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Reminder that your light conditions affect more than we once believed.
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It always comes back to light!
Thats probably why incadescent bulbs are banned in various nations. LEDs are health killers, and those compact fluorescents emit murcury.
It sounds like a great conspiracy theory, but the more I've learned about light the more plausible and coherent the theory around replacing incandescent bulbs is. I replaced most of my led bulbs, my indoor light is now predominantly from the Chroma Sky/Red portal lights, and I spend a lot more time outside.
From what I've heard, LEDs were only marketed after they had figured out how to increase their output of blue light, which they regarded as necessary for "full spectrum," and I can vaguely recall how 25ish years ago they thought full spectrum was healthier than regular old bulbs with the yellowish light. So it seems awfully strange that we find out how unhealthy blue light is about 20 years after mandating it and replacing lights everywhere with it, as well as getting blue light emitting screen devices in everyone's hands. It looks purposeful to me. They got a full generation to test on. It reminds me of the unethical medical experiments that happened in the concentration camps.
Kruse goes into this in depth in the first Danny Jones podcast he did. It was researched in the 50-70s IIRC, "they" (DARPA/CIA) figured out that blue light was able to hijack our dopamine systems and create addictions.
The push for LEDs everywhere, as you astutely point out, looks intention because IT IS intentional. How beautifully their narratives tie together, energy efficient lights go hand in hand with climate change.
I have adopted the idea that light conditions underpin all aspects of health. We're sicker as a population in seemingly unprecedented levels, which is ironic considering we're supposedly at peak health care on a historical basis.
There are a lot of things we can point at, all of which I think contribute to some degree, but the more I explore the topic the more foundational it seems to be.
But most would not be able to afford such things. My point being we are forced to pay more for one of two options, both of which are quite harmful in their own ways. Incadescent may be artificial, so not the best option, but they were cheap as shit and didint either poision you with mercury or destroy eye sight from the inperceptible flicker that is always present in LEDs.
Forgot. Yea Im with ya on going outside. Beautiful summer here, been on my front porch with one of my cats most of it😹