Can Red Light Contouring Reduce Fat?

From providing pain relief and rapid muscle recovery after exercise, to treating chronic skin conditions, red light therapy is known for having a variety of therapeutic effects. However, many people are surprised to learn that red light therapy is also now a very popular and successful treatment for weight loss and body contouring. Here’s what you need to know about how valuable red light contouring can be for reducing body fat and helping you to achieve the silhouette that you’ve been dreaming of.

What is Red Light Therapy?

Red light therapy is a form of low-level laser light therapy. For this reason, it’s sometimes known as LLLT. Light comes in all different wavelengths, but studies have found that the most therapeutic light falls between 650-850nm (nanometers). Red light, and near-infrared light both fall into this therapeutic window.

How Does Red Light Therapy Help With Bodyt Contouring and Fat Loss?

While there is no doubt that a combination of a healthy diet and plenty of regular exercise is the best way to control your weight, build muscle and reduce fat, the reality is that making any progress is extremely hard and requires extensive, ongoing commitment. It’s also true that some areas of the body respond much better to diet and exercise than others do, and nearly everyone has pockets of stubborn fat that don’t seem to shift or get smaller no matter what diet you follow or exercises you follow. One of the best ways to make a difference to these areas is to explore alternative fat loss treatments, such as red light therapy.

Red light therapy uses near-infrared and red light to increase cellular metabolism. As the red light is focused on the specific area you want to target, it stimulates cellular energy called adenosine triphosphate or ATP for short. ATP is the main fuel of all the cells of the body, including fat cells. With more energy, your entire body can function more effectively, including giving you more energy to get up, move around and take part in exercise. And as we know, the more you move your body, the more calories you burn and the easier it is to burn fat and lose weight.

Body contouring using red light also reduces fat cells by causing them to leak. Studies have shown that targeted red light can create tiny openings in each fat cells, letting the fatty acids called lipids inside leak out, where they are then metabolized by the body. Once this happens, the fat cells can collapse, becoming much smaller and taking up less space and causing the area to shrink. Red light contouring can be performed on virtually any area of the body, as is particularly effective at targeting stubborn pockets of fat, such as those which form underneath the upper arms, beneath the chin, on the inside of the thighs and on the lower back.

By choosing red light body contouring for fat loss, you can avoid invasive surgical procedures and instead have a number of simple, painless treatments that can help to eliminate excess fat for good. Make an appointment with our friendly and knowledgeable team for more information.


For more on red light contouring or to book a visit, call Knecht Chiropractic Center at (919) 629-0400 to reach our office in Sanford, North Carolina.