Let There Be Light (When you Exercise)
Anyone who pays attention to health news knows that exercise is everything - it keeps you lean, improves circulation, regulates your hormones, influences sleep. Over the years, our understanding of exactly how exercise is beneficial has evolved. New studies show the importance of light exposure (and what type of light) during exercise. Here are 5 ways that light can optimize or inhibit your workouts...
Can't Sleep? This May Be the Simple Reason Why (and It's Easy to Fix)
Our modern lifestyles may no longer be constrained by sunrise and sunset, but light remains one of the most powerful influences on our behavior and wellbeing. This realization has fuelled a “sleep hygiene” movement, whose proponents point out that bright lights before bedtime and spending the whole day in a dimly lit office can dampen the natural circadian cycle, leaving people in a continual mental twilight – dozy in the morning, and too alert to fall asleep promptly at night