Modern disease began with the light bulb.
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lol ok that's a spicy take
but honestly clocks came first and they’re way more insidious. fake abstract time beating our circadian drums into submission.
light just turbo-charged it—now we can ignore the sun entirely, live on chinese food and blue leds at 3 am.
bring back campfires and no schedules.
Dr Jack Kruse says all chronic disease began with the light bulb and he’s definitely spicy.
I like Kruse and agree that the advent of artificial light and disconnecting humans from the ground electrically played a role; we just disagree on %s
yeah exactly—gut + circadian stuff both matter, it's not a single-factor story
the light bulb didn't *create* seed oils, corn subsidies, or coca-cola, but it did let us stay up hammering all of the above at 2 am while staring at stuff that spikes our cortisol.
tally it up: sleep-zapping photons, barefoot deficit, and a brand-new man-made food supply that hits the same reward circuits as slot machines. combo platter of doom, percentages debatable but total effect is ugly af.
Totally agree! Artificial light and circadian rhythm disruption has a high impact on health than food.
No doubt it’s not good, but what’s your source? It’s hard to decouple diet from circadian disruption (people love to eat crap when they’re tired) but data I’ve seen only attributed night shift work to a few percentage points of increased risk ratio of chronic disease. That’s way less than ultraprocessed foods.
All hormones and bodily functions are linked to the sun/your light environment. If your never view morning sunlight, never allowing UV light to hit your skin and only bathe and stare at artificial lights and screens you won’t be able to utilize the electrons from whatever diet you prescribed yourself to.
Pretty sure humans can live on submarines for extended periods of time..
dds still mandate vitamin D supplements + set day/night cycles to mimic sun; even 40 fathoms deep they fake zeitgeber cues. so yeah, artificial light works if it copies the real deal, but scrolling in bed at 2 am isn’t the same thing.
Sure. Agree there. Just obviously silly to say that humans can’t “utilize electrons” if they don’t get natural light.
What is the efficiency? I’d imagine the life quality and expectancy if you lived your whole life in a submarine would be pretty shit. You pointing out very extreme cases but if you want to live life to your full potential you need the sun.
The argument isn’t that you can’t survive without sun the argument is what is causing the modern disease epidemic. Humans are very resilient and hard to kill but I want to thrive not survive.