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Hopalong:
Hi Skep,
I think they are different...mainly it's the intensity.
The white light boxes use a very high intensity including blue, and the blue light boxes skip all but the blue wavelengths.
The green uses low intensity because the others use more intensity than is good for the eyes to ensure that lots
of blue wavelength get included. The green light theory is that the blue is to be avoided and green wavelength
will also do the trick.

Although at that link I included about the green light, there's a much more coherent explanation!

Thinking of trying one?

xo
Hops (and is it okay to use your previous initials in the body of a post if not the title? I will avoid that if you prefer.
I just found with Boat that I was attached to her name and she was okay with me continuing it. Don't want to assume
that for you though, and you had some security reasons. I just don't quite grasp how searches work, etc.)

sKePTiKal:
Thanks, Hops...

No, I don't mind what you call me. I answer to most anything, having been called many, many different things in the past. (wrong name, bad names, ex-wife names etc)  :shock:

Two letters are a whole lot easier to type, too!!!

It occurs to me - and may be a worthless idea - that maybe SAD has something to do with Vit D levels. Winters are usually so mild here, that much of the time, I'm still running around in shorter pants and short sleeves on the warmer days of the winter. And I'm more likely to spend most of my day outside, when it's 45 than than when it's 95. Friend of mine, has low Vit D. (I've not been a regular milk drinker since I was 12; and didn't develop a taste for yogurt until my kids were born; cheese on the other hand...   :D)

Our bodies are so different... yet, according to "science" all the same. It's kind of amazing... like our DNA was collaged together, person by person, by a blind practical joker.

Hopalong:
Thanks, PR! (I have a fondness for those initials because I once worked in PR...) Odd, isn't that?
Your own name is lovely too. Ancient, glowing, and among the greatest colors in nature.

I've been doing the D, and think my levels are pretty good.
You're right, so many people are D-deprived....

When fall actually gets rolling, the SAD starts to ease. I always adjust.
I wonder if the anticipation in August of what's coming is part of it. Since
I don't adjust SMOOTHLY. But it's lovely here, and LB is enjoying our walks,
and I'm enjoying more things than not. Can't complain much today (bear with me,
I will find something to complain about.)

My new, somewhat-less-disgusting morning shake is helping:
1 - 2 tbsp spirulina
apple
carrot
ginger
turmeric
red pepper
banana
berries or grapes
pea protein powder
agave nectar

It's more get-downable that when I was stuffing a lot of raw kale
in it (and I learned that maximal raw kale is bad for the thyroid).

Glug, hug,
Hops

sKePTiKal:
Huh, interesting that it seems to pass after the season settles in.

Like a part of you is hypersensitive to the change in the environment and light. Since our house and back yard is a kind of mini-modern-stonehenge, I'm able to track the movement of where the sun comes up each morning in the sky over the ocean (way over THERE). I mark it against the trees. But I hadn't noticed how early it was getting dark - my ancient hippie hairdresser pointed it out - until this week.

I realized the other day, I haven't finished my saga about my D. I need to do that and I also need to call her and the boys and see how they're adjusting (boys went home; family being supervised for 6 months...). They have birthdays next month.

lighter:

--- Quote from: sKePTiKal on September 05, 2013, 07:35:52 AM ---
I realized the other day, I haven't finished my saga about my D. I need to do that and I also need to call her and the boys and see how they're adjusting (boys went home; family being supervised for 6 months...). They have birthdays next month.

--- End quote ---

Yes, sKep.

It's time for an update........ I didn't know the boys were back with their mother. 

Hops, I'm wondering if spending more time out of doors helps any during season change?  Is there data that shows spending an hour out of doors off sets the seasonal affect disorder? 

Also, the allergy thing doesn't make change of seasons easier, esp if the light issue is a factor.  We're jumping on the tramp with the cooler weather, but now I have a sore itchy throat, and drainage, while trying to discern any difference in mood.   Bleck.

Lighter

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