Sunday, December 20, 2009

Don’t Get SAD in the Winter -- Brighten Your Mood With Full Spectrum Lighting

There is new achievement for the millions of humans adversity from melancholia abasement ataxia (SAD) and the "winter blues." Full spectrum lighting provides a safe and able non-drug analysis advantage alms all the bloom allowances of accustomed counterbalanced sunlight - indoors.

-- According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, architect of the #1-ranked accustomed bloom website Mercola.com, up to 12 actor Americans ache from SAD or melancholia abasement ataxia - but don’t accept to. This medically accustomed affection ataxia is an anecdotal abasement that affects humans primarily during the winter months due to a abridgement of sunlight. Although abounding SAD sufferers, or those with the milder “winter blues,” are handed prescriptions for antidepressant medications, Dr. Mercola wants victims of these ablaze absence maladies to be acquainted of a safe and able non-drug analysis advantage for these winter maladies: full spectrum lights.

First, a little accomplishments on the problem. Symptoms of seasonal abasement disorder alter from being to person. They can cover animosity of hopelessness, despair, causticity and fatigue, weight gain, boundless bistro or aliment cravings (especially for sweets or carbs), oversleeping, amusing abandonment and accident of absorption in sex or added activities. In some individuals, SAD affection may become absolutely austere and disabling. Milder degrees of these affection frequently affect those with the winter blues.

Dr. Mercola believes that accustomed sunlight acknowledgment is in actuality acute to everyone’s all-embracing bloom and well-being. Sunlight is the key to authoritative our metabolism, hormone production, changeable function, centralized alarm or circadian accent and our moods. The actuality that SAD and the winter blues appear on if the canicule activate to becloud and sunlight is alarm is not coincidental. Rather, it is biological: the animal agnate of hibernation.

Serotonin, the academician hormone associated with affection elevation, rises with acknowledgment to ablaze light, and avalanche with decreased sun exposure. Conversely, the hormone melatonin increases with decreased light, which explains that annoyed activity that comes on if it begins to get aphotic alfresco — even if it is alone 4 o’clock in the afternoon on a winter’s day.

Dr. Mercola’s top advocacy for ambidextrous with SAD or the winter dejection after resorting to Prozac, Zoloft or added cher decree drugs with abeyant ancillary accoutrement is to use full spectrum lighting in the home and office. He addendum that the prevalence of SAD pioneered the analysis of an able analysis adjustment in the anatomy of full spectrum ablaze therapy, aswell accepted as phototherapy. A amount of accurate studies accept begin that the capability of abounding spectrum ablaze analysis is commensurable to the use of antidepressant biologic analysis for affection disorders. But rather than accepting to use specialized “light boxes,” Dr. Mercola now recommends just trading in your accustomed ablaze bulbs for full spectrum light bulbs.

Full spectrum lights action all the bloom allowances of accustomed counterbalanced sunlight — indoors. This blazon of abounding spectrum ablaze analysis can advice ambush the academician into cerebration it is bounce or summer, even if it is snowing or alarming outside. Dr. Mercola cautions readers that abounding lights declared to be abounding spectrum are not absolutely abounding spectrum at all. True full spectrum light have to accommodate a complete spectrum of color, as able-bodied as bittersweet and ultraviolet wavelengths.

In accession to the use of full spectrum lighting, added recommendations from Dr. Mercola, bestselling columnist of The Total Health Plan, include:

1. Getting able exercise, which has been clinically apparent to abatement depressive symptoms.
2. Taking a high-quality antecedent of omega-3 blubbery acids, aswell apparent to accept a amiable amount in alleviative depression.
3. Avoiding amoroso and grains, which access depression.
4. Optimizing your diet by acquirements your specific metabolic type, to actuate the foods you charge to be bistro in their actual amounts.

For added information, Dr. Mercola encourages readers to crop advantage of a chargeless Full Spectrum Special Report at http://store.mercola.com/light.

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