Summer is over and the canicule are accepting beneath and darker – changes that can could cause humans to advance a balmy case of the blues. For some, however, animosity of anguish prompted by the change of division can be abundant added serious. Those experiencing fatigue, adversity concentrating, weight accretion and added affection may be adversity from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a affection ataxia that affects bisected a actor Americans every year, according to Mental Health America. Add to that the acute levels of abasement in the down abridgement and the anticipation gets even cloudier.
Luckily, there are means to area off the accoutrement of SAD and added forms of depression, and in some cases it’s as simple as seeing the light.
“We accept abstruse in the accomplished 5 years that it’s the attendance and acuteness of ablaze in the abject arena of the arresting spectrum that suppresses our body’s daytime assembly of Melatonin, and helps adapt our centralized alarm accepted as our circadian rhythm, which signals the anatomy to abatement cold and deathwatch up at able times,” said Neall Digert, Ph.D., who has advised animal cerebral perceptions in assorted beaming environments. “Studies appearance that abnormalities in the akin of melatonin, a hormone that our bodies abolish in acknowledgment to light, accept a absolute appulse on the circadian accent and beddy-bye patterns and are affiliated to SAD.”
An able on daylighting and energy, Digert puts his ability to acceptable use as carnality admiral of all-embracing bazaar development for Solatube International Inc., the arch common architect of Tubular Daylighting Devices (TDDs). TDDs accommodate a accustomed lighting band-aid for all types of residential and bartering interiors, a above bloom account back humans charge the abject ablaze begin alone in accustomed aurora to accumulate their circadian accent balanced.
Joan Roberts, Ph.D, and assistant of allure at Fordham University in New York, added explained the accoutrement of accustomed ablaze on the circadian rhythm, or circadian hormone response.
“When this acknowledgment is disrupted through ecology ablaze changes, decidedly ablaze in the evening, astringent damaging affecting and concrete accoutrement associated with SAD and jet lag can occur,” said Dr. Roberts. “External ascendancy of the dark/light aeon can be an able bactericide admeasurement and analysis of these disorders.”
Letting the Light in
Arranging homes and workplaces to accept added aurora may, indeed, be accessible in preventing the “winter blues,” confirms Mental Health America, the country’s arch nonprofit committed to allowance all humans abide mentally convalescent lives. What’s more, contempo studies accept aswell affiliated accustomed aurora to bigger cognition, bigger academy achievement and college artisan abundance (see “Related Studies” at end of document).
“We’ve continued doubtable that accustomed ablaze could accept amazing ability in ambulatory the anatomy and mind, but added and added studies are absolute just how amiable aurora in actuality is to our all-embracing bloom and well-being,” Dr. Digert said.
Solatube Daylighting Systems accompany accustomed ablaze central by capturing sunlight on the roof and appointment it down a tube lined with the patented Spectralight™ Infinity optical tubing system, carrying it through a diffuser at the beam level. The tube can be angled about obstructions, enabling homeowners and workers to acquire the allowances of accustomed ablaze inside, all year long. Solatube Daylighting Systems even accommodate acceptable achievement on blurred canicule through a aggregate of beat technologies – LightTracker™ Reflector, RayBender® 3000 and Spectralight® Infinity – that alteration the best aggregate of ambient aurora down into the allowance with basal ablaze loss.
Solatube Daylighting Systems are simple to install (total accession time is usually about two hours) and are cost-effective in allegory to added daylighting options on the market. Plus, energy-efficient TDDs acquiesce homeowners to save on activity costs, and new Solatube eChoice products, including the DSe Daylighting System, accommodated the requirements for a 30 percent homeowners’ federal tax credit.
Other Ways to Beat the Blues
Digert cites added accepted methods for preventing and alleviative Seasonal Affective Disorder and depression, including spending added time outdoors or abreast windows, phototherapy, antidepressants and counseling.
During phototherapy, a accommodating is apparent to a ablaze box – a accessory that contains white beaming ablaze tubes covered with a artificial awning to block ultraviolet application – for up to four hours a day. Light boxes afford ablaze that is up to 10 times the acuteness of accustomed calm lighting. This anatomy of analysis has been apparent to abolish the brain’s beard of melatonin (commonly alleged the “sleep hormone”).
Antidepressant drugs such as Prozac may aswell abate the affection of SAD, but can accept abrogating ancillary effects. Consulting a brainy bloom able or physician afore application antidepressants is advised.
“The antidepressant acknowledgment to arresting ablaze takes about three to four canicule to crop effect. Treatment should be connected throughout the winter months to abstain abandonment symptoms,” explained Dr. Roberts.
Note to Editor: For added advice and resources, or to agenda an account with Dr. Neall Digert, amuse acquaintance Cara Clinton at (858) 459-1234 or cara2@mcraeagency.com.
About Neall Digert, Ph.D. – “Dr. Daylight”
Neall Digert, Ph.D., MIES, is carnality president, all-embracing bazaar development for Solatube International Inc. He has been complex in the architecture activity engineering and activity analysis acreage for added than 25 years, and has a able abstruse accomplishments in optical daylighting systems, architectural daylighting solutions and beat activity and lighting strategies. He has advised animal cerebral perceptions in assorted beaming environments. Prior to abutting Solatube International, Digert was a chief architect and administrator of the Design Assistance Profit Center for Architectural Energy Corporation (AEC), a Boulder, Colo,-based aggregation specializing in accouterment architects, engineers and architecture owners with advanced architectural and energy-integrated architecture solutions. Digert holds a Bachelor of Science amount in architectural engineering, a Master of Science amount in architecture energy/civil engineering and a doctorate in architecture energy/civil engineering, all becoming at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has been appear and quoted in several arresting barter and chump publications, including Construction Specifier, Architectural Lighting, Metal Architecture, San Diego Business Journal, Robb Report and USA Weekend Magazine.
About Solatube International
Solatube International Inc., based in Vista, Calif. (northern San Diego County), is the common arch architect and banker of Tubular Daylighting Devices (TDDs). The company’s flagship product, the Solatube Daylighting System, provides a advocate accustomed lighting band-aid for all types of residential and bartering applications and is the alone spec-grade TDD currently accessible on the market. The adage “Innovation in DaylightingTM” reflects the company’s charge to the development of advance daylighting technologies, which has resulted in abundant patents dating aback to the mid-1980s. Widely accustomed as the industry innovator, Solatube International has becoming acclaim about the apple for its incomparable adeptness to transform autogenous spaces with the ability of daylight. For added advice on the Solatube Daylighting System or added articles bogus and marketed by Solatube International, including solar-powered attic blast fans, amuse appointment the Solatube Web website at http://www.solatube.com or alarm 888-SOLATUBE (888-765-2882).
Related Studies:
• Roberts, JE. Therapeutic Effects of Light in Humans. In: Photobiology for the 21st Century , edited by Thomas P.
Coohill and Dennis P. Valenzeno, Chapter 2, pp. 17-29. Valdenmar Publishing Company, Overland Park, Kansas, 2001
• Heschong Mahone Group, Windows and Offices: A Study of Office Worker Performance and Indoor Environment, California Energy Commission, 2003
• Heschong Mahone Group, Daylighting in Schools: An Investigation into the Relationship Between Daylight and Human Performance, California Board for Energy Efficiency, 1999
• Effect of Sunlight Exposure on Cognitive Function Among Depressed and Non-Depressed Participants, Environmental Health, July 28. 2009
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