While exposure time should be limited, blue light therapy can be highly energising, and if you’re using chromotherapy in our saunas, adding some exposure to blue light can be a great benefit to certain things.
But, the benefits may all depend on how much exposure to blue light you are having in your daily life.
If you’re working in an office that uses LEDs or fluorescent lighting 24/7, adding more blue light can impact your circadian rhythm, also known as your sleep cycle. Typically, blue light benefits you by being energising and supports your mood and alertness.
Because of this property of blue light, we recommend against using blue light chromotherapy late in the evening or at night.
The reason here is that the blue light tells your body clock that it’s daytime. This is how we’ve evolved in this planet, and this spectrum of the sun signifies this in our biology.
How does the body respond to blue light? By inhibiting melatonin production in the brain. That’s why excessive blue light at nighttime can impair your ability to sleep.
So, in the evening or later at night, you’re better off moving towards red predominance in chromotherapy.
During the morning or daytime, blue light exposure is better. You can even use the blue light strategically to feel more awake as if drinking coffee.
The high-energy blue light included in our chromotherapy especially boosts wakefulness, as opposed to longer blue light wavelengths.
