Quantum biology in low level light therapy: death of a dogma.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is shown that despite exponential increase in the number of clinically exciting results in low level light therapy (LLLT), scientific progress in the field is retarded by a wrong fundamental model employed to explain the photon-cell interaction as well as by an inadequate terminology. This is reflected by a methodological stagnation in LLLT, persisting since 1985. The choice of the topics is, by necessity, somewhat arbitrary. Obviously, we are writing more about the fields we know more about. In some cases, there are obvious objective reasons for the choice. Progress in LLLT is currently realized by a trial and error process, as opposed to a systematic approach based on a valid photon-cell interaction model.

Methods

The strategy to overcome the current problem

SUBMITTER: Sommer AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7210155 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature