December 7, 2015

One Month of Light Therapy – Did it Help?

My Analysis: It works! Over the past four weeks, I have been experimenting with a 10,000 lux sun lamp. Living in the midwest can bring about winter blues or worse, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Due to a lack of sunlight, millions of northern dwellers are affected with some degree of SAD.  SAD is a condition where one’s depression varies by the amount sunlight he or she gets throughout the seasons. Changes in the seasons can disrupt the balance of the body’s level of melatonin, a hormone that plays a…