souperhuman
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I recently went backpacking and one of the more pleasurable parts of that was sitting by a campfire at night. Staring at the flames and warming my hands and face was very relaxing, and left me in a good mood for several days after I had returned home. It occurred to me that heat felt by campfires was mostly infrared light. The radiation emitted from a fire is peaked mostly in the infrared spectrum but includes frequencies of red light as well (it really depends on the temperature). Ray has written about the pro-metabolic effects of infrared and red light and there are lots of threads on here about people buying various lamps to achieve the benefits of this light.
Historically, people spent a great deal of time sitting around fires, and thus enjoyed the relaxing and pro-metabolic effects associated with red light. During winter, this would have been even more important as people spent even more time indoors or near a fire. I could even guess that fire, in addition to allowing humans to eat foods that would have required much more developed digestive systems, could have also played a role in the development of intelligence by being a source of pro-metabolic red light.
This everyday use of mankind's oldest invention is absent in our modern lifestyle. I have used the fireplace in my house a handful of times in the twenty years I've lived in it. The closest people get is probably using a gas stove to do their cooking, but California is even trying to ban that lol.
I also found it much easier to fall asleep, and easier to wake up in the morning while backpacking, and I am wondering if this is because of the red light's effects.
Historically, people spent a great deal of time sitting around fires, and thus enjoyed the relaxing and pro-metabolic effects associated with red light. During winter, this would have been even more important as people spent even more time indoors or near a fire. I could even guess that fire, in addition to allowing humans to eat foods that would have required much more developed digestive systems, could have also played a role in the development of intelligence by being a source of pro-metabolic red light.
This everyday use of mankind's oldest invention is absent in our modern lifestyle. I have used the fireplace in my house a handful of times in the twenty years I've lived in it. The closest people get is probably using a gas stove to do their cooking, but California is even trying to ban that lol.
I also found it much easier to fall asleep, and easier to wake up in the morning while backpacking, and I am wondering if this is because of the red light's effects.