Research on LED
Let me be clear. . .I'm a fan of LED. I believe in it, I use it, and I advocate for it. Having said this, is there ANYONE who can give me a lead on the NASA research that supposedly informs our support of LED?
I ask because I have both family members and acquaintances who work and HAVE worked for the Agency, who have no earthly (sorry) idea what I'm talking about.
Can anyone give a link, or the title of the paper, or the program that funded it, or anything? I've had people tell me about this NASA research for years, and not ONE of them has ever been able to produce the research, a citation, or a paper.
Can anybody help?
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Permalink Reply by Karen Hurley on
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Government work is compartmentalized. It isn't the free entrpise system where networking and expanded knowledge is necessary to keep revenue coming in the door...........so, it doesn't surprise me your friends and family members wouldn't know.
A good ol' fashioned Googling came up with this: http://sbir.nasa.gov/SBIR/successes/ss/8-035text.html and from that page you can maneuver around to different links and find what you are looking for.
Good luck,
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Permalink Reply by James Mason on
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Thank you Karen, for the link. Unfortunately, it still doesn't answer the question about LED and anti-aging. The mechanisms for wounding and intrinsic aging are absolutely different. Even the mechanisms are totally different, and not just in terms of cytokine cascades, but in many other ways. I'm looking for the ORIGINAL research that says "Hey, LED is good for AGING skin," not just "hey, LED and Hyperbaric Oxygen can speed wound healing." Thanks for the help, though. I wish you'd been here at the show.
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Mmmmm, I'm a good Googler........but something tells me we won't find it SPECIFICALLY for anti-aging reasons, because the development originally for a different reason (wound healing).
I can try to do another search or two..............I'll be there next year :-)
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From what I can see from discussions online, the reasearch was not directed at anti-aging, but wound healing. Therefore, the connection to the research performed more than 40 years ago isn't going to be found that focused, as I had predicted.
However, when I searched some key words on NASA's website, the only thing that came up was this, but there are 'mentions'........and you may want to see if there are referenced documents at the end of the article - better yet, you could try using the Fredom of Information Act to see if you can get a copy of the work done years ago.
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2003/nov/HQ_03366_clinical_trials.html
Someone decided to lift the technology, and most likely going through the Patent Office (for acceptance or denial) for information could be helpful.
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I finally found the foundational documents. . .just trying to find the LINK to specifically anti-aging uses of LED. I don't think they'll be there. . .I think someone just took a leap of faith. I was speaking to a manuf. yesterday about it, and they were all "the information is all on the internet!" and I was like "No. It's Not." Don't you hate it when people think you're too stupid to do an internet search before you ask them a question?!
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LOL, yes! In my real life during the week, I spend a lot of time researching to 'prove' or disprove something, so I know exactly what you mean.
Maybe if you try to find out who made the first anti-aging LED.......that might help.
Other than that, I think someone just picked up on it and decided to use it. The FDA has rules for quantifying something as medical or non-medical, maybe you'll find something there, too.
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