Forrest Smith - Kineon & An Introduction to Red Light Therapies
Future of FitnessMay 20, 202448:0265.96 MB

Forrest Smith - Kineon & An Introduction to Red Light Therapies

In this episode of the Future of Fitness, host Eric Malzone sits down with Forrest Smith, a seasoned entrepreneur and co-founder of a company pioneering the use of red light and laser therapy for neuromuscular pain and inflammation. Forrest shares his journey from starting multiple startups to founding a company focused on creating systemic health and wellness solutions. He explains the science behind their innovative device, which aims to make laser therapy more accessible by reducing costs and making it wearable. Discover how this technology can potentially replace traditional pain management methods like NSAIDs, offering a safer and more effective alternative.

 

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[00:02:17] dot I O. Well we're live. For Smith, man. Welcome to the future of fitness.

[00:02:26] Thank you for having me here. I really appreciate the opportunity to come and talk

[00:02:29] to you and your followers. Yeah, it's a red light. Like as we were just chatting, I'm

[00:02:35] generally so curious about it. I think it's not talked about. I mean, given what I've

[00:02:40] researched and I was telling you, I just started using a little bit with the red light

[00:02:44] panel. So I'm trying to, you know, figuring out for myself and you know, N equals

[00:02:49] one sample size over here. But you know, you obviously live in that world. You're a

[00:02:53] believer in the technology, what you guys are doing at your company. It seems really

[00:02:57] exciting. And yeah, so anyway, I'm going to stop talking and let's get into you.

[00:03:02] Force may just give us a little bit of your background. You know how you got to

[00:03:04] be where you are and the company and then we'll take it from there.

[00:03:09] My personal background has been starting startup since I was about 20 or 21. And

[00:03:15] those have kind of gotten started and build it and then didn't exit in most

[00:03:20] cases. But this one is actually really a little bit closer to home for us because

[00:03:25] having done that a few cycles, my partner and I actually met by way of talking about

[00:03:30] the same type of thing on different sides of the planet. And so what we both

[00:03:35] wanted to do was build a business that was less focused on the commercial outcome

[00:03:39] and more on the systemic impact where we can come in and have a real meaningful

[00:03:44] impact on not just our own internal stakeholders, but on kind of the systemic

[00:03:48] outcomes for health and wellness for a larger number of people. And we spent our first two

[00:03:54] months together sitting down and going through and talking about how can we do

[00:03:57] that in a way that still holds us accountable. And so what has come down

[00:04:01] to in the end for us, which is our kind of true north, our compass as a

[00:04:05] company for every decision that we make is our mission is to increase the

[00:04:09] quality of life for the largest number of people we can in the most

[00:04:12] measurable way we can. And you know, our first product is a neuromuscular

[00:04:16] pain inflammation device that's working to do just that. So there's

[00:04:20] when we launched the company, there was really no laser therapy devices

[00:04:25] available outside of clinical settings. And I spent a ton of time in the medical

[00:04:31] literature kind of reading behind whether it's health and performance or metabolic

[00:04:35] modeling, really things that are going to be kind of high leverage spins from

[00:04:40] a research standpoint and that you can apply whether it's your training or diet or

[00:04:45] recovery modalities, etc. And one of the ones that we'd seen really powerful

[00:04:50] data around was laser therapy, but it was very limited in what was available

[00:04:54] from a product standpoint. And I, you know, the, there's some very good

[00:04:57] clinical device manufacturers out there like Thor Laser, James Carroll's

[00:05:01] done a great job getting these out there and they're in, you know, many

[00:05:05] different NFL facilities or clinical level applications, but they're

[00:05:10] $30,000. And you know, our assumption was that if people are using

[00:05:15] pharmaceuticals to treat their pain and inflammation right now, A, it's

[00:05:19] because they don't know how damaging those pharmaceuticals are to their

[00:05:23] physiology. There needs to be an education around this, but B, we can

[00:05:28] actually make a systemic impact and give them an alternative. If we can

[00:05:32] reduce the price, reduce the size, take these big desktop devices and

[00:05:37] make it into something that's battery driven and wearable so that people

[00:05:40] can build habits on a day-to-day basis around reducing the pain and

[00:05:43] inflammation in their joints. And, you know, it's, so our first product

[00:05:49] has been essentially around that. How do we reduce friction points

[00:05:54] for people? How do we reduce cost? And how do we provide an alternative

[00:05:58] to things again, that in line with our mission where there's a big gap

[00:06:01] between the technology that exists and what's been adopted and the

[00:06:05] education piece around that? Awesome. How do you say the name of your

[00:06:08] company? How do you pronounce it? Kenyon. It's from the Greek for movement.

[00:06:13] Oh, really? Oh, cool. I love that. That's cool. Can you maybe give us

[00:06:17] a little bit of history into red light therapy, laser therapy, stuff

[00:06:21] like that? Like how long has it been around? You know, it's always

[00:06:24] like early adopters tend to be biohackers, right? For lack of a

[00:06:27] better term in that. So maybe give us a kind of a history and then we

[00:06:30] can get into exactly what you guys are doing. Absolutely. So there's

[00:06:34] really good data from ages ago, hundreds of years ago on light and

[00:06:38] how light affects things like seasonal affective disorder and

[00:06:42] people's moods. So we've always kind of known that there are,

[00:06:46] we always had the, I think from a scientific standpoint, had the idea

[00:06:48] that there are photo acceptors in our body that are triggering

[00:06:51] different signaling pathways from light. One of the things that's not

[00:06:55] been there until more recently is the emitters. And so really you

[00:07:01] didn't see kind of the modern version of this coming around until about

[00:07:05] the 1950s with the first ruby red laser. And when they had that,

[00:07:10] they did actually start doing some testing on a very limited number

[00:07:14] of people, but saw some positive benefits out of it. But nothing

[00:07:17] really happened to move that forward until the 80s when you saw

[00:07:22] Whalen and the NASA group starting to do testing in space around,

[00:07:28] it started originally around testing red and infrared lights relative

[00:07:32] to plants. So can we grow these plants in space and what kind of

[00:07:36] wavelengths are going to drive better outcomes from plant growth?

[00:07:40] And one of the things they noticed was the kind of just anecdotally

[00:07:43] as they were running these tests was that the astronauts who were

[00:07:47] running them had biomarkers that they were tracking that came

[00:07:52] back healthier than the ones who weren't. And so they kind of

[00:07:56] took that anecdotal piece and dove into it and started doing human

[00:07:59] testing with lasers and light therapy. And I think one of the

[00:08:03] things that we've seen more recently is that with the advent of solid

[00:08:08] state LED lighting, lasers have traditionally been

[00:08:12] more sophisticated, larger, more expensive. And because of that less

[00:08:17] accessible from a device stand, solid state or digital lighting,

[00:08:21] more accessible from a manufacturing and a cost standpoint.

[00:08:24] But there are some limitations relative to what they can do from a

[00:08:27] penetration and a dosing profile. So we've spent really the

[00:08:32] last five years and tens of thousands of hours with our team

[00:08:35] digging into that there's currently around 7,000 medical trials

[00:08:41] on photobiomodulation or light therapy.

[00:08:44] And there's a really good amount of data around

[00:08:47] the dosing. And one of the key outcome drivers

[00:08:51] is how you dose. How do you deliver the correct number of photons to the

[00:08:55] correct photo acceptors at the correct depth of tissue?

[00:08:58] And again this is something where it's kind of developed from the 80s with the

[00:09:02] NASA testing and ongoing physiological trials from a

[00:09:06] medical standpoint into where we have a much more

[00:09:10] grounded or a much better grounding and kind of foundational understanding

[00:09:14] of what these triggers are and what are mediating these effects

[00:09:17] from a pain reduction, from an inflammation reduction,

[00:09:21] from a soft tissue regrowth standpoint. There's just really a lot

[00:09:27] of downstream effects that are triggered by this

[00:09:30] and the better you understand the dosing the more effectively you

[00:09:33] can deliver those. So with what you guys do for us I

[00:09:37] mean is it, forgive my naivety here but

[00:09:41] like is it red light therapy? Is it laser therapy? Is there a difference?

[00:09:46] What specifically do you guys do? That's a great question.

[00:09:49] So there's a number of different terms in the medical literature even.

[00:09:54] And so what happened around I believe 2015-2016 is they tried to

[00:09:59] consolidate a lot of these terms into a kind of more of an umbrella term

[00:10:03] which is photobiomodulation. So photolight

[00:10:06] bio kind of your physiology and modulation changing. So how are we

[00:10:09] changing your physiology with light? Before this,

[00:10:12] this was separated into LLLT, so low level laser therapy,

[00:10:16] RLT, red light therapy. There's a number of different kind of subcategories

[00:10:21] for this but essentially right now we kind of

[00:10:24] roll everything under photobiomodulation. We've found that

[00:10:29] using laser therapy for treating internal tissue so that the soft

[00:10:33] tissue benefits and kind of the internal

[00:10:36] tissue treatments that we make for reducing pain and inflammation

[00:10:42] are much better suited to lasers and infrared and a couple of different

[00:10:46] wavelengths of infrared that allow us to penetrate more

[00:10:50] effectively. But one of the things that we spend a lot of time on is

[00:10:53] when we came in we started developing our product, even the clinical level

[00:10:57] there was a gap between the engineering side and the physiology or

[00:11:01] medical side relative to the metrics that you're

[00:11:06] measuring for kind of power levels. And so

[00:11:09] everybody was using different terms, it's very heterogeneous from a

[00:11:13] comparison standpoint. So one of the things we've seen that

[00:11:16] the research side has been doing is trying to move more towards homogenous

[00:11:20] metrics for this but the metrics that are being used for this are very

[00:11:25] broad. So as an example, irradiance and power density are two commonly used

[00:11:31] metrics for measuring how much power is being delivered optically. These

[00:11:37] are interesting but there's a number of different ways you could do

[00:11:40] those. And so as an example with our products, we've had with our first

[00:11:44] our products are modular and wearable. So with our first modules we had

[00:11:48] slightly more powerful lasers and the same amount of power coming out

[00:11:52] totally but we've split this into smaller

[00:11:55] lasers now and the outcomes that we had from our observation

[00:11:59] studies were you know substantially I want to say high

[00:12:03] 20s, low 30 percent better from an inflammation reduction. So

[00:12:07] even within the given metrics that are in the scientific community right now we

[00:12:11] felt that there was a gap that we could fill for how photons are delivered to

[00:12:17] the photo acceptors directly. And so we've spent a lot of our time kind of

[00:12:19] going back in and using things like Monte Carlo models from a

[00:12:22] mathematical standpoint for modeling and then baselining in

[00:12:27] real life with metrics like nitric oxides.

[00:12:30] Here nitric oxide is something that we use quite frequently for kind

[00:12:33] of baselining what we expect from our mathematical models from a

[00:12:37] the photo acceptor trigger for signaling versus what's like what are we

[00:12:41] expecting and what's happening in real life. And if we're wrong why are we

[00:12:44] wrong? Let's go let's go fix these problems. And so

[00:12:47] again I don't we have not seen other photobio modulation

[00:12:51] device manufacturers modeling the delivery of photons

[00:12:55] to that level of I guess resolution or care. But for us this is

[00:13:02] what drives the outcomes and so it's really worth it from a time standpoint

[00:13:06] to invest our medical and technical teams into

[00:13:09] building these models and then dialing them in so that we're improving

[00:13:12] these outcomes over time. Got it okay so explain it to me

[00:13:17] the layperson of Sybilton right? So why should I be looking at your

[00:13:23] products your services red light photo modulation as a category like

[00:13:27] what are the benefits you know and you know one of these things I'm

[00:13:30] curious about too is I feel like people love immediate gratification with

[00:13:35] with their you know when they invest in stuff like this like they want to

[00:13:37] feel you know you get a uh a theragun or a hyper ice you

[00:13:41] know you know like you feel it right away

[00:13:44] right like it's it's immediate but this stuff so far from my experience

[00:13:48] it's it's not quite so immediate but maybe it is for you so

[00:13:51] yeah explain in layperson terms like what are the benefits here why

[00:13:54] should people be paying attention to this and then

[00:13:57] yeah you know how how sticky is it from a consumer standpoint?

[00:14:01] I think that makes makes great sense so one of the things that I think

[00:14:05] works best to kind of set the context for this

[00:14:08] is comparing it with existing treatment modalities so two of the

[00:14:14] things that if you go to your doctor there's it's one of the things

[00:14:16] that we fight on a daily basis is inertia

[00:14:18] and it's uh it's kind of swimming against the tide but hoping that we

[00:14:21] can get enough people swimming against the tide that we can turn the tide if

[00:14:23] that makes sense but one of the things that we've noticed

[00:14:26] is medical and particularly with our older cohorts who have things like

[00:14:29] osteoarthritis where you have ongoing chronic pain and inflammation

[00:14:33] that are driving degradation of tissue the gold standard for this for me a

[00:14:38] medical community treatment right now is ice

[00:14:41] and NSAIDs and I you know we we find this

[00:14:45] very irresponsible uh in general because the NSAIDs do a couple of things

[00:14:50] one which is directly at odds with what you'd like to do if you're

[00:14:53] taking them for chronic pain in your knee joints or in

[00:14:57] your shoulder joints is increase the degradation rate of

[00:15:01] the the actual joint over time which is you know it kind of seems like this

[00:15:05] is that that should that should be a

[00:15:08] red flag just a hey this might decrease the the

[00:15:12] pain for me short term but longer term this is going to to cause

[00:15:15] my my joints to degrade more rapidly but uh to answer your

[00:15:20] question more directly the if people are taking NSAIDs the

[00:15:24] laser therapy is more effective uh there's been a number of head-to-head

[00:15:27] studies comparing NSAIDs and and pain inflammation

[00:15:31] pharmaceuticals for particularly for inflammation

[00:15:36] driven pain so if you have something where there's a

[00:15:39] a mechanical kind of drive for the pain pinched nerve

[00:15:43] uh the light's not going to necessarily help the pinched nerve

[00:15:46] but that pinched nerve causes a huge amount of

[00:15:49] tissue degradation around it by having so much inflammation by triggering

[00:15:52] inflammation and that's really where we we can

[00:15:54] actually offer uh help so getting people out of

[00:15:58] pain and inflammation uh in a in a much uh faster but also

[00:16:03] a much longer term and more health beneficial way

[00:16:06] so if you're if you're able to uh you know compare these one-on-one and

[00:16:10] there's some very good studies i'm happy to to kind of shoot those over

[00:16:12] as well if you have for example knee osteoarthritis

[00:16:15] your knee tissue your cartilage in your knees is degrading faster than it

[00:16:19] would otherwise you have a homeostatic uh balance in your

[00:16:23] knees for how fast you're growing this tissue versus how fast it's

[00:16:27] degrading if you have inflammation in that

[00:16:29] synovial fluid around this uh this tissue then the

[00:16:34] degradation increases speed and your regrowth decreases speed

[00:16:37] and so you just start losing this soft tissue laser therapy actually

[00:16:41] reverses that process so by removing the inflammation uh in the

[00:16:44] first two to three days we we see from blood draws roughly 80

[00:16:48] percent of the inflammation is reduced and what's not reduced is

[00:16:51] actually acute inflammation that's helpful

[00:16:54] that's beneficial to regrowth so you know the

[00:16:57] the the and we can we can dizen if you like on on a kind of acute versus

[00:17:00] chronic inflammation but the long story short is that this

[00:17:03] is this is an investment in being able to regrow tissue by

[00:17:07] increasing the rate of proliferation for chondroblasts which are the

[00:17:11] fast front edge uh fast growing front edge cells of your

[00:17:15] soft tissue like cartilage or ligaments and by by decreasing inflammation

[00:17:19] dramatically uh and that's not something that pharmaceuticals do

[00:17:23] and it really uh again our our hope for this was to be able

[00:17:27] to reduce the price of laser therapy devices

[00:17:31] and also make them more sticky by making them

[00:17:35] have less friction points so we've made it so you don't have to have a

[00:17:38] big laser setup on your desk on your desktop we've been

[00:17:42] very lucky in the technology we've been able to adopt for this vertical cavity

[00:17:45] surface emission lasers have made a huge leap in reducing cost and

[00:17:50] size of lasers over the past five years and we've

[00:17:53] been very lucky to be able to adopt those and bring them into something

[00:17:56] that is now wearable and they can actually treat

[00:17:59] this internal tissue more effectively and so

[00:18:01] our assumption is that if people are educated about the the issue and this

[00:18:05] data is put in front of them directly and you can say you know you're

[00:18:09] growing your knees or your your joint tissue is going to degrade if you

[00:18:13] start if you keep taking these NSAIDs

[00:18:15] but there's a solution that can reduce the pain inflammation and actually

[00:18:17] help you with regrowth that they're going to make uh rational

[00:18:21] decisions and invest in their long-term health awesome so

[00:18:25] let's maybe boil it down to like a granular example my knees

[00:18:28] right my knees take a beating i ski hard i ski a lot

[00:18:32] when i'm not skiing i'm you know hiking biking

[00:18:35] you know with a pack all kinds of stuff stuff that you know

[00:18:38] as a 47 year old i know the first thing it's going to go is going to be

[00:18:41] my knees it's not bad yet but is that like if i you

[00:18:45] know instead of after a long day in my eat my

[00:18:48] knees are achy is this something instead of like you know an ice pack

[00:18:51] and maybe an anvil i would revert to

[00:18:54] this and this would be a much better and effective option like how

[00:18:56] how would those two things compare in the actual you know short-term and

[00:19:00] long-term health of my joints it's it's what we the the analogy we

[00:19:04] use for this is uh it's it's putting out the fire in the

[00:19:07] kitchen versus taking the batteries out of your fire alarm

[00:19:10] if you're taking NSAIDs you're essentially taking the batteries out of

[00:19:13] the fire alarm your kitchen's still on fire like your your knees

[00:19:16] they may not hurt as bad but it's it's you know your your the house is

[00:19:19] still burning down and so what we'd love to be able to do is

[00:19:21] say hey guys leave let it let it beep it's for now it takes a little

[00:19:25] while you know yeah to your earlier point

[00:19:27] we see around larger joints that it takes two to three weeks for people to

[00:19:31] start seeing kind of the meaningful what we see on average is and i need to

[00:19:35] reference our data for the latest but i in in orders of

[00:19:39] magnitude terms seven out of ten in pain for the knees going down to

[00:19:43] about a three over two to three weeks for people who've been in severe

[00:19:47] chronic pain for the the joints the longer term version of that though

[00:19:50] is that you're actually regrowing the cartilage

[00:19:52] and helping yourself build better tissue helping yourself build

[00:19:56] longer lasting joints and and making an investment in being able to

[00:20:00] to move functionally longer because when you have

[00:20:04] uh inflammation is a terrible scourge in our bodies

[00:20:07] and it doesn't stay local it's you know if you've had

[00:20:10] uh pounding your knees or knee injuries from skiing or from

[00:20:14] football uh or from you know tennis or whatever whatever sport

[00:20:18] uh i i've done the same thing grappling i've torn my meniscus and i

[00:20:21] i've had long-term chronic inflammation in the knee

[00:20:26] that i i couldn't deal with because it just wasn't anything out there

[00:20:29] to be able to really treat that you now have an option for being able to

[00:20:32] reduce that inflammation and again that's not just impacting

[00:20:36] that local joint tissue one of the things that we've seen

[00:20:39] coming out of the literature and again it's it's it's really not commonly

[00:20:42] known uh is that this inflammation actually has

[00:20:46] systemic so regional and systemic level uh impacts as well

[00:20:50] and so as an example one of the things that we've been doing with

[00:20:52] some nfl players that we work with is

[00:20:54] measuring those who've had acl and acl tear and acl surgery

[00:20:59] and you'll see the tissue in the quad above that

[00:21:02] uh be 1.5 to 2 degrees colder even five or six years after the injury

[00:21:07] and they've worked they've rehabbed it and they've done their work to make

[00:21:10] this happen but what's happening is that inflammation is trickling out of

[00:21:13] the knee and impairing the blood delivery in

[00:21:16] that in that region and the second piece of

[00:21:19] this that's even scarier is 10 years on there was a very

[00:21:23] large study on nfl players we didn't we didn't run this study but

[00:21:26] it's a very telling one and we have run some studies on

[00:21:30] on this subject since then to kind of delineate what are the mediating

[00:21:34] factors for this uh the acl the acl tears for nfl

[00:21:38] players in a 3,500 player study uh increased mortality by

[00:21:43] cardiovascular disease within the next 10 years

[00:21:46] by 50 percent and that's yeah that's that's already taking like so this

[00:21:51] isn't something where they haven't been able to rehab the knee and

[00:21:53] they're not moving as much or they're not

[00:21:55] that you know they're still moving they're still training but it's the

[00:21:58] inflammation and what has come down to with the

[00:22:00] studies we've had since then and not just us there's a number of

[00:22:04] different groups looking in this uh into this space but uh the

[00:22:09] the cardiovascular tissue is actually losing

[00:22:12] sheer strength uh resistance and so uh sheer strength is is one of the

[00:22:16] metrics they use for as blood's going through your blood vessels

[00:22:20] it's going at a kind of a perpendicular to the the tissue

[00:22:23] how much pressure uh that puts on and how much

[00:22:27] the uh the flexibility or elasticity of the cardiovascular tissue

[00:22:32] and the robustness of the tissue allows it to withstand is called the

[00:22:36] sheer strength and what we see is that when when people

[00:22:39] have this local inflammation it trickles through the rest of the body

[00:22:43] and causes really really damaging long-term impacts and so

[00:22:47] you know again if we can get people away from taking the batteries out of the

[00:22:51] fire alarm and and really get them into a place

[00:22:53] where they have a fire extinguisher to go put this fire out

[00:22:56] it's not just going to make a big difference on the on the local knee

[00:23:00] tissue it's going to make a lifelong difference and this that's our real goal

[00:23:03] for this is to provide people with a

[00:23:06] systemically beneficial outcome relative to what they have from

[00:23:09] pharmaceuticals awesome awesome i want to jump into the

[00:23:12] commercial opportunities here in a minute but i guess a couple more

[00:23:15] follow like i'm just pulling back for a second when i look at like

[00:23:19] you know i guess you know this is more of a laser therapy right

[00:23:23] red light but laser specifically what about like red light therapies they're

[00:23:27] having a moment right especially with this wellness boom

[00:23:29] that we're seeing you know a lot of places are you know people are getting

[00:23:33] red light saunas you can go to you know see a local gym here just went

[00:23:37] from a fitness gym to a wellness place

[00:23:39] right so everybody's jumping on the wellness bag way and red light

[00:23:42] therapies tend to be and even consumer goods like i was telling you

[00:23:44] about i had a one of jup panels so you know is there is there a

[00:23:47] correlation between what you guys do and kind of these these more

[00:23:50] you know mainstream red light therapies yeah explain explain the

[00:23:54] differences so we we what how how we kind of think

[00:23:57] about the the red light panels is that leds are easier to design around

[00:24:01] they're more of a commodity product they require less sophisticated

[00:24:04] engineering and they require less regulatory so

[00:24:07] this is going to be what's the volume in the space

[00:24:10] from a a kind of how people are introduced to

[00:24:13] red light therapy the downside for these is that leds emit

[00:24:18] light and what's what's called a lambertian pattern so

[00:24:21] they're essentially dye that emit light in all directions they get packaged

[00:24:25] into a small cup or a a an electrical component that can go on a pcb

[00:24:30] that are called plcc packaged in most cases

[00:24:34] that that restrains that 360 degree emission back into 120 degrees

[00:24:38] it's when you're dosing with a panel the downside is if you're

[00:24:45] the emission is very wide so if you're treating things like skin level

[00:24:50] uh if you want to have more type 2 collagen and have less wrinkles as an

[00:24:54] example it's a good anti-aging treatment there are a couple other

[00:24:58] wound healing there's another great application for this

[00:25:01] so if you have a cut on your arm and you want to want it to heal

[00:25:04] faster there's amazing data on this type of

[00:25:07] wound healing standpoint what it doesn't do though is penetrate

[00:25:10] like laser light laser lights is what they call collimated so it's very

[00:25:14] direct and and essentially in a line uh so there's two things about how we

[00:25:19] approach this that are a little bit different than the the panels

[00:25:22] one is there's we're using lasers so the penetration

[00:25:25] internally is going to be better and two is that we we made it wearable

[00:25:28] so that it's at the skin level so that our dosing models

[00:25:31] are more effective the when you're when you're trying to build

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[00:26:52] act within tissue and you have any kind of space between the emitter and

[00:26:56] the skin it's extremely difficult to so just as an aside a small branch off

[00:27:02] for this the reason that dosing is so important

[00:27:04] is that your body responds to light like it does to pharmaceuticals on what

[00:27:08] they call a biophasic dose curve or an orange schultz curve which is

[00:27:12] essentially a sine wave that the more that you're taking of

[00:27:16] either this dosing of light or of pharmaceuticals

[00:27:19] the better the outcomes are until you reach an apex and then it goes back

[00:27:22] down and with the pharmaceuticals it goes way back down below zero

[00:27:26] with the light it goes back down to zero so getting the dosing correct is very

[00:27:32] important and there's something called the

[00:27:34] inverse root square law where they've done a very good job of

[00:27:38] explaining this with a fun youtube video that i can i can send you a link

[00:27:41] for but essentially think about shooting

[00:27:43] uh shooting butter at toast if you are if you're trying to cover the toast

[00:27:47] and you have a butter gun and it sprays it out uh like if you

[00:27:51] yeah butter gun sounds amazing this is this is the most intuitive way

[00:27:57] i've found about talking about the inverse

[00:27:59] root uh square law so if you if you've got

[00:28:02] if you're two inches from if the the butter gun has a has kind of a two

[00:28:05] inch distance from the toast then it hits it and you've got

[00:28:08] you're completely covered if you're two inches back you can now

[00:28:11] cover four uh four toasts or if you're six

[00:28:15] inches back or eight inches back you're covering the whole wall so

[00:28:18] like the the difference in dosing from a from a photon delivery standpoint

[00:28:23] with the panels relative to treating at the skin level is is

[00:28:26] is very difficult to manage uh and uh is non-optimal

[00:28:30] with that said we would much prefer to see people using

[00:28:34] panels than nothing it's a way like it's

[00:28:37] it's kind of what we think of as a as a first generation product because

[00:28:41] easier to deliver it's easier to design you start a

[00:28:44] bunch of leds to a board and it's going to get people some some

[00:28:47] it's not going to likely get them to the apex of a dosing standpoint but it's

[00:28:50] going to get them something above zero and that's that's still better than

[00:28:55] kind of turning to pharmaceuticals for a which is

[00:28:58] likely going to leave you below zero and uh you mentioned earlier i'm just

[00:29:02] curious because i live up here you know pretty far north and winters are

[00:29:05] gray but seasonal affective disorder is red light therapy

[00:29:08] a solid uh remedy for that or an option for

[00:29:11] to fight that what i've seen is the most effective uh versions of

[00:29:15] those are certain blends of white so white's a white's a

[00:29:18] blend of a lot of different colors there's certain reds that you need in

[00:29:22] that blend uh that correlate actually with uh

[00:29:24] sunrise uh you know there's different because of of how

[00:29:27] light comes through the atmosphere you get more red in the mornings and

[00:29:32] so you can build those in and and there are some

[00:29:35] some very good white products uh that are uh white

[00:29:38] white uh led emission products that are used for seasonal affective disorder

[00:29:43] i we joke our head of research the spurting lamp yes

[00:29:46] like the spurting lamp the vitamin difference yeah yes

[00:29:50] yeah we joke our our head of research uh who's who's

[00:29:53] starting as a phd candidate he's a very smart young man but he's up in

[00:29:57] thin land you know like we got to send you

[00:29:58] at least three or four of those because it's uh it is dark up there a

[00:30:01] lot of the year yeah it's it's pretty great here and

[00:30:05] you know i so anecdotally right i've been using the panel for about

[00:30:09] a red light panel for two or three months but it sounds like i need to

[00:30:11] step up my game here after talking to you for us the uh

[00:30:15] generally by january here in northwest montana i will get

[00:30:19] some sneaking depression right it just kind of comes in

[00:30:23] but i'm aware of it now after the first couple years here i was like

[00:30:25] why am i just bummed out you know but i have noticed like i haven't

[00:30:30] almost none of it you know since i started using so there's got to be

[00:30:32] something else i have a pretty vitamin d lamp but i think it's

[00:30:35] it's tough you know we talk about all the benefits of vitamin d and

[00:30:38] sunshine nowadays and you know all the like the huberman effect

[00:30:41] to all these wellness podcasts and and outlets where people are starting to

[00:30:45] learn about it but it's hard for people who live in northern climates to

[00:30:48] get you know this optimal right lifestyle of everything so yeah

[00:30:52] i'm always i'm always curious about that

[00:30:53] of course let's talk about the commercial opportunities so you guys

[00:30:56] are doing a direct-to-consumer is that right or do you have a b2b

[00:30:59] model tell me how you're how you're going to the market maybe just give

[00:31:02] us some insights into like you know how long the business has been

[00:31:05] around you know did you guys raise money are you

[00:31:08] bootstrapping this like how are you taking what's the strategy for

[00:31:11] going to market and all of those business businessy things

[00:31:15] great question we started the company about three years ago we delivered our

[00:31:18] first products we actually it's for both my partner and myself we had

[00:31:21] built b2b companies before but it's our first direct consumer

[00:31:25] brand and so to be able to understand our to build a

[00:31:30] community and understand and interact with them more effectively

[00:31:33] we went to market with the first product through indiegogo campaign so

[00:31:36] the crowdfunding was great we had a really exciting time kind of

[00:31:42] sitting down i think we we totally met with a hundred different

[00:31:45] potential users many of whom end up being users to

[00:31:48] understand how they thought about their pain what kind of language they

[00:31:52] used and what we could do to be able from a product design standpoint to be

[00:31:55] able to help them build habits in a

[00:31:58] meaningful way because it really is the consistency of use that's going to

[00:32:01] drive the best outcomes with the device so we i want to say 2021

[00:32:05] october 2021 we launched the product august of 2022 we started delivering and

[00:32:11] since then we've delivered almost i think almost 20 000 so 18 or 19 000

[00:32:17] devices worldwide and it's just been scaling kind of year on year

[00:32:21] and we we didn't with our unusual take on building the business

[00:32:27] and really not focusing on the commercial outcome

[00:32:30] we wanted to avoid taking on a heavy investment early

[00:32:34] kind of from from vcr private equity and so we offered our community

[00:32:38] a an opportunity to invest in and we've we've taken on

[00:32:42] half a million dollars through a crowdfunding an equity crowdfunding

[00:32:46] raise and we're we're right now aside from that essentially bootstrapped

[00:32:50] we've we're delivering a couple thousand devices a month right now

[00:32:54] it's been growing very very well and we're seeing that you know really

[00:32:58] it's having kind of a network effect of people using this

[00:33:01] seeing good results and then you know telling their friends and we see these

[00:33:05] kind of geographical blossoms around people in their use cases because of

[00:33:09] this we are kicking off a b2b what we're

[00:33:13] calling our medical professional reseller network

[00:33:15] this year we weren't planning on doing this and we actually had to be

[00:33:18] slapped in the face around 100 times to to really take

[00:33:23] note of it but what happened was we started testing with this last year

[00:33:26] last october based on around 100 different medical

[00:33:30] practitioners had written in or called us and said you know i'm a orthopedic

[00:33:35] surgeon i'm a chiropractor but i'm also a triathlete and i have this

[00:33:38] repetitive stress injury like patellar tendonitis i got great results from

[00:33:42] using your devices so i bought five from my clinic and

[00:33:46] you know how do i uh how do like my patients now want to buy them how

[00:33:49] do we work together so having been slapped in the face with

[00:33:52] that you know 100 times uh we we started building out a beta

[00:33:57] test for it and it performed way better than we expected and so

[00:33:59] one of the things that we noticed with this was that two of we have we have

[00:34:02] three different groups that we find kind of ourselves connecting with just

[00:34:06] kind of synergistically uh young uh performance

[00:34:10] based athletes and that's you know a lot of that's crossfit and

[00:34:12] triathlons and nfl and nba and this type of thing

[00:34:15] and then middle-aged guys like me who would like to keep doing and

[00:34:19] you know kind of uh my wife gives me a hard time i'm still playing

[00:34:22] rugby and and crossfit each of these you know likely the two things

[00:34:26] that are going to get you injured the most

[00:34:27] but uh i'd like to keep doing those for the you know for the

[00:34:30] the near future as long as possible and so we find ourselves connecting with

[00:34:33] those uh that could work very well one of

[00:34:36] the things we've never been able to to do from a digital marketing

[00:34:38] standpoint is connect in and tell our story to people who are

[00:34:41] older so 55 plus and have osteoarthritis or chronic pain

[00:34:46] they don't like being targeted digitally from a marketing standpoint

[00:34:49] but what they do like is and they become flag-waving users

[00:34:53] uh is if they go into their doctor and the doctor says try this

[00:34:56] and they can try it and see the results in clinic didn't they buy

[00:34:59] and it's been you know it's the only way that we found and i think

[00:35:03] that's going to be a large bulk of what we find from a purchase uh

[00:35:06] kind of journey standpoint is that we're not going to sell

[00:35:10] online to to these these kind of older cohorts

[00:35:13] uh they're they're going to see they're the kind of show me cohort

[00:35:17] they're older they don't want to hear about the story they don't watch

[00:35:19] the youtube video they want to see it work and so when they see it work

[00:35:23] they go in they buy and they tell their friends and it's it's been amazing the

[00:35:26] results that we've seen through our medical practitioners today

[00:35:29] yeah it makes a lot of sense i would imagine like sports performance

[00:35:33] centers would be an interesting option for you guys too

[00:35:36] right i mean uh you know there's a lot of athlete rehab and i mean

[00:35:39] just recovery as a category right now is is so

[00:35:43] it's just so popular for good reason right i mean it's something in the

[00:35:46] united states we've been lagging behind other countries globally and for

[00:35:49] so long is like we train train train train train but

[00:35:52] no one talks about recovery finally recovery is kind of the moment

[00:35:54] but yeah imagine sports performance are you're getting some intakes on

[00:35:57] crossfit makes a ton of sense i mean crossfits will buy

[00:36:00] crossfitters will buy anything to keep crossfitting right

[00:36:04] i know from from using from personal experience

[00:36:07] yeah you know i same i i yes of course performance

[00:36:10] sports performance is uh is great i i think two of the things that that i

[00:36:14] should mention relative to sports performance that have been

[00:36:16] that we've tracked and measured that are super interesting uh from kind of

[00:36:20] a strength and conditioning coaches or kind of pts and physios is uh

[00:36:24] performance so uh muscle recovery so if you're if you're doing really intense

[00:36:30] heavy workouts one of the things that limits you

[00:36:33] uh from coming back and training effectively for the adaptations that

[00:36:36] you'd like to make whether it's hypertrophy or strength

[00:36:39] of power whatever you're training for

[00:36:41] uh is the the muscle inflammation and inflammation that you trigger by way of

[00:36:46] this exercise and so uh you know one of the kind of one

[00:36:49] of the things we hear about this quite a lot is you know if i if i'm not

[00:36:52] triggering muscle inflammation am i going to reduce or remove the

[00:36:55] amount of uh adaptation for strength and hypertrophy

[00:36:59] that i'm going to see and it's actually the opposite direction so

[00:37:02] two of the things that we measure for this are uh c reactive proteins in

[00:37:05] creatinine kinase which are two commonly measured um

[00:37:09] muscle inflammatory markers and we reduce uh

[00:37:12] and always get them backwards but we reduce one by by over 60 percent and

[00:37:15] one by over 80 percent uh overnight and so meaning and you

[00:37:20] know how that presents you know for me from a

[00:37:22] a training standpoint if if so it also reduces delayed onset muscle soreness

[00:37:26] and that's really nice as well but a lot of times the professional

[00:37:28] athletes looking more at the the performance benefits than they are

[00:37:31] necessarily at the the soreness which they've kind of

[00:37:33] written into their their journey but for me if i go do a

[00:37:37] lot of front rack lunges as an example uh it's kind of hips

[00:37:41] and and quad strengthening you know you go do 200 front rack

[00:37:45] lunges in a day you don't think you know you're going to be sore you know

[00:37:49] you're triggering uh real real significant muscle

[00:37:53] inflammation in the two largest muscles in your body

[00:37:55] three largest muscles in your body and when you can reduce that delayed

[00:38:00] onset of muscle soreness but also when you can reduce

[00:38:02] the time that it takes you to recover from this and to get back into

[00:38:05] training these strength and conditioning coaches are loving it

[00:38:08] they're uh you know they have a hard time you know some of

[00:38:10] the guys who are are strength the coaching coach for the

[00:38:13] washington command as an example loves laser therapy he'd love to have

[00:38:17] his guys in a bed uh kind of uh doing something with this

[00:38:20] he'd love them to have him on some of the

[00:38:22] the clinical level devices which they have in their facilities it's hard to

[00:38:25] get people in into that from a day-to-day

[00:38:27] consistency and so what he found is when he gets the guys in for tape

[00:38:31] uh to watch tape with them and he'll just strap everybody on with

[00:38:34] the uh with the move plus and make sure

[00:38:37] that they are recovering better from these these really intense workouts

[00:38:40] that they're doing because it's it allows them it's almost like a

[00:38:42] performance enhancing drug from it and the outcome standpoint you could

[00:38:45] actually just go through your your power and strength increase curves

[00:38:49] that much faster because you're recovering that much faster yeah

[00:38:51] interesting so i'm looking at the product itself i mean

[00:38:54] is there is there like describe the product line i mean is there one

[00:38:59] product for like every joint in the body or like

[00:39:02] yeah how are you guys laying out the product it is and just to kind of

[00:39:05] give an idea from a visual standpoint here's the uh

[00:39:08] so it's a it's a strap uh system that we've put on with three modules

[00:39:13] that come with the standard product and it does work for we have an extender

[00:39:17] module here that i i don't have with me uh that can extend it around your

[00:39:20] body so you can kind of put these down towards

[00:39:23] minimal distance between each other and i i for example use it every day

[00:39:26] on my lower back in my gut for gut health it's really nice and

[00:39:29] actually it's one of the things that well with the gut health really

[00:39:33] yes it's our next product this this actually already makes a big

[00:39:37] difference i i use it the 808 nanometer makes a big difference from an

[00:39:40] inflammation standpoint in your gut and also triggers dopamine signaling

[00:39:44] there's there's a couple of different uh clinical and academic teams that are

[00:39:49] looking on looking at applying that to parkinson's and seeing very good

[00:39:52] results relative to treating the gut for parkinson's because of

[00:39:56] the the dopamine gap that you have with parkinson's for me

[00:40:00] i just feel better on a daily basis i've long-term cross-fitter and i'm

[00:40:03] six foot three and so my lower back was the amount of

[00:40:07] olympic lifting and deadlifts is it's you know it's not fantastic at least

[00:40:11] you know once every other month and i found that just treating

[00:40:15] every day the the lower back tissue for pain and inflammation

[00:40:19] keeps me healthier longer and if i do tweak something because i'm i'm kind of

[00:40:24] getting to my ego with the lifting then it gets me back into lifting a

[00:40:28] lot faster as well yes yeah unfortunately it's hard it's hard

[00:40:31] not to yeah and six three isn't the best frame

[00:40:35] for now sit uh either so yeah so so these guys like are five six five seven

[00:40:40] right short arms long torsos yeah so you got you got a lot of so

[00:40:44] you got crossfit is really popular i'm just looking at your website too

[00:40:48] like you have some of the biggest names i mean brooke wells sarah

[00:40:51] sigs and daughter like these are these are a big deal i mean

[00:40:55] where do you think i mean you mentioned the uh

[00:40:59] you know the practitioner angle on the b2b side but where do you see the

[00:41:03] biggest markets you know maybe for 2024 that you guys are targeting or you

[00:41:07] think have the biggest opportunity i think the medical practitioner ones

[00:41:10] uh you know we we all of us as founders particularly tom and myself

[00:41:14] our parents are in their 70s and one of the reasons we really like this

[00:41:17] you know a the concept of the mission of the company but b this technology

[00:41:21] is that we can really make an impact not just for our ourselves and

[00:41:25] extending out our kind of ability to go uh cross fitter or play

[00:41:28] rugby but it also makes a huge impact from a

[00:41:31] lifestyle standpoint from a qualitative life standpoint for

[00:41:34] the older cohorts and we've been it was frustrating to try to

[00:41:38] to address those markets and have them completely dismiss the

[00:41:42] the digital marketing side and so we've been so excited to be able to work

[00:41:45] with our medical practitioners and i've actually gone in and do some

[00:41:49] uh some clinic level visits with these guys and like

[00:41:52] the the stories that you hear back from these patients it's exactly why

[00:41:55] we're at work every day like this is

[00:41:57] this is why it's a mission-driven company like you you know building any

[00:41:59] small business you get beat up there's there's a lot going on

[00:42:02] there's a lot of friction to kind of reverse the inertia that's existing

[00:42:06] and finding the energy to do that can be uh can be

[00:42:10] difficult sometimes but you know we come into work and you see these

[00:42:13] stories from people and you hear these stories directly from people in

[00:42:16] these clinics and it's it's life-changing it's just i i

[00:42:19] can't get out of bed fast enough to go

[00:42:21] to go do what we needed to do to make that happen so for me that's the

[00:42:24] most exciting is is these older cohorts being able to actually

[00:42:28] take this on and and uh and adopt it is is just super powerful right on man oh

[00:42:33] i'm good i'm i feel your excitement i like uh what you

[00:42:37] mentioned you alluded to earlier as far as like

[00:42:39] product extension mentioned like it got one but what do you what do you

[00:42:42] foresee as like what are some of the newer products that you're going

[00:42:44] to come out with from in the next foreseeable future so uh i'll try to

[00:42:48] keep myself contained a little bit but

[00:42:50] the product that i actually wanted to start the company with is a brain

[00:42:53] product that we can uh treat transcranially and there

[00:42:57] are a number of neurological pathologies like

[00:43:01] adhd depression uh chronic anxiety bipolar addiction and then even

[00:43:08] longer term uh things like uh different flavors of

[00:43:11] dementia like louis body syndrome parkinson's uh alzheimer's where

[00:43:16] treatment is already been shown to be effective

[00:43:19] but our one of the things to take it back to our mission where we're

[00:43:22] going to be going with this longer term is

[00:43:24] we have to hold ourselves accountable not just for the number of people we

[00:43:27] get this to but the the measurement of how we're

[00:43:30] impacting their quality of life and so one of the things we've been working

[00:43:33] on with our our tech team is a spectroscopy based solution

[00:43:37] which is essentially shooting lasers in and then measuring back out with

[00:43:40] sensors the interaction that that light has had with tissue

[00:43:43] and we have a really powerful system that we're building around

[00:43:47] how you can measure metabolic function or impairment in the brain

[00:43:51] and when you can see where your brain uses

[00:43:54] or doesn't use energy very well with these different systems whether it's

[00:43:58] you know oxygen is one of the properties we use how your brain delivers oxygen

[00:44:02] we can measure directly cytochrome c oxidase is an enzyme in

[00:44:06] the phospholipid bilayer of your mitochondria uh that that's a good

[00:44:09] measure for mitochondrial function lactate there's a number of different

[00:44:13] systems that kind of overlap your your brain you never want your brain

[00:44:16] out of you know if your arm runs out of energy for a little while

[00:44:20] like you're kind of okay if your brain runs out of energy there's a

[00:44:23] ton of redundant systems in your brain so long story short we're kind of

[00:44:26] pulling together how to map all of those into these 3d pictures and then

[00:44:30] treat on an individualized basis around what what area of the brain has

[00:44:35] this impairment and where we can impact and how your body

[00:44:38] responds to that and so essentially you have this 3d picture of before

[00:44:42] during short term middle term long term

[00:44:45] and we won't be able to launch that until next year but it is

[00:44:49] i for me it's one of the most exciting technologies not only that

[00:44:52] i've been involved in but that i've seen

[00:44:54] in the last 20 years it's going to really change people's lives

[00:44:58] wow awesome man well the last question i always ask people on this show

[00:45:03] too for us is like what do you need right now

[00:45:06] you know when you're talking to you know the community of fitness health

[00:45:09] and wellness you know industry professionals like

[00:45:11] what would you like to hear from people about and how would you like

[00:45:14] them to reach out to you uh reach out i i one of the things

[00:45:17] that my partner tom and i kind of took on as a as a commitment to

[00:45:21] you know to our mission of really not not just trying to shift products but

[00:45:25] trying to to help people change their lives is if people are not getting

[00:45:28] what they want out of this or if they have questions about the technology

[00:45:31] whatever we have both of our calendlies available

[00:45:35] publicly so that if if you have a problem with the product or if you

[00:45:38] have a problem that that would keep you from buying it or adopting it

[00:45:41] call us this is something that that we're happy to jump on a call with

[00:45:43] you and talk about i don't know how many how many more

[00:45:46] years we can we can keep that up because it is ramping up in the

[00:45:48] number of calls we're getting in for it but the the what we really need is you

[00:45:52] know let's let's start talking more about what the limitations are

[00:45:56] for this current system of pharmaceuticals

[00:46:00] and you know let's let's make people aware of what they're losing

[00:46:04] and what they're putting themselves at risk because of these

[00:46:07] pharmaceuticals and then let's talk about what we can do to fill the gap

[00:46:10] to take it into a more manageable long-term solution that's going to

[00:46:13] provide better results for everyone i really you know that's that's if we

[00:46:16] could ask for everyone kind of to you know just read more about this

[00:46:20] context without it tell us how we can make that more digestible and

[00:46:23] palatable for anyone who needs that kind of pain

[00:46:26] relief or has chronic pain you know that's that's what we're here

[00:46:29] for so yeah again however we can engage to

[00:46:32] support that i'm happy to do it but yeah that's

[00:46:34] getting getting the education out is the the big yes yeah

[00:46:37] yeah education comes first man it's great uh it's a great market

[00:46:40] approach and for people listening so the website is k-i-n-e-o-n-dot-i-o

[00:46:45] and uh yeah thank you so much for joining i mean i feel your excitement i

[00:46:49] love that we just geeked out on red light therapy for

[00:46:51] you know 45 minutes that's really fun uh really dispelled some

[00:46:54] some things uh myths that were swimming around my head so

[00:46:57] really appreciate it and uh yeah ladies and gentlemen for smith thank

[00:47:00] you so much here really appreciate it

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