The Science of Low Intensity Vibration

The Science of Low Intensity Vibration

Mechanical signals regulate every tissue in the body. Lahara Bio is using Low Intensity Vibration (LIV) to harness that biology to deliver the therapeutic effects of exercise, without movement, drugs, or side effects.

Mechanical signals regulate every tissue in the body. Lahara Bio is using Low Intensity Vibration (LIV) to harness that biology to deliver the therapeutic effects of exercise, without movement, drugs, or side effects.

Background

Mechanical Signals Effect Biology

Mechanical Signals Effect Biology

Mechanical signaling is a fundamental and widely conserved regulator of cellular behavior across tissues.

Mechanical signaling is a fundamental and widely conserved regulator of cellular behavior across tissues.

What is Mechanobiology?

Biology is not governed by chemistry alone. Physical forces continuously influence how cells and tissues behave, coordinating signaling and function across systems. Despite this, therapeutic development has largely ignored this layer of control, leaving a clear opportunity to intervene through mechanical inputs.

Biology is not governed by chemistry alone. Physical forces continuously influence how cells and tissues behave, coordinating signaling and function across systems. Despite this, therapeutic development has largely ignored this layer of control, leaving a clear opportunity to intervene through mechanical inputs.

Mechanistically Grounded

Mechanical inputs are sensed through conserved cellular structures, including the cytoskeleton, integrins, and ion channels, and translated into signaling pathways that regulate cell behavior and gene expression.

Mechanistically Grounded

Mechanical inputs are sensed through conserved cellular structures, including the cytoskeleton, integrins, and ion channels, and translated into signaling pathways that regulate cell behavior and gene expression.

Broadly Distributed Across Biology

Mechanosensitive processes are active across nearly all cell types, including bone, muscle, immune, neural, and epithelial systems, where physical forces contribute to regulation, adaptation, and disease.

Broadly Distributed Across Biology

Mechanosensitive processes are active across nearly all cell types, including bone, muscle, immune, neural, and epithelial systems, where physical forces contribute to regulation, adaptation, and disease.

Our Technology

Low Intensity Vibration (LIV)

Low Intensity Vibration (LIV)

Low Intensity Vibration (LIV)

Tab 1 of 4: Platform

PLATFORM

One Therapy, Many Indications for Use

Mechanobiology throughout the body

Low Intensity Vibration (LIV) is a tunable mechanotherapy platform that leverages conserved cellular responses to mechanical stimuli to modulate biological function. By adjusting signal parameters such as frequency and acceleration, LIV can be optimized across tissues and disease contexts.

Tab 1 of 4: Delivery

PLATFORM

One Device, many indications for use

Mechanobiology throughout the body

Low Intensity Vibration (LIV) is a tunable mechanotherapy platform that leverages conserved cellular responses to mechanical stimuli to modulate biological function. By adjusting signal parameters such as frequency and acceleration, LIV can be optimized across tissues and disease contexts.

Tab 1 of 4: Delivery

PLATFORM

One Device, many indications for use

Mechanobiology throughout the body

Low Intensity Vibration (LIV) is a tunable mechanotherapy platform that leverages conserved cellular responses to mechanical stimuli to modulate biological function. By adjusting signal parameters such as frequency and acceleration, LIV can be optimized across tissues and disease contexts.

A Critical Difference

LIV is not Whole Body Vibration (WBV)

LIV is not Whole Body Vibration (WBV)

Same word. Completely different science. LIV has fundamentally distinct mechanisms of action from WBV and is backed by real science.

Same word. Completely different science. LIV has fundamentally distinct mechanisms of action from WBV and is backed by real science.

CONVENTIONAL

Whole Body Vibration

Non-physiologic wellness devices

>8g acceleration

Minutes per day maximum

Not safe for frail patients

Risk of adverse effects

No standardized signal

OUR TECHNOLOGY

Low Intensity Vibration

Targeted science backed intervention

<0.5g acceleration

Safe for 8+ hours of daily use

Unsupervised at home

Zero serious adverse events

20+ years NIH-funded research

20+ years of evidence

Clinical Evidence

LIV is proven in the clinic

LIV is proven in the clinic

Clinical studies have shown that low-intensity vibration is safe and effective across multiple patient populations, with improvements in musculoskeletal health, functional outcomes, and quality of life.

Robust Evidence

Sham-controlled trials across diverse, medically complex patient populations with consistently positive outcomes and zero serious adverse events.

Robust Evidence

Sham-controlled trials across diverse, medically complex patient populations with consistently positive outcomes and zero serious adverse events.

Multi-System Effects

Clinical improvements observed across bone density, muscle preservation, neuropathy symptoms, and mobility, from a single mechanical intervention.

Multi-System Effects

Clinical improvements observed across bone density, muscle preservation, neuropathy symptoms, and mobility, from a single mechanical intervention.

Safe for the Most Vulnerable

Tested in children, cancer patients, frail elderly, and immunocompromised populations,  the patients most other therapies exclude.

Safe for the Most Vulnerable

Tested in children, cancer patients, frail elderly, and immunocompromised populations,  the patients most other therapies exclude.

Preclinical Evidence

The mechanism behind the outcomes.

The mechanism behind the outcomes.

The clinical results don't surprise us. We've conducted decades of preclinical science that explain exactly what we see in patients.

This body of preclinical evidence highlights the translational potential of mechanical stimulation as a therapeutic modality.

The clinical results don't surprise us. We've conducted decades of preclinical science that explain exactly what we see in patients.

Still Have Questions?

More about Lahara Bio's LIV

More about Lahara Bio's LIV

Answers to a few common questions the page above doesn't have room to cover.

Answers to a few common questions the page above doesn't have room to cover.

How does LIV reach cells if the signal is barely perceptible?

Does LIV work the same way across different tissue types?

What does a sham control look like in a LIV trial?

Is the LIV device FDA cleared?

Can patients receive LIV during active chemotherapy?

Is the LIV mechanism protected by IP?