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Timetable clashes for SwimBritain team

It’s week four of SwimBritain training and the good news is that Charlie should have recovered well enough from her foot surgery to get back in the pool next week. It's good timing because with Mil...

September 06 2013

Lumie SwimBritain team splash and burn

The Lumie SwimBritain team are six sessions into their training programme now and disaster has struck - Charlie has injured her foot and will need a minor op! With less than a month to go before th...

August 30 2013

Now for the science bit: Prof. Russell Foster on light and the body clock

Prof. Russell Foster has been on Radio 4’s ‘The Life Scientific’ programme talking about his favourite subjects: circadian rhythms and how light affects the body clock. In the half-hour slot he spo...

August 30 2013

Reality of SwimBritain training sinks in...

It’s week two of training for the British Gas SwimBritain challenge and the personal distance involved in the 4x1000m relay has started to hit the Lumie Swim team. The SwimBritain Accelerator Progr...

August 23 2013

Lumie takes up the SwimBritain challenge

British Gas SwimBritain is a series of 4000m relays taking place around the UK this September and since swimming is fantastic for health, well-being and fitness – three words Lumie can really get b...

August 16 2013

Bright light improves sleep after brain injury

A large proportion of people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) - the kind of brain injuries caused by an impact to the head - experience disturbed sleep. As well as the usual day-to-day benefits, q...

July 08 2013

Googling mental health issues is seasonal

Google search data collected over several years shows that search terms related to mental health follow a distinctly seasonal pattern with many more people looking for this type of information over...

April 17 2013

Sunshine levels make D-pressing news

Hot on the heels of British Summer Time, the first UK ‘Vitamin D Day’ was launched to promote the importance of the ‘sunshine vitamin’. Vitamin D is important for healthy bone growth and most...

April 02 2013

Bodyclock revolutionised my sleep patterns

Voice over artist Richard Heathcote says he's definitely a night owl and admits to being 'utterly hopeless in the mornings'.   "For years I’ve had to wake up early to go to various networking ...

February 07 2013

Winners agree office lightboxes are a bright idea

Eat With Your Eyes, a design, branding and marketing agency in Bedford, were the winners of our competition to win a month of free light therapy in January. The past few weeks staff have been wakin...

January 28 2013

Winners of January light therapy announced!

Just before Christmas we offered companies and schools to the chance to win a month of free light therapy in January to combat the post-Christmas gloom. Nominations came in from publishing houses, ...

January 07 2013

WIN a bright start to 2013

So... Christmas is over and you're back to work: the weather's still dismal, your Inbox is full of all the things you put off last year and the only thing you're looking forward to is payday. Happy...

December 01 2012

An evening with Dr. Rosenthal

Lumie was delighted to be invited to SADA's 'Beating the Winter Blues' event in London last week and to catch up with Dr Norman Rosenthal, the internationally renowned psychiatrist, researcher and ...

October 12 2012

We're lovin' it

The new McDonalds ad shows how a 6am start on a dark winter morning can be made bearable with a sausage and egg McMuffin. And someone's also using Bodyclock Active just to make sure they get off to...

October 12 2012

An invitation from Dr. Norman Rosenthal

This weekend, there's a rare chance to hear the eminent psychiatrist and SAD expert, Dr Norman Rosenthal, at an open invitation presentation. The author of the definitive guide to SAD 'Winter Blue...

October 01 2012

Fired up for training

Chris Goodfellow is a professional triathlete and has been competing in the UK and internationally since 2005. "I find using light therapy is an effective tool to combat those dark winter months a...

August 15 2012

How to sleep like an Olympian

Sports sleep expert Nick Littlehales believes dawn simulation is a great way for athletes - and the rest of us - to get off to a cracking start. Littlehales has worked with the British Cycling team...

August 13 2012

I was losing about half a year!

  Jules is married with three children aged between 16 and 26 and lives in Whitstable, Kent. She owns a busy and successful PR agency, co-presents on Kent Business Radio, is co-founder of a bus...

July 02 2012

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