Many if not most of us are living our days inside buildings with artificial light, or staring at computers or smart phones with LED screens directly affecting our eyes and brains. The quality of light as well as a balance within the total rainbow of the light spectrum is essential for health. Light is food. Consider that our cells and overall biology are driven by photons, or light. However, as a health choice LED lighting is a poor source of lighting compared with good old-fashioned incandescent light, as the interview with Dr. When I started to investigate lighting a number of years ago, LED was considered to be the better alternative to incandescent compared to Compact Fluorescent Bulbs (CFLs) because of the lower EMF emissions, lack of radio frequency emissions, and of course LEDs don’t contain mercury and are not a biohazard.
The interview includes a discussion of what lighting is the healthiest and why. But we are not aware that they have hidden properties, which are harmful to our system, harmful to our mental health, harmful to our retinal health, and also harmful to our hormonal health or endocrine health.” They save energy they are solid state, very robust, for example. Wunsch: “I call these LEDs – I like to call them Trojan horses because they appear so practical to us.
Wunsch is saying it may be more effective to read the transcript.įrom Dr. The interview contains a very detailed comparison of the way incandescent and LED lightbulbs work, including the unexpected health benefits of incandescent lighting and some significant health risks from LED generated light. There is plenty of science contained in the interview, so to really grasp what Dr.