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Natural Sunshine is very important to our Well-Being
I cannot over emphasize how important this is! The amount of natural sunlight that enters your
eyes has a drastic effect on your temperature body rhythm.
When we're exposed to high intensity sunshine, our body temperature increases, and
melatonin levels rapidly decrease.
Exposure to natural sunshine also delays the temperature drop. This allows you to
stay awake and alert for longer periods of time.
Lack of sunlight results in higher melatonin levels, this leads to lower body
temperature levels, feeling very sleepy, and being tired throughout the day.
Lack of sunlight will create a flat-line effect in your body temperature, because it will not get a
chance to rise high enough, your body temperature won't fall low enough during the night
either.
If your body temperature is flat-lined, this could cause major sleeping problems,
and it will be very difficult for you to sleep deeply for long periods of time. A lot of people who
complain about “poor sleep” usually don't get enough sunshine / sunlight.
Consider how for the most part of our evolution we were always outside during the day, it seemed
that nature intended us to be this way, then suddenly over the past 100 years we drastically
changed our exposure to natural sunlight. Most of us hardly get any sunshine today at all! We drive to
work in a car, we wear sunglasses, and we work in offices, what kind of effect do you think this
has on our sleep clock?
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