Journal

 

                      "If you love life, 

                    don't waste time, 

                  for time is what life 

                      is made up of."

           

                       —Bruce Lee

"Your talent 

is God's gift to you. 

What you do with it 

is your gift back 

to God."

—Leo Buscaglia

"Twenty years from now you will be more 

disappointed by the things that you didn't 

do than by the ones you did do, so throw 

off the bowlines, sail away from safe 

harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. 

Explore. Dream. Discover." 

—Mark Twain

When our ancestors first discovered fire, they mastered two elements of their environment, light and heat. 

Candlelight resembled the last light of a sunset and when electricity came along, we lit our evenings with the warm, red-spectrum hues of incandescent light, reminiscent of a brighter, intense sunset. 

Today, the interval between day and night is erratic, abrupt and lacks a sunset of any kind as LED lights perpetuate the bright blue light of daytime. The only way to give our brains a sunset in the middle of our urban jungles is to artificially create one.

 

A sunset follows a day of sunshine, so try to get as much daylight as possible during the day. This increases melatonin production at night. In the evening, make your lighting as red and dim as possible. Many electronic devices now offer blue light filters and blue blocking glasses are becoming increasingly available. Heat, food, noise and exercise also act against melatonin, so they’re better if shifted to earlier on in the day. 

—Mithu Storoni MD, Ph.D.