RE: Re: Lights out, or risk the nightmare of cancer

[Guest guest]

> The study mentioned artificial light (night lights), not natural

> light. Although I still thing it's a pile of doodoo.

Duh! That's what I get for skimming, eh? Happens sometimes when I have

to dig through hundreds of emails...

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Breezy s - Facilitator, Blissful Hearth School

Lady Lasairíona of the Lake - Seneschal, Shire of Hrafnsfjordr, Oertha, West

{{Whats right is not always popular;

Whats popular is not always right.}}

[Guest guest]

Dr Mercola has articles about the need for complete darkness and he doesn't

strike me as a quack. So, one can get those curtains that block the light..

Laurie>Oh

also studies have shown that even outside lights (like security lamps) can

disrupt a woman's reproductive cycle. Can't hurt doing more research, hmmm?

[Guest guest]

I do know that when I lived in my first apartment and did not have much money I

had to put towels over the curtains to darken the room. The lady who ran the

complex did not like it but I was not about to buy curtains for a temporary

situation when money was tight.

I found it impossible to sleep well with the light that close to the window. It

was a well lit room in the middle of the night without the towels.

I never knew about it disrupting ones reproductive system.

Maybe that explains why I like a dark room so much when sleeping.

also studies have shown that even outside lights (like security lamps) can

disrupt a woman's reproductive cycle. Can't hurt doing more research, hmmm?

[Guest guest]

With the greatest of respect, I don't believe it is a pile of doodoo (dh has

informed me what that means in the US!! LOL!!)

There is plenty of statistical evidence to suggest that people who work

prolonged stints of night-shifts - and are therefore not getting as much

natural light because they sleep in the daytime, and work in a lot of

artificial light - have an increased risk of different types of cancer.

Limited as my understanding of the human immune system and its interaction

with the endocrine system is, it seems to me to be perfectly reasonable that

such endocrine disruption would increase the risk of cancer. Artificial

light plays havoc with the pineal gland, which is responsible for melatonin

secretions - in turn responsible for maintaining the body clock, preventing

SAD, and controlling sleep cycles. If you look at a satellite map of the

world, taken from space,

(http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg good

example) the amount of light pollution in the *developed* world is horrific.

Not surprising that people's melatonin secretions are up the creek.

I'm lucky enough to live in a tiny village where there are no street lights

and when it gets dark, it gets *very* dark. And I have definitely slept

better since moving to this environment.

Love, light and peace,

Sue

" Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make

them all yourself. " - Luther

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> > Breezy s - Facilitator, Blissful Hearth School

> > Lady Lasairíona of the Lake - Seneschal, Shire of Hrafnsfjordr,

> Oertha, West

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> > {{What's right is not always popular;

> > What's popular is not always right.}}

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