Time to wake up!

The window curtain flies to the ceiling, the birds fall from the stoop, and you fling yourself onto your stomach tunneling your head into your bed beneath your pillow as if it were a sand dune and you were digging deeper and farther from whatever monster awakened you from your slumber.

A bit dramatic, but you know it sounds familiar. The point is that we are all stimulated by light, because it has the power to wake us up, and thus darkness tends to put us to sleep.

Think about this: most people have problems staying awake when driving at night. This takes into account several factors, but one absolute trigger is the darkness.

Our bodies have an internal clock. This is a real thing! It’s called the circadian rhythm, and it’s controlled by how much light our eyes and body receives. So, that’s why we are not nocturnal creatures – because of the way the human body responds to light. We need light to be healthy and productive, so we are awake while there is light outside and asleep while it’s dark outside. Make sense?

So, you’re Brand Cialis probably thinking that this sounds a bit like scratching the surface of a really big issue. That’s probably true, because this has been researched by many renowned scientists. The majority of people are unlikely to know the scientific evidence behind why we need natural light to improve our general health and wellbeing. But, let’s hope that this article enlightens you about the importance of light, and that you can achieve proper lighting in your home by simply replacing your old windows, and maybe installing some new ones!

Set the Mood

Let’s keep this clean for the kids, but we all know that lighting has a pretty intense influence over our mind and where it goes to when it’s dark outside verses radiant light beaming through the windows. So, the point is that we feel relaxed in rooms where the lights are turned down a bit. Similarly, we feel alert and energized when we see the light streaming through the window. There is a place and time for everything, and this means that we can’t just be in the dark all the time.

Windows are necessary for controlling these moods. Natural light is different from fluorescent light or any other lighting because, well, it’s natural. Other lights are unbalanced and not nearly as healthy. So, the sun does a little something that lighting fixtures wish they could do; it provides our skin with vitamin D, and also influences our internal body systems such as the circadian rhythms, which we already discussed.

Help Your Pituitary Help You!

Natural light highly influences our nervous system, endocrine system, pineal gland, and pituitary gland. Let’s focus on the pituitary gland, which has the mighty heavy load of controlling our hormones! This gland plays a major role in helping or hurting the way we control our emotions, respond to stress, and utilize coping mechanisms. In other words, the pituitary is probably an unknown gland to many, but involves itself in most our daily activities.

So, when you allow yourself to be around more light by installing newer windows, and put windows in the right places; you are encouraging your pituitary to give you healthy emotions, not destructive embarrassing emotions. We all need that!

This is about to turn a bit scientific, but we’re just scratching the surface! The light our eye receives from the sun not only influences that internal clock of ours, but also controls how much melatonin that pumps through our system. Melatonin is the hormone that the pituitary puts in charge of our activity and energy levels. When there is no light, the pituitary pumps out a lot of melatonin which surprisingly makes us drowsy and inattentive. But, when there is more light coming through windows, our melatonin levels are lower and we are alert and rearing to go!

My Windows Can Do All That?!

Well, your windows aren’t the ones making your body do what it does, but the sun coming through your windows sure triggers our body to move us in a healthy direction!

It’s no secret that having even a little bit of light at work improves your productivity, happiness, and optimism. Not only that, but don’t you want your home to be a controlled space full of life? Of course you do!

So, you have to consider your windows if you’re trying to figure out the best way to improve your home’s atmosphere, keep that circadian system on schedule, and help your pituitary gland to pump out the right amount of hormones to keep you healthy.

* Information regarding the science behind the importance of sunlight on our body was contributed by a study done by the U.S. Department of Energy Laboratory operated by Midwest Research Institute in Golden Colorado. A Literature Review of the Effects of Natural Light on Building Occupants by L. Edwards and P. Torcellini

Author Bio: Woodstone’s Boston replacement windows will help lower your energy bill, increase your homes value, and they are cost effective. Call Woodstone if you want to meet with a qualified Boston window installment professional. They serve the greater Boston area including but not limited to Boston, Cambridge, Framingham, Worcester, Lynn, & Weymouth

Category: Home/Home Improvement
Keywords: window installment,replacement window,pituitary gland,,replacement window installment