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by nine_k 493 days ago
The body has regulatory mechanisms formed 100k to 1000k years ago, and some even older. The life was a bit different then, as was humans' mental capacity and knowledge.

This is why humans have to actively overcome and sometimes subvert various mechanisms that presume the need to conserve the energy: they hit a gym which the body doesn't like, they limit sugars and fats which the body craves, they consume caffeine, nicotine, or even cocaine to trick the body into working harder and complaining less.

Compared to that, hitting the body with some NIR radiation seems very benign. You can get a lot of that just by walking in the sun, and there are no known adverse effects of that, unlike, say the use of the chemical substances. If anything, it's a promising field of research.

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>You can get a lot of that just by walking in the sun, and there are no known adverse effects of that

Other than sunburn and skin cancer?

Morning and evening is entirely infrared (80-90 percent with rest of it visible). No UV.
Sunburns and skin cancer are induced by UV, not NIR light. Put on the protective cream.