Our bodies were made to live under the sun and stars. We're meant to start our days with the sun at dawn and end them at night with the moon. Most of us, though, spend our days inside under artificial light. Unfortunately, this light isn't healthy.

Our bodies need natural light to properly calibrate our internal body clocks and establish our circadian rhythm. This internal clock or rhythm tells our bodies when to be awake and when to sleep, and this influences every aspect of our health.

Irregular circadian rhythm has been linked to increased risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, gastrointestinal problems, neurodegenerative disorders including dementia, skin issues and more.

Standard home and office lighting doesn't give our bodies needed signals to keep our circadian rhythm in sync. This lighting can even send the wrong signals and push us into a cycle where we grow more and more out of phase.

Just like we take vitamins to ensure that our bodies get needed minerals, we need to consume healthy light to make sure that our bodies get needed circadian signals. Unfortunately, our circadian health tends to be something that we overlook.

So, what's the fix? Ideally, we get away from artificial light sources and get more natural light — especially at dawn, full daylight and dusk. This may be possible for some people, but for those who have jobs that require them to be inside during periods where they could consume natural light, this really doesn't work. This is also challenging for people who live in areas that get reduced to little light during some times of the year. People who work non standard hours, mid shifts and night shifts, also struggle to consume natural light.

When natural light isn't an option, we look to healthier artificial light as the solution. Unfortunately, we haven't had a lot of choices in this space. Light therapy lamps that can influence our rhythms are hard to use due to their high brightness levels. These don't make sense for everyday lighting, only targeted therapy. Many so-called circadian lights mimic the colors of sunrise, daylight and sunset, but this is just a pretty color. Our bodies need precisely calibrated signals and light intensities to reset our clocks.

TUO Circadian Smart Products use new, revolutionary science to deliver calibrated light at the right times to influence our internal clocks and sync our rhythm to our daily schedule. With TUO, you can consume healthy light at all hours of the day and keep your family's rhythms in sync with their day-to-day routine. TUOs patented science, proven in laboratory testing by the University of Washington, one of the world's top vision and neuroscience centers, works at normal room brightness and standard color displays. With TUO you can pick your light color from soft to warm and brightness from 5-10% and be confident that the light you're consuming will keep you on track.