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Beyond Seasonal Depression Reduce Your Risk of Disease All Year Long . . . “Light Hygiene”  Ideally, everyone should properly regulate their essential exposure to… Read More »Light Therapy Paradigm Shift

“Increased bright sunlight exposure may be associated with a reduced risk for type 2 diabetes and heart disease by lowering blood insulin and lipid levels.”… Read More »Sunlight, Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Risk

“Colors matter in medicine because humans are defined by the light they absorb and re-radiate. We are color. We are light!” Dr. Mark Sircus AC.,… Read More »Color and Light Matter in Medicine

It’s that time of year, the days are getting shorter and the nights are becoming longer. The sun is setting earlier in the day and… Read More »Shorter Days Can Make You SAD

There are major downsides to most LED lights that are not well known. If you choose to ignore these facts, it could lead to age-related… Read More »Hidden Dangers of LED Lighting

The appearance of sunlight and the advent of oxygen on Earth were undoubtedly the most dramatic environmental changes during evolution. As a result, almost all… Read More »Heart Health & Light

By MARK HALPER: A top lighting research group has reported that the amount of light at night — light levels plus duration — can potentially… Read More »Worry about the amount of light at night more than the blue light

Human-centric lighting is lighting devoted to enhancing vision, wellbeing, and performance individually or in some combination, according to Philips Lighting. Believing that the human-centric lighting… Read More »Out with ‘human centric,’ in with ‘nutritional light’

Would you swim in a pool of polluted water? Of course not. Not intentionally anyway. But every day, every one of us unknowingly “swims” in… Read More »This Indoor Pollution Can Cause Brain Fog

Since the beginning of human history, people have lived and worked outdoors during the light of day, absorbing light energy from the sky. An average… Read More »Sunlight Affects Sleep, Hormones, Body Fat and Much More

Melatonin and sunlight are intimately linked and the relationship is unique in the fact that there are two forms of melatonin, circulatory and subcellular.  Both… Read More »Two Forms of Melatonin?

Recent research highlights the importance of sensible sun exposure, stating “Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and unscientific.” The research published in the International… Read More »Sun Avoidance Is as Risky as Smoking

Professionals and patients alike have welcomed changes in healthcare over the past few decades. In the scientific world, there has been excitement over breakthroughs, with… Read More »Ancient New Medicine

Not Enough Light Many people are becoming aware of the fact that the lack of light in winter can cause seasonal depression known as SAD.… Read More »Light at Night Linked to Depression

Lighten Up! SAD (seasonal affective disorder), also known as winter depression, winter blues, or seasonal depression, is a mood disorder subset provoked by reduced daylight… Read More »Don’t Be SAD…

Circadian rhythms play a critical role in how fast we age.  Once the circadian rhythms are disrupted aging is accelerated. . Got Rhythm? A circadian… Read More »Accelerated Aging: The Importance of a Stable Circadian Rhythm

Your body is a combination of cells & chemicals that comes to life only when  “nature’s electricity” —LIGHT— is present. Light Energy Is Life Energy… Read More »Biological Enlightenment

. Amazingly, all of the blood in the body circulates through the eyes approximately every two hours. . Light entering the eyes regulates brain chemistry… Read More »Blood Photobiomodulation