if people understood just how bad artificial light has become — not even just for your health, but purely for your experience of the world — they would be rioting in the streets garbage quality LED light has been forced upon everyone in the name of “energy efficiency”, and this is what it’s doing to you: - excessive brightness: activates your stress hormones when you’re supposed to be winding down, and prevents your eyes from repairing properly - excessive blue light: same as above - invisible flicker: also stresses the brain and activates the nervous system - low color rendering: extremely poor quality light spectra optimized for only efficiency and brightness means really bad color rendering so people and food and other objects look pale and dull and lifeless, while the bright light is burning your eyes out of your skull - maybe worst of all: total deficiency of the most beneficial wavelengths for cellular health: deep red and near infrared - it’s also just highly and extremely unpleasant. At night, your nervous system is supposed to be able to relax. Instead you stay on edge, agitated, stressed and unable to just wind down and relax into the evening as you’re designed to. in order for the body to stay in balance you need a period of activity and a period of rest & repair. Bright, blue-enriched light has systematically “killed night”, eliminating the signal for proper winding down and sleep. This is why so many people are stressed, depressed, anxious, and have sleep problems, and this was confirmed by the largest study ever done on light and health: Burns et al., with over 86,000 participants. fortunately, through years of development, we fixed all of these issues with Lumios by @ra_optics — the world’s first human-friendly LED - variable modes which offer natural dim and warm light for evening so you can actually wind down and relax properly - low blue light so your brain knows it’s nighttime and can release melatonin properly - flicker-free so your brain and nervous system can relax - ultra-high CRI: a high-quality, complete spectrum rich in deep reds causes people and objects to appear in their true colors - a significant quantity of the beneficial deep red and near-infrared for eye and skin health raoptics.com/lumios (pictured below are horrendously bright white lights in a restaurant that make it extremely unpleasant because people are numb and simply unaware of how big of an impact this has on their biology and the energy of a room)