Sunlight may reduce postoperative pain and need for pain-relieving medications. Scientists enrolled 89 patients who had spinal surgery into a study and randomly assigned the patients to rooms that were sunny or dimly lighted. Subjects in the lighter rooms received 46 percent more sunlight per day than those in the darker [...]
Executive Summary Yes! Light affects people in some surprising ways. Some would even go so far as to say that light is nutritious. In order to get a firmer grasp on some of these effects of light on people, a study of the effects of light on children of elementary school [...]
Sir, - The number of days children at the Green Street Elementary School, Brattleboro, Vermont, were off sick fell significantly after distorted spectrum fluorescent (DSF) was replaced by full-spectrum fluorescent (FSF) light. As an experiment the DSF light in three classrooms at this school, where pupils are 5-9 years old, was [...]
A study with five 30 wt Indoor Sunshine®® CFLs suggests an increase in immune system function in 30 days. In 7 out of 9 subjects, blood tests showed a 22-79% increase in the most common white blood cells, the Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC). One subject went down 1% and one went [...]
Phototherapy is the most common treatment for reducing high bilirubin levels that cause jaundice in a newborn. In the standard form of phototherapy, your baby lies in a bassinet or enclosed plastic crib (incubator) and is exposed to a type of fluorescent light that is absorbed by your baby's skin. During [...]
OBJECTIVES: Our purpose was to evaluate the benefits of cycled light (CL) versus near darkness (ND) on health in preterm infants born at <31 weeks' gestational age. STUDY DESIGN: Randomized, interventional study comparing infants receiving (1) CL from birth, (2) CL at 32 weeks' postconceptional age (PCA), and (3) CL at [...]
Autism and ADD/ADHD symptoms are reduced by light that most closely matches natural sunshine, according to parents. Indoor Sunshine® reports that parents are very pleased with the flicker-free, full spectrum, white light that contains the colors of the rainbow. One parent said that her six-year-old son’s autistic support team reported that [...]
2000 mice were studied under specific light in a controlled environment over a two year period. The results were quite dramatic, demonstrating the connection between biologic function and full spectrum, natural light. […]
Under cool white fluorescents, male rats ate their children. Under full spectrum fluorescents, male rats were non-violent. Chickens under full spectrum light were calmer, attacked each other less, produced eggs with 24% less cholesterol, and lived twice as long. John Nash Ott, PhD, Health and Light, Simon and Schuster 1977. [...]
OBJECTIVE: In adults with attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a delayed sleep/ activity rhythm and/or seasonal mood symptoms may contribute significantly to core pathology and disability. This study examined whether a chronobiologically based treatment, i.e., morning bright light therapy (LT), might have utility as an adjunctive treatment for adult ADHD in the [...]