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There light therapy or phototherapy is inspired by benefits that physical is mind they draw fromexposure to sunlight. For this it is one of the methods used for the care of the depression.
It seems to be widespread in northern Europe, where as is known, some countries suffer from prolonged absence of the sunlight.
But you don’t need to be Scandinavian to use this therapy. In fact, it can also be very useful to face this period characterized by exchange between winter time ed daylight savings time and from pandemic itself, which forced us all to halve the time spent out of home and therefore to give up, or almost, the natural light of the sun.
How light therapy works
There light therapy consists inexposure to one filtered light ed artificial with an intensity of 10,000 lux deprives of ultraviolet rays, then not harmful for the retina of our eye and what not to be underestimated, even for ours skin.
But how does the treatment work? Based on the administration of some tests yes decides there time slot more suitable for the success of the treatment. In general, however, the early morning. To start, you have to sit down to one distance of at least 50 cm by the light itself for a duration of 30 minutes. During the treatment it is not necessary to fix the lamp, you can therefore use the half hour dedicated to light therapy, to read, study or draw, depending on your interests.
To see the first results, phototherapy takes about two weeks.
Depression? Yes, but that’s not all
As we said, light therapy is based on effects that the sunlight has on ours body. Effects that go to regulate the sleep-wake rhythm, inevitably also linked tomood, which in turn is stimulated by the serotinin. But phototherapy also affects the rhythm of the hunger and even on the sexual desire.
Not only depression. Light therapy is also very useful for the treatment of other types of disturbances like that ofsupply and it seems to help even during the pregnancy and early months of maternity. Obviously always accompanied by the opinion of an expert and the therapy prescribed by him.
