Excessive light pollution may increase risk of Alzheimer's, especially in younger people

Medical Xpress / Frontiers / Frontiers in Neuroscience ^ | Sept. 6, 2024 | Robin M. Voigt et al

[ConservativeMind]

More studies are showing evening through night time light hitting our eyes causes health problems.

[ConservativeMind]

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[Gene Eric]

Can’t imagine taking the phones to sleep is healthy either.

[ridesthemiles]

COMPLETE BULL CRAP

IF CORRECT-—ONLY THE LARGE CITIES WOULD HAVE PEOPLE WITH ALZHEIMERS

[skr]

Window dressings are readily available. Next.

[dfwgator]

Or it may not.

[null and void]

Really?

Does everyone in Tokyo have Alzheimer’s?

[Bethaneidh]

I have occasional difficulty sleeping, and have available one of the well tv advertized potions. However what I have found much more effective is the simple expedient of draping an arm over my eyes. YMMV.

[Ed Condon]

What about folks who work nights?

[Larry Lucido]

I worked nights for years and it hasn’t, um, whatever we were talking about.

[Mr Rogers]

Maybe places with light pollution (cities) are also places where people eat more fast food - more high-carb, high-sugar food - and walk less and suffer from more stress.

Hmmmm....

[skr]

Aren’t built-ins great? And free! :)

[TChad]

I’ve been using a sleep mask for a long time. It helps. Walmart has sleep masks for just a few dollars.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“ ONLY THE LARGE CITIES WOULD HAVE PEOPLE WITH ALZHEIMER“

Check out how they vote

[Fiji Hill]

You could move to North Korea, where light pollution is not a major problem.

[Paal Gulli]

The constant noise and light of modern civilization is bound to have negative mental health consequences.

[Cold Heart]

People that wear covid masks all day could just slip it up on their face a bit at night.

[spankalib]

I bought these black stick-on 'dots' to cover the appliance lights in my 1 br apt.

It truly helps.

[Delta 21]

Insomnia kicking pretty good lately. Need to read up on the circadian rhythm humans used to use before the advent of electric lights to chase away the nite. We used to go to sleep at dark, wake up around midnight and lounge around until about 2 or 3 then sleep some more till day break. Having accidentally broken into this schedule, it seems a lot less stressful.

[Delta 21]

I hated 12 hour nite shifts. Brutal on the body .