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We’re following current research into the impact of infra-red radiation on the human body. How can something that is invisible to us be so important to our welfare? And should we include it within the toolbox marked ‘lighting’ anyway – or is it someone else’s problem?
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Ever since the lighting industry came to realise that Artificial Light is not necessarily the benign force that we thought it was – we now know that light really can damage us – we’ve attempted to grasp that very old Greek adage ‘First Do No Harm.’
But its one thing understanding that it’s the things that you DO that cause hurt, but what about the problems that ensue from NOT DOING something that we used to do. Can NOT DOING cause more harm?
Glen Jeffery, Professor of Neuroscience at UCL (University Collage, London), is studying the effect on infra-red radiation on the body . . .and what happens when you take it away. We had no idea that reducing our energy consumption by introducing LEDs and the consequent removal of tungsten filament lighting would create the sorry situation that the energy within our own bodies was put in jeopardy – and all because of the removal of the infrared band – such an intrinsic part of the tungsten lamp, and completely absent from the LED spectrum.
.In this presentation, Glen explains what’s going on in our bodies and why infrared radiation is vital to our health.
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If you want to learn more about the importance of Mitochondrial Infra Red, then take a bit more time out to view this presentation by Deborah Burnett and Scott Zimmerman that was published here last year: Deborah Burnett & Scott Zimmerman: Near Infra-Red (NIR) and human health.
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