Light Therapy For Combating Winter Blues

This increasing light acts as natural cue for you to wake. Bright light helps to reduce the production of sleep hormones, such as melatonin, whilst increasing the levels of cortisol and other hormones that help you waken and shake off the sleepiness.

It has been shown that waking with light every day helps to keep the sleep/awake cycle in balance and has been shown to boost mood, productivity and energy levels for the rest of the day.

Especially useful for those who arrive at work whilst it is still dark, work under artificial light all day and return home in darkness.

Lumie manufacture a range of dawn simulators, available from under £60

Light Boxes are the most commonly available and well know light therapy devices, as well as being cited as the most effective form of light therapy.
The range available from Lumie will suit almost all those combating Seasonal Affected Disorder (S.A.D.). They simply require being placed near you whilst you are stationary. Either whilst eating breakfast, at your desk, or whilst reading as some examples of incorporating their use in your daily schedule.

As well as making models with either Broad or daylight spectrum bulbs, they make high intensity lights for those who can only spend 30minutes in front of them, and mid-intensity lights for those who have a schedule where they can be used for longer periods.

Lumie provide a simple and easy to use calculator to allow you to select from light therapy devices that will best suit your lifestyle.

Lumie are the foremost company in light therapy devices for many reasons. Here we shall just list a few of them.

• Lumie Products are designed based on published scientific findings and sound evidence of safety. They are independently tested to ensure they comply with UV and blue light hazard safety regulations
• Lumie were the first light therapy specialist in the world to achieve ISO9001 quality certification and now also have ISO13485. They are independently audited every year to ensure we maintain the highest standards.
• Products are all fully certified to the Medical Devices Directive EC93/42.
• Replacement bulbs available for all models, and most models come with a choice of daylight or broad spectrum bulbs.
• Lumie pioneered the Home Trial system, so you can see if light therapy works for you without a big financial risk.
• One of the largest ranges of Light Therapy Devices, all manufactured to the highest standard, of any other company providing Light Therapy Equipment

Other companies do make Light Therapy equipment but few can offer you any of these, nevermind all of these!

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