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1. About the daylight therapy lamp
Dear valued customer,
Thank you for choosing one of our products. Our name stands for high-quality, thoroughly tested products for ap-
plications in the areas of heat, weight, blood pressure, body temperature, pulse, gentle therapy, massage and air.
With kind regards
Your Beurer team
Why use a daylight therapy lamp?
Intended Use
The intended use of the Light Therapy Lamp is to provide light source to offer a kind of “Light therapy” function in
which the artificial light environment would provide end user with sense of relax or help them to ease depression,
or treat seasonal affective disorder. Many people regularly experience lack of energy throughout the day, this
product can be used to boost them and let them feel more energetic by suppressing sleep hormone inside body.
When the hours of daylight are noticeably decreased in autumn and people increasingly stay inside, the effects
of a lack of light may cumulate. This is often described as „winter depression“. The symptoms can present them-
selves in a number of ways:
• Imbalance
• Need for more sleep
• Subdued mood
• Loss of appetite
• Lack of energy and listlessness
• Difficulty concentrating
• Generally feeling under the weather
The cause of these symptoms is the fact that light, particularly sunlight, is essential for life and has a direct effect
upon the human body. Sunlight indirectly controls the production of melatonin, which is released into the blood
only in darkness. This hormone tells the body when it is time to sleep. In the months when there is less sunlight,
therefore, production of melatonin increases. This makes it harder to get up in the morning, since the body‘s
functions are shut down. If you use the daylight therapy lamp immediately after waking up in the morning—thus
as early as possible—you can end the production of melatonin so that your mood can take a positive turn. In ad-
dition, light deficiency also hinders production of the happiness hormone serotonin, which decisively affects our
well-being. So application of light involves quantitative changes in hormones and neurotransmitters in the brain,
which can affect our level of activity, our feelings and our well-being. Light can help reverse this hormone imbal-
ance. To compensate for such a hormonal imbalance, the daylight therapy lamp can create a suitable replace-
ment for natural sunlight.
In the medical field, daylight therapy lamps are used to compensate for the effects of a lack of light. Daylight
therapy lamps simulate daylight over 10,000 lux. The light can influence the human body and be used as a
treatment or as a preventative measure. Normal electric light is not sufficient to influence the hormonal balance.
Because in a well-lit office the illuminance level amounts to just 500 lux.
Included in delivery:
• Daylight therapy lamp
• Mains part
• These operating instructions
1. About the daylight therapy lamp ........................... 10
2. Signs and symbols ................................................ 11
3. Notes ..................................................................... 11
4. Unit description ..................................................... 12
5. Initial use ............................................................... 13
6. Operation ............................................................... 13
7. Cleaning and care of the unit ................................ 14
8. Storage ................................................................ 14
9. Disposal ............................................................... 14
10. What if there are problems? ................................ 14
11. Technical specifications ...................................... 14
12. Mains part............................................................ 15
13. Warranty/service .................................................. 16
