phototherapy

And the possibility that staring at a monitor is itself a form of phototherapy comes to mind.

Light is a cue for circadian rhythm, and people sensitive to fall/winter darkness often benefit with phototherapy.

> “The nurse said that the lights from the phototherapy treatment made the baby’s hair grow,”> The other mother, also 18 at the time, asked another nurse why her baby lacked hair.

Until evidence to the contrary appears, why should anyone worry about phototherapy for advancing circadian rhythms when melatonin supplements are ridiculously cheap, completely safe, and demonstrably effective?

However, with very short exposures following a correct schedule given by a doctor, UVB phototherapy can be an efficient treatment for Vitamin D deficiency in people with certain specific illnesses like cystic fibrosis or inflammatory bowel disease that cause digestive malabsorption of vitamins.

Medical schools that offered training in various disciplines including electromagnetic field therapy, phototherapy, eclectic medicine, physiomedicalism, naturopathy, and homeopathy, were told either to drop these courses from their curriculum or lose their accreditation and underwriting support.