How Much Incandescent Red Light Exposure?
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Hi all,
I've been using a cheap incandescent red light recently while working from home (on computer all day). It has made a huge difference in mitigating afternoon fatigue. In fact, it has gotten to the point where the idea of turning it off during the workday is anxiety-inducing.
Do I need to be careful with exposing myself to incandescent red light for 8-10 hours a day? I am really having no noticeable ill effects thus far, but I worry that it could be depleting something or the other to make me feel this much better. Would love to hear everyone's thoughts on their experiences / research on the topic with incandescent light.
Here is the brand: YEAOI infrared heat lamp 150 Watt.:
https://www.amazon.com/YEAOI-Infrared-Chickens-Brooder-Reptile/dp/B0BL881XSF?th=1 -
@doifus
Hi! My thoughts are, are you also using white light? Meaning the full rainbow? So like if you have over head incandescent to see and then add a 150 W red that would be good. That’s definitely what I’ve heard Ray talk about too. Just being in very bright light if you are indoors. It takes a ridiculous amount of lightbulbs to make a room as bright as a sunny day.
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@dapose I have lots of screens (some with blue light blocking settings turned on) as well as a string of incandescent bulbs overhead. I recently did a 4 stage cortisol+dhea test (morning, afternoon, evening, night) but am awaiting the results. I worry that my body thinks its staring at the sunset all day but that could be mitigated by the blue light sources I am surrounded by. I think the cortisol tests should be illuminating...
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@doifus I think you got the right idea for sure.
Only thing I know to mitigate your concern for mono lighting life experience is a great recommendation I’ve heard for office workers, to make sure to look at the sky for 5 10 minutes at sunrise mid day and evening.
This variation of light exposure on the eye 3 times a day should keep stress low. And keep you synced up.
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@dapose I will have to incorporate that. Thanks.
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Unless you are pressing that bulb to your skin, you are not exposing tissues to red light with an incandescent bulb. It's mostly NIFR, and FIR. There's a reason why redlight therapy devices or anything to do with PBM uses LED's, or laser diodes. They don't produce tonnes of heat. heat/radiation is the enemy of red light exposure, and spectrum based PBM in general
Your skin will react to the NIFR and FIR, but it's not activating the same kind of things or causing the same responses as what happens when you expose your body to pure wavelengths of the redlight spectrum sans heat. Even if you could somehow tolerate being an inch or so away from a chicken broiling lamp or something of that nature, you'd still not be getting a high intensity of redlight either way.
You are already getting plenty of NIFR and FIR from sunlight exposure during the day
