How Sunlight Systems and Solatube Products Can Improve Your Health and Make You Feel Better!

By Solatube of Southern Utah

If you are like most people, you spend about 90 percent of your time indoors, and on the coldest days of winter or hottest dog days of summer, it can be even more.

Over the past few decades, public health officials have warned about the risk of spending too much time in the sun. While it is important to protect yourself against an overabundance of UV rays, an increasing body of evidence shows a litany of negative health effects that are caused by forgoing the sunlight. Solatube, a local southern Utah business, can help you overcome this challenge by bringing beautiful, natural light into your home with their innovative tubular skylight technology and converting dark spaces in your home or business into places you love.

The following are ten great, scientifically-proven reasons to bring sunlight into the spaces where you spend the most time:

1. Natural Lighting Increases Focus.

Natural light during both the morning and evening has been shown to increase concentration and focus. A naturally lit space will help you be more productive than an artificially lit work environment.

2. Natural Lighting Reduces Blood Pressure.

Research shows that sunlight alters levels of the small messenger molecule nitric oxide in the skin and blood, which reduces blood pressure.

3. Natural Lighting Reduces Stress and Anxiety.

Sunlight improves the communication between the regions of the brain that are central to your handling of emotions, such as stress and anxiety.

4. Natural Lighting Can Boost Your Immune System.

Your immune system relies on T cells to fight foreign pathogens. Sunlight (specifically the vitamin D it creates) wakes them up.

5. Natural Lighting Increases Happiness.

Sunlight causes your brain to produce serotonin, a hormone that can improve mood by alleviating pain, providing energy, and making you feel happy and wellrested. Sunlight also produces endorphins, otherwise known as “feel-good hormones.”

6. Natural Lighting Is a Vital Source of Vitamin D.

A study conducted in 2010 found that vitamin D regulates the control of cell cycles and the functioning of over 200 genes in the body. It promotes the health of your bones, intestines, muscles, brain, and immune, pancreatic, and cardiovascular systems. Having your home set up to receive as much sunlight as possible can help improve your absorption of vitamin D.

7. Natural Lighting Benefits Vision.

While it’s true you shouldn’t stare directly at the sun, the light it creates is good for your eyes. Natural light has been shown to lower the risk of nearsightedness in children and young adults by helping the eye produce dopamine, an aid in healthy eye development.

8. Natural Lighting Could Help You Lose Weight.

Is this a magical diet trick? No, it’s just another amazing benefit of sunlight. A higher level of serotonin in your body (triggered by sunlight) suppresses appetite. Additionally, ultraviolet (UV) radiation helps suppress obesity and symptoms of metabolic syndrome.

9. Natural Lighting Can Help Make You Smarter.

A study conducted by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District found that people performed 10 to 25 percent better on tests of mental function and memory recall when they worked in a room with daylight and a view.

10. Natural Lighting Improves Energy and Sleep.

Sunlight slows down your body’s ability to make melatonin, the hormone that regulates sleep and makes us tired. Sunlight allows you to sync up with nature’s clock for a steady circadian rhythm, putting your body’s inner clock on track while giving you a better night’s sleep and more energy during the day.

Sunlight Systems has been serving southern Utah for over twenty-five years. They are licensed and insured and would love to visit with you in your home about how they can add natural light and fresh air to your living space or workplace.

Please visit their showroom at 1316 S. 400 E. Suite C1 in St. George, Utah, or call them at 435-673-4774 to schedule a free in-home consultation.