Viewing red light at approximately 18 inches in the morning can counteract age-related declines in mitochondrial function and vision in individuals over 40.

“has published a number of papers recently, one that got a particularly high amount of attention in the press was one that showed that flashing red light into the eyes early in the day, not late in the day, early in the day, can help offset some age-related macular degeneration, presumably by enhancing the mitochondrial function in the photoreceptors.”

“But doing just a couple minutes a day, like two minutes a day of flashing this red light into one eye, and then the other. As long as it was early in the day before noon time, and as long as it was in individuals that were 40 years or older, did seem to have a significant effect in offsetting some of the age-related macular degeneration that would otherwise occur.”

“He'd have people look at red light at a distance of about two feet in the morning. So is long wavelength light. And sometimes even just take a flashlight, a torch as they call it in England, and cover it with a red film. And they would look at this stuff for a few minutes each morning, and it can reverse some forms of age-related vision loss and macular degeneration.”

“showing how red light exposure and near infrared light exposure done early in the day to the eye at a distance of about 2 feet for just a couple of minutes a few times a week could offset some of the vision loss associated with age related macular degeneration in people older than 40”

“viewing red lights at a distance of about 18 in or so in the morning for people who are over 40 but not for people younger by the way that can offset some of the age related reductions in mitochondrial function and vision loss”

“showing that exposing the Aged eye so 40 and older to red light and near infrared light for a couple minutes a few times a week can spare certain processes involved in Vision photo receptors”

“They saw an improvement in visual function. That improvement in visual function was an improvement in visual acuity meaning the ability to resolve fine detail and using a particular measure of visual function which is called the Triton exam tr I tan Triton exam which specifically addresses the function of the so-called shortwavelength cones the ones that respond to green and blue light they saw a 22% improvement in visual acuity which in the landscape of visual testing is an extremely exciting result.”