Shining a (red) light on Parkinson's disease, by Professor John Mitrofanis, Sydney Medical School

“...In animal models of Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, retinal degeneration and traumatic brain injury, infrared light has improved cell survival and function. It’s quite far-reaching and seems to work on the same principle of stopping damaged cells from dying. If you cause damage to a cell by any means, the red light will activate something within that cell to help it survive....” Learn more: http://inspired.sydney.edu.au/shining-a-red-light-on-parkinsons-disease/

Infrared heat lamps for treating aches and pains have been part of the home medical arsenal for more than half a century. But now it looks like red light can do more than soothe muscles; it can reinvigorate brain cells and may stave off Parkinson’s disease.