Light Therapy
How Light Therapy Works in the Body
"... Bright light is known to affect the body and its internal "clock," and Japanese scientists may have partly figured out how that happens.
When they exposed mice to bright light, the mice experienced a wave of hormones called glucocorticoids. These hormones are responsible for many bodily processes including metabolism, response to stress, inflammation, and immunity.
Atsushi Ishida and colleagues report their findings in Cell Metabolism. Ishida works in Kobe, Japan, in the brain science department of Kobe University's medical school.
The study doesn't change the use of light therapy in people for conditions including sleep disorders and some types of depression, such as seasonal affective disorder (SAD)seasonal affective disorder (SAD). But it might explain one aspect of how light therapy works..."
Web Md Health, November 8, 2005
"... Bright light is known to affect the body and its internal "clock," and Japanese scientists may have partly figured out how that happens.
When they exposed mice to bright light, the mice experienced a wave of hormones called glucocorticoids. These hormones are responsible for many bodily processes including metabolism, response to stress, inflammation, and immunity.
Atsushi Ishida and colleagues report their findings in Cell Metabolism. Ishida works in Kobe, Japan, in the brain science department of Kobe University's medical school.
The study doesn't change the use of light therapy in people for conditions including sleep disorders and some types of depression, such as seasonal affective disorder (SAD)seasonal affective disorder (SAD). But it might explain one aspect of how light therapy works..."
Web Md Health, November 8, 2005
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