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Millions of people sleep with the light off and others have to keep it on during the night.

However you sleep along with your super king duvet something is definite; your bedroom electrical lighting may be affecting your sleep quality and even more importantly, your well-being.

These results might have a severe implication on your own health, especially if you are a night-shift worker who’s subjected to indoor light during the night over the course of many years.

US research claims that indoor lighting can hurt your blood pressure levels and glucose levels.

Joshua Gooley, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard School Of Medicine in Boston, who executed the research, says lights inside the home may supress meltonin- a physiology-regulating hormone made at night time in the brain’s pineal gland.

The report, published within the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, uncovered that contact with room light vs. dim light in the few hours before going to bed shortened melatonin duration by about 1 hour 30 minutes.

And when you kept the room light on during those sleep hours, the hormone was blocked by over 50 percent.

Chronic light suppression of melatonin has been theorised to raise relative risk for some forms of cancer and melatonin receptor genes happen to be associated with diabetes type 2. Something is definite; a great way to get a full night sleep is snuggle up in warm cosy duvets and quality pillows.