Sentences with phrase «exposure to bright light»

Plus, exposure to bright light at night can raise your risk of depression.

Exposure to bright light in the morning appears linked to reduced appetite and lower body weight, regardless of sleep patterns.

Another study showed subjects experienced a 160 percent increase in melatonin at night after just a half hour of exposure to bright light from a light box.

It involves indirect exposure to bright light from a light therapy box for a short period of time each day.

So, how do you avoid the inevitable exposure to bright light while viewing your TV or monitor?

During the darkest months of the year, they are encouraged to enjoy the benefits of exposure to bright light.

You should start each day with exposure to bright light in the morning, get sun exposure between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. in the middle of the day, and then end each day by watching the sunset and dimming the lights in your home.

«Lack of interest in sex successfully treated by exposure to bright light.»

«It highlights that adolescents are not «programmed» to wake up late and that by increasing exposure to bright light during the day, turning lights down in the evening and off at night should enable most to get up in time for work or school without too much effort and without changing school timetables.»

The model suggests that an alternative remedy to moving school start times in the UK is exposure to bright light during the day, turning the lights down in the evening and off at night.

In the journal Optical Materials Express, from The Optical Society (OSA), the researchers reported that graphene oxide sheets treated with brief exposure to bright light in the form of a camera flash exhibited reversible bending at angles from zero to 85 degrees in response to switching the relative humidity between 33 and 86 percent.

Senior author Christian Benedict, an associate professor of neuroscience, said the results suggest that daytime exposure to bright light through outdoor activities or office lighting may help counter the sleep disruptions caused by blue light near bedtime.

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.

For starters, clinical research shows that about 30 minutes of exposure to bright light within two hours of waking can ameliorate sleep disorders, depression, and seasonal affective disorder.

This might simply mean minimizing exposure to bright light (especially blue light) in the evening, getting to bed earlier, having a regular bedtime and wake time, and increasing one's exposure to light during the day.

Bright light stimulates your cells to make MORE energy, and in the winter with less exposure to bright light, this is a GOOD thing.

Exposure to bright light at night resets circadian rhythms by acutely changing the amount of some clock - gene products.

Since your circadian rhythm is set by the sun, this brief exposure to bright lights could slightly offset your it and can convince your brain that it's still the afternoon.

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.

Serotonin, the brain hormone associated with mood elevation, rises with exposure to bright light and falls with decreased sun exposure.

Melatonin production is essentially regulated by our circadian clocks, but it can be affected by exposure to bright light.

Exposure to bright light increases testosterone levels and leads to greater sexual satisfaction in men with low sexual desire.

Overall, I try to reduce my exposure to bright lights.

Studies have shown that exposure to bright light can reduce sleepiness and increase alertness.

Serotonin, the brain hormone associated with mood elevation, rises with exposure to bright light and falls with decreased sun exposure.

The exposure to bright light at specific times helps to reset the body's sleep clock.»

In less severe cases, waking up consistently at a given time in the morning, followed by physical activity with exposure to bright light (eg, a walk outside), may be sufficient.

The pups become day - blind and are photophobic — meaning that exposure to bright light is irritating or even painful.