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	<title>Comments on: A Happy Monday?!</title>
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		<title>By: Lindsey</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/03/10/a-happy-monday/comment-page-1/#comment-3730</link>
		<dc:creator>Lindsey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m with you, Lizzy. I&#039;m also a So Cal --&gt; Beast coast transplant, and daylight savings has totally changed my level of happiness, throughout the day! nice to finally know why!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m with you, Lizzy. I&#8217;m also a So Cal &#8211;&gt; Beast coast transplant, and daylight savings has totally changed my level of happiness, throughout the day! nice to finally know why!</p>
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		<title>By: Lizzie Buchen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lizzie Buchen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi killrtrish. Thanks for your comment. It&#039;s still unclear what&#039;s going on with SAD. We do know that they continue to produce melatonin during the morning, but no one really knows why. An hour of light therapy--usually in the morning--is very effective for people with this disease.

As for boosting your own happiness with a light visor, it probably wouldn&#039;t be very effective. For one thing, too much light is not good--we require periods of light and dark to set our internal clock, and disrupting this pattern would likely have negative effects. But if you live in a place where sunlight is inadequate, and you notice that you feel a little sluggish or down on cloudy days, it&#039;s *possible* that more broad-spectrum light exposure would help.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi killrtrish. Thanks for your comment. It&#8217;s still unclear what&#8217;s going on with SAD. We do know that they continue to produce melatonin during the morning, but no one really knows why. An hour of light therapy&#8211;usually in the morning&#8211;is very effective for people with this disease.</p>
<p>As for boosting your own happiness with a light visor, it probably wouldn&#8217;t be very effective. For one thing, too much light is not good&#8211;we require periods of light and dark to set our internal clock, and disrupting this pattern would likely have negative effects. But if you live in a place where sunlight is inadequate, and you notice that you feel a little sluggish or down on cloudy days, it&#8217;s *possible* that more broad-spectrum light exposure would help.</p>
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		<title>By: killrtrish</title>
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		<dc:creator>killrtrish</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hm interesting. So what&#039;s wrong with people who have S.A.D.? And if I don&#039;t have S.A.D. will a sunlight-visor still make me happier?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hm interesting. So what&#8217;s wrong with people who have S.A.D.? And if I don&#8217;t have S.A.D. will a sunlight-visor still make me happier?</p>
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