Once in a while you are forever changed by a book.
One such book for me is called Health and Light: The Extraordinary Study that Shows How Light Affects Your Health and Emotional Well Being, by photobiologist Dr. John Nash Ott, known as the father of full-spectrum lighting and time lapse photography.
Ott’s experiments led him to believe that only a full spectrum of natural light (including natural amounts of infrared and ultraviolet) can promote full health in plants, animals, and humans.
Exploring the Spectrum
Dr. John Ott documentary
Ott’s ingenious experiments on plants and laboratory animals reveal the importance of full-spectrum light for health and life. At about 44:00 Ott mentions a 1964 paper presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics meeting in NYC on “tired child syndrome.” The severity of the symptoms was directly related to the amount of time they spent watching TV. Wanting to rule out overstimulation as a cause, Ott put bean plants in front of the TV for 6 hours each weekday and 10 hours on Saturdays and Sunday – the same amount of time the children were watching TV. Then he did the same with white rats followed by autopsies. The negative results were obvious.
At 48:00 a real life experiment was done in a classroom where some children struggled with hyperactivity. After ninety days, they replaced the cool white fluorescent tubes with full-spectrum fluorescent tubes with radiation shields. The results were astonishing for the hyperactive children labeled with learning disorders, but beyond that every student improved.
Imagine what would be found today with all the cell phone, TV, and computer/tablet use.
Understanding the importance of natural sunlight on human and biological health makes the government’s goal of dimming the sun yet more ominous.
Adding insult to injury, at 1:18:38, he shows the negative effects of radar used at the airport 14 miles away on aphids on the leaves of an orange tree. Every few seconds the aphids would tense up in unison at the same interval of time which coincided exactly with the rotation of the radar rotor device.
Ott also wrote “My Ivory Cellar” on time-lapse photography, “Exploring the Spectrum,” and “Light, Radiation, and You: How to Stay Healthy.” I recommend them all. You will never look at lighting the same again.
https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2024/05/02/ban-of-incandescent-lightbulbs/?
The Government’s Stupid Ban of Incandescent Lightbulbs
Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, a leading world expert on circadian clocks and light, has an article in Psychology Today titled “Banned in the US: Healthy Light Bulbs“, which explains how government regulations aim to effectively ban incandescent lightbulbs in favor of LED bulbs.
This is being done under the guise of climate activism on the grounds that LED bulbs are more energy efficient, but the problem is that most LEDs emit a narrow spectrum with lots of blue light, which has harmful health effects.
The government as usual is interfering in the marketplace, trying to dictate our behavior in every aspect of our lives, with total disregard for the extraordinary harms caused by its myopic meddling.
Incandescent bulbs emit a broader spectrum including infrared light and so more closely mimic the health-supportive light we would get from the sun if we didn’t spend so much of our day indoors with our “modern” lifestyles. (I’m putting the word in quotation marks since I’m firmly convinced that someday when humankind becomes civilized, people will look back at our present era and view us as a bunch of barbarians.)
As Moore-Ede explains, sunlight exposure regulates our circadian rhythm, whereas evidence indicates that excessive blue light after sunset suppresses melatonin production and disrupts the regenerative powers of sleep in ways that increase the risk of cancer. (See link for article)
https://blog.mindbrainbodylab.com/p/the-neuroscience-behind-sunlights
The Neuroscience Behind Sunlight’s Benefits: A Ray of Hope for Mental Health 🧠
How Sunlight Enhances Mood, Sleep, & Cognitive Performance
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Summary:
- Sunlight positively affects key brain regions, including the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, amygdala, suprachiasmatic nucleus, and striatum.
- Sunlight’s evolutionary benefits include regulating the circadian rhythm and providing essential Vitamin D for calcium absorption.
- Sunlight can improve mood regulation, sleep, cognitive function, and attention, and memory while reducing inflammation and oxidative stress in the brain.
- Low Vitamin D levels are linked to an increased risk of cognitive decline and various mental health disorders.
- Prioritizing sunlight exposure is important for overall mental and physical health, but caution is necessary to prevent skin damage.
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