Well Red is a leader in red light therapy research and development.

Established in 2018 in Tasmania by Catherine Hamilton and Ron Brown. Ron is an electronics engineer who designs and makes specialist electronic devices in his own company. Catherine is a retired medical practitioner and the author of the Red Lights on the Brain blog.

Ron and Catherine became friends many years ago, both playing in a community orchestra; Ron is a timpanist and Catherine, a double-bassist.

In 2015 Catherine began reading the medical literature about the health effects of red and near infrared lights. She was pretty sceptical at first, but became intrigued by the quality of the research and the biological logic of the way that the lights interacted with the body’s cells. She started making and giving away red and near infrared light devices, using LED strips, buckets, old lamp-shades and even PVC piping.

She asked a friend with Parkinson’s Disease if he wanted to try using one of her home-made red light hats. He did, and his symptoms improved, so she made more light hats for others to try. They also worked.

Although initially sceptical, Ron was impressed by the improvements users experienced and the lack of adverse side effects.

When the requests for light hats started coming in thick and fast, Catherine responded by creating the blog in which to post detailed instructions and information about red and near infrared lights and medical research.

Many people, though, were reluctant or unable to make their own and wrote to Catherine, wanting to purchase a light hat device.

Well Red Pty Ltd was established in 2018 to develop a transcranial light that had to be:

  1. based on the best medical research and be used for clinical trials

  2. be comfortable and easy to wear, especially regarding temperature control

  3. have key parameters able to be changed (thinking about the clinical trials). This included power of each wavelength, duty cycle, duration of each wavelength, location of lights on the head and pulse rate

  4. designed and manufactured at an affordable price, continuing Dr. Hamilton’s philosophy of helping as many people as possible, and

  5. be the best possible photobiomodulation products available anywhere.

We have achieved all of these aims. We know, from doing comparisons, that our devices are the most powerful, comfortable, effective and affordable.

We have made and sold many thousands of devices to users worldwide and are now on the eighth iteration—the Duo Coronet Version 8—which incorporates the improvements we have made to each model since the original prototypes.

We’ve also added the intranasal CoroNase and the TheraPad, a flexible light pad to our product list.