Sentences with phrase «effect of light exposure»

One of his latest studies, published in 2015, found that exposure to bright blue - white light during the day has the opposite effect of light exposure at night: It greatly enhances the release of melatonin and inhibits the proliferation of prostate cancer cells in an animal model.

* A note on buying oils: I recommend buying them in containers that are made of colored glass or non-see-through to prevent the oxidative effects of light exposure.

Not exact matches

Learn more about the adverse side effects of too much blue light exposure from this infographic from Frames Direct.

In light of Father's Day, I wanted to share some information on the harmful effects that could be caused by endocrine disrupting chemicals, or EDCs, and how exposure could be negatively affecting the men in our lives.

«Although the effects of light are well studied in adults, virtually nothing is known about how evening light exposure affects the physiology, health and development of preschool - aged children,» said lead author Lameese Akacem, a CU Boulder instructor and researcher in the Sleep and Development Lab.

The findings are worrying for people who experience prolonged light exposure — such as shift workers and hospital patients — but fortunately, some of the effects seem to be reversible.

For instance, recent research has shed light on a group of chemicals in the brain that naturally dampen the damaging effects of prolonged exposure to stress hormones.

I became interested in the effects of various aspects of light — such as time of day and duration of exposure — on circadian rhythm, sleep and performance.

While the photo - induced modulation doping of GBN heterostructures only lasted a few days if the sample was kept in darkness — further exposure to light erased the effect — this is not a concern as Wang explains.

Experiments on five people who were given a caffeine pill or a placebo pill a few hours before their normal bedtime and then exposed to dim or bright light showed that caffeine's effects were about half as strong as exposure to bright lights — one of the best - studied ways to shift the body's clock.

«Longer - term studies of the effects of aflatoxins will help to shed light on situations of chronic exposure and effects on airways,» they wrote.

Ms Pattinson said it is known the timing, intensity and duration of exposure to both artificial and natural light have acute biological effects in mammals.

TUESDAY, Aug. 16, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Daytime exposure to bright light may reduce the sleep - disrupting effects of blue light from smartphones and tablet computers, a new study suggests.

I can't rule out the placebo effect (or a host of other confounding factors), but I can say that I'm a believer in the daily morning light exposure effect.

I do think the strongest piece of the [McClintock] study is that women's cycles can be affected by lunar phases in the same location in the same way and that if they are sleeping and rising at the same time, therefore exposed to the same light / dark exposure, that those two things can create synchrony via the pineal gland, which consequently moderates melatonin's effect on ovulation patterns.

6 - HAP does this by blocking DNA synthesis, which has the beneficial effects of preventing the spread of dangerous tumor cells — specifically those like melanoma, which is caused in large part by exposure to UV light.

The reverse correlation was also true, as exposure to light at night was a factor in gaining weight (another reason to make sure you have a dark sleep environment), but as little as half an hour of sun exposure before noon was enough to have an effect on reducing body weight.

Phase - dependent effect of room light exposure in a 5 - h advance of the sleep - wake cycle: implications for jet lag.

To determine the effect of room light exposure on melatonin concentration before sleep, we compared the AUC for melatonin measured on d 2 (< 200 lux) vs. d 3 (< 3 lux).

The article is all about the beneficial effects of the right type of light exposure.

Harvard researchers and their colleagues conducted an experiment comparing the effects of 6.5 hours of exposure to blue light to exposure to green light of comparable brightness.

«We found that the amount of light exposure to hamsters to pre-natally and through weaning did have enduring effects on behavior in adulthood,» says Leah Pyter, a doctoral student involved with the study.

The delicate paleness of Moss» skin combined with the high exposure of the image allows Levine to portray the fashion Muse as an effect of light, almost reduced to just her renowned green eyes and lacquered lips.

Fortunately, despite the fact that your mother might have insisted watching too much TV or TV with the lights off would make you go blind, the effects of such eye strain are temporary and within less than a day of exposure, the symptoms of dry eyes and fatigue should resolve themselves.

It can also increase the exposure up to 32 seconds, which would require a tripod for best effect, but allows keen photographs to take pictures of the night sky or perhaps even road light trails at night.

That said, with some great slow - exposure features like «light trails» for cool night - time effects, it's definitely one of the most fun cameras to use.