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Does lack of sunshine get you depressed? Let's check out this solution
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Dave Taylor here and hold on, hold on. Okay, nice. So this, let me go ahead and turn it off because
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it's super bright. This is the Circadian Optics Lamp U and it's actually a really interesting
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device. As you can see, it's basically a really bright light, not much going on. Nice little
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design touches, has a touch button for three different levels of illumination, and it puts
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out 10,000 lux at 5,500 Kelvin, which basically means it's giving you a full spectrum simulation
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of sunshine. Now in the middle of the summer when it's light and you know, you can stay out late
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because it gets dark really late, no big deal. But in the middle of the winter, people get a lot
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of issues and they get depressed and they get sad and you know, there's all sorts of psychological
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ramifications to not getting enough sunshine. Our brains are wired to get sunshine that triggers
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waking up and getting ready to get on with the day. And when the sunshine goes away, it starts
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to trigger our sleep, you know, responses and stuff. It's called your circadian rhythm. And
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this company is entirely focused on helping you manage and fix and like fine tune your own
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circadian rhythm regardless of whether it's winter in Alaska or you know, the height of summer and
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you still want to be able to stay up as late as you want. Now I'm guessing from like certainly on
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the on the northern side of the earth, you're probably going to want to not use this from what
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like May to September or so. But when it's really dark out, this can be really great. Now
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like I said, 10,000 lux at 5500 Kelvin, full spectrum, there's no UV light. So you're not
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like it's not like, oh my god, I'm going to get a sunburn. 50,000 hour bulb life
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three levels of illumination. I know this is going to be weird on camera, but let's go ahead and do
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it. That's the brightest, then second and third. And the idea is like when you wake up in the
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morning, whatever time you want to wake up, turn this on and just let it like illuminate you while
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you're cleaning your teeth or shaving or putting on your makeup. And it'll help your body synchronize
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and have your circadian rhythm work more healthy. So what they call this is the seasonal effective
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disorder or SAD, which is really one of the best acronyms ever. But it basically messes up your
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circadian rhythm. And interestingly, it's mostly females that are affected by this and mostly
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younger females. So this is perfect. I'm giving this to my 23 year old daughter and she is smack
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dab in the middle of both of those particular demographics. So she already is really liking
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this. And I come downstairs and she's cooking. And while she's cooking, she has this light on
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to just help her brain kickstart and get that chemistry going. Really cool. It is 1.4 pounds
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It's 8.8 inches across. So it's basically the size of a small plate. You can see it's not very thick
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It does come worth mentioning with a pretty chunky power adapter. So if you're going to actually
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travel with this, it's not battery powered. You'd need to take the electrical cord. It's not a very
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small cord, probably not a big deal. So only thing left to talk about is the price. But before we get
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to the price, don't fall asleep. Click on that subscribe button. Awesome. Now subscribe to my
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channel. I'm super honest with stuff. And this is super nice. It does one thing, one thing very simply
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They have some other designs, but this one in particular I think works really well. And I know
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my daughter was very excited when I actually got it. So worth checking out. This is the Circadian
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Optics Lamp U, and it's $79.99 at circadianoptics.com. If you get depressed and blue when it's the dark
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and depths of the winter, and you really are just sad that you miss out on having more sunshine
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this can really help you feel better and be a happier person. And that is a very, very modest
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investment to make you a happier person. So with that, sounds like I need to actually turn this on
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So let's get this going for me. And with that, I will catch you in my next video
