Masters of Health Magazine September 2018 | Page 25

Being tunable and with an optimized spectral power distribution, LED illumination offers a more idealized solution that can be prescribed to respect, support and entrain the circadian rhythm. The exhaustive work over many years by laboratory researchers revealed the vital role of the retinal dopamine response in controlling eye growth. Unravelling the neurobiology and neuro-anatomy of this system over time has helped greatly explain both the laboratory results, field results and epidemiology of myopia.