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feely” but there is plenty of evidence that the Blu Room’s high-tech combination of all those items helps a lot of people.
The Blu Room creates a novel atmosphere that insulates the user from the daily environment. It provides the user with an uplifting environment that can augment one’s state of creative focus. The room is a small octagon-shaped space about 12 feet across with a couch in the center. Highly polished mirrored stainless steel lines the interior walls, floor, and ceiling which give the room a high-tech look reflecting into forever. Blue LED lights illuminate the interior and non-visible ultraviolet phototherapy lamps stimulate some of the metabolic effects described below. Since the brain isn’t busy responding to the stimulus of the everyday environment, the mind is able to relax, free associate, or hold a relaxed state of focus without distractions (theta state).
The sun is an indispensable factor in regulating our genetic material, biological rhythms and, many biological processes via the skin and the eyes1. However with the emphasis on medications in the modern marketplace, the therapeutic effects of sunlight — in particular the ultraviolet B portion of the spectrum — have been overlooked. Even so, clinical studies guided by the progress in physics, chemistry and molecular biology have resulted in very effective treatment of certain conditions with ultraviolet phototherapy. We now have a greater understanding of the science behind what our ancestors knew intuitively in previous centuries with their veneration of the life-giving properties of the sun.
Frequent, brief exposures to UVB light have many bio-positive systemic effects on the human being. In many cases, these effects can be obtained from UVB lamps with very
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