Natural Daylight and Your Immune System
With COVID-19 - Coronavirus amongst us, a healthy immune system becomes more important in everyone's daily care. With this in mind, many may not know that you can help your immune system just by having natural daylight in your homes.
Natural Daylight and Your Immune System
Daylight is essential to everyone's every day health. It triggers our circadian rhythms which are our physical, mental, and behavioral changes that follow a daily cycle. In response to light, this rhythm makes us feel awake in the daylight and tired in darkness. Daylight also makes us feel better because it boosts Vitamin D. This critical nutrient prevents bone loss and reduces the risk of heart disease, weight gain, and various cancers. Have you heard of S.A.D - Seasonal Affective Disorder? This disorder makes us experience fatigue, weight gain, and even depression in the colder, darker seasons of the year. S.A.D. is a seasonal depression that casues your mood to alter during lighting and fluctuations caused by the four seasons.
By providing more continuous, evenly dispersed sunlight to even your darkest rooms, Solatube Daylighting Systems add clear, pure natural light to your home, creating a natural increase in mood year round.
Several studies have shown that increasing daily exposure to natural light can enhance mental and physical well-being, boost concentration and energy levels, and provide a number of other benefits. Now you can have the best solid defense against the effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Natural Daylight even reduces the health risk that fluorescent lighting has. Spending a lot of time in environments that have compact flourescent lighting can cause you elevated stress and increase your risk of migraines and eye strains.
How Can You Bring Natural Light Into Your Home?
Natural Daylight is becoming more and more of a necessary design element for homes and office buildings. Studies have shown that when people live and work in a well-lit environment, they are happier, healthier and more productive.
The good news is when Solatube Daylighting Systems are integrated into the design of homes and businesses, the natural light brought in through these highly reflective tubes is often the only light source required during daylight hours. The Solatube not only brings in the benefits of natural light (improved moods, increased energy levels, reduced eyestrain, etc.) into the home or workplace, but it costs absolutely nothing to operate during daylight hours. Now that is a true energy savings!
