was that long to try the device.

Some of the feedback we got were the removal of: pain, fatigue, sinus congestion, headaches, blurred vision and probably some others that I was not aware of.

Image: Peter taking a rare break.

Well, the organizers have come back to us and said that they will give us bigger space next year! This will allow us to introduce some elements that will show you how real your “feel of the heal” is.