tThe best healing and wellness support system we have is Nature. Yes, Mother Nature!
Here is the latest edition of 1 thing I’m doing, 2 things I’ve learnt and 3 things to explore lovingly created so you can live a happier, healthier and longer life. Much love, Sandy xx
1 THING I’M DOING
Warning! Using LED lights at night could cause harm
In the big, bold world of lights, not all lights are created equal. We have good light (sunshine), bad light (artificial light), and really bad light—the LED light you may be sitting under as you read this. There’s a lot to cover when it comes to this topic, so let’s start with where we are with lighting today.
When it comes to buying lights, as consumers we’ve been well trained to look out for three key things; energy efficiency, brightness, and price. Unfortunately, considerations for our health and well-being when out light shopping, have been well and truly swept under the plushy rug those LED downlights are shining on. While nature’s light is pure, the modern-day electric lighting industry, like most businesses, is primarily focused on commercial gains and profits. If they weren’t we wouldn’t be in the position we are today. You see, the lights we’re illuminating our homes, offices, and public spaces with have all been optimised to meet illumination and narrowly defined energy efficiency objectives only. They are completely ignoring human health and wellness. Mind boggling, right? We’ll go into this further below, but what’s the one thing I’ve been up to?
The Health Risks of LED Lights
This week, I made an “unsafe product” submission to the ACCC stating my concerns that, when used at night, LED lights with high blue light content are harmful to all Australians. I submitted the fact that these lights at night increase the risk of diabetes and obesity, sleep disorders and sleep disturbances, breast cancer in women, prostrate cancer in men, neurological and mood disorders. Like many experts in this field, I believe that all LED lights should come with the following health warning, in the hope, it may inspire more people to stop and think.
David vs Goliath
I am under no illusion that I’ll be receiving a warm and fuzzy response from the ACCC stating that of course Ms Abram, you are absolutely correct and we’ll get onto those labels straight away. If only. I am however super curious about how the ACCC responds and which industry body or agency they palm me off to. To be honest, I’m a little surprised I haven’t heard back from the ACCC already. Perhaps, I have thrown them a curve ball as they know what I am saying to be true. It’s a big David and Goliath fight, but I am happy to play David with my sling shot and start throwing a few stones at them. Maybe one will hit just in the right spot. Stay tuned.
If you’re sceptical about the health warning, just check out the two things I’ve learned.
Action Item – Please become more aware of your lighting at home at night and the associated risks. Every time you switch on your bright LED lights, you are potentially switching on a bunch of health risks for you and your family. Together, let’s make our homes not just brighter, but healthier too.
And if you’re feeling so inspired and would like to submit an “unsafe product” report to the ACCC too, you can find my text here and the link to the ACCC here.
2 THINGS I’VE LEARNT
The 25 Statements, 248 Scientists, Who Have Written 2,697 Publications, Agree With
In his newly released book, The Light Doctor, Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, a key member of the team that discovered our master clock and the supra-chiasmatic nucleus in the 1980s, gathered the insights of 248 leading international scientists. Collectively, these experts have contributed a whopping 2,697 peer-reviewed publications on circadian rhythms and light since 2008!
Dr Moore-Ede asked these scientists to evaluate several statements regarding the impact of light on health, specifically related to LED lights with high blue content (460 – 490nm). They were tasked with stating whether there was no evidence, some evidence or whether the statements presented were scientifically well established.
Remarkably, all 248 scientists agreed that it was scientifically well established that LED lights should carry a warning label, similar to the one I put together above. Here are some of the other circadian health related statements that these 248 international scientists also agreed with:
Scientifically Well Established Circadian Health Statements
- Robust circadian rhythms are important for maintaining good health.
- Disrupting circadian rhythms can cause ill health.
- Regular daily exposure to daylight enhances circadian entrainment, strengthens circadian rhythms and enhances sleep at night.
- Repetitive and prolonged exposure to light at night bright enough to cause circadian disruption increases the risk of breast cancer in women, increases the risk of breast cancer in women and increases the risk of obesity and diabetes.
- Repetitive and prolonged exposure to light at night bright enough to cause circadian disruption increases the risk of sleep disorders.
- Blue-enriched (460-495nm) light in the evening (during the three hours before bedtime) disrupts nocturnal sleep and disrupts circadian rhythms more than blue-depleted light at the same intensity.
- Exposure to 460 – 495nm blue light at night suppresses melatonin production and disrupts circadian rhythms.
- LED lights with high 460 – 496nm blue content should carry the warning label “maybe harmful if used at night”.
To discover the other statements these international scientists and circadian health experts agreed with, and to learn all about the dangers of blue light and how we can use sunlight to improve our health and live longer, Dr Moore-Ede’s The Light Doctor is a great read.
✔️ Action Item – It’s time to rethink your light diet. You can either opt for switching the lights off at night or keeping them to a minimum or you can opt for blue light free globes and bulbs. The ones I use at home are from BlockBlueLight.
Your Light Diet
The light you see is as essential to your health as the food you eat, the water you drink and the air you breathe. You should be as thoughtful with your light diet as you are with your nutritional diet. And you should never allow your electrician or the well-meaning salesperson at Beacon or Bunnings be your doctor. Getting advice from someone who doesn’t understand healthy circadian lighting and only thinks about energy efficiency, color and cost, is a bad recipe.
4 Things To Consider When Buying Lights
When it comes to choosing lighting and ensuring it is safe for you and your family, here are the four factors you should always keep in mind:
- Illumination: Obviously we need lights to do their job and allow us to see, perform tasks and prevent us from bumping into things in the night
- Health & Wellbeing: Since we live indoors more than 90% of the time, it is essential that the lighting in our home and workplaces are healthy, support circadian wellbeing and do not contribute to illness or disease.
- Productivity: The LED lights available on the market aren’t great for us either when used during the day. Whilst we’re saving money, we’re losing on mood, alertness, productivity and creativity.
- Energy Efficiency: We are all aware of the need to save energy, to look after our planet and reduce our power bills, but it is unacceptable to sacrifice human health and safety on an energy efficiency rating that is flawed anyway, without consider the true costs related to sickness and disease
We don’t have to succumb to the unhealthy LED lights being forced upon us and risk our wellbeing. There are definite ways we can achieve great lighting AND look after our health at the same time.
✔️ Action Item – Review your Light Diet. What kinds of light are you consuming at different times of the day? Just like junk food is bad for us, junk lighting is just as harmful.
3 THINGS TO EXPLORE
The Things Your Doctor Doesn’t Tell You
Why is it that all doctors will tell you not to smoke, because it causes cancer, but they won’t mention artificial light or lack of sunlight, which are also major drivers of cancer?
Countless epidemiologic studies have shown circadian rhythm alterations have been linked to an increased risk of cancer, including prostate, breast, colon, liver, pancreas, ovary, and lung cancer.
As for sunlight, not getting enough sunlight has been likened to being just as bad for you as smoking!! With the authors of this study published in the Journal of Internal Medicine found that avoiding the sun “is a risk factor for death of a similar magnitude as smoking,”
Tough Love
I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, if you don’t know this already, but we can’t trust the healthcare system any longer. Just check out Goobie’s & Doobie’s video from a couple of weeks ago as a Harvard trained neurosurgeon of 20 years confirms that the healthcare system is incentivised by “anything they can make money from” and that they are driven by treatment, not prevention.
So the questions to explore are this?
If the doctors aren’t telling you about the dangers of not getting enough sunlight and exposure to artificial light at night, what else aren’t they telling you? And how can you trust what they do tell you?
And if you can’t trust doctors, who can you trust?
It is an absolute mind field trying to work out what’s real or not, and I have spent the last 20 years in a business that was up against big food, big pharma, big agro-chem and big greed. I know this space well. And part of my vision for Unstoppables is to be a light bearer for you, someone that has your back and wants the best for you. I will always be honest, upfront and share information that I think will help you live a healthy, happy and free life! I would love to be that guiding hand to not only help you, but to help you inspire your kids and your family so that what we are doing together is creating a wave of generational health! You in?
✔️ Action Item –Be an Unstoppable critical thinker. And keep an eye out for my upcoming Heal Your Light Diet Challenge and become a #lightwarrior like me
Health Information on Instagram
Speaking of who you can and can’t trust, and where you can get your information from. A wonderful woman I follow by the name of Dr Catherine Clinton shared this with me on Wednesday.
Holy moly!
Dr Catherine Clinton is a Quantum Biology Health Educator and was simply talking about Exclusion Zone water, which if you recall, is the special type of water that our mitochondria make and which has special electrical properties, something I touched upon a few weeks back.
Why would Meta be so worried about EZ water? And why did Dr Catherine warrant having numerous posts flagged?
Unfortunately, just like the healthcare system that is corrupted by big pharma, and the food industry that is corrupted by big food and big agro-chem, Meta and the likes are no friends to anyone that values truth, health and freedom. Remember, a healthy person isn’t a great customer for any of their mega corporations.
Personally, I don’t spend much time on socials but there are a few accounts I like to check out when I’m there. But seeing the censorship police are out in force, and for seemingly benign things, I’d suggest keeping other channels open, so make sure you’re subscribed and getting emails from people you value. I know that’s what I’ll be doing.
✔️ Action Item: If you like any particular accounts and value their information, take some proactive steps. Make sure you’re getting their emails, open them, and move them out of promotions, as what you’re seeing on socials, is being censored.
Making a Difference
“To make a difference in someone’s life, you don’t have to be brilliant, rich, beautiful, or perfect. You just have to care enough and be there.” Anonymous
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