Red Light therapy

Never heard of it, but I can believe it. In the military bases in Alaska and the South Pole, they keep a room dedicated to light therapy. Since extreme latitudes can go weeks without seeing the sun (and more weeks barely seeing it depending on your work schedule), psychologically many people begun to suffer bouts of depression without realizing it's light induced, or more accurately LACK OF LIGHT induced. So they set up a schedule to sit in this room in a recliner, read a book or watch TV, with a super intense light shining on them which emits the full spectrum of light you would get from the sun, not just a single color frequency. Soon as they started doing that, the rates of depression dropped drastically.

nossmf wrote: »

Never heard of it, but I can believe it. In the military bases in Alaska and the South Pole, they keep a room dedicated to light therapy. Since extreme latitudes can go weeks without seeing the sun (and more weeks barely seeing it depending on your work schedule), psychologically many people begun to suffer bouts of depression without realizing it's light induced, or more accurately LACK OF LIGHT induced. So they set up a schedule to sit in this room in a recliner, read a book or watch TV, with a super intense light shining on them which emits the full spectrum of light you would get from the sun, not just a single color frequency. Soon as they started doing that, the rates of depression dropped drastically.

Yeah, I'm somewhat familiar with this but it's based in my research into circadian rhythm, which is based in the science of chronobiology which basically is referring to our hormonal regulation that work with daylight and nighttime basically our 24 hour internal clock along with every other plant and animal on this planet.

Every cell in the body has an internal clock, along with every organ with the main clock in our brain that controls everything called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). It’s a group of nerve cells located in the hypothalamus, just above the optic chiasm. The SCN, primarily synchronizes with the natural light-dark cycle, particularly the morning and daylight hours and through that optic chiasm, basically through our eyes when first encountering the morning light. Light is the main cue that sets and resets the SCN, leading to adjustments in our circadian rhythms which in the morning starts to suppress melatonin and begins to wake us up and at night it increases melatonin to facilitate drowsiness and the onset of sleep. Other hormones like estrogen and progesterone in women, along with mensuration that can also be influenced by the circadian rhythm and may affect sleep patterns as well.

Anyway, far north and southern hemispheres with times where there's extended dark time blue light effects our SCN in a similar way where exposure to blue light helps us wake up in the morning and used though what might be referred to as daytime, but at night its better not to have blue light interfering with this cycle and why you might of heard of blue light from computers etc and glasses that block blue light for nighttime use. For extended daylight hours our circadian rhythm is also disrupted and the use of blackout curtains and sleep masks help. We are connected to the world and environment in so many ways and 99% of it is yet to be discovered. However, don't know much about red light, only that it penetrates further into the human body than blue light. Just my 2 cents.

ninerbuff wrote: »

Just some peer reviewed study on red light results

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3926176/

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Interesting that they tested it for skin improvement. It was presented to me as a potential aid for joint pain. I never thought of it for the other.

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