LED Therapy for Winter Depression

The cold and cloudy weather, combined with the dark tones of what surrounds us outside, often leads to winter depression. It’s directly related to the decrease of serotonin, which is also known as “the happiness hormone”. This process speeds up with the shortening of the bright part of the day. Then we spend longer periods at home and feel the presence of the artificial light a lot more.

This is where LEDs, which come in a rich variety of colours, come into play. Psychologists are firm in their claims that light really affects people both psychologically and emotionally. Even if we don’t notice colours, they affect us. Different shades can shape our mood and improve it.

For example, red unites people in the dining room and will help you to communicate more. Yellow, on the other hand, has the happiness of sunshine and can create a feeling of joy. Blue is known as a relaxing, calming, seducing colour and is recommended for use in the bedroom and bathroom. And a living room bathed in green will help you to relax.

But the colour rendering index is the most important indicator of the light quality in your home or office as well as of its influence on you. This index determines whether the light will bother your eyes and even how you will feel emotionally. And this matters!

V-TAC LEDs have a colour rendering index of over 80 (CRI>80), on a scale of 0 to 100. According to the CIE (Commission internationale de l'éclairage – the International Lighting Commission), when low, this index shows a bad capability of light sources to represent realistic colours and the higher the value, the better the capability.