Light at the End of the Dark Tunnel of “Non-Seasonal” Depression.
— New research shows that a daily 30-minute light therapy session cured clinical depression for 40 percent of people. Although this particular research is new, actually the American Psychiatric Association has recommended bright light therapy (BLT) as a treatment option for patients with major depressive disorder since 2005.
Simple Fix
Experts claim that bright light therapy, which is quite often used for a host of conditions like seasonal affective disorder (SAD) or circadian rhythm sleep disorders, has been shown to assist with non-seasonal depression as well.
Patients looking for an option to medications that can have detrimental side effects have an alternative treatment that’s more natural. Bright light therapy has proven to help boost your mood, alleviate symptoms of depression and more.
Nearly one in five adults in the US have been diagnosed with depression according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Doctors commonly prescribe antidepressants that often come with serious side effects, but experts are now saying that a drug-free solution to depression could be as easy as flipping a switch. It is well established that light exposure affects human mood and cognitive function.
Researchers suggest that bright light therapy is a cost-effective supplement to, or replacement for, antidepressants which reinforces the need for bright light therapy as an efficient adjunctive treatment for non-seasonal depressive disorders.
Trojan Horse
While this latest study furthers the large pool of evidence linking BLT to improved mental health, commercial, therapeutic light boxes do not include essential near infrared light (NIR). In other words, you may reduce depression while unwittingly harming biology.
“LED light exposure that is not balanced like natural, full-spectrum sunlight that is loaded with the critical red parts of the spectrum — is damaging to your biology.”
— Dr. Alexander Wunsch, MD, PhD, photobiology expert
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