{"id":1937,"date":"2016-07-09T04:29:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T04:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2016-07-09T04:29:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T04:29:14","slug":"hope-to-alzheimers-sufferers-with-wearable-low-level-light-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/hope-to-alzheimers-sufferers-with-wearable-low-level-light-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope to Alzheimer’s sufferers with wearable low-level light therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, a randomized placebo-controlled pilot study using patented <\/strong>Vielight 810 Infrared<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and patent-pending <\/strong>Vielight Neuro<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0wearable devices was conducted involving 19 patients affected by Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. The findings showed surprisingly promising outcomes<\/strong>. The devices were developed by Vielight Inc. of Toronto, Canada<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Alzheimer\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This could be the first randomized controlled human study that has presented the arrest or reversal in the decline of Alzheimer’s Disease. The patients used the “Neuro” for 20 minutes once or twice a week and the “Vielight 810” every day for 25 minutes. The results of this pilot study are significant and strongly suggest that the treatment for people with moderate-severe cognitive impairment can result in significant clinical improvements. People with this level of cognitive impairment are excluded as candidates for pharmaceutical drugs under development or in clinical trials.<\/p>\n

The details of this study (co-authors include Dr. Margaret Naeser<\/span>, a research professor of neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine<\/span>, Dr. Michael Hamblin<\/span>, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School<\/span>) are now being written into a peer-reviewed paper for publication.<\/p>\n

The technology involved the science of low level light therapy (LLLT) or photobiomodulation therapy (PBMT). PBMT is a process in which exposure to low-level light or light emitting diodes stimulate cellular function leading to beneficial clinical effects. Prior to this study, research has already presented its potential with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in its successful effect on animals with AD. Vielight has translated the research into non-invasive wearable devices which were used in this study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The results of this pilot study are significant and strongly suggest that the treatment for people with moderate-severe cognitive impairment can result in significant clinical improvements. People with this level of cognitive impairment are excluded as candidates for pharmaceutical drugs under development or in clinical trials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,4,35],"tags":[921,19,1133,20],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-wellness-2","category-newsmakers","category-wellness-2","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-health","tag-vielight-neuro","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}