Light Engineering That Makes You Look YOUNGER (& Beauty Lasers Vs Face Masks!) With LYMA’s Lucy Goff

Ben Greenfield

My name is Ben Greenfield, and on this episode of The Boundless life podcast,

Lucy Goff

it was one of those kind of turning points in my life. And I was in hospital for weeks like while they were battling to save my life. It was such a scary moment, 12 weeks after using the LYMA laser on my knees. They went to this. That was when I realized that this worked like nothing else out there. And if we could re engineer this huge floor standing cold laser machine into a little portable device, then we could change the beauty industry forever.

Ben Greenfield

Welcome to the boundless life with me. Your host, Ben Greenfield, I'm a personal trainer, exercise physiologist and nutritionist, and I'm passionate about helping you discover unparalleled levels of health, fitness, longevity and beyond you.

Ben Greenfield

Lucy Goff is my guest today. She's the founder of LYMA, which is a beauty company that makes lasers. You're gonna learn a ton about cold laser therapy, some really cool stuff that she's doing in the whole beauty industry, and a really cool story. So all the show notes are at bengreenfieldlife.com/lymapodcast, and let's go talk with Lucy, who is in London. All right, so Lucy, I heard, because I did a little bit of sleuthing and detective work on you before this podcast, that you got into this whole like light laser thing after you had sepsis, which is a pretty critical medical condition, from what I understand, but I would love To hear the link between sepsis and facial beauty with lasers

Lucy Goff

and a light bulb moment, yeah, no, it was, well, first of all, hi. Thank you so much for having me on today. It was one of those kind of turning points in my life. I just had my daughter. Everything had gone wrong with the birth. You know, I'd had the epidural, it didn't work. I'd had the spinal it didn't work. I was then had a general I'd have preeclampsia, like everything that could have gone wrong kind of was going wrong. And throughout my recovery, I caught septicemia. It wasn't actually from the wound itself, from the Cesarean, it was actually through mastitis. Mastitis turned into cellulitis, which is an infection of the skin, and then that turned into full blown septicemia. And I was in hospital for weeks like, well, they were battling to save my life. It was, it was such a scary moment. You know, everyone was coming in. Nobody could get the infection under control, and I just felt so helpless. And the turning point was, you know, when they first found the antibiotic that was working, and they started to see my blood, the infection going down. And I for the first time, I thought, you know, I was going to have a life. I would actually, you know, be a parent to my to my daughter. And I was so elated at that that it kind of came at the cost of me functioning. I couldn't even pick her up. I couldn't walk up the stairs, and my mum took me to one of these clinics in Switzerland. It was like one of these Heidi moments, you know, like,

Ben Greenfield

I'm curious, which clinic did you go to? I've kind of studied up on some of the European biological medicine clinics over there. So

Lucy Goff

it wasn't one of the main ones. It wasn't like Vivamayr or one of those. It was a small clinic that her friend had recommended, and this was like my 70 year old mother, who had, you know, only gone to the doctors once in a life to get some antibiotics for tonsillitis, you know. So I was coming at it from a very low benchmark, but a friend of hers had recovered from a similar infection and gone to it was very small. Hospitals only had nine beds in it was very, very small, and they were doing my Bloods, and, you know, they were trying to see what was going wrong, because I was eating really well. I was taking incredible supplementation, and nothing was nothing was working, and it was on about the third day when she was so fed up of me, like complaining about how well I felt. And she got speaking to a professor who was speaking at a conference in Geneva, a guy called Professor Paul Clayton, a longevity professor. Was an Oxford academic, and he was explaining about the supplement industry and why, you know, it was a bit like the Wild West, and maybe why my supplement stack wasn't working. And he prescribed me some ingredients. They were, there was, like 16 tablets I was to take every day, and these were, like the hidden at the time category of supplementation. So there were patented ingredients that were peer reviewed. They were all dosed properly, and it was a formulation that was really engineered to look at the symbiotic relationship between sleep and stress, which were my main problems at the time. I wasn't sleeping and my body was so inflamed and so stressed from the trauma that it had, that it had had, and he promised me that he was going to send these, these tablets in the post, and literally, three weeks later, I get this big pack of pills popped on every day. And I was thinking, Well, you know, I've just got nothing to lose now. And a month later, I just felt myself again. And that was really, you know, I went back to work, and that was really the impetus for starting LYMA. We started as a supplement brand, but as a different proposition to the rest of the market. By

Ben Greenfield

the way, when you say you started as a supplement brand, I mean, it sounds like these tablets were kind of like for stress or anxiety or sleep your company now, from everything I can see is a little bit more focused on beauty. Did when you started a supplements brand? Was it kind of along the same lines of what this doctor had prescribed to you, or did you guys kind of more focused on like the beauty anti aging piece.

Lucy Goff

No, it was actually the formulation that Professor Clayton prescribed to me, but he added a couple more ingredients in there for skin, because he was looking at the symbiotic relationship, then between sleep, skin and stress. So that's how we you know, if you're not sleeping, you're stressed. If you're stressed, you're not sleeping, your collagen breaks down faster. So kind of looking at that relationship. And then it was in maybe it was like 18 months later, and Professor, this was like the proper light bulb moment. So he was in Germany, and he was looking at a man's knees that had been treated with low level laser technology to rebuild cartilage inside one of his knees. And there was this whole team of doctors, and they were looking at the X ray of the cartilage increase over a 12 week period. The guy was six in his like early 60s, and Professor Clayton was at the other end of the room, and he was looking at a photograph of the skin on the knee that had been treated. And it was then that he noticed that the skin on the knee that had been treated looked about 20 years younger than the skin on his other on his other knee. And that's when he realized the entire beauty industry was really based, you know, it was either led, which is like, you know, the bulb that's in the ceiling that's amazing at lighting up a room, but it doesn't have biological potential. So you know, these red light panels that you know people stand in front of are really, really effective at getting a stimulating the mitochondria on the very surface of your skin, and that gets more oxygen into the body, and you feel better. So you feel good when you stand in front of these panels. But the light can't biologically penetrate even into your dermis, because LED is not engineered to do that. And if we could re engineer this huge floor standing cold laser machine into a little portable device at the same power. Then we could change the beauty industry forever.

Ben Greenfield

You could get rid of elephant skin knees worldwide.

Lucy Goff

You could get rid of, well actually, so this is the interesting part. I'm going to show you a picture. So when I first tested this technology and we first created the little LYMA laser, I thought, Well, I'm not going to test it on my face. My face wasn't so bad. I'm going to test it on an area of my body where it was just horrific skin. It was the elephant leaves that I did inherit from my mum so I had, I don't know whether you can see, but my knees were really not,

Ben Greenfield

Oh, those are your knees.

Lucy Goff

These are my knees. Yeah, a few years ago. And then, yeah, and then, literally, 12 weeks after using the LYMA laser on my knees. They went to this so you can see,

Ben Greenfield

for those of you who are listening, I'll put the video if you go to bengreenfieldlife.com/lymapodcast, yeah. Definitely not elephants anymore. Holy

Lucy Goff

cow elephants and so that were. That was when I realized that this worked like nothing else out there. And the RE, you know, the professors that we were working with to engineer the LYMA laser, they were explaining that this technology works in a different way to everything else that's out there works in a different way to LED. It's way more effective at biological penetration of the light. It's different to normal lasers, so ablative lasers, or even non fracture lasers, because they work by obviously heating the water tissue in between cells or actually damaging the skin in order to stimulate collagen production. And like all these other treatments, microneedling, radio frequency, they're all heating or damaging in order to stimulate collagen production.

Ben Greenfield

I know, and you know why I've been to some beauty clinics before one of my one of my friends, is a cosmetic surgeon, Cameron chestnut, up in Spokane, and you can kind of hear like the sizzling of the water in the skin. From what I understand that that's actual like water in the skin heating up, which isn't necessarily bad. I know, I know that there's, there's certain effects that those type of lasers have. What'd you call, I think the one he used, he has a CO two. He has, did you see ablative is it an ablative laser?

Lucy Goff

Yeah, so the CO two laser, like an Nd YAG laser, you know that they're, they take the surface of your skin off. You know that they're ablative lasers? Oh, I know, because my wife did a CO two and she couldn't leave the house for like, a month. She was like, and again, I'm not throwing that, that form cosmetic treatment under the bus, because I know it does have good effects, but I mean, she was like, bleeding out her eyeballs for a while. It's, it's pretty it's pretty extreme. Yeah, no, it's very extreme. It's painful and but actually, what we've discovered is, when you damage skin in order to stimulate collagen production, you know, your body goes into the stress repair response, so like when you fall over and you know you hurt yourself, your body doesn't say, oh, let's produce a beautiful scar. It just heals as quickly as it can, and it's a very disordered repairing process. So it's a very disordered process, and you don't create the optimal blend of collagen fibers that are found in you that your body just produces naturally in youthful skin. Whereas this technology is the only technology out there that whereby the light is absorbed by your cell and triggers an epigenetic switch inside your cells, and it makes the cell operate as it did when you were just a lot younger. And not only do you produce surplus collagen, but the whole cell itself functions as if you were a lot younger. And that's why this technology is so good, not just for skin, but on muscle regeneration, on inflammation, on pain, you know, like, how many people hurt themselves cycling or, you know, doing exercise, or just from operations. You know, like recovering from operations, it's just such an incredible technology. It's a powerful anti inflammatory, and it really expedites the healing process.

Ben Greenfield

So playing devil's advocate, back to what you were saying about the more powerful lasers you'd find in like a Surgical Clinic, there's got to be a reason that so many cosmetic surgeons use something like that and that they get good effects from it. So are you saying that you that you think you can get good effects on more powerful lasers, or are you saying, like you can achieve really good beauty from something at home without that amount of, say, abrasion or damage.

Lucy Goff

It's kind, I guess it's kind of, you know, horses for courses. You know, there are scenarios whereby, you know you might, if you're under a surgeon and you're recovering from operation, or as part of the operative procedure, he might do a CO two laser, but, and that's something different, but if you are just using an ablative laser or a CO two laser To improve a wrinkle or to improve sun damage or something like that. Then there now is no need to use that technology. You know, you can take something like the LYMA laser, you can use the LYMA laser and literally just all you do is you place it over your skin for three minutes each area that you're treating. Every day, and it's way better. Because, first of all, you know, your skin is an organ. It's not really there to be damaged. You know, I always remember a conversation I'd had with with a heart surgeon, and, you know, we were kind of discussing the, you know, the concept of damaging your skin just to make it look better, because your skin's an organ that's there to function. And you know, it just made me think, imagine if somebody went to them say, you know, can you just like, you know, do a bit of treating to the to the to my heart to make it look better? Well, you just would never do that. And yet, that's what we're doing to our skin, you know,

Ben Greenfield

yeah,

Lucy Goff

it doesn't, you don't need to. Yeah, I

Ben Greenfield

think if you look at something like cardiac remodeling from aerobic stress of exercise, or something like muscle remodeling or hypertrophy, or, you know, even mitochondrial biogenesis, or like satellite cell proliferation from the damage you might get from, you know, slight tearing of a muscle during exercise. I think you could make a case that small amounts of damage might induce kind of like a hormetic response that allows an organ to regenerate. But it sounds to me like maybe what you're saying is, you know, the type of damage you might get from, you know, UVA and UVB radiation from four hours in the sun during the day, or, like, you know, repetitive say, I know a lot of people do, like, way too much Derma rolling and micro needling and just tearing things up over and over again.

Lucy Goff

I think whatever you do, whatever you you, whatever your body can create. You know, for inside your body, through exercise, through your strength, through your resilience, you know that's your body will never you know that kind of damage that you were speaking about that's actually a beneficial damage, that's your body actually pushing itself to become healthier. But I think there's so many cosmetic treatments today that actually, you know, just work off this cylindrical Well, you know, the more damage we create, the better the skin is going to be.

Ben Greenfield

It's like the beauty equivalent of overtraining in exercise,

Lucy Goff

exactly. And you know, fundamentally, what we've discovered through our research is and our clinicals is, when you damage skin in order to stimulate collagen production, you're producing the same collagen blend in the same ratio as scar tissue. You're not actually producing the same blend of collagen fibers as found in youthful skin, and that's what the LYMA laser does. And there are technologies like radio frequency and those you know, other heat based products that go into the deeper layers and actually cause heat damage in order to stimulate collagen repair that actually create a scarred dermis. They create scarred muscle tissue that sits beneath and it's only you know. I remember speaking to Jason diamond, the the plastic surgeon, and he was saying, you know, when they when he does a deep plane facelift, first place he opens up is, is the net, and you can always see a person that's a patient that has been using these damaging treatments, because you can see the state of the, you know, inside the neck and inside the muscle tissue and inside the dermis. That is not harder to do a good operation if you're not working with the best internal structure. So you know, the light from the LYMA laser will go all the way down to your bone, and it regenerates the skin, but it also regenerates the muscle that sits underneath this, underneath the skin, and that's why, you know, like for areas like the jowls and the neck. It's so incredible because the skin, fundamentally, is only as good as the muscle that it sits on top of. So as you age, if your muscles start sagging, then your skin's going to sag too. And that's why the LYMA laser is so incredible, because with out damaging anything, it will just make your muscle younger. It will make your skin younger just by empowering your cells to work in the way like it did when you were a lot younger, right? So, so while you're watching like YouTube or Netflix or whatever, you could technically go beyond the face and do like you did the knees, the back of the hands, the net, the knees, the inner arm. I mean, on a you know, I'm 53 my inner arms were not what they were, you know, like areas that just go really thin and crepey as you age. It's incredible. It just gives you the confidence to wear whatever you want to, and not, you know, even your chin. Best, you know, you get that pillow line from if you don't sleep on your back. I

Ben Greenfield

don't know. I should probably be looking in the mirror more to see if I have pillow lines. You know, it's really popular. Now, Lucy these masks, right the red light face masks, and now they've got them in different colors, like purple and blue and green and yellow. Those, from what I understand, and hope, hopefully this isn't a dumb question. I think are LEDs, and I believe they would also have different wavelength than something like the laser. Can you do, kind of like a compare and contrast between a mask and a laser? So

Lucy Goff

the masks that you see, they're all LED. So red light is LED. Anything that's got the word light at the end is LED. It's not a laser. So, you know, you put these masks on, you get these amazing red plume that comes out of them. And it, you know, they look very dramatic. And the reason why you can see that red plume of light is because the light is bouncing off your skin and going into back into the room. It's not got any biological potential, any biological penetration. And that's because if you if you want a light source to penetrate beneath the skin. Beneath the skin surface, it's got to have three properties. It's got to be coherent, which means it runs in a straight line. It's got to be polarized, which means it runs in tram lines. And it's got to be monochromatic, which means it's one color. And those three properties are only exclusive to laser light. They're not that you don't find them in LED. So that's why LED is great to give you a glow. You know, those those masks are great if you know before you go out, if you want to have a glow before you know, or you know, make you feel better. But they cannot the light cannot to have a biological effect in your dermis, which is the base layer of your skin or your muscle that sits beneath

Ben Greenfield

Okay, so, so the light's gonna cause more light, like a coloration, like a glow, whatever. Maybe you throw one on before you go out to dinner or something like that. But you're saying it's not actually changing anything structurally.

Lucy Goff

It is not changing anything structural. And to prove it, we did a world first clinical a couple of years ago, but it was actually published last year. It was published in esthetic surgery journal, and we took a LYMA laser and we put it over skin, and we looked at gene expression in the dermis, which is the base layer of the skin, obviously. And then we got Imperial College in London to build an identical LYMA laser, but we changed at the same wavelength, so 808 nanometers, which is near infrared. And but we got them to put LED is a light source, not laser. It was the same power, same everything. And in the LYMA laser skin, 45 genes were expressed in the dermis. And actually the longevity gene, the SIRT1 gene, was accelerated six times, so it had a huge biological change in the dermis. In the LED skin, only one gene was expressed in the derma, so it wasn't longevity gene,

Ben Greenfield

interesting. And by the way, the sorry to interrupt the SIRT1 gene. This is the same one people are talking about when they discuss like sirtuin, rich foods like, you know, polyphenol, rich foods like grape skin or or berries, or something like that, inducing a repair or longevity response. You saw up regulation of that sirtuin related gene with the what do you say? 808? Nanometer.

Lucy Goff

So it was the LYMA laser was with three minutes placed on the skin over five days, and it was that has never been achieved before in human skin. In the dermis, there have been some technologies that have done tests in a Petri dish, and they've achieved acceleration of like eight times, but then when they've replicated it in human skin. They've not seen anything, but no, these 45 genes were were expressed in total in the in the LYMA laser skin. And I guess it's kind of the really five things happening at once, like the SIRT1 gene, there was mitochondrial function, DNA repair, so mitochondrial fusion, and that just showed that, you know, the whole longevity side of the of the cell had switched on, and then there's the whole antioxidant response. So there was a whole, there was a whole other raft of. Genes that were looking at the antioxidant response, and then there were growth there was a there's a growth factor cascade. There was all these genes were working, and it showed that there was a total remodeling of the extracellular matrix in a way that you don't get from a damage you don't get from a damage technology. You can only get from but from a cold laser. Because, remember, this is a laser light, but it's not, it's not a heat laser. We remove. I don't know if you can see this here, but you know, it starts out at the top as a really hot laser. And actually, in the when we were engineering the laser, when we were building it, you know, without the internal lenses you put, we put the LYMA laser on a credit card, and it burns a hole in it in a few in a few seconds. So it's a really, really hot laser. So

Ben Greenfield

don't, so don't buy a LYMA laser and tinker with it at home and, like, remove parts of it like you you build a sail

Lucy Goff

for you take it apart. No, don't take it apart. It will not be unless

Ben Greenfield

you want to make a Star Wars weapon.

Lucy Goff

Yeah, don't use it as a Star Wars weapon. Go to a toy shop if you want to use that as a Star Wars it's a lot cheaper. But no, we disperse the central laser beam 10s of 1000s of times, and that disbursement removes all the heat from the laser by the time you get to the lens, so it's completely cold, and therefore you're not, you're not kind of needing the heat to stimulate collagen production. You're just using the natural near infrared light to work via laser speckle inside each of your cells and trigger this really interesting epigenetic shift inside all of your cells. When

Ben Greenfield

people say cold laser, that's what they mean.

Lucy Goff

Yeah. So this is cold laser. This is cold laser, but it's a patented technology, so it's on another level to any other cold laser out there. It's quite interesting, actually, because if you think of cold laser. It comes from a diode at the top. So you've always got a diode at the top, and then you disperse the heat, and then it comes out cold the other end. But the problem with other cold laser technologies is that, you know, you see it in these hats, you know, these cold laser helmets that people wear for hair growth. If it's not this technology, you can imagine how thin a laser diode is. It's like less than the thickness of a strand of hair. And say you've got 305 milliwatt diodes that go on a helmet on the top of your head. You know, 300 laser diodes might be like, equivalent to, you know, I don't know the tip of your thumbnail, do you know? I mean, because it just doesn't come So fundamentally, you're not, you're not treating a very large surface area. But our patented technology is the first time. I mean, this is the LYMA laser, but this is the LYMA Laser Pro, so you can kind of see the difference. This is a lot bigger. What's the difference between the regular and the Pro? Well, for the first time in the LYMA Laser Pro, you've got, it's a 33 centimeter treatment lens. You can treat, you know, a very large area at once, and it will treat every single nano square, or whatever you call it, of that lens. So the entire treatment lens, whereby, in other cold laser technologies, you only get the therapeutic benefit where the actual diode is, which is a very small area.

Ben Greenfield

Okay, so if I'm doing, if I'm doing, like, three minutes, it takes about 15 minutes to do a whole face, I would approximate. The Pro is just going to allow me to go that much more quickly.

Lucy Goff

Yeah, it's for speed. So the pro makes you, it's, it's a lot speedier, but the LYMA laser is really good. If you've got, like, a scar, if you've got bit of pigmentation, or you just want to treat around your eyes, you know, you can get the LYMA laser. That's absolutely fine. If you want to start treating larger areas of your face and body quicker. Then the Pro is where it's at. But, you know, once you've got one, you know, the technology is it will, you know, if you find that you've got a painful knee, or something like that, you know, you can just put it on your knee for three minutes and reduce pain. There's so much. It's kind of like the Swiss Army knife of the it's something that everybody should have. Of in their home, not just for skin, but for so many other benefits, just post operative, or for pain, or for to get rid of an old scar, rosacea pigmentations, the whole host of

Ben Greenfield

actually that, actually the rosacea pigmentation piece, if I could stop you then, and I guess eczema, let's say, like teenagers with acne. Did it do anything for for things like that? Esthetically?

Lucy Goff

Yeah, absolutely. So obviously, acne is an inflammatory response, so the LYMA laser is a powerful anti inflammatory, and it goes all the way past your dermis. So it's, it's, it's amazing to use for the whole family rosacea. Obviously, it's never going to get rid of the root cause of the rosacea, because that's happening from the inside, but it definitely takes down the redness. So the way that the skin manifests itself visually, it will really, really help with reducing the redness in your skin. Eczema, psoriasis, there's a, you know, it just goes on.

Ben Greenfield

I wish I'd have had one when I was a teenage boy. You have no idea how, how many times I was like, All right, I look like Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer right now on my way to basketball practice with these box on my nose. So you had mentioned the helmet. Could you theoretically, again, let's say you're just, like sitting around, or maybe you got a test list you can do a little like one hand, almost hands free driving. Not that I endorse this. I'm just saying it as an example.

Lucy Goff

Let's say it another way, if you're safer

Ben Greenfield

being driven around. Um, could you use this on your hair?

Lucy Goff

Yeah, if you've got a bit of balding at the at the top of, you know, the way that you use it, you've got to hold it over each section for three minutes. So, you know, if maybe you just want to treat two areas that are receding at either end of your hairline, then it Yeah, well, that's

Ben Greenfield

kind of what I was thinking was like, you know, even for a lot of men, I mean, especially Lucy, like, testosterone replacement therapy is really popular right now for guys, and one of the side effects is over conversion to DHT, dihydrotestosterone, and that can cause some follicular issues, you know, receding hairline, etc. So let's say a guy wanted to use it just kind of like in this area right here, for those you know, watching the video, I'm kind of like tracing around the top of the forehead. You could just do like, I mean, honestly, with the Pro, would that be about nine minutes? Probably. Do you think it could help with something like that?

Lucy Goff

Just six minutes? So just do either side of either side of this area?

Ben Greenfield

Yeah, I was just thinking maybe I have a big head, but I was just thinking about total surface area. Yeah, six to nine minutes, you could theoretically do something like that with the LYMA so

Lucy Goff

for hair growth, for optimal hair growth to stimulate the follicle. You can do it from 808 nanometers. But there's also a lot of evidence for like 620 nanometers. So a more red light. But actually the red light that you see these device, people think that the LYMA laser is a is a red light. You know, you can see there's a red light there. That's just because it's a near infrared laser. You can't see near infrared with the human eye. So this is just the red LED to tell you the device is switched on, because you'd never know whether it was switched on or not otherwise.

Ben Greenfield

Okay, yeah, it's just, it's just too and then I noticed that every three minutes, it like flashes a light. So, you know. Oh, and by the way, my, my wife, had a great engineering idea for you. She's like, they should, they should. Engineer said, it like, gives a little vibration every three minutes.

Lucy Goff

Well, do you know what we we did try and do a vibration, but it didn't get past the FDA that was the problem. So it changed the software on it. And, yeah, we've tried lots of things, but because this is a really powerful laser, and it's a first for the FDA, you know, there, there's some really, obviously, it's, it's got, we've got two FDA clearances at the moment, but they're really, really, you've got to follow the you've got to follow the guidelines.

Ben Greenfield

Okay, cool. I want to, I want to. I want to rapid fire some, some again, hopefully not too dumb questions at you as far as just usage and everything. Okay. First one is, you guys have these. So I have a spray and I have, like, a glide. Is that just to help it move around my face better? Or is there something in these two products that came along with it that help your skin to, like, absorb the light better, or something like that?

Lucy Goff

So you can use it on its own. You don't have to use it with anything, but if you. If you're using it for skin. The two products that comes with are actually flooded with bio available oxygen. So oxygen, in its H in its in a gas form, can't penetrate through your skin, and so that's why we it's it's actually formulated with oxygen in an o4 form. And the what we do is we bind oxygen, we surround the oxygen molecule with water, because your skin can suck water into it, and so the spray has got bioavailable oxygen, and the gel also, which actually is an amazing mask that's also got bioavailable oxygen. It

Ben Greenfield

feels really good. It's like, you know, like those collagen face masks that you get that you put on your face and you lay on your back for a while and they're all slime. It kind of feels like that.

Lucy Goff

It's like one of the it's not but, you know those aloe vera masks that you have when you were younger. It's like, it's just, it's very nice, very soothing. And the reason why we work with oxygen is because it obviously, the laser increases circulation on its own, but the oxygen also increases circulation, and it just means you get a lot more nutrients into the skin, and it gets more you, you kind of, you get, you have, like, a nice red glow into your skin. It's, it kind of gets it all working. It's like an exercise for your skin, I guess. Yeah,

Ben Greenfield

I don't know if you know the answer this question, but GHK, copper peptide, like that bluish peptide is really popular now in a lot of skincare products. And you know, these blue pigments absorb light. I'm curious, either hypothesizing, or even if you know the answer, like, do you think that if you use something like GHK, copper peptide as a topical and then did the laser on top of that that you could kind of activate the GHK and help it to work even better. Well,

Lucy Goff

it's actually interesting. You say that because we are updating our skincare later on, just in the summer, and it's actually got that copper peptide in. I know that was a fluke. Everything that we use in our skincare is engineered to make the effects of the laser light even greater, and because it works on an epigenetic level, obviously, like epigenetics, is at the top of the tree, as it were, and peptides are further down. So anything that works on an epigenetic level is going to feed into everything that works further down.

Ben Greenfield

So the eye thing, people wonder, you know, when I'm in a red light bed or under a red light panel, should I wear the goggles or the glasses with the laser we've established it's not a Star Wars weapon, because you've fixed that part, but especially if I'm doing like underneath my eyes, should I keep my eyes closed or avoid having the light hit my eyes?

Lucy Goff

This is a really clever thing with the LYMA laser. So in the lens, we have got retina protected technology in there, so the lens is equivalent to wearing goggles, and you don't have to close your eyes. It's not dangerous. If you look at the late obviously, we don't recommend looking at the laser, but if you it's mainly for the LED that tells you the device is switched on. But no, you don't have to worry about it around your eyes. You don't have to wear goggles, and the reason is in the patented diffusion lens that we've got on the Pro and the and the LYMA laser. So it just means that you don't know you like you in the back of a cab, you're on a plane, you're on a train, you don't have to worry about, oh, no, I didn't bring my goggles. I can't, you know, I can't

Ben Greenfield

use it. Explain is. TSA, cool with this. You think I haven't thought about taking it traveling, but you know, you don't think there'd

Lucy Goff

be an issue, no. So don't pack it in your case, because it's got the battery in it is a lithium battery, so you can't, you can't put it in your case, but you can take it in the hand luggage.

Ben Greenfield

So to translate that for Americans, is the case the carry on, or is the case the one?

Lucy Goff

Ah, yes. So let's decode that so you can take it with you as a carry on with you, but you can't check it in, so it goes down the conveyor belt.

Ben Greenfield

Yeah, that makes sense. And then the three minute piece, I initially thought that that might be because if you left it in one place for too long, it could burn. But since starting this podcast, it sounds like that's just like the length of time that's ideal for getting the structural effects is that there's no risk if I go like five minutes,

Lucy Goff

no so there's no risk to go five minutes or an hour. Yeah, that you you work, there's no risk. You're not going to do any damage to yourself, but you just won't get any better results. And the reason is, is because all the published evidence. So this is not a new technology, you know, cold laser. It's been around since the 1960s in hospitals. You can use it. You know, heel tendons deal with a whole host of issues, but because we've engineered it to use at home, the dose of laser light that each section of your skin needs to get every day is 12 joules. So that's the therapeutic dose of this wavelength of laser light into your tissue, and that's why you need to hold it over each section of your skin for three minutes, because that's going to get you this 12 joules of the laser light, which is the exact point that triggers this epigenetic switch that switches your skin into into youth mode. Because fundamentally, what you're doing is, you know, as you age, your body's ability to read your genetic master board declines, and it's a slow process. And as you know, like some genes that should be up regulated start to be down regulated, that associated with good things, and some genes that should be down regulated, that are associated with bad things start to be up regulated. And it's like, it's like a piano going very slowly out of tune in your if you're in your 30s. And maybe, like, a few of these jeans aren't working in the right way. It's like a couple of notes on the piano not being in tune. You know, you can still play a piano piece and nobody would really notice. But when you're in your 40s and your 50s and older, you know so many of the jeans are not working in the right way, and maybe half the notes on the keyboard are out of tune, so when you play the piece, it just sounds dreadful. And what this is, and that's what happens to your skin. There's so many of your cells in your skin that are just not empowered to act like they did when you were younger and produce as much good collagen, and that's why the LYMA laser, that's why you need to use it every day for the first 12 weeks or so, is because you're resetting your genes to work in the right way. And so your skin behaves like it did when you were a lot younger. It's cumulative

Ben Greenfield

effect. Yeah,

Lucy Goff

yeah.

Ben Greenfield

The cumulative effect is also problem in my house because I gave my wife the user manual, like I was telling you before we started recording, and she's using it exactly as prescribed, which means every morning, when I wake up, it's really hard to find because she's usually like on the downstairs couch, because she like, so she gets up in the morning. Well, she gets up in the morning and, yeah, she like, she prays, she reads the Bible, she makes coffee, and she's just, like, permanently, get just got, like, one hand up to her face the whole time with the laser. So, like, since we got it, you you guys sent one to us, like, two months ago. Since we got it, she's been using it like, like, at least three times more than I have very consistently. She just, she's in love with it. So, so if anything, you've made my wife very happy.

Lucy Goff

Well, thank you. You should thank me, then happy wife is everything. Have you happy wife? Happy life? Have you noticed any improve? Any Well, obviously, she's beautiful. She might not need any improvement.

Ben Greenfield

Yeah, I have, and she has too, which is great. We haven't done like, you know, super intense before after photo tracking. But she usually gives up on something pretty quickly if it's not working for and she has been just like everyday, like clockwork, grabbing this thing. So

Lucy Goff

I guess if you hide something. You know that you like it, I

Ben Greenfield

know I then I would not have a happy wife. Not bad. So if somebody is like, okay, so llt low level laser therapy, this is great. I'm gonna go to Amazon or whatever, because there's like 200 of these on there. I think you did a decent job explaining, you know what, how you've engineered it. But I'm assuming that they're not all created equal. If somebody does hear this and just goes to grab one,

Lucy Goff

oh, absolutely not. No. I mean, you can get cold lasers on Amazon for like $200 but it's as I was saying, they only work if you get 12 joules of laser light into your dermis, or wherever you want to get every day, and say, like the LYMA laser, this LYMA Laser Pro is 1500 milliwatts. It's got a diffusion lens, which means that you can treat every single area of skin along the, you know, on. On the way, if you're just getting one of those cheap devices from Amazon, you're only getting the penetration right in the center of the device where the laser diode is, and it's low powered, it's gonna you're not going to be able to get the correct dose of the laser light to have a benefit,

Ben Greenfield

yeah, if anything you're going to be spending. I This is similar to a discussion I had about red light panels a couple of years ago where somebody pointed out the fact that, like, Well, yeah, you can get similar nanometer and wavelength, but you don't want to stand in front of your red light panel for like, four hours, because it's just doesn't have the power.

Lucy Goff

And I think, you know, if we could have made it for $200 we really would have made it. I mean, the laser diode in the middle, you know, this has got three laser diodes in the the laser diode alone is a lot of money to get a decent laser diode that's going to last you for 10 years is way more than $200 in itself. So, you know, yes, you can, you can make a cheap version of anything, you know, but actually, that's not what we're about. And we're about making clinic grade, medical grade, devices that are better even than the hospital machine, re engineering them to find ways of making them better for people to use at home.

Ben Greenfield

Okay, cool. You guys. Time Magazine named it world's best invention in 2020 and 2023 when they launched, they had a waitlist of 30,000 people. In 2024 they entered the $211 billion beauty services market. They've got an award for enterprise, for international trade. They have been named to the Sunday Times, the 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in Britain, one of Europe's fastest growing companies. So obviously, this thing is catching on. We have a discount if you go to Ben Greenfield life, Comm, slash, LYMA, the code is Ben 10, and that saves you 10% off of the LYMA laser. And then also I will include some before and after photos. Ben Greenfield life, comm slash, LYMA podcast, l y m a podcast, you can leave your questions, your comments, your feedback for Lucy or myself and Lucy. Thank you so much for doing this. This is fascinating.

Lucy Goff

Hello. Thank you so much. Ben, it's been a pleasure to watch you walk on an incline up your

Ben Greenfield

All right, cool. Thanks for watching folks

Lucy Goff

take care. Thank you

Ben Greenfield

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