Near-infrared light at the head — brief, painless, and honestly still being studied.
Before anything else, the plain version: tPBM isn’t a standalone session we sell. It’s a research direction we’re actively exploring, and we use it adjunctively — added to other work, where the evidence supports the combination. We have the device, we’re learning alongside the literature, and we’d rather tell you that than dress it up as something settled.
Near-infrared light at 810nm, delivered to the scalp. At that wavelength the photons cross skin and skull with enough fluence to reach the outer cortex, where they activate cytochrome c oxidase in cortical neurons — the same mechanism family as our deep-tissue NIR work, aimed at the brain instead. That’s the whole idea. How much it does, and at what dose, is exactly the open question the field is still working through — and so are we.
There isn’t much to it, and that’s the honest part. A Vielight headset sits on your head — forehead and scalp — for about twenty-five minutes while you sit. It’s painless. Most people feel little to nothing; some notice a faint warmth where the light sits. You wear eye protection as appropriate, the same near-infrared precaution we take across the board. Then it’s done, and you carry on with the rest of the session.
We layer tPBM onto a session you’re already doing rather than booking it on its own — most often alongside HBOT, the pairing the research has studied most directly. We track how it goes alongside you, and we stay candid: the evidence here is still developing, and we’re learning in the open. If that changes, we’ll say so. For now, think of it as an exploration we invite you into, not a promise we’re selling.
Part of the same near-infrared family — different depth, same light.