"Good Golly Miss Molly - The House of Blue Light – Repairing Scars with non-invasive Tissue Remodelling Therapy and other invasive treatments for muscle repair

The use of blue light may be a dead. Perhaps there are yet to be discovered clues that will lead to treatments using light waves and frequencies in the healing lexicon.

After reading this piece:

Interview with Dr. Russell Schierling - Lies are Unbekoming (substack.com)

The article links to testimonials from those that have been successfully treated (not from those that haven’t!) but is short on specifics.

Now this treatment is for external scar tissue – I wonder if there is some way to apply it to the scar tissue damage done to heart and lung muscle tissue/muscle? Maybe not, but an intriguing possibility, right?

So, I thought I would look a little deeper.

From here:

LED THERAPY AND ITS EFFECTS ON SCAR TISSUE REMODELING – SkinImpact LED

Note: LED is a light-emitting diode -a semiconductor diode which glows when a voltage is applied:

“LED therapy is a non-invasive treatment method that utilizes specific wavelengths of light, emitted by LED diodes, to stimulate cellular activity.

Initially developed by NASA for plant growth experiments, LED therapy found its way into the medical and aesthetic fields due to its impressive healing and regenerative properties.

This treatment method involves the application of light energy directly to the skin, where it is absorbed by cells, triggering various physiological responses. LED therapy can be administered using different colors of light, each with its unique therapeutic effects.

Blue light, for instance, is renowned for its antibacterial properties, while red light is favored for its ability to enhance collagen production and tissue repair. Understanding how LED therapy functions is pivotal in appreciating its potential in scar tissue remodeling.

“The efficacy of LED therapy in scar tissue remodeling can be attributed to its ability to influence cellular processes on a molecular level.

When specific wavelengths of light penetrate the skin, they interact with mitochondria, the cellular powerhouses responsible for energy production.

This interaction, known as photobiomodulation, leads to increased adenosine triphosphate (ATP) production, which is essential for cellular function and repair.

Additionally, LED therapy stimulates the release of growth factors, particularly transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) and fibroblast growth factor (FGF), both of which play pivotal roles in collagen synthesis and tissue regeneration.

Furthermore, LED therapy helps reduce inflammation by modulating cytokine production, such as interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β). As a result, it not only encourages the formation of healthier scar tissue but also helps alleviate common scar-related issues, such as redness and itching.”

Interesting.

More here:

Life | Free Full-Text | Blue-LED-Light Photobiomodulation of Inflammatory Responses and New Tissue Formation in Mouse-Skin Wounds (mdpi.com)

“Background: Recent studies evidence that blue-LED-light irradiation can modulate cell responses in the wound healing process within 24 h from treatment. This study aims to investigate blue-light (410–430 nm) photobiomodulation used in a murine wound model within six days post-treatment.”

“This study examined the effect of blue-light treatment on several cell types involved in healing and collagen deposition in acute wounds created in murine models.

Our results suggest that after six days, photobiomodulation with blue light evokes an MC response that establishes an accurate and finely coordinated cellular response.

These cells stimulated (i) an early inflammatory response; (ii) angiogenesis, thanks to the secretion of TNF-α [36]; and (iii) the response of fibroblasts that switched into myofibroblasts, which played a role in wound closure, evidenced by re-epithelialization and collagen deposition [36,37,38,39,40,41].

 Therefore, together with our previous investigation [15,16,19,41,42,43], these results show that blue-LED-light irradiation induces a quicker healing process.”

Perhaps blue light can only be directed at external scar tissue – but lots of smart people out there might think of a way to target scarring on vital organs!

Here are some other invasive treatments for repairing muscle damage.

From here:

Tissue Remodeling: From Regeneration to Fibrosis: Stem cells and lung regeneration - PMC (nih.gov)

Stem cells and lung regeneration

“The ability to replace defective cells in an airway with cells that can engraft, integrate, and restore a functional epithelium could potentially cure a number of lung diseases.

Progress toward the development of strategies to regenerate the adult lung by either in vivo or ex vivo targeting of endogenous stem cells or pluripotent stem cell derivatives is limited by our fundamental lack of understanding of the mechanisms controlling human lung development, the precise identity and function of human lung stem and progenitor cell types, and the genetic and epigenetic control of human lung fate.”

Ok, so no, mention of blue LED treatments there!

Moving on!

From here:

Current Methods for Skeletal Muscle Tissue Repair and Regeneration - PMC (nih.gov)

“To promote muscle repair and regeneration, different strategies have been developed within the last century and especially during the last few decades, including surgical techniques, physical therapy, biomaterials, and muscular tissue engineering as well as cell therapy.”

“Myoblasts seeded onto electrospun meshes with aligned nanofiber orientation can fuse into highly aligned myotubes [78]. Furthermore, synthetic scaffolds can be easily engineered to facilitate the controlled release of growth factors for inducing muscle regeneration [75, 79].

The main disadvantages include typically poorer cell affinity compared to natural polymers and the risk of stimulation of a foreign body response by the polymer or its degradation products [79].”

Yikes!

I wonder if blue LED can be directed harmlessly through the skin to a vital organ? Should be less harmful than an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from a nuclear explosion!

Lastly, from here:

Football injuries are on the rise. Will AI solve the problem? | Premier League | The Guardian

Now why would the injury frequency if men’s hamstrings and women’s AXL’s be on the rise? Nothing to do with micro-clots of course, that would be a conspiracy theory!

Onwards!

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