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Inside Marmur Medicalâs second outpost,located on a buttoned-up stretch of ParkAvenue, a neon sign announces mm 2 inglowing purple. Itâs not the messagethat catches my eye but the medium. Lightis exactly why Iâve come to see dermatologistEllen Marmur, M.D., this afternoon. Eversince researchers at NASA demonstrated thebenefits of light-emitting diode therapy forwound repair, noninvasive treatments usingtargeted wavelengths have migrated from thefringes of medicine right into high-profiledoctorsâ practices. Iâm not here for an in-office experience, however. Iâm here to pickup a prototype of Marmurâs home LEDdeviceâthe MMSphere, slated to launchthis fall pending FDA clearance. Picture afuturistic doughnut, about a foot in diameter,that can cycle through a rave-worthy rainbowof light. âIf Apple met Dyson, that would bemy MMSphere,â says Marmur, 49.Marmurâaccustomed to full-force la-sers and the downtime they requireâwasinitially a skeptic about LED devices, but agrowing body of data about the beneits oflow-level light therapy inally converted her.Red light has been shown to increase col-lagen and tamp down inlammation, whileblue light targets the bacteria that causebreakouts. (Remember all those glowingacne masks that swept social media lastyear?) San Francisco dermatologist Kath-leen M. Welsh, M.D., routinely follows upmicroneedling sessions with red LED: âPa-tientsâ redness improves, and healing time isdecreased by a day.â According to MichaelR. Hamblin, Ph.D., a principal investigator
-power (in watts) and measurable results. (Thatâs why thewhole-body red-light beds are catching buzz: Size mat-ters.) Still, he sees considerable potential in small-scaleproducts. âI can envisage the day when every householdwill have one or two LED devices to treat all sorts ofconditions,â he says, citing improved energy and bettersleep. Heâs now working on a study, funded by the U.S.Department of Defense, that will compare the efects ofnear-infrared and blue light on cognitive performance.Back home with my device, I plug it in and ire up theaccompanying app (called MMSkincare)``````BEAUTY
Rainbow BrightThe latest dermatologist-backedinnovation: a multi-wavelength LEDdevice that lights up home skin care. BEAUTY>56 LIAM GOODMAN
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