It exposes you to low levels of red or near infrared light.
Red light to help sleep.
Interestingly red wavelengths of light are most conducive to sleep.
Switching to natural red light in the evenings can help your body ease into its sleep cycle more naturally.
Exposure to this bright light helps to adjust your circadian rhythm physical mental and behavioral changes that follow a roughly 24 hour cycle and respond primarily to light and darkness in the environment and may help certain people sleep earlier at night or sleep later in the morning.
Light therapy is designed to use visible light.
Infrared light is a type of.
Medical research is showing improved sleep from red light therapy in a host of clinical trials.
Blue light therapy devices may help treat depression and blue light bulbs have been shown to reduce fatigue and improve the mood performance and sleep of office workers 12 13 14.
Leds also produce significantly more blue light than traditional bulbs.