Full-Body Red Light Mat
Your biggest muscles live on the side of you that faces the floor. Valles lights all of them while you lie still.
Red and near-infrared LEDs from your shoulders to your hamstrings.
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A full-length red light mat for your back, legs and whole body. Red (660 nm) and near-infrared (850 nm) LEDs cover the surface, with a padded head end and a controller with a timer.
| Wavelengths | 660 nm + 850 nm |
| Coverage | Full body, lying down |
| Border | Sand vegan leather |
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Your glutes are the largest muscle in your body by mass. Your lats are the widest. They power every stand, lift and stride, and they get the least attention because you can’t see them.
A mat meets them exactly where they already are: underneath you.
Charging your phone on a wireless pad. You don’t hold anything up to the light. You just lie on it.
Gray’s Anatomy, 42nd edition
One session
Twenty minutes face-up on Valles covers your back, glutes and hamstrings in one go.
Recovery
A meta-analysis of controlled trials found light before exercise improved performance and lowered creatine kinase, the marker that leaks out of muscle you’ve broken down.
Leal-Junior et al. · Lasers Med Sci · 2015Circulation
Red and near-infrared light can free nitric oxide inside cells. Nitric oxide relaxes blood vessels; it’s the same molecule nitroglycerin works through.
Hamblin · Photochem Photobiol · 2018Wind-down
Your eyes’ daylight sensor peaks in blue and barely notices red, so an evening session won’t tell your brain it’s noon.
Brainard et al. · J Neurosci · 2001How it works
Light between roughly 650 and 1,350 nanometers sits in the body’s optical window: the range where blood and water absorb the least, so light travels the furthest. Longer wavelengths reach deeper.
Absorbed in the top layers of skin. The wavelength used in most skin studies.
Invisible to you, and it travels further into tissue, toward muscle and joints.
Karu · IUBMB Life · 2010 · Ash et al. · Lasers Med Sci · 2017
Myth vs truth
Red light is just a fancy heat lamp.
Heat is something you feel. The effect studied in red light therapy depends on color, not warmth: specific wavelengths get absorbed by one specific enzyme in your mitochondria. A space heater warms the room. It doesn’t change how your cells make energy.
Karu · IUBMB Life · 2010If 20 minutes is good, an hour is better.
Light follows a biphasic dose response: too little does nothing, the right dose helps, and too much can cancel the benefit. It’s watering a plant, not filling a pool. Use the timer.
Huang et al. · Dose-Response · 2009A wall panel does the same job.
Light obeys the inverse-square law: twice the distance, a quarter of the light. A panel also only reaches the side of you facing it. Lying inside the light, front and back, removes both problems.
Inverse-square lawYour protocol
Right after a workout, or as the last thing before bed.
Start on a low intensity level and work up.
Short and regular beats long and rare.
The research
Every claim on this page points to a published paper. Here they are.
Pooled controlled trials: light applied before exercise improved performance and lowered creatine kinase, a blood marker of muscle damage.
Leal-Junior et al. · Lasers in Medical Science · 2015Describes how red and near-infrared light can free nitric oxide from cytochrome c oxidase. Nitric oxide relaxes blood vessels.
Hamblin · Photochemistry and Photobiology · 2018Cytochrome c oxidase, part of the energy chain inside your mitochondria, absorbs red and near-infrared light and changes how the cell makes energy.
Karu · IUBMB Life · 2010Mapped which colors suppress melatonin. The eye’s sensor peaks in the blue range; red wavelengths barely register with it.
Brainard et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 2001FAQ
Use the timer so the session ends on its own, and don’t sleep on it with the power on. Treat it as a 20-minute session, not a mattress.
It feels warm, not hot. You can lower the intensity at any time.
The light is bright up close. Wear the included goggles, or keep your eyes closed when your face is lit.
Three to five sessions a week. Start on a low intensity level and let the timer end the session.
Wipe it with a soft, slightly damp cloth after use. Never put it in the washer or submerge it.
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