Light Absorption ~Sleep Health

We have all know that getting enough sunshine is crucial to vitamin D.
But did you know that visual natural light consumption is imperative to health.
I had the honor to train with a PHD of light sciences this week in Atlanta. I was memorized by the light science that is now know that co-relate health issues to visual natural light consumption.

In man-created lighting environments, we can design a system that creates moods for dining, play, and work. If we increase the level of the Kelvin ( light temperature) we produce blue/purple light. In China, most factories emit 5000-65000 Kelvin temperature very blue-purple to keep workers awake and what I tend to think, narrow mind focused.
Just imagine when you look thru a hole in a paper how well you can see an object near or at a distance, same thing with bright temperature light, it narrows the pupil to create a intense focus, I believe this is also has a great effect on the mind.
Just as when you enter a dim lit restaurant, at 200-2300 Kelvin, orange-red-yellow, your pupil widens and your level of thoughts soften and rests.
The lighting designed into a space has a grand effect on shoppers, workers and children. I am extremely upset about the fluorescent used in hospital nurseries, the blue and purple light can be seen in almost ultra violet view by a brand new baby and is extremely harmful not only to the baby’s eyes, but to their Nero- perception and I believe has lasting effects. Luckily, there is new programs in place to remove this lighting, but for me it is not fast enough.

So what was most important is the fact that sunlight, not electric light, possesses a color band that cannot be duplicated or replaced, it is on the lower spectrum of color, and without this being consumed visually, it offsets melatonin and creates a backflow of chemical imbalances that are cumulative and go on to create aliments.

I had a client today that I worked with that cannot sleep and has started to have swelling in her legs. I asked her how much sunlight she gets a day, and she said maybe 10 minutes, "but I bought light bulbs that are full spectrum light." Here we have a clear example of visual natural light depletion, that is now altering her physical chemical balance.

~My light prescription, Sit in direct sunlight with 10 orange, 10 red apples and 10 lemons lined together ( yes, seriously) in a square. By her looking at these colors in Natural sunlight 20 minutes 2 x a day, she will re-set her light-cone perception behind her retina-photoreceptors in her eyes, which will reset her endogenous circadian clock , which will resent her melatonin cycle and will reset a slew of chemical that depend on light and melatonin to correctly balance the body.
Only natural sunlight has the correct colors to work this powerfully.

There were a lot of complex scientific words and light formulas I took notes on with the scientist, which their complexities elude my comprehension today, but here is the basics of what I learned.

The circadian system( the human clock) (effected by natural and manmade light) allows organisms to anticipate the changes that occur in our 24 hour environment, establishing a stable relationship between the endogenous rhythms and the external world. This relationship is crucial for well-being of human subjects.

The endogenous circadian clock drives daily endogenous rhythms in most physiological processes such as melatonin secretion and the sleep-wake cycle, thus effecting all chemical activities in the body
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So, grab a glass of herbal tea, put on some sun block, and go stare at beautiful natural colors in the sun….and have a great rest tonight!!

~Maelight