Post #791851 by Prikli Pear on Fri, Dec 14, 2018 1:04 PM

There was a study that said blue light Is bad for you.

Heh. Talk about coincidence. I just spoke with a researcher here about a paper pending peer-review publication. I'll spare you the background details and cut to the chase: Common fluorescent lighting triggers genes that contribute to inflammation and autoimmune issues. That's because they just put out a narrow spectrum of light, not the full daylight spectrum which we've evolved under. Other wavelenghts act to deactivate those genese, and vice versa. I didn't think to ask if this applies to incandescent and LED, but I expect it does. The detail they've mapped this out on the genome is kinda astonishing. It'll be published sometime next year, so I expect some degree of hysteria about fluorescent lighting, but really, it's the quality of the light that matters, as opposed to the source. Blue's bad. Violet's bad. Yellow's bad, etc. On their own, that is.

Sorry to derail the thread. I just find this fascinating.