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5 Ways to Create a Restful Sleep Environment

Your bedroom should be your sanctuary. A place where you close the door and say goodbye to the noise from the outside world. A room designed with only your wellbeing in mind. That’s the key to Biophilic Design, creating a space that improves both your health and happiness. From choosing a calming color scheme and embracing the power of plants, to banishing blue light and investing in your bedding, we're here to share our 5 top tips for creating a restful sleep environment.

How to Ban Your Phone from Your Bedroom in 3 Easy Steps

While the negative impact of using a smartphone in your bedroom may not be immediately noticeable, it can have long-term effects on the quality of your sleep. This, in turn, affects not just your waking, mood, energy and productivity during the day, but can also lead to a whole host of health issues. The good news is, you can kick the habit and make your bedroom into a sanctuary optimized for sleep with these three easy steps!

How to Look After Your Wellbeing While Working from Home

After what feels like an endless 18 months of working from home, we could all do with a wellbeing-boost as we appraoch the winter months.

How can light therapy improve your wellbeing? We asked our customers…

Whether you’re struggling with sleep, SAD or winter blues, light therapy can make a real difference to your physical and mental wellbeing.

How Can Light Therapy Help You at Work?

Light therapy can have a huge impact on our mood, energy levels and overall wellbeing! Whether you’re working from home or in the office, bright light therapy can play a huge role in your working day, helping to improve concentration and increase alertness.

Light Therapy Lamps for Better Sleep - How Do They Work?

There’s nothing better than waking from a good night’s sleep, feeling refreshed and ready to take on the day! Yet with busy work schedules, late nights, and disrupted sleep cycles, it can be difficult getting the recommended 7 to 9 hours every night. An out-of-sync body clock is usually to blame if you’re struggling with sleep as it affects our circadian rhythms; one of the two biological systems in our brain determining the quality, timing, and length of sleep.

Light Therapy for Winter Blues

A great majority of people are affected by the change of seasons during the fall and winter months. These effects can disrupt their lives in several ways; they may experience changes in energy levels, sleep, eating patterns, mood as well as general feeling of well-being. The severity of symptoms may vary, putting those affected somewhere on the spectrum of SAD or subsyndromal SAD, often referred to as ‘winter blues’.

What is SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)?

For many people, the dark mornings and short days of autumn and winter trigger Seasonal Affective Disorder, or more commonly known as SAD. You may find you stop feeling like your normal self during the winter months and become affected by the dark mornings and shorter days – this is often referred to as ‘winter blues’ or ‘winter depression’.

Sleep Research Papers

Research shows how light therapy - particularly bright light - can be used to phase advance (shift earlier) or phase delay (postpone) the time of sleep and waking. This makes it useful for all sorts of sleep disorders such as those explored below.

Seasonal Affective Disorder Research Papers

There is now a huge amount of research to support light therapy as a treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). This is just a selection and includes the benefits of light therapy as well as research into the possible mechanisms behind SAD.

Research Related to Women's Health

Studies with Alzheimer's patients

The common thread in many research papers is that the organic progress of Alzheimer's disease results in damage to a part of the brain - the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) - that controls circadian rhythms.