Niels Ryberg Finsen won a Nobel Prize in medicine for his studies around light therapy in 1903. He discovered that light therapy could aid in treating tuberculosis lupus, which is skin lesions around the face and neck.
While Finsen's discovery was largely ignored at first due to the onset of antibiotics, it became an essential part of modern medicine and is still used in hospitals worldwide to help people with various ailments and conditions.
In the 1980s, NASA needed to find a light that didn't"t consume much energy or emit any heat yet still promoted healthy plant growth, and it worked. NASA then started using light therapy to prevent muscle atrophy and wound healing in astronauts on long missions.After a few years, light therapy started to be used by hospitals around the world to treat a variety of skin conditions. It is pretty amazing how light therapy products like our Kandyway Eternal Glow MD have on the human body in a natural and non-evasive way.