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As someone who’s been using f.lux and refining sleep hygiene for over a decade, if this helps you please take it: - Chewable Vit. D3 can help, especially if ta
by joshspankit 4y ago
As someone who’s been using f.lux and refining sleep hygiene for over a decade, if this helps you please take it:
- Chewable Vit. D3 can help, especially if taken in enough dose (studies showed minimal downside from “overdoses” of 100,000IU for months, so I’m comfortable recommending 5000-7000IU as a starting does), and at the right time (after ingesting it takes about an hour for your body to bring that all in to your bloodstream, so I like to take it around 8AM. A bit earlier if I’m trying to wake up extra early, and a bit later if I forget. The latest I’ve taken it is 12pm since afternoon sun is normal and healthy)
- Lamps for seasonal affective disorder can be a bit of a crap-shoot since there are no regulations around the term. If you get one and it barely (or doesn’t) help, it might not be any good. Things that are important here: the spectrum of light output, and the lumens. If there are any sharp peaks in the wavelength it might be as helpful as an LCD monitor on full brightness.
For a true test of whether the concept itself helps, you can use halogen worklights short-term. With those there are concerns of heat and UV radiation, but they provide very bright full-spectrum light. If those work, it would probably be worth shopping around for the higher-end SAD lights.
- bombcar 4y agoI have a corncob 300 watt LED (not 300 watt equivalent mind you) and it works decently well for me in the winter. But I don’t think I have SAD, just want to have daylight during working hours.