I wanna "sunrise alarm clock"

Ted_Hutchinson

These are often promoted as being of particular benefit for those with seasonal affective disorder SAD.
The underlying problem with Seasonal Depression arises from the lower levels of Vitamin d affecting your mood. The way to resolve these problems isn't to simply deal with the syptoms, by adjusting the amount of bright light early in the day however effective that may be but to deal with the underlying cause, the low vitamin d status.

Vitamin D vs broad spectrum phototherapy in the treatment of seasonal affective disorder. shows that 100,000 I.U. of vitamin D was more effective than using light. You can buy this amount of Vitamin d3 from BIO-TECH Pharmacal Inc. for just over £20 and so a couple of capsules costing 40p is going to be more moneysaving and will provide other health benefits as well. continuing with on capsule every fortnight will maintain satus safely and should be discontinued from April until next October during which period it's important to maintain vitamin d status by sunbathing at midday for 20 minutes at least 3 times a week.

cruella_de_vile

Just noticed this thread and most of these clocks have between £10 -15 off at Boots at the moment.