Using Light (Sunlight, Blue Light & Red Light) to Optimize Health

It's important to get enough sleep, get good quality sleep, and let your body experience all the phases of sleep (such as slow-wave, and REM) in order to optimize metabolic circuits. It's good for your health to sleep and wake at roughly the same time, expose yourself to bright light in the morning, and dim light at night.

If there isn’t enough light (type and quality - sunlight) in the morning with a low solar angle, the wakefulness system doesn’t get triggered properly. Artificial light doesn’t activate it properly, get sunlight in the light as soon to waking as possible. Get outside with no sunglasses, through glass decreases the efficiency by 50%, once the sun is... See more