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THE LIGHT DOCTOR: Using Light to Boost Health, Improve Sleep and Live Longer

Dr Moore-Ede makes the compelling case that the light you see is as important to your health and your sleep as the food you drink, the water you drink, and the air you breathe.

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For most of human existence, our ancestors lived with the natural 24-hour light-dark cycle, spending each day in natural daylight and sleeping in the dark at night. But since the widespread introduction of electric light, more than 90% of our time is spent indoors, under unhealthful and human-unfriendly electric light, which disrupts our circadian clocks and greatly increases the risk of cancer, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and hundreds of other diseases.

Today’s LED fixtures, light bulbs, and screens are designed to produce cheap bright light with little regard for human health. Like DDT and asbestos, they are dangerously flawed technologies. THE LIGHT DOCTOR reveals extensive scientific evidence establishing the risks of blue-rich artificial light at night.

He provides conclusive evidence that too many LED lights on store shelves produce cheap and bright "junk light" which can be as unhealthy for your body as junk food. THE LIGHT DOCTOR clarifies the science, describes the evidence-based healthy lights that are now available, and provides the essential practical guide for everyone who uses electric light.

Here is how to find and install healthy light bulbs and fixtures for both residential and commercial spaces, how to obtain the lights you need for evening and night use versus daytime, and how to obtain energy-efficient light that is also safe and healthy. You will also learn which outdoor lights to install to avoid harmful effects on wildlife, another inadvertent consequence of the LED revolution.

REVIEWS OF THE LIGHT DOCTOR

A passionate and practical overview of the importance of healthy lighting and how to achieve it. - Kirkus Reviews

I am completely gripped by this book. It is a really important read and summarises a lot of the research around how artificial light impacts on human physiology. - Charlotte Davies

"This book terrified me, in the best way. Dr. Moore-Ede is doing cutting-edge work to change the way we think about light and how it affects us." - Penguin Life

"I was so impressed with his detailed yet thoroughly comprehensible explanations and expert advice! I’ll definitely be changing some of my lightbulbs ASAP!" – Simon Element

"I had no idea that artificial lights posed so many health risks, beyond the disruption of sleep. And Dr. Moore-Ede is clearly the leading authority on this topic." – Spark

"As someone who sits under fluorescent office lights all week, it made me question my life choices! The author does terrific job." – Tarcher Perigree