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LED Lighting Could Be a Botox Replacement

cleantechnica.com — Few people will argue that LED lights are particularly attractive, but they may just be able to make you more attractive. German researchers reported last month that people who received several weeks of treatment under LED lights experienced a lessening of skin wrinkles similar to what is seen with Botox treatments.

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  • PixelMagic, on 11/08/2008, -1/+17People with wrinkles need to lighten up.
  • edealeasy, on 11/07/2008, -1/+13really??
  • palehorse864, on 11/08/2008, -1/+12Why age gracefully, when you can age gracefully with LED's!

  • JCartersRabbit, on 11/07/2008, -0/+11That ought to boost sales!
    Now lets replace ALL incandescents with LEDs to save energy!
  • pchow, on 11/07/2008, -0/+9hmm..... fascinating.
  • divinediva, on 11/07/2008, -1/+10The new combination of Botox could lead to lower price per dose .... has not disproved the notion that light drinking is good for health.
  • inactive, on 11/08/2008, -1/+7Looks like garbage to me.

    Ignoring the fact that the two eyes are completely different....

    If this were science, there would be objective evidence. This is not objective evidence because of the light cast on the subject.
  • pablo0713, on 11/08/2008, -1/+7How about people simply age....gracefully?
  • aleksgg, on 11/08/2008, -0/+5No, not really!!!
  • cliffzdude, on 11/08/2008, -0/+5Easy to say when your idea of facial perfection is a day without a pimple.
  • Murdats, on 11/08/2008, -0/+4I prefer LED lights over incandescent bulbs, it removes that annoying yellow tinge.
  • TwineHornet, on 11/08/2008, -0/+4There's dramatically different lighting in each of the before and after pics. Makes it a little less believable.
  • nick2, on 11/08/2008, -0/+4Dang it, I hate when I get things and they get outdated a month later. I just had botox injected into my bladder, now I could've had a LED injected instead. :(
  • Hilyin, on 11/08/2008, -0/+4Wow, my MacBook Pro is LED backlit, does that mean my wrinkles will dissipate as I use my computer?
  • algaeturd, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3Awesome! I got rid of my wrinkles! But I got skin cancer from the 2,000 hours of LED lighting I was exposed to.
  • palehorse864, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3I'm not taking that kind of advice from you William Shatner.
  • MissingFeature, on 06/11/2009, -0/+3This should work great with the lucid dream mask from Die Another Day or http://digg.com/mods/DIY_Lucid_Dreaming_Mask_2
  • krnldmp, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2..in the same way a good fisting cures hemmorhoids.
  • jhop, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2Like "BuryHuffPost" said, it's not objective...

    Seems like a successful attempt to FP a marketing effort.
  • emt1451, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2woosh!
  • jermm, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2I'll stay young forever!
  • PhAndrew, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2its not from theonion?
  • secrity, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2Only if they are near-infrared LEDs
  • chicagojack, on 11/07/2008, -3/+5sign my wife up for this!!!!!!!
  • threat42, on 11/08/2008, -1/+2"German researchers reported last month that people who received several weeks of treatment under LED lights experienced a lessening of skin wrinkles similar to what is seen with Botox treatments."

    ...and cancer. Sweet, delicious cancer.

    Actually, I can't back that up.
  • P3tisuis, on 03/29/2009, -0/+1Resveratrol is the ingredient in red wine that made headlines in November when scientists demonstrated that it kept overfed mice from gaining weight, turned them into marathoners and seem to slow down their aging process. Resvalife are pills and you can get a free trial of them: http://www.resva-life.com/?id=3-37735-Hydra

    If you are looking for a cream to fight aging skins the best is Caracol Cream: http://caracolcreams.com
  • daboo, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1Original: http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/cgdefu/20 ...
  • porl, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1exactly. this kind of thing really pisses me off. if you want to convince me that your product/procedure/potion/whatever has *any* effect, show before and after pictures that are at least *remotely* similar in lighting and background conditions. otherwise i *will* assume that the only real difference is better makeup artists and lighting directors.

    i know they aren't advertising to a cynical bastard like me though, so i suppose the point is moot :)
  • secrity, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1It appears that the light unit used in the study was a "Warp 10" http://www.warp-heals.com/

    It uses several 670 nM leds http://www.warp-heals.com/specs/Warp10.htm

  • HappyScrappy, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1No.
  • Humzaseo, on 02/07/2009, -0/+1use LED light for skin but after confirmation it does not causes any side effects for skin. Because many radiation such like uvb and uva rays are not better for skin. And causes my skin disease like as indicated on http://www.trusera.com/health/journals/anne/journa ... uvb light causes skin cancer and uva causes aging in skin
  • atruelunatic, on 11/08/2008, -2/+2O RLY?
  • inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulin_toxin , no where in any literature did I find the toxin from Clostridium being used as rat poison. It IS true that rats were used as test animals when gauging the effects of the neuro toxin. It IS true that rats died, but Botox was never used as a "rat poison" in the common usage of the term rat poison.

    Let me guess, the author is a 'green' adherent.
  • inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+0NEWS FLASH !!!!!! Top models have been removing 'crows feet' from around their eyes with the legendary
    product called Preparation H .

    So much for research. Yes it works !!! MY eyes look years younger than my siblings who do not use the Big H.
  • inactive, on 11/08/2008, -1/+0dont be so flipping shallow you bunch of vapid morons... JESUS WEPT

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