What do Alzheimer’s disease, concussion and depression have in common? Like most diseases that affect the brain, they involve neuroinflammation. To treat them, deeptech Regenlife has been developing a non-drug approach based on light stimulation: photobiomodulation, since 2016.
Also used in dermatology, this technique, as developed by Regenlife, involves targeting the brain and intestine, which are highly connected, and bombarding them with photons – elementary particles of light – using a helmet and abdominal belt equipped with diodes.
A diode-equipped helmet diffuses light in the near-infrared region of the spectrum to stimulate neuronal cells using photobiomodulation. Photo credit: RegenLife
Modulation of neuroinflammation
In the case of the headphones, light diffused in a zone of the light spectrum close to infrared is designed to stimulate the energy-producing factories of neuronal cells, the mitochondria.
