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.

The Guardian:

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…

— ⚡️ The Blue Light Diet ⚡️ (@BlueLightDiet) June 6, 2024

You may want to wear a mask like the one above if you have to get anywhere near printers.

Study Finds:

Working in an office is supposed to be safe working environment, but appearances are often deceiving. In a new discovery that emphasizes just how hazardous seemingly benign modern equipment can turn out to be, researchers from West Virginia University have discovered that microscopic nanoparticles from laser printers may change an individual’s genetic and metabolic profile if inhaled. These changes can seriously increase one’s risk of cardiovascular and neurological disease.

Who knew your office’s printer could be so dangerous? The research team came to their conclusions after placing rat models into the same confined space as a typical laser printer. For a total of 21 days, the models stayed in the space for five hours daily, during which time the printer was running continually.

“It’s equivalent to an occupational setting,” explains study leader Nancy Lan Guo in a university release. “A rat’s life expectancy is about one or two years. In our life, that would be more like four or eight years of five-hour-a-day exposure.”

“The changes are very significant from day one,” she adds.

During the experiment, the rats’ lung cells and blood were habitually (every four days) examined in order to determine if their genetic makeup had been influenced by the toner. The examination was comprehensive; every single gene in the rats’ genomes were analyzed.

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After just a single day of close exposure to the toner, the rats’ genes linked to metabolism, immune response, and additional important biological processes exhibited clear signs of disruption. After the full 21 days, clear genomic changes associated with cardiovascular, metabolic, and neurological disorders were observed in the rats.

“I don’t want to alarm people,” Guo clarifies, “but special ventilation and exposure controls should be installed in rooms where laser printers are in heavy-duty use, because the concentration of nanoparticles released in the air during the printing and copying process is strongly correlated with the printing activities.

What a sick thing to say: “Oh, your office job is causing serious damage to your genes and metabolism, which increases your risk of dying a horrible death. But I don’t want to alarm people.”

I do want to alarm people.

It is insane that most of Modernity is literally out to get everyone in multiple ways, damaging their hormones, their genes, their reproductive organs, their neurons, their skin — pretty much attacking from all fronts — and the experts sit there and say “well, what are you gonna do?” while shrugging their shoulders.

We should be tearing all of this down.

But perhaps the genes that would have allowed for us to get fired up about this and defend ourselves were already compromised by Modernity.

Pregnant women, especially, should be aware of these findings.

“In particular, there is one group I really think should know about this: pregnant women. Because once a lot of these genes are changed, they get passed on through the generations. It’s not just you,” Guo says.

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Since the experiment involving rats, Guo and her team have also examined genomic changes seen among a group of Singaporean printing company workers. The workers’ genomes largely changed in the same ways that the rats’ did.

“And they’re very young. A lot of the workers ranged from 20 to their early 30s, and you’re already starting to see all of these changes.” Guo concludes. “We have to work, right? Who doesn’t have a printer nowadays, either at home or at the office? But now, if I have a lot to print, I don’t use the printer in my office. I print it in the hallway.”

What are women — let alone pregnant women — even doing in the workplace in the first place?

They should be kept in the safety of a cage.

What about non-pregnant women though? What about the men?

Is everyone working office jobs really going to turn into a mutant?