The light from screens tell our eyeball and brain it's always summertime, which leads to circadian diseases. We evolved for 4.5 billion years under sunlight; we're not designed for screens, cellular signals, or indoor lighting. Indoor lighting causes pets like small dogs to die sooner
Dr. Jack Kruse: "Sunlight, when it rises in the morning, has a color temperature of 1,800 Kelvin. You know what that screen in front of each one of us has? Between 6,500 and almost 11,000 Kelvin. So this gets to Dan's point. What's the real problem that all of us have since we now live in a wired, microwaved world? Well, we've got huge color temperature that's basically telling our eyeball and brain it's always summertime. And that information not only gets codified in the mitochondria of a special cell in your eye called the retinal pigment epithelium, but then it gets generalized into all different parts of the central nervous system. And here's the crazy part.
"That information goes to those trillions of mitochondria all over your body. And that is how we develop circadian mismatched disease. That's how mitochondrial heteroplasmy begins because we have two major ways that we get this light frequency information to our system, that's through our skin and through our eyes. There's two others, both the gut and the lung system. But the one that I think most people like to focus in on, because the one in the eye is extremely complex, that receptor in our eyes called melanopsin. Melanopsin is coupled to the vitamin A cycle in your brain. And if those two things aren't yoked, you're guaranteed to get circadian diseases.
"So for your listeners, so they understand the reason why astronauts and cosmonauts get sick when they go in space is because melanopsin and the vitamin A cycle decouple. That's the reason why they get osteoporosis in a year. That's the reason why they come back and have degenerative disc disease. It's the reason why Neil Armstrong came back from the moon and basically was infertile the rest of his life. People don't understand that the energies in space are in the cosmic level.
"But the interesting thing for me and my members, I use those examples to explain to you how your cell phone, how the phone in front of you, or the material around Dan and the stuff around Miss Dykstra, is actually affecting us because if you do this every day in your life, what are you doing? Actually ruining this wireless system that's built into your cells to work with sunlight. Because as Dan rightly pointed out earlier, light is the key.
"We evolved for 4.5 billion years under sunlight. The crap behind me, we're not designed to work around that light. Can we? Yeah. You know why we get away with it, Dan? It goes back to the story that I told you beginning. You have huge mitochondrial capacity as humans. But guess what? If you don't, you'll get sicker. That's the reason why small dogs who are your pets, if you leave them in the same environment you will, they'll die sooner and they'll get sick quicker and you'll have higher vet bills. People don't get it. That's a canary in the coal mine for your own environment."
Dr. Jack Kruse with Dr. Dan Pompa and Meredith Dykstra @ 34:10–37:13 (posted 2017-01-13) https://youtu.be/9JKEqht4HnE&t=2050