Lighting Affects Mood
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How Lighting and
Glasses Can Affect Your Moods The type of lighting in your house and office can affect your mood and may even help prevent or cure arthritis and others diseases, an expert has revealed. Even the color tint of the lenses you wear in your glasses or sunglasses can rob you of energy by preventing certain light wavelengths from entering your system, according to John Ott, director of the Environmental Health and Light Research Institute in Sarasota, Fla. "Light is a nutrient much like food and, like food, the wrong kind can make us ill and the right kind can help keep us well," says Ott, an expert in photobiology. "It is well documented that light entering the eyes influences the master glands, the pituitary and pineal glands, which control the entire endocrine system." Different kinds of lighting conditions include natural, unfiltered sunlight, incandescent light bulbs, fluorescent light, sunlight filtered through different kinds of glass, and sunlight reflected of different color interiors. In experiments on first grade students in Sarasota, researchers have found that children who work in a classroom with cool white fluorescent lighting are more hyper active than students in another classroom with full spectrum fluorescent tubes which duplicate natural sunlight but with shields to stop harmful radiation. "Under the standard, cool white fluorescent lighting, some first graders showed nervous fatigue, irritability, lapses of attention and hyperactive behavior," says Ott, author of Health And Light (Pocket Books). "Within a week after the new lights were installed, the children settled down and paid more attention to their teachers." Dr. Ott says that different kinds of lights can also affect the course of disease. Experiments with mice have shown that mice who live under pink fluorescent lights develop cancer more quickly than mice who live under white fluorescent light and natural light. Tinted sunglasses can also affect you physically and psychologically because they block out certain colors of the light spectrum that you need for health, Ott claims. He says he persuaded a man with prostate cancer to stop wearing pink tinted eyeglasses. "For three years he has worn new full-spectrum clear ultraviolet transmitting spectacles and, apparently, his problem has disappeared." Ott claims he even cured his own arthritis by eliminating sunglasses and eyeglasses. For more information read: "Let There Be
Light" (featuring Dr. John Ott), Cancer Control Journal   Vita-Lite is made by Durotest Lighting. It is a full spectrum light, like the natural light of the sun. You can buy at www.full-spectrum-lighting.com |
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