Sherin

By Louise Valentine Jan 24, 2005
Impressions are food, as one teacher put it, and light is the entrée for most people. Although most light coming through our eyes goes to the back of the brain to make pictures, some goes to the hypothalamus, and from there to our “regulator of regulators” the pineal gland.
The pineal has been considered the seat of the soul. In the East it is called the niwan palace, and is considered to be the place where our consciousness usually resides. Its regulatory hormones, serotonin and melatonin, control the body’s rhythms, both seasonal and daily, especially the closer one gets to the two poles where the seasons are the most extreme. Blood pressure, sleep, reproduction cycles, immunity, moods, tumor growth and perhaps aging are all in the domain of the pineal gland.
In modern times we have made some improvements in our lives without consulting our pineal glands. John Ott, famous for his time-lapse photography, studied the influence of different kinds of light on animals, plants and himself. He found when he broke his glasses and went without them that his arthritic hip, for which he was using a cane, cured itself. Glass cuts off about 98 percent of long, ultraviolet waves, which the body needs, not only to make vitamin D in the skin, but also through the eyes directly.
After this discovery, Ott changed his window glass to plastic and drove in a car as little as possible in order to soak up more ultraviolet. On revisiting his optometrist, he found he no longer needed his prescription for prisms. He had his lenses made from full-spectrum plastic and invented gray, dark glasses that let in the visible spectrum in equal amounts. At this time, he lived in Florida, where there is plenty of ultraviolet. Now most lenses are made from plastic. The problem is getting outside enough to get some of that UV.
That brings up the next invention that has undermined the health of many: florescent lights. The most harmful are the pink or orange-pink ones. Mice grown under these lose their tails from lack of circulation and develop tumors faster than mice under other lights. Upon hearing that an elementary school in Illinois had the highest rate of leukemia in the country, Ott went to investigate and found the victims came from only two rooms. Both had the curtains pulled over large windows to cut out glare and used orange-pink florescent bulbs.
Cool-white fluorescents also cause problems, In a New Zealand wool-processing plant, incandescent bulbs were replaced with fluorescents. Workers got migraines, tempers flared, absenteeism increased and two resignations were turned in. After eight months, someone got the message and changed the lights, bringing back the previous harmony. Cool-white lights are banned in German hospitals and medical facilities.
Ott invented a full spectrum florescent light, which included ultra-violet. Wherever these are used, such as the Obrig Lab in Sarasota, Fla., which also has plastic windows, people get along, work without fatigue and have increased immunity. When the 1968-69 flu came to Sarasota County making 6,000 people sick, not one of them was from Obrig Labs, where 100 people worked.
Sunlight is 5500 K (a heat measure) and 100 CRI (color rendering index). In full spectrum florescent lights, look for 5000+ K and 90+ CRI in order to maximally match sunlight.
http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-1-24/25971.html

ramcat

Florida does well in the UV department. All we need to do now is figure out how to get it to the colder climates so you frozen individuals can come outside more.

Sherin

I thought this might be a contributing factor as to why my customers come out saying they feel so much better?