We’ve heard it before: “eat the rainbow”, meaning, consume colored fruits and vegetables so you get a variety of nutrients. But you should also see and feel the rainbow, too. What, exactly, does that mean? One hidden in sunlight.
Sunlight can be split into the colors of the rainbow, like when it passes through a prism. Each color has a different biological effect. And getting this sunlight into naked eyes and onto bare skin is essential to our health. We need daily exposure to key colors of light in order to thrive.
So, which colors do we need and what do they do?
Infrared
The colors that brighten our world from the sun are presented to us in a predictable fashion. Dawn is dominated by the infrared wavelengths of light. Infrared is soothing, anti-inflammatory, and alters the water inside our body into its organized, energy-giving phase, called EZ water.
Red Light
When the sun breaks the horizon around sunrise, red light intensifies. Red light advances the health of our mitochondria, enabling them – the energy producers of our cells – to produce more water and ATP as we begin our day.
Blue Light
Quickly after sunrise, we acquire blue light from the sun. The red and blue light wavelength balance turns on hormone centers in the brain. It signals our master steroid hormone – pregnenolone – to turn to cortisol (for energy) and/or estrogen, progesterone, or testosterone (for reproduction). This gives us a circadian boost of cortisol to energize us for the day.
Ultraviolet (UVA) Light
As the sun reaches higher in the sky, UVA starts to appear and “brain magic” occurs. When we get UVA rays into our eyes, big changes begin. The sunlight that enters our eyes controls hormone production, neurotransmitter balance, our microbiome, energy levels, hunger, metabolism, inflammation, libido, and more.
Sunlight on our skin improves cardiovascular health, produces EZ water, makes vitamin D, boosts immunity, and more. We miss out on these sunlight frequencies by staying indoors all of the time, which lacks these key colors.
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