Solar panels are a huge boon to the planet’s health. But did you know that they’re also great for your own health? People reap a number of personal benefits when they decide to go solar. However, the following three are among the most important to people’s health.
1- Getting More in Touch With the Sun
It’s easy for people’s schedules to work against them. For example, one late night tends to turn into an even later night and it snowballs from there. And before you know it you’re waking up in the morning sleep deprived and feeling out of sorts. It’s not just because people aren’t getting enough hours of sleep either. The quality of sleep, and many other elements of life, is heavily dependent on exposure to natural light.
The human body has a natural 24-hour cycle of activity called the circadian rhythm. It’s essentially modulated by exposure to sunlight. When people wake up with the sun and get lots of it throughout the day their health, sleep quality, and even benefits from workouts are improved. Likewise, all of those metrics go down when people aren’t getting enough sunlight.
Installing solar panels puts you more in tune with the sun. You start to see your energy surplus go up, your electricity essentially waking up with the dawn, and learn to get in tune with that cycle as well. By doing so your circadian rhythm reaches its ideal by synching with the sun.
2- Getting the Household Involved
Solar panels often help both the physical and mental health of entire households. The previous point about circadian rhythms doesn’t just help one person. Everyone in the house tends to be influenced by the activities of the others. People start to get more in tune with the natural rhythm of the sun and everyone benefits in terms of physical health. However, the process can also help bring people together.
When people’s schedules are in synch they spend more time together. After all, they’re waking up, getting hungry, etc at similar times. This promotes more conversation and bonding time with families. And in doing so the psychological health of the entire household is improved.
3- Bringing the Community Together
This is similar to the impact that solar can have on the psychological health, and sense of unity, found in a household with solar. A sense of community is an important part of mental health. It was the norm for most of human history. However, these social connections have been in steady decline for some time now. People simply don’t speak to their neighbors nearly as much anymore. The sense of real connection people have with their neighbors, let alone people a block or more down the road, is also going down.
But solar provides a strong unifying factor for an entire community. When one person gets solar he has a chance to experience something significant to his community and share it with them. This is especially important as he can attest to the ease with which techniques like full in-house work can simplify the overall process of installing solar panels. Sharing the practical benefits of solar panels can increase the sense of community. And a higher sense of community, in turn, has been shown to boost mental health.
