The Light Doctor - Using Light to Boost Health, Improve Sleep, and Live Longer

What Can Be Done About These Risks?

The solution is obvious and available. We don’t have to give up electric light. Instead, we need to get smarter by using electric lights that are sky blue-rich during the day and blue-depleted at night. Yet less than 1% of lights sold today meet this standard, and the rates of diabetes, heart disease and cancer climb.

Why Don’t More People Know About Circadian Lighting?

THE LIGHT DOCTOR illuminates and attacks the barriers to healthy lighting. A failure of scientists to communicate effectively is one problem. As one leader said “The reason circadian lighting is not penetrating the market is that nobody knows about it … Scientists know, but they only talk to each other.

How To Be Your Own Advocate For Change?

Ultimately it is you the reader, and consumer, of lights to demand healthy circadian lighting. Lighting decisions cannot be left to your local hardware store, or to electricians and building maintenance, or to a corporate sustainability executive bonused by energy-savings goals. You need to know the story, and understand the impact of the wrong versus right lights on you and your loved ones.