I don’t understand what this is or why we’re reporting on it.
We apparently just report on completely irrelevant shit no one even understands now.
I guess.
New research claims that exposure to outdoor light at night may increase the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease, especially in people under the age of 65.
The researchers who conducted the study, funded by a National Institutes of Health grant and published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience on Friday, said they have found correlations between areas of the US with excessive exposure to artificial light at night and the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease.
Actually, maybe this is relevant.
Andrew Anglin has talked a lot about the risks of artificial light, particularly the new forms of really shitty light.
You know, an old fashioned lightbulb was basically like a candle. Now with fluorescent light, LED light, and whatever else they have, you’re basking in a chemical glow.
Obviously this causes health problems.
How could it not?
In the US, at least 19 states have legislation in place aimed at reducing light pollution, but the authors of the study say that despite this, the “levels of light at night remain high in many parts of the country”.
While “streetlights, roadway lighting, and illuminated signs can deter crime, make roads safer, and enhance landscaping”, undisrupted light, however, “comes with ecological, behavioral, and health consequences”, the authors said.
Behavioral.
Note that.
For this study, the researchers evaluated Alzheimer’s disease prevalence by looking at the average nighttime light intensity by state and county in the US from 2012 to 2018, using satellite-acquired light pollution data and Medicare data reports of Alzheimer’s prevalence. They also incorporated medical data about variables known or believed to be risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease into their analysis, they said.
While conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and others were associated more strongly with Alzheimer’s disease prevalence than nighttime light intensity, the authors said that nighttime light was more strongly associated with Alzheimer’s disease prevalence than “alcohol abuse, chronic kidney disease, depression, heart failure, and obesity”.
Wow, really?
Firstly, alcohol abuse is totally safe.
But it’s worse than obesity?
You have to wonder about these studies. Personally, I would not be surprised if fake light causes obesity. Or rather, contributes to it.
For people under 65, nighttime light exposure was more strongly associated with Alzheimer’s prevalence than any other disease factor examined in the study.
“This could suggest that younger people may be particularly sensitive to the effects of light exposure at night,” the researchers said.
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Samuel Gandy, an Alzheimer’s researcher at Mount Sinai in New York, said the general findings of the new study made sense, as “light controls circadian rhythm and that controls sleep”, he said, adding that for Alzheimer’s, “bad sleep increases the risk”.
Living in an area with more intense outdoor light at night is associated with shorter sleep duration, increased daytime sleepiness and dissatisfaction with sleep quality, the study states.
This is not a small problem.
This is yet another reason why it is much better to live in a rural area than in an urban hellscape.
“Type 2 diabetes risk was higher in people exposed to brighter night light, and in people exposed to light patterns that may disrupt circadian rhythms. Avoidance of light at night could be a simple and cost-effective recommendation that mitigates risk of diabetes, even in those…
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