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How Light Interacts With the Body Clock
light exposure whereas in the morning it advances the clock and in the evening it delays the clock so pushes it back what light exposure were we talking about here because let's say in the evening or at dusk you saw natural lights not artificial lights does that still do the same thing at pushing it back or does that have a different wavelength that doesn't affect us in the same way well you're sort of impinging upon what I've been working on for a long time which is how does light interact with the body clock. We live our lives in dim dark caves so shortly after dawn natural light is some 50 to 100 times brighter than average domestic light conditions and so really what the clock is looking for