full spectrum bulb equal to mini-light box?

[rei]

I don't have Seasonal Affective Disorder but I do tend to be fairly sensitive to time changes and shorter days in winter months. While I would love to just sleep later in the winter (or migrate south!) and listen to my body in that way, it's not practical, so I'm looking into ways to alter the message my body is sending through light therapy.

I'm not quite ready to spring for a light box. I want to do more research, especially into the blue light devices and whether they increase the likelihood of macular degeneration as some have said.

In the meantime, I am curious to know whether purchasing a full spectrum bulb to use in a regular lamp could achieve a kind of less extreme but similar gain to the effect of light therapy. Or whether you know of a quality source for buying something similar - a light bulb to use in a regular lamp that can affect those eye receptors the way a light box would.

[ginkgo]

Maybe you should try taking vitamin D. They have found that the vitamin D that one gets from the sunlight or a supplement makes a huge difference in heatlh. I heard that there are good full spectrum light bulbs.

Here is one that looks interesting.

Here is another one.

[rei]

Originally Posted by ginkgo

Maybe you should try taking vitamin D. They have found that the vitamin D that one gets from the sunlight or a supplement makes a huge difference in heatlh. I heard that there are good full spectrum light bulbs.

Here is one that looks interesting.

Here is another one.

That's not a light bulb. That's a light box.

You're not addressing the topic, ginkgo. I'm looking into the hormone regulation that comes from the eyes believing they are getting sunlight. Vitamin D does a lot of things but it doesn't provide what I'm talking about here.

[rei]

That second one is closer to what I'm asking about, thank you.

Light therapy isn't regulated... so technically any company can claim that the light bulb helps with SAD type stuff. I'm wondering whether the technology can actually work in a single light bulb instead of a box or set of LEDs that translates to 10K lux... the mechanics of it...

[ginkgo]

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