Red light therapy is a practice people have been staring to pick up on through recent years. Full of benefits for your skin and brain function, using a red light (light bulb or lamp) produces a biochemical effect in cells that allows your mitochondria (remember that word from chemistry class?!) to to strengthen. I like to put a red light on for 30 minutes - 1 hour before bed time to wind down. This practice signals my brain that it’s time to shut down and get ready for bed. It is also harder for melatonin to be produced in harsh bright light, so using a red light instead of overhead lights can help with the production of melatonin. I use the Hatch Alarm Clock and structured it on the red setting every night so I don’t have to worry about putting a red light bulb in, but more affordably, a lamp will work just fine!