Dim, indoor lighting makes you brain damaged.

And it definitely shows with the mass delusions I've seen posted on X lately.

The brightness of indoor artificial lighting during the day registers on average around 700 lux at the high end. Outside it registers around 3000 lux in the shade and 100,000+ lux in direct sunlight.

This is a huge difference in brightness.

Your body was built to function best in BRIGHT light during the day. The vast majority of you are violating that law and getting way too much dim indoor light during the day.

As the paper below implies, the dull daytime dim of typical indoor lighting depresses your brain and your mental functions while brighter light gives you superman like brain power.

So please, people of X, I beg you, make your days bright again.

Get outside.

If you must be inside make sure you have a bright enough light with a good spectrum near you.

I suggest a couple below. Sit near an open window is the free hack

YOUR PARENT'S CHANCE OF GETTING DEMENTIA IS INCREASING AS FAST AS THE MARRIAGES OF THE COLDPLAY COUPLE ARE ENDING....

SO WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Turn the lights off at night.

As you see below, chronic artificial light at night can be an automatic 30% risk increase for dementia.

If you cant get them to turn the lights off, CHANGE the lights and/or get them to wear blue light blocking glasses.

(See my favorite night lights and glasses at link in bio or linked below)
You can find my favorite blue light blocking glasses with video reviews and live spectrometer tests to prove they work here...

bluelightdiet.com/blog/topfivebl…

PEOPLE WHO LIVE WITH THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT AT NIGHT DIE 30% FASTER....

You need to be low lux maxxing at night.

"Exposure to brighter light at night, recorded with personal light sensors in >88,000 participants, was associated with higher risk of mortality across a subsequent 6-year period.....Brighter light at night predicted higher risk of all-cause mortality"

Measure the LUX of your artificial light at night with a cheap lux meter found on my Amazon page at the link in my bio.

You want your lux at night as low as possible.

Moonlight is less than ONE lux so keep that in mind.
"Lower circadian amplitude and deviated circadian phase predicted higher risk of all-cause and cardiometabolic mortality..."

What does low circadian amplitude mean?

It means the difference between the brightness of your days and darkness of your nights is not large. In order to fix this and increase your circadian amplitude you need super bright days and super dark nights.

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

ATTENTION: CAN 100,000 WOMEN BE WRONG?

They say light at night can make you fat.

In this study of over one hundred thousand UK women ages 16 and up they found.....

"The findings are consistent with animal studies showing that prolonged light exposure leads to weight gain. Humans’ circadian, circannual, and metabolic regulatory systems evolved to be adaptive in environments that were quite different from those faced in modern industrial society. Technology has allowed exposures to levels and timing of light, nutrient intake, and physical activity never before possible."

So if you "believe all women" and don't want to turn into a fat one, turn off the lights or use appropriate night lights and wear blue blockers. See my favs below. One of my fav night light bulbs is the sunset bulb. Code bluelight20 will get you a discount. See it here

bluelightdetox.com/emr

FOR MAXIMUM LIFE EXTENSION MINIMIZE LIGHT EXTENSION....

In the first pic below you see how artificial light extension erases the natural sunset signal and extends melatonin suppression (through increased melanopic illuminance) for hours after sunset.

This is not good for things like heart disease and cancer prevention.

In the second picture you see the approximate melatonin suppression from the dimmest to brightest homes. The takeaway here is that everyone reacts differently to light at night. Some people are very sensitive to it and their melatonin levels get crushed even with dim light and a few people arent so sensitive and can have minimal melatonin suppression in the brightest homes.

In the third pic you see the in house melanopic luminance from energy efficient bulbs (green), LED bulbs (blue) and incandescent bulbs (red). As you can see, the energy efficient bulbs have the highest melanopic illuminance which means they eff up your melatonin the most! But at least you are "saving" the environment :P LED bulbs arent much better and incans are the lowest MLUX violators.

So what did we learn?

Light extension does not help with life extension.

If you are going to do light extension at night, mitigate the brightness and wavelength as much as possible. In general use incandescents or some of my night light recs below. Definitely wear blue light blocking glasses (my top 7 listed below) if you are unaware of the type of photons coming out of your lighting.

You can find some of my favorite night lights on my Amazon page through the link in my bio or you can get something like the sunset bulb from EMR here. Code blueligh20 will get you a deal

bluelightdetox.com/emr

IF POWER LINES CAN MAKE YOU WANT TO KILL YOURSELF, IMAGINE WHAT CELL TOWERS AND SLEEPING NEXT TO A WIFI ROUTER NIGHTLY CAN DO....

"Results Suicide mortality was increased relative to work in exposed jobs and with indices of exposure to magnetic fields."

Pro tip....

This is why you must get a cheap EMF meter and at the very least measure your bedroom and workspace for invisible electric, magnetic and RF fields. You could be sleeping in a very strong electric field night after night and not even know it. Could be the missing link for your hard to solve health problems.

Find a good intro EMF meter on my amazon page through the link in bio or at the site below. The TRIFIELD is a good all around intro EMF meter

bluelightdetox.com/emfdiscount

HEALTH ALERT: WHY SHOULD YOU WORK CLOSE TO A WINDOW?

Have you read the "with or without windows" study?

This study compared workers who had a workspace with windows to workers who had a workspace without windows.

And what it found was.....

Workers who had a window near them during the day had lower cortisol and higher melatonin levels at night (when they are supposed to) compared to the workers who did not have windows during the day.

So the workers who did not have a window at their work had lower melatonin and higher cortisol levels at night.

This is bad for your physical and mental health because higher cortisol levels are positively correlated with minor psychiatric disorders and depressive symptoms at 10:00 pm. Lower melatonin levels at 10:00 pm were correlated with depressive symptoms and poor quality of sleep.

Work outside if you can but if you can't, at least try to be near a window. And if that is truly impossible then you have to hack it with the red, infrared, UV and bright light therapy machines. I'll link to my favs below.

"Our study demonstrated that not only may light pollution affect human physiology but also lack of exposure to natural light is related to high levels of cortisol and lower levels of melatonin at night, and these, in turn, are related to depressive symptoms and poor quality of sleep." My favorite bright light therapy machine for your desk or office environment is called the SKY PORTAL. Code bluelightdiet will get you a discount here:

bluelightdetox.com/chroma

A PREGNANT MOMMY'S BELLY IS A GIANT INFRARED LIGHT THERAPY MACHINE

"the fetus is surrounded by the amniotic fluid which has a peak transmission in the NIR forming a dielectrically filled integrating sphere surrounding the fetus ensuring uniform exposure to NIR photons impinging on the mother’s belly." Of course my favorite infrared light therapy machine is the sun but I also like EMR as a supplement. Code "bluelight20" will get you a discount.

bluelightdetox.com/emr

DO YOU KNOW THE "ASCOBAL EFFECT" OF RED LIGHT THERAPY?

The ascobal effect occurs when you treat one area and get results in another area.

In this paper you see that red light therapy was used to treat two similar cuts on an arm. The red light treated cut healed faster than the sham treatment group but so did the other cut that was not treated with red light therapy.

"At days 6, 8, and 10, follow-up testing revealed that the laser group had smaller wounds than the sham group for both the treated and the untreated wounds......The LLLT resulted in enhanced healing as measured by wound contraction. The untreated wounds in subjects treated with LLLT contracted more than the wounds in the sham group, so LLLT may produce an indirect healing effect on surrounding tissues."

RED LIGHT HAS SYSTEMIC EFFECTS. "Our data suggest that LLLT has an indirect healing effect on surrounding tissues. The LLLT was applied to 1 of 2 randomly chosen wounds spaced 5 cm apart. Although we found a slight difference in wound contraction between the 2 wounds in the laser group, both the treated and the untreated wounds showed enhanced healing compared with those in the sham group."

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC52…

HERE'S PROOF APPLE NIGHTSHIFT ISNT GOOD ENOUGH AT NIGHT FOR YOUR HEALTH

YOU NEED BLUE LIGHT BLOCKING GLASSES & A SPECIAL "CIRCADIAN CONTROL PANEL" FOR YOUR PHONE

In this study, you see that using a regular ipad at night in the three hours prior to their normal bedtimes showed that one-hour and two-hour exposures suppressed melatonin by 23% and 38%.

The blue light goggles (dont be confused these are not blue blockers) in the study were designed to emit 470nm blue light at 40lux suppressed the most melatonin.

The Apple Night Shift modes reduced that melatonin suppression to between 10 and 20% which is better but still significant and chronic melatonin suppression equivalent to nothing you would find in a natural dark night environment.

But....

The orange colored blue and partially green light blocking glasses (blocking up to 525nm) basically prevented any melatonin suppression.

They also say that DIMMING the BRIGHTNESS settings on your phone can further help reduce melatonin suppression from the artificial light.

So the moral of the story is, not only is Night Shift not good enough to preserve your good health, but if your nights are not naturally dark and include artificial lighting and screens, you need a good pair of blue light blocking glasses and you need to DIM your lighting as much as possible.

You need to install our free blue light diet "circadian control panel" which works better than Apple nightshift because it removes more blue/green light and dims your screen.

And if you don't already have a pair, go get a pair of blue light blocking glasses that work.

You can find instructions for the free circadian control panel and our favorite blue light blockers below.


THE TOP FIVE BEST BLUE LIGHT BLOCKING GLASSES

(With Video Reviews and Live Spectrometer Tests to Prove They Work)

bluelightdiet.com/blog/topfivebl…

Can Light Emitted from Smartphone Screens and Taking Selfies Cause Premature Aging and Wrinkles?

YES lol.

"Exposure to light emitted from electronic devices on human skin cells, even in case of short exposures, can increase the generation of reactive oxygen species.... Especially, extrinsic skin aging can be caused by oxidative stress."

How many times has your dermatologist told you that screenlight or LED you use at night is causing your wrinkles?

Cover your skin, filter your screenlight and use lights made for night. Suggestions below. "Recent studies show that exposure of human skin cells to light emitted from electronic devices, even for exposures as short as 1 hour, may cause reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, apoptosis, and necrosis."

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC62…

THE NUMBER ONE CANCER IN THE US NAVY IS MELANOMA SO THEY DID A STUDY AND FOUND.....

"personnel in indoor occupations had a higher age-adjusted incidence rate of melanoma. Persons who worked in occupations that required spending time both indoors and outdoors had the lowest rate. Incidence rates of melanoma were higher on the trunk than on the more commonly sunlight-exposed head and arms."

and

"Findings on the anatomical site of melanoma from this study suggest a protective role for brief, regular exposure to sunlight and fit with recent laboratory studies that have shown vitamin D to suppress growth of malignant melanoma cells in tissue culture. A mechanism is proposed in which vitamin D inhibits previously initiated melanomas from becoming clinically apparent."

The Navy apparently knows what your "melanoma expert" dermatologist doesnt....

Melanoma happens most frequently indoors where there is no sun but lots of artificial light and vitamin d that is made by the sun inhibits melanoma from being clinically relevant.

The sun is protective and not a main cause of melanoma. I meant to say #1 most deadly cancer

GOT MIGRAINE HEADACHES, GIRL?

This study shows Circadian Rhythm disruption (dark days and bright nights) increased the number of these kinds of headaches women get AND increased their severity.

The women with circadian rhythm disruption got almost DOUBLE the amount of migraines each month!

Simply increasing the amount of sleep did not fix the problem as there is a such thing as bad sleep (for instance drugging yourself to sleep with pills or antihistamines, sleeping at the wrong time or blasting yourself with artificial light from your iphone before bed and reducing the amount of melatonin released)

If you are blasting yourself with phone or tv light at night, followed by waking up and blasting yourself with more phone or screen light before you see the real sun in the morning and then spending most of the day working indoors under artificial lights, guess what?

You got major circadian rhythm disruption, cupcake.

Your circadian migraine prescription is...

See real unfiltered sunlight first thing in the morning before anything else. You need to reset and advance your circadian phase. This means you need to super bright light of the sun when you get up in the morning. (If it is winter and/or you can get outside in the morning you can use a bright bank of incandescent lights, a bright red light therapy machine (maybe) or a modified SAD light like the one I link to in the replies below).

Get outside multiple times during the day for circadian rhythm reinforcing and melatonin building sunlight breaks. Turn off or block all artificial light at night by wearing blue light blocking glasses as recommended in the bio on this page.

Bright days, dark nights. For supplemental bright morning light I like the Sky Portals from @getchroma. Code "bluelightdiet" will get you a discount.

bluelightdetox.com/chroma

GOT GUT PROBLEMS? START TO USE LIGHT.....

1) SUNLIGHT helps diversify and repair gut microbiome.

2) RED LIGHT lowers inflammation stimulates tissue repair & improves microbiome.

3) UVB LIGHT on skin increases the good bacteria and decreases the bad.

4) UVA LIGHT stimulates nitric oxide and nitric oxide gastrointestinal mucosal defense and reduces gut disease generation.

5) CIRCADIAN RHYTHM regulates much of gastrointestinal physiology including cell proliferation, motility, digestion, absorption, and electrolyte balance.

If your gastroenterologist or gut doctor doesnt mention any or really ALL of the above, they are preventing you from getting better or slowing your recovery by at least 50%.

Maybe get a new doctor. They might not be that concerned with your healing and just want you as an eternal patient to help pay for their vacation home and Porsche payments.

So start here.....

1) Sunlight is free. Learn how the sun works. Start slow, get outside and get sunlight on your gut and as much skin as possible in the early morning and around sunset. Then go out for UVB a little around solar noon. You will build up a tolerance over time. Don't rush.

2) Practice BRIGHT days and DARK nights for circadian rhythm optimization. Go outside ALOT during the day. Daytime indoor lighting is way too dark. Make your nights as dark as you can. Wear blue blocking glasses if you have any light at night. My favorite glasses can be found in the replys below.

3) After you do all of the above, you can think about supplementing red and infrared light by shining directly on your gut. My favorite red light therapy machines can be found in the replys below.

4) IF UVB sun is missing from your location due to winter or you are injured and cant get outside, you can supplement UVB light using a lamp. Directly on the gut. Go slow. baby steps. See my favorite UVB lamps in the replys below.

For a temporary full spectrum light therapy approach, you can also add in the most cutting edge light therapy machine on the market mentioned in the replys below.

But remember, nothing beats real sunlight in your eyes and on your skin at various times throughout the day.

Ok. Thats enough for today.


You can find my top five favorite blue light blocking glasses and their reviews here bluelightdiet.com/blog/topfivebl…

WAIT, WHAT.......LIGHT THROUGH WINDOWS GIVE YOU MELANOMA AND NOT DIRECT SUNLIGHT?

There is a secret fact your dermatologist doesn't want you to know.

A paradox exists between indoor and outdoor workers because indoor workers get three to nine times less solar UV light (290–400 nm) exposure than outdoor workers get, yet only indoor workers have an increasing incidence of MELANOMA.

So there is something about being indoors that increases your risk of getting melanoma.

Artificial light, especially at night, is one of those things that increase risk but....

This paper shows that increased UVA light exposure and decreased Vitamin D levels can also increase your risk for melanoma.

What increases UVA and decreases Vitamin D?

Most windows.

Depending on the coatings and how they are made, most windows will increase the relative amount of UVA light and block most of the UVB light which will decrease the amount of Vitamin D you can make if you are living and working indoors during the day.

SO its not really the sun that causes the cancer but manmade artificial lights and/or an artificial spectrum of sunlight (artificial because it has been altered by something manmade (the windows).

If you do work indoors a lot during the day, make sure to take multiple sun breaks outside or at the very least OPEN a window. "we now propose that indoor solar UVA exposures, which cause mutations [45] and depletes vitamin D3 in the skin [34], and inadequately maintained amounts of cutaneous vitamin D3 can promote CMM (melanoma)."

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

QUESTION: WHAT ARE MEDICAL ERRORS THE THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN AMERICA?

ANSWER.......

Because doctors and nurses are all suffering from severe circadian rhythm disruption due to hospital work requirements.

"Ayas et al’s findings are consistent with the previous research on health care workers’ shifts, sleep, and medical outcomes. Previous research focused on residents showed extended work hours are associated with medical errors and adverse outcomes....another study on nurses observed that poor sleep quality increased nurses’ medical errors. Similarly, the variability in individuals’ circadian rhythms may affect medical errors........There is a substantial amount of literature on sleep and medical errors in nurses, residents, and physicians......Medication administration errors, fatigue and depression were all significantly affected by circadian sleep disorders."
Conclusions
Medication administration errors, fatigue and depression were all significantly affected by circadian sleep disorders. An administration’s control of work flow to provide convenient sleep hours will help in improving sleep circadian rhythms and consequently minimize these problems.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

YOUR DUMB DERMATOLOGIST SAYS THE SUN CAUSES WRINKLES LOL

Yet most of you fools avoid the sun like it is the plague and still need all sorts of creams and potions and anti wrinkle defenses....

Does your delusional dermatologist even have a clue that chronic artificial light at night disrupts not only your gut microbiome, but as a paper below shows, your skin microbiome as well?

And as a paper below also shows, a disrupted skin microbiome = MORE WRINKLES.

So while an argument can be made that improper use of the sun (for instance sun through a window) could lead to wrinkles....we definitely know that artificial light at night disrupts your skin's microbiome which leads to more wrinkles.

We know it.

But your dermatologist doesnt.

When was the last time the dermatologist told you to turn off the lights at night to prevent wrinkles?

Yeah, thats what I thought.
Regular late bedtime not only damages the skin barrier and skin structure but also reduces the diversity and composition of facial bacterial microbiome.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35698548/

GOT GUT PROBLEMS?

SUNLIGHT helps diversify and repair gut microbiome.

RED LIGHT lowers inflammation stimulates tissue repair & improves microbiome.

UVB LIGHT on skin increases the good bacteria and decreases the bad.

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM regulates much of gastrointestinal… https://t.co/pjiMwYbvtTtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…






Sunlight is free. Learn how the sun works. Start slow, get outside and get sunlight on your gut and as much skin as possible in the early morning and around sunset. Then go out for UVB a little around solar noon. You will build up a tolerance over time.

GOT TINNITUS?

Get red light.

660nm directly into the ear canal. Laser therapy is effective in treatment of tinnitus of scuba divers and its effect is increased by number of laser sessions.

DO I WEAR SUNGLASSES?

Yes. I have an awesome pair of Ray-Ban aviators.

Do I wear them while walking in the morning?

Eff no. I'm not stupid.

When do I wear them?

Only when I'm... driving any vehicle and the sun or glare is so strong I can't see.

That rare short term need to not die due to crashing into a light pole while driving or a tree while skiing outweighs the long term risk of super bad health from wearing sunglasses chronically.

But...

THE SUN, MELANOMA AND DUMB DERMATOLOGISTS...

Your #dermatologist and medical establishment is giving you #melanoma.

Here's how.....

In 1975 there was a major US study that concluded exposure to UV light causes melanoma. But now there here an update to

tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108… that study that found across all ages and skin types, increasing full spectrum UV light exposure does not significantly increase melanoma risk BUT there is a significant increase in melanoma with a DECREASED dose of UVB.

This probably means that a lower vitamin d level and/or...