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Recently, blue light therapy has been introduced in the red light therapy space. PlatinumLED added blue light therapy to their BIOMAX panels in a 2022/2023 upgrade to their products.

PlatinumLED is not the first though. Blue light therapy has been popular for decades now. There's already a...

Red light therapy before or after workout sessions has become extremely popular. And, for good reason: many people experience huge benefits using this approach for their workout performance. Nevertheless, we frequently get the question of what red light therapy panel should be used to maximize...

Bart hree from team Alexfergus. In this blog post, I'll talk about red light therapy pulsing. I'll break down the science on this topic. The topic is somewhat controversial as not everyone agrees that pulsing is beneficial.

But first a definition:

Pulsing is defined as momentary peaks of light...

On this website, we've been in the red light therapy space for almost 5 years, since 2017. And yet, sometimes the question "does red light therapy work" come up.

Usually, it's people who don't really have a deep understanding of red light therapy that ask the question. Of...

Here we go again! After visiting the Health Optimisation Summit in London on May 28 and 29, less than one week later the Biohacker Summit was held in Helsinki. So I - Bart from team Alexfergus - took an airplane from London to Helsinki to report on the latest biohacking developments which I came...

So I decided to fly out to London, from the Netherlands, to attend the Health Optimisation Summit 2022. In the days after the summit, right now, I created this blog post as fast as possible so that you, as reader, can enjoy the most important findings of this summit.

Here you can see me at the...

In this blog post, I'll talk about my extensive experience with the Sensate vagus nerve stimulator.

Here's a general outline of all the sections of this blog post - feel free to skip ahead to a specific section or to read my very extensive 24,000-word blog post in its entirety:

• What Is The...

Welcome to my third and last installment of my 3-part series on resting metabolic rate. Int he previous two installments I explained:

• Firstly, what resting metabolic rate is. Resting metabolic rate signify the calories you're burning 24/7, independent of your activity level. 
• Secondly, I...

In my first blog post of this 3-installment series, I talked about the concept of "Resting Metabolic Rate" (RMR) or "basal metabolic rate". In this blog post I'll explore that concept in more detail, specifically how it is affected by (extreme) dieting and even some near-starvation studies.

RMR...

My good friend Alex has extensively written about the topic of fat loss in the past. Some of his best blog posts on the topic are the following:

• Are You A Calorie Counting Fool? - here Alex argues convincingly that the calories in, calories out model is broken. 
• Why You Need To Learn...