Glad to see the flicker rate of LED/fluorescent lighting coming up more often.
Sadly, lots of skeptics trying to dunk on @GraduatedBen in the comments on this saying “pseudoscience” and “that’s not a thing” and “show me the studies.”
Well ok, here are the studies…

https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1832218570303885624

For starters, the lighting industry has known about this for 20 years, and even set up an IEEE Standards Working Group (PAR1789) in 2008 with a mission to “advise the lighting industry… about the emerging concern of flicker in LED lighting.”

We've had several requests for all the citations of papers @RogerSeheult mentions so here goes!
He referenced some of our favorite papers in this space, so this is a great compilation.
And this episode is a banger! If you haven't listed yet, then it's well worth your time.

https://twitter.com/QuantumHealthTV/status/1796542253332058304

This is the paper looking at the impact of UV-A levels on Covid-19 mortality across three countries. academic.oup.com/bjd/article/18…

We get this a lot.
So here is a thread.
When an expert (or someone who took one physics class once) says WiFi/phone/Bluetooth EMFs aren't harmful, what they really mean is "Those EMFs are non-ionizing, so they cannot have a biological effect on human health."
Let's look at that. The first half of that statement is true: unlike X-rays or even UV-B, microwave radiation is non-ionizing, meaning it doesn't have enough energy to break chemical/DNA bonds.
But the second half of the statement is NOT true.

At this time of year (winter in the northern hemisphere) we get a lot of questions about the role of cold 🥶 & heat 🔥 in mitochondrial energy production.
Here's a quick thread.
First a reminder of how the mitochondrial electron transport chain produces ATP (our energy currency). The ETC takes electrons, mostly from glucose, and transports them along a chain of protein complexes until the electrons get to their terminal receptor: an oxygen molecule. That O gets paired with H protons to make cellular water in the same process that also turns ADP into ATP.

Why do we often feel so great around waves crashing in oceans & lakes, rushing rivers & waterfalls, and even after thunderstorms?

Let’s talk about NEGATIVE IONS: they’re sometimes called “air vitamins” and it’s free energy we can get from moving air & water. First: what’s an ion?

An ion is formed when any molecule or atom receives sufficiently high energy to lose or gain an electron from its structure.

This makes ions electrically charged: negative when they gain an electron, and positive when they lose an electron.

Since #VitaminD is trending on this site right now… here is a collection some of our favorite papers.

Get some ☀️ today & build up your D levels! It's correlated w almost every aspect of health.

(Also...it's not a vitamin, it's a secosteroid hormone, but don't get us started) Women with Vitamin D levels >30 ng/ml had
- 27% reduced mortality from all causes
- 22% lower odds of breast cancer
(presented at the @ASCO annual meeting)

https://twitter.com/quantumhealthtv/status/1403456241138077703?s=46&t=TLA-Qt47OtNNtsi72tW30A

🚨Red light reverses the cellular damage done by UV-B light.☀️

This study is a bit of a science mouthful, but that’s the headline.

People often ask us “isn’t sunlight dangerous? Doesn’t UV damage your skin?”





And while the answer is yes - UV-B photons contain high enough energy levels to break the bonds of cellular DNA - the cool thing is… nature has a solve for that.

Full spectrum sunlight ALSO contains its own remedy: red light. 🚨

Sunlight is ~42% red and infra-red frequencies.

Since we focus here on the connections between light and health, we often get asked “wait… how exactly does light exert such a big biological effect on the body?”

Good question!

Time for a science🧵… Light can be thought of in two ways:

1) Energy.⚡️
Photons contain and convey energy.

2) Information. ℹ️
Light comes in different frequencies, and in a natural light environment these convey what time of day it is, what season it is, etc.

Both drive biological effects.

"Sol Remedorium Maximum Est" (The Sun is the Greatest Medicine)
- Pliny The Elder, 77 AD

Below article is from Psychiatric Quarterly, April 1933

We've known this stuff for a long time.

Get some ☀️☀️☀️ Here's another one from almost 100 years ago.

"Ultraviolet Light Therapy and Its Relation to Chronic Diseases."
- American Journal of Clinical Medicine, June 1922

Insufficient Sun Exposure Has Become a Real Public Health Problem
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mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/1… "Studies in the past decade indicate that insufficient sun exposure may be responsible for 340,000 deaths in the United States and 480,000 deaths in Europe per year, and an increased incidence of breast cancer, colorectal cancer, hypertension, cardiovascular disease...
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