Wake Up Lights & SAD Lamps
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SAD Lamps - What's the Difference?
This is a panel that's, what, 30 centimeters, basically the size of an A4 piece of paper. And it's very bright, and your light sensor is looking at them 50 centimeters away. The 10,000 lux guidance is from 20, 30 years ago when people were looking at using light for depression. As our understanding of the photoreceptive system has advanced, now we know if we target those melanopsin photo pigments, we can have an effect. Even some of the wake-up lights are called medically certified or medically approved on the website. What difference is there? Because I've noticed some of the products aren't.
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