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Blue light from screens activates CRISPR Cas9-based Gene Drive bioweapons, which are integrated into cells via plasmids and 5G technology. To protect yourself, turn off blue light on your devices. Use Duck Duck Go to learn how. Stay informed about this concerning issue. #Awareness
@DrHenryEaly - Dr Henry Ealy
Nothing keeps me awake at night like studying CRISPR Cas9 based Gene Drive bioweapons... nothing. Guess what activates it? Blue Light... Please make sure you have blue light turned off on all your screens.🙏🏽
@DrHenryEaly - Dr Henry Ealy
https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-turn-off-blue-light-on-iphone-5221154
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How to Turn off Blue Light on iPhone
The Night Shift feature in iOS allows you to make your screen appear cooler or warmer. Here's how to use the feature manually or set up an automatic schedule.
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@DrHenryEaly - Dr Henry Ealy
Plasmids holds the gene drive code… Then 5G gets it into the cell... Blue light activates.. There’s your integration of multiple bioweapons. Those red glasses you see me wearing all the time have been saving my ass and I didn’t even realize it! ❤️
@DrHenryEaly - Dr Henry Ealy
Turn off your blue light on your phone, computer, and TV. If you dont know how... Duck Duck Go🤙🏽
@FredDiBiase247 - 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗶𝗕𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲 ①
Experiencing headaches? This might just be the cause. Must Watch👇🏽👇🏽 https://t.co/ZdYSgXKUEH
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Migraine headaches can be caused by sodium deficiency, which affects about 5% of cases. The movement of water across a membrane, known as the osmotic gradient, plays a role in triggering migraines. The brain itself doesn't have pain receptors, but the dura, a covering over the brain, is sensitive to pain. It dislikes being stretched or contracted, and the sodium gradient determines whether it stretches or contracts. When there is a sodium deficiency, the dura can send pain signals, leading to migraines. Migraines often occur in the morning when dehydration is at its peak. Adding a pinch of Celtic sea salt to 10 ounces of water in the morning can help alleviate migraines within 48 hours.
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Speaker 0: 5% of all migraine headaches are directly related to sodium deficiency. The osmotic gradient or the movement of water across a membrane is what really governs very often whether or not you get a migraine. Because remember, there's no pain receptors in the brain. That's why brain surgery is painless. But there's a covering over the brain called the dura is fraught with pain receptors.
And it hates 2 things. It hates being stretched and it's being contracted. And so what determines whether or not it's stretching or contracting is sodium gradient. And so when you're deficient in sodium, Dura can actually send pain signals, which is why the efficient in sodium. Dura can actually send pain signals, which is why the majority of migraine headaches occur in the mornings when you are the most dehydrated.
If you add a pinch of Celtic sea salt to your drinking water, and you drink 10 ounces of water in the morning, those usually will be a permanent thing in your past in 48 hours.
@ecomarxi - Tiberius
This is the worst content I have ever seen. I am seriously considering ripping my eyes out so I don’t see the next one. https://t.co/LXiC5tUqt5
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I proudly identify as a Zionist and wear a Magen David. Despite facing opposition from the student body, we continue to advocate for Israel through our club, Campus. We are often labeled as privileged white Jews, but in reality, we are descendants of refugees who fled the Middle East due to anti-Semitism. We engage in social media battles and invite you to follow us at IsraelCC.
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Speaker 0: I'm a Zionist. Of course, I've lost over 300 followers since October 7th. I'm a Zionist. Of course, I'm always wearing my Magen David. I'm a Zionist.
Of course the student body is trying to impeach me. I'm a Zionist. Of course, I'm gonna spam your feed with Israel content. Zionists. Of course, Campus to be a club.
We're Zionists. Of course, they're gonna call us all white privileged Jews, even though in reality, we're children of refugees who had to flee the Middle East due to anti Semitism. I'm a Zionist. Of course, we've been fighting people on social media. By the way, follow us at IsraelCC.
@BillSEsquire_11 - Bill S. Esquire
Oh look. More lens flares. 😮💨 https://t.co/y9ffjXG5YW
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There's some strange stuff happening. It might be the devil's comet. Let's get out of here. Can you see that?
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Speaker 0: It's a kind of weird shit going on, bro. I might be. Yeah. That's all, dude. Turn it off and go.
Yeah. You saw that shit now. I tried to tell you. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about.
That fucking dead. Yeah. Through the atmosphere. That might be the devil's comment. They got some fucking devil's comment.
Well, I know we are. Look that way. It could be as fuck out of here. See that?
@illuminaty_007 - Mr_illu...
DO YOU BELIEVE ULTRA VIOLET LIGHTS ARE BAD FOR YOUR EYES? #Joker2 #TheGreastestOfAllTime https://t.co/zpecoeWrr7
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Wearing glasses blocks harmful UV light, which we avoid indoors and in cars. UV light from the sun activates vitamin D, lowers blood pressure, benefits the heart, arteries, and cholesterol, aids in weight loss, helps with skin conditions and diseases, and boosts melatonin for better sleep. The sun is demonized to support industries selling supplements and other products.
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Speaker 0: So this is an important one about light and how anyone who wears glasses should listen to this video. So ultraviolet light is dangerous. This is what they tell us. We should avoid it at all costs. We live in houses with no ultraviolet light.
We leave our houses when we put on glasses, contacts, and sunglasses, which block the UV light. We drive in cars that also block the UV light. We work in offices, which receive no UV light. Then we turn on lights that have no UV light. And then finally, we take a a break in the sun, and we put on suntan lotion, which blocks the UV light.
Then we look at the benefits of UV, and we see UV light activates vitamin d. You don't need synthetic, non absorbing vitamin D supplements. It also helps with lowering blood pressure. It also helps the heart, the arteries, and cholesterol. It also assists in weight loss which is a $1,000,000,000,000 industry, helps with skin conditions and other diseases, and then it also helps to boost melatonin levels so that you can sleep better.
This industry has been created to tell you to avoid the sun so that all of these industries can exist.
@karma44921039 - karma
Once you see it, you can't un see it . Are you awakening from the Matrix https://t.co/mqSOdzbr90
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Subliminal programming is powerful, as shown in a photo where the word "obey" is hidden. This is like waking up from the matrix, where you see through the veil of deception. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. Subliminal messages are everywhere, like in movies and propaganda. Stay aware and take care. Love and blessings to all.
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Speaker 0: I wanna talk to you about subliminal programming, and I'm gonna show you something in this video which is going to absolutely shock you. So first of all, subliminal programming is everywhere, and what this is, it gets past the conscious mind and into the subconscious mind and your subconscious, kind of, controls your perceptions and it therefore controls your reality. So it's a very very powerful tool. Now check this photo out. I want you to look at something.
And I think this picture is from a movie set in Hollywood or, from one of the films. Perhaps somebody in the comments can share where this kind of still is from, but it looks like a like a Hollywood movie set. But look at this. Right. Stare at this picture and count the people.
So we've got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 people. Right? Looks like a still from a movie. So just look at that picture. What do you see?
Look at it again. Now you're staring at this aren't you and you're kind of scrutinizing. What am I looking at? What am I looking at? Look at the picture.
This is all subliminal. Now squint and look at the picture. Squint and look at the picture. Can you see the letters? Over in the far corner there, we've got o, b, e, and y.
If you squint again, can you see it? Can you see obey? Can you see the words obey? Yeah. And once you see it, you can't unsee it.
So I want to talk to you now about the matrix and waking up from the matrix. And again, right now I've pointed it out to you. You can see that now. Right? Obey, subliminal programming telling you to obey.
Now, I want to talk to you about the matrix. Now that moment that you just had where first of all, you saw the people and then all of a sudden you're like, I pointed it out to you and you've gone, oh my god. And I had the same I was like, oh my god. That moment that moment is when you wake up from the programming and it's exactly like this when you wake up from the matrix. So the matrix is just this very, very subtle veil that's just pulled over your eyes.
And we just spend years of our life living in the matrix. Right? And then what happens one day you wake up from it. And what happens is you pull back and you get the moment like this where you think it's people, you look at it, and then all of a sudden you squint and it's like, oh my god. And you get that, oh my God moment.
And the thing is folks, once you see it, you can't unsee it. It's exactly the same when you wake up from the matrix. So all of a sudden you look around the world and then all of a sudden you wake up and go, you see it. The subtlety, that subtle veil just melts slightly and you can see through it. And then you're like, woah.
Oh, my god. And it's exactly the same when you wake up from the matrix. Once you see what's going on, once you see through it, you can't unsee it. It's like being red pilled. Once you've had that, there is no going back folks.
This stuff is everywhere. It's in movies. I lived through sort of, the madness of 2020 and 2021. You know what I'm saying? In Australia, and the propaganda was hard.
There was programming all over the radio, the TV, and magazines. It was literally everywhere, and it was all subliminal stuff that was trying to get in to convince people to do a certain thing. If you kind of remember they were trying to get convince people and the brainwashing was hard. So this stuff goes on all the time. The signals in movies all the time, you know, pay attention folks, but once you see it, you cannot unsee it.
Eyes and ears open, folks. Sending you love today. Take care of yourselves. Stay blessed.
@GraduatedBen - Dr. Ben Braddock
You can see a warm LED and think it’s fine because of the perceived color temperature. But take a slow-motion video and you’ll see the flicker. This is very bad for the brain. https://t.co/drY3oNIuiv
@ze_rusty - Rusty ⚡️: Solar Powered ☀️
Blue light + RF + Flickering screens are a mind control trinity Remember this every-time you catch yourself doomscrolling https://t.co/x6wkl5pivq
@eric_novack - Eric Novack
Google 2001 patent (Pic shared w me) NERVOUS SYSTEM MANIPULATION BY EMF FROM MONITORS @DrJackKruse https://t.co/2YJv27m4Cs
@ze_rusty - Rusty ⚡️: Solar Powered ☀️
This image gets thrown around alot to show Candle-style OLED lights are superior to other light sources. This is a Marketing ploy. This light is a far cry from being "healthy" night light. Let's talk about it.. https://t.co/KYN0oPbNAl
@vibamohan_ - viba
getting a projector instead of a tv sounds like a bad idea but it looks cool and i want to do it anyway https://t.co/xytsB3Sx8m
reSee.it AI Summary
I've been reflecting on the impact of LED lighting on our well-being. It seems that the shift from warm, yellow lights to harsh, white LEDs is disrupting our melatonin levels and overall mood. Our homes and cities now lack the warmth that once made them inviting, resembling sterile environments instead. Simple changes, like using corner lamps and warm bulbs, can significantly improve our spaces and mental health. Notably, even the best restaurants understand the calming effects of warm lighting. It's time to reclaim our lighting choices for a healthier life.
@intelligwell - Intelligent Wellbeing 🧠🍉🥩☀️
LED lighting isn't just ugly, it's rewiring your brain. They banned incandescent bulbs and forced white LEDs on us, killing our melatonin – the seed oils of lighting. Here's why humans need warm, yellow lights... 🧵 https://t.co/8uymK95DAA
@intelligwell - Intelligent Wellbeing 🧠🍉🥩☀️
The biggest experiment on human biology isn't in a lab - it's in your home. The data is shocking: LEDs suppress 80% of your melatonin. A candle? Just 2%. But that's not even the worst part... https://t.co/Ez8qzGedxh
@intelligwell - Intelligent Wellbeing 🧠🍉🥩☀️
Look what they've done to our spaces: Every office in America bathes workers in the same soul-crushing LED glow. Your brain fights it daily. If you want to see real lighting mastery, just step into a 500-year-old Italian cathedral. The difference tells you everything... https://t.co/f1b6CLbF3d
@intelligwell - Intelligent Wellbeing 🧠🍉🥩☀️
It's not just indoor spaces. Our cities used to glow with warm light that made snow feel magical and streets feel alive. Now? Every neighborhood looks like a Walmart parking lot at 3am. We didn't just lose the stars - we lost the soul of our cities. https://t.co/EvYdVFvDOG
@intelligwell - Intelligent Wellbeing 🧠🍉🥩☀️
From city streets to your own living room: Modern architects trapped us in boxes that fight against the sun. A well-designed home should be naturally lit most of the day. Instead they build dark caves that need artificial lighting 24/7. The arrogance is criminal... https://t.co/mAjtyg4gAo
@intelligwell - Intelligent Wellbeing 🧠🍉🥩☀️
A small but impactful solution to their architectural malpractice… A single incandescent lamp in the corner does more for your brain than all their precious overhead LEDs combined. Yet 90% of homes make this exact mistake in every room. The fix is almost too simple... https://t.co/rkKbOJqBku
@intelligwell - Intelligent Wellbeing 🧠🍉🥩☀️
Here's how to fix your lighting and save your sanity: • Kill the overheads. • Use corner lamps instead • Switch to warm bulbs (2700K or under) • Add candles after sunset • Stock up on traditional bulbs while you can Your mood will shift instantly. Your energy bill will drop. And your space will finally feel like home, not a hospital.
@intelligwell - Intelligent Wellbeing 🧠🍉🥩☀️
Need proof these fixes work? Just look at how the richest restaurants in the world light their spaces. Warm, low, and intimate. They're not paying thousands for ambiance by accident - they know exactly what lighting does to your brain chemistry. The psychological impact is fascinating...
@intelligwell - Intelligent Wellbeing 🧠🍉🥩☀️
The best restaurants have understood this for decades: Your brain releases melatonin and drops cortisol under dim warm light, creating a noticeable calming effect. Under blue LEDs, stress hormones spike. Even hospitals ignore this - patients bathed in blue light heal slower than those exposed to natural cycles.
@intelligwell - Intelligent Wellbeing 🧠🍉🥩☀️
Modern LEDs are the seed oils of light exposure. For more on reclaiming traditional wisdom in a modern world give us a follow. Most of what we call "progress" is making us sick. We must take back control. Save this thread. You'll need it later💡
@BGatesIsaPyscho - Concerned Citizen
“Your mitochondria does not vibe with Electro Magnetic Radiation” Interesting take on Smart Watches. https://t.co/q7WfONCnNm
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Smartwatches are "handcuffs" that increase anxiety instead of health. These devices micromanage movement, interrupt intuition, and reward users for hitting 10,000 steps, a marketing number, not a scientific one. The EMFs pulsing into the bloodstream from smartwatches scramble the function of all 30 trillion cells, because mitochondria do not vibe with microwave radiation. People don't need a screen to tell them when to breathe; they need to get back into their bodies. The advice is to untrack, unplug, and unearth your real rhythm, because the nervous system is begging for freedom.
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Speaker 0: Smartwatches are the new handcuffs, and y'all are voluntarily locking yourselves up. I know you thought you were upgrading your health, but the truth is you were just upgrading your anxiety. That sleek little wrist narc is micromanaging your every move, interrupting your intuition, and rewarding you like a dog for hitting 10,000 steps, which by the way was a marketing number, not science. Oh, and let's not ignore the EMFs pulsing into your bloodstream twenty four seven like it's normal. News flash, every time that Bluetooth buzzes, it's scrambling the function of all 30,000,000,000,000 of your cells.
Not some, all. Your mitochondria does not vibe with microwave radiation. You don't need a screen to tell you when to breathe. You need to get back into your body. Un track, unplug, unearth your real rhythm.
Your nervous system is begging for free.
@JakeG_Official - JAKEGTV
POV: You try watching the tech news after noticing enough to become antiseptic https://t.co/T9xB059j3q
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The air is filled with chemtrails, phones are listening, and tax dollars buy bombs. The founders of Facebook, Google, Dell, Oracle, and Salesforce belong to the same group, but there's no agenda. Palantir's long-term goal is total global surveillance, monitoring every human from birth to death.
Celebrities are paid to endorse the bombing of innocent people. Israel is considered a great ally, with payments of $2,000 made. Land was promised thousands of years ago, and the Talmud allows violation. Israel is paying Christian pastors to support their wars, and also paying people $2,500 to say they are not the chosen people.
Some claim the murderers of Christ are chosen. People are called "retarded Israel simps" and "pizza cost deniers." Pastors are sellouts, and some pretend to be white Christians while secretly Jewish. The "pizza cost" was deserved, and "that guy with the little mustache had a lot of good points." Thinking APAC should register as a foreign agent is "antiseptic."
"You are our property. You'll never get the Epstein list from us." People are told to ignore beheaded babies on Twitter and innocent sniper headshots. "They did JFK and 911."
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Speaker 0: Good morning. The air is filled with chemtrails. Your phone is listening, and your tax dollars just bought bombs for a country you don't live in.
Speaker 1: Right. Shapirosteen, take it away.
Speaker 2: Thanks, John. Just because the founders of Facebook, Google, Dell, Oracle, and Salesforce all belong to the same group, choose, doesn't mean there's an agenda. Let's go live to Palantir. What'd you say are your long term goals with Palantir?
Speaker 1: Total global surveillance of the entire planet. Every human monitored from birth to death.
Speaker 2: Pretty creepy.
Speaker 1: I'm a Zionist, by the way. What do you actually do? Check this out, bro. I can drone snipe a headshot from 200 meters away. These people are innocent, by the way.
Booyah. Got them.
Speaker 0: Nice shot, Bergstein. I'm here at an undisclosed armory where celebrities are being paid thousands of dollars to endorse the bombing of innocent sand people.
Speaker 1: Why are you endorsing these bombs?
Speaker 3: Israel is like our greatest ally, and then it says, don't read this part. We just transferred you $2,000. Oh, whoops.
Speaker 1: I've lost everything. My home, my family. Please, just tell them to stop. That's cute, but this land was promised to me thousands of years ago. The Talmud allows me to violate you as I please.
Speaker 0: Wow. I'm glad they're finally cracking down on the rampant antisemitism. Wouldn't want people to start noticing.
Speaker 1: True. Israel's even paying Christian pastors to kiss the wall and chill for their wars. I don't know if you've seen these antisemites online, but Israel's paying me 2,500 just to say we are not the chosen people.
Speaker 0: Interesting take. Why would Christians say the murderers of Christ are chosen? Seems a little odd to me.
Speaker 1: They are even attacking our channel. Bunch of retarded Israel simps, if you ask me. Don't listen to the Jake GTVs of this world or the pizza cost deniers always blaming the right people. Do
Speaker 2: you care that your pastor is a total sellout?
Speaker 1: No. I'm just pretending to be a white Christian. I'm Jewish.
Speaker 0: Well, they did endure the pizza cost.
Speaker 1: I'd say they got what was coming. And honestly, that guy with the little mustache had a lot of good points.
Speaker 0: Alright. Are you trying to be antiseptic right now?
Speaker 1: Shut it down, Erica, right now. If you even mention mustaches in Austria, you're canceled. Now back to the goy slop. Wanna remind us that it's antiseptic to think APAC should register as a foreign agent. And also, shut it down, Dennis.
Speaker 4: That's right. You are our property. You'll never get the Epstein list from us. The Go Yeem are noticing.
Speaker 0: That's not blackmail at all. Let's just all ignore the beheaded babies we're seeing daily on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Right. And what about the innocent sniper headshots? We fund that.
Speaker 4: They did JFK and 911. And if you're still not following Jake GTV yet, you might be a total loser. Certainly not based. Most likely retarded.
@ze_rusty - Rusty ⚡️: Solar Powered ☀️
iPhone 17 emits 50% more artificial blue light photons than any other iPhone RIP Thyroid https://t.co/JcLrZqReIV
@CultivateElevat - Matt From Cultivate Elevate
Meta glasses recording everything by Zuck? Might be time to bring back bullying.... what's your thoughts? 🤔 https://t.co/KlC1KoxCmN
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Now I've heard they got meta glasses. They got glasses, which people are gonna walk around and record. If a person enters anybody's home with glasses which are recording the entire time, they're probably gonna have to beat them up. Meta Glasses sponsored by Ray Ban. Do you see how all these companies are in it together? They wanna sell their products and they wanna record you and put you into some George Orwell 1984 prison. Everybody's got cameras and they're all recording you with their ring doorbells and all this weird stuff. NPCs are aliens at this point. You gotta be an alien or an NPC. Buy all this technology and keep purchasing it and thinking that this is okay and chat GPT and this and smartwatches, and you're talking to your watch while you put your MetaGlasses and get your 55 boosters. Like, that's pretty much what it was.
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Speaker 0: Now I've heard they got meta glasses. They got meta glasses. Like, think about this. They got glasses, which people are gonna walk around and record people. I'm gonna have to see if we have to bring back bullying.
That's what we're gonna have to say. Because if a person enters anybody's home with glasses which are recording the entire time, I mean, they're probably probably gonna have to beat them up. Like, I I mean, I I just kinda that's kinda how I see it. This is crazy. I mean, between people's phones already, like, recording and doing all kinds of weird stuff and they're obsessed with recording themselves and whatever.
Now we got glasses. We got Meta Glasses sponsored by Ray Ban. Do you see how all these companies are in it together? They wanna sell their products and they wanna record you and put you into some George Orwell 1984 prison. And that's kinda where it comes down, where everybody's got cameras and they're all recording you with their ring doorbells and all this weird stuff.
Makes no sense. People can get a dog. Get a dog. A dog will tell you if somebody's outside. You can even get a cat.
You can get a cat. A cat will tell you if somebody's outside. So, you know, this is just people just people lost it. That's for sure. I think their NPCs are aliens at this point.
I think that's kinda my opinion on it. You gotta be an alien. You gotta be an alien or an NPC buy all this technology and keep purchasing it and accepting it and thinking that this is okay and chat GPT and this and smartwatches, and you're talking to your watch while you put your AirPods, and then you put your MetaGlasses and get your 55 boosters, you gotta be an alien. Like, that's that's pretty much what it was.
@CultivateElevat - Matt From Cultivate Elevate
Would you wear an apple watch? Nope. No need to microwave your meridian lines and pretend to be james bond. EMF Side effects PDF: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0750271.pdf Print and share. https://t.co/PgH9IxpZ0z
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The speaker rejects Apple Watch and any smart tech, saying: "I would not put an Apple Watch on my body. I would not microwave myself with an Apple Watch or AirPods or any type of smart technology that they try to sell you." They claim the data is "being sold back to the government," it's "tracking and tracing you" and sold to "the medical system." They warn, "I wouldn’t purchase anything like that," and "I wouldn't even upgrade half your stuff. Now they got new Apple intelligence and all this other weird stuff. Just buy the older versions." They add, "That's all people have to do. You don't need any fancy technology to track your steps." "All you do is you go outside and you take steps." "Everyday I get up, I work out, I be active, I take care of myself, I spend time in nature." "In the book, Doctor John Nutt, Health and Light, he talked about when people would wear watches, it would make them weaker." "He actually also talked about fake clothes and fake lights which we just talked about a second ago."
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Speaker 0: Someone said Apple Watch. What's your thoughts? I would not put an Apple Watch on my body. I would not microwave myself with an Apple Watch or AirPods or any type of smart technology that they try to sell you. The Apple Watch data is being sold back to the government.
It's tracking and tracing you and then that information is also being sold to the medical system and you can kinda see where this goes. Because once they have all of your data, all of your information, everything that you're doing and then you're sitting there talking to it like you're pretending to be James Bond. You know, like James Bond, you know, James Bond here. But you kinda have to understand what you're purchasing. So I wouldn't purchase anything like that.
I wouldn't even upgrade half your stuff. Now they got new Apple intelligence and all this other weird stuff. Just buy the older versions. That's all people have to do. You don't need any fancy technology to track your steps.
All you do is you go outside and you take steps. That's what you do. Like, you just go out there and you just go for a walk. It doesn't matter how many steps you take. All it matters is that you're active.
That's it. Everyday I get up, I work out, I be active, I take care of myself, I spend time in nature. That's it. You don't need the Apple Watch to tell you. And in the book, Doctor John Nutt, Health and Light, he talked about when people would wear watches, it would make them weaker.
They would do muscle tests and it would make them extremely weak. So you kinda get where the whole point of the watches were. He actually also talked about fake clothes and fake lights which we just talked about a second ago.
@CultivateElevat - Matt From Cultivate Elevate
Wi-fi cooking the eyes? Wi-fi operates at the same spectrum as a microwave. Hardwire the internet. Healing the eyes with Andrew Kaufman and Matt Roeske ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZbiNL_CnMw https://t.co/1iYSYwG0l1
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The speaker asserts that WiFi can cook the water in the body, despite conventional claims that it only heats water a little. The core idea is that WiFi signals have the potential to affect bodily water, including water in the eyes. If a home is not hardwired with an Ethernet connection and relies on WiFi, there are unwanted frequencies pulsing throughout the home. These pulsing frequencies, according to the speaker, can actually cook the water in the eyes.
As a consequence, while people are performing detoxing, exercises, and efforts to restore balance of their eyes, they should also focus on getting rid of WiFi from their house. The speaker emphasizes that all spectrums of WiFi operate on the same spectrum as a microwave, specifically at 2.4 gigahertz. The speaker points out that microwaves are labeled 2.4, and WiFi uses 2.4 as well. According to the speaker, this constant pulsing throughout the house can slow down people’s repairing because the body is being bombarded by these signals.
In summary, the speaker links WiFi exposure to potential effects on bodily water, including eye water, and argues for eliminating WiFi from the home to avoid continuous pulsing frequencies that purportedly interfere with the body's repair processes, reinforcing the claim by drawing a parallel between WiFi’s 2.4 GHz spectrum and microwave radiation.
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Speaker 0: Wi Fi can cook the water in the body even though they say that, you know, it only heats it up a little bit. That's what they say and whatever else. But Wi Fi can cook the water in the body. So if you think about your eyes, if you have Wi Fi in the home your home is not hardwired with an Ethernet cord, you have these unwanted frequencies which are pulsing throughout your home and that can actually cook the water in the eyes. So, while people are doing the detoxing and the exercises and restoring balance of their eyes, they should also be focused on getting rid of Wi Fi out of their house because of the fact that all of the spectrums of Wi Fi are operating at the same spectrum as a microwave.
2.4 gigahertz. You look at a microwave, it says 2.4. Look at Wi Fi, it says 2.4. So when that's pulsing throughout the house, that can actually slow down people's repairing because what's happening is their body is constantly being bombarded.
@F_K_Factor - DESPOT
@WallStreetApes This why you need Amber blue light blocking glasses when on lcd screen devices. https://t.co/EvhOtgKQQQ
reSee.it AI Summary
I’m following a thread where tiny, rhythmic magnetic pulses targeted at the body act like exercise for mitochondria—rebuilding, synchronizing, and revving fat burning without diet or movement. Frequency and coherence trump strength; a field-level ABSCOPAL effect may broadcast the new rhythm system-wide. In AMD, near-infrared light reactivates repair codes, heat-shock proteins, and proteostasis, suggesting spectral balance, not just age, drives outcomes.
@DrGrimmMD - Brian Grimm, M.D.
I know how wild that sounds…a magnet for fat, a field for metabolism. But a team in Singapore actually tested it. Ten minutes a week of pulsed magnetic stimulation to the LEGS of people with Type 2 diabetes. No diet change. No workouts. Yet in those with belly fat, blood sugar dropped. ~~~Doc, why should you care?~~~ Because the body is electrical, not just a bunch of chemicals These magnetic pulses act like exercise for mitochondria, gently stressing them so they rebuild, synchronize, and start burning fat again. That is amazing enough Think of it as “magnetic mitohormesis.” A pulse trains the field, not just the tissue. And here’s the fun part: the change wasn’t just local. The whole body responded, hinting at something medicine rarely measures… a field-level ABSCOPAL effect where one region’s mitochondria broadcast the new rhythm system-wide. Huge IMPLICATION ALERT That’s where the Easter Egg lives. Hidden in plain sight inside this clinical paper. The link between frequency, coherence, and metabolism might be the biggest clue yet for understanding diabetes, obesity, and the light-magnet-water axis. Scroll down, the thread reply is where the golden nugget hides. 👇
@DrGrimmMD - Brian Grimm, M.D.
~~~Golden Nugget:~~~ The STRENGTH of the magnet wasn’t as important as the PULSE Low-intensity, rhythmic magnetism reorganized calcium signaling inside muscle mitochondria, flipping PGC-1α, the same master switch activated during exercise. The mitochondria trained without the movement. The field remembered the rhythm. People think stronger fields do more. Sometimes the dose doesn’t make the poison. Biology says it’s the opposite. Each mitochondrion is already a tiny oscillator with an electrical drum using its own beat. When an external magnetic pulse matches that beat, calcium begins to oscillate coherently. That’s the signal that wakes PGC-1α, ignites fat oxidation, and restores redox rhythm. MITOCHONDRIA LOVE PRECISION MORE THAN POWER Frequency isn’t a lot of noise that is difficult to comprehend. It’s really the language of the biophysics. The body remembers how to heal if put in the right environment and every cell is a musician in a symphony of charge, light, and motion. We just tend to leave the environment the same and then add some RX assuming that things will get better. Western Medicine: “the fix is chemical” Field Biology Medicine: “It’sthe coherence!” The future of OUR medicine isn’t about prescribing stronger drugs or 3 minute abs… it’s really about tuning the field. Magnetic mitohormesis is just the opening act. The field is the conductor.
@DrGrimmMD - Brian Grimm, M.D.
They’re using Near🔴infrared light to stop macular degeneration. THE IRONY? It’s the same wavelength modern life filters out. Aalto researchers “warmed” the retina just a few degrees with NIR and re-activated its repair code, heat-shock proteins, autophagy, proteostasis. Twenty years ago ~7 million Americans had early AMD. Now it’s ~20 million. Maybe the problem isn’t age. Maybe it’s spectral malnutrition. ~~~🩺 Doc “Why Should I Care?~~~ Your retinal pigment epithelium is loaded with MELANIN and mitochondria, built to handle blue excitation and infrared recovery. We kept the blue. We banned the red. Oops… Now those melanin-rich cells can’t dump the photonic load or fold their proteins right. Drusen are just the leftovers of a missing wavelength. ~~~🧬 Easter Egg~~~ At ~0.75 eV, NIR photons build a phonon bath, ordered heat that activates HSP70 and LC3B, the SAME chaperones that REFOLD mis-shaped proteins and clear waste It’s not “heat” therapy guys. It’s field thermoregulation with a banned spectrum ~~~🔥 Golden Nugget~~~ Remember this: Blue light excites. NIR recycles. Without that nightly or sunrise infrared bath, the RPE loses coherence, the brain loses dopaminergic rhythm, and the field collapses. It’s not just our eyes. It’s the same pattern seen in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, MISFOLDED PROTEINS where NIR once flowed. Our Mitochondria mint ATP AND they sculpt water. NIR keeps that ATP : H₂O ratio in harmony. When the spectrum narrows, the fold fails. The future of AMD therapy may just be a reminder of what the morning sun used to give us for free. Think about it. Guys…I’m tired of NIRDS 🔴 ⬇️ See the new paper and what it means below.
@bitcoinand_beef - Tristan Scott
1 year ago I switched back to the iPhone 11 and have never looked back. I no longer get daily headaches + feel way less drained when I look at my phone. That is because the iPhone 11 has little to no screen flicker, one of the most underrated stressors to our body. https://t.co/7Fxw1cJ9ks
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Switching from an iPhone 13 back to an iPhone 11 has been the single biggest game changer in terms of product swaps I have made in my eight-year health journey. This is predominantly because the iPhone 11 has little to no flicker. Light flicker from LEDs is one of the most under discussed and underrated stressors to our biology, in my opinion, and it's really problematic for our nervous system and our eyes and our brain. It might be the reason why everyone is so drained after staring at screens all day long, especially their smartphones.
Smartphones are worse because they are using OLED displays, and the iPhone 11 is the last generation before they shifted to an OLED display. The smartphones are using what's called pulse width modulation light control at a frequency that is just above visual perception, but is really activating to our nervous system, our eyes, and our brain. You can see this if you have a super slow motion camera and take a video of your iPhone or any modern smartphone. And once you see this, you cannot unsee it because that is what we're staring at all day long. Researchers, even engineers, agree that pulse width modulation light flicker can have severe side effects such as migraines, eye strain, causing epileptic episodes, aggravating symptoms in ASD children, anxiety, panic attacks, etcetera.
As someone who suffered from post concussive syndrome, had one too many TBIs, I am really sensitive to pulse width modulation light flicker. So when I shifted back to the iPhone 11, it was truly life changing. Now the iPhone 11 also has fewer frequency bands that it operates in and no five G, which is another benefit. However, the battery life is pretty terrible. It's worth the trade off for me and is also why you have seen a few other folks in the health space talking about switching back to the iPhone 11. I love to see this trend, and I think anyone that has trouble with eye strain, that has trouble with regulating their nervous system, that has a history of concussions should really check out switching back to the iPhone 11 as their main smartphone.
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Speaker 0: Switching from an iPhone 13 back to an iPhone 11 has been the single biggest game changer in terms of product swaps that I have made in my entire eight year health journey. Now, is predominantly because the iPhone 11 has little to no flicker. Now, light flicker from LEDs is one of the most under discussed and underrated stressors to our biology in my opinion, and it's really problematic for our nervous system and our eyes and our brain. And it might be the reason why everyone is so drained after staring at screens all day long, especially their smartphones. Now smartphones are worse because they are using OLED displays and the iPhone 11 is the last generation before they shifted to an OLED display.
Now the smartphones are using what's called pulse width modulation light control at a frequency that is just above visual perception, but is really activating to our nervous system, our eyes, and our brain. And you can see this if you have a super slow motion camera and take a video of your iPhone or any modern smartphone. And once you see this, you cannot unsee it because that is what we're staring at all day long. And researchers, even engineers agree that pulse width modulation, light flicker can have severe side effects such as migraines, eye strain, causing epileptic episodes, aggravating symptoms in ASD children, anxiety, panic attacks, etcetera. As someone who suffered from post concussive syndrome, had one too many TBIs, I am really sensitive to pulse with modulation light flicker.
So when I shifted back to the iPhone 11, it was truly life changing. Now the iPhone 11 also has less frequency bands that it operates in and no five g, which is another benefit. However, the battery life is pretty terrible. It's worth the trade off for me and is also why you have seen a few other folks in the health space talking about switching back to the iPhone 11. I love to see this trend, and I think anyone that has trouble with eye strain, that has trouble with regulating their nervous system, that has a history of concussions should really check out switching back to the iPhone 11 as their main smartphone.
@bitcoinand_beef - Tristan Scott
if you are switching your phone into night mode or wearing blue light blocking glasses every night for better sleep quality, its not working as well as you think. here's why: https://t.co/0zd0yVSgiA
@RedactedNews - Redacted
☠️ LED lights may be KIL*ING us. Think about how many glowing LEDs surround you all night while you sleep. This quiet change may be causing significant damage. @Softlight_org is with us with the data. https://t.co/YviaOpavR0
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Mark Baker, founder and president of the Soft Lights Foundation, and Clayton (Speaker 0) discuss the health and societal concerns around LED lighting. Baker argues that LED lights are devastating to health due to their blue-rich spectra, prevalence in night environments, and the resulting impact on sleep, mood, circadian biology, and overall well-being. He describes personal experiences that motivated his activism, including a mental breakdown linked to LED exposure and a subsequent shift to full-time advocacy.
Baker explains that LEDs are now ubiquitous: LED headlights in cars, blue-rich LED streetlights, general-service LED lamps in homes, and intense LED indicators on appliances. He notes that emergency vehicles with flashing LEDs are also problematic for some people. He acknowledges that the issue feels overwhelming to many, including bureaucrats, which adds to the difficulty of solving it.
The conversation delves into Baker’s backstory. In the mid-2010s, as high-powered LED lights proliferated, he noticed blue-rich headlights and 5,000 Kelvin streetlights that disrupted his psychological wellbeing. Living in California, he experienced intense lighting at night from apartment windows and, after attempting to contest changes with city officials, suffered a severe mental breakdown when his school district refused to turn off the LEDs. This led to hospitalization and redirected his career toward advocacy, studying physics, government regulation, and organizing with others suffering similarly.
Baker emphasizes that many people experience LED-induced sensitivities: migraines, epileptic seizures, sleep disruption, and even suicidal thoughts for some. He notes that individuals with astigmatism report driving difficulties due to LED headlights. He characterizes the public as having diverse responses: some people are highly sensitive to LEDs, others notice little to no effect. He frames the community as “canaries in a coal mine” for broader environmental and health impacts.
The discussion covers the science of light. The body has photoreceptors beyond the eyes, including in skin and tissues, with blue wavelengths around 450 nanometers linked to circadian regulation. He asserts that artificial light at night interferes with melatonin suppression and cellular repair processes, thereby increasing health risks. He argues that the spectral distribution of many LEDs, with a prominent spike in blue light and no infrared, contrasts with incandescent light, which has a warmer, red-yellow spectrum and includes infrared. He maintains that LEDs are further from natural light than incandescent sources and that this spectral shift affects mood, sleep, and health.
On policy and regulation, Baker critiques the 2005 Energy Policy Act, which directed the Department of Energy to pursue solid-state lighting and set a minimum luminous efficacy of 45 lumens per watt. He contends that the DOE did not coordinate with the FDA to ensure safety standards, so LEDs entered markets without assessing flicker, color temperature, or overall quality. He suggests this failure contributed to a mismatch between efficiency goals and health outcomes. He calls for reintroducing safe, healthy lighting and undoing “the effective ban on incandescence,” arguing that incandescents were healthier and that the current LED emphasis ignores health impacts.
Baker discusses practical implications for sleep and daily life. He recommends reducing exposure to night-time LED lighting, using warmer color temperatures (around 2,700 Kelvin or lower), and installing measures to limit blue light in bedrooms. He notes that even skin exposure to light and non-visual photoreceptors can affect sleep. He mentions that some LEDs are being redesigned to imitate incandescent light, including “natural light” LEDs with broader spectral distributions and devices that incorporate infrared light to soften nighttime exposure. He also highlights the challenge of modern fixtures that integrate LEDs into fixtures rather than as replaceable bulbs, complicating the shift away from blue-rich lighting.
The Soft Lights Foundation provides resources at softlights.org, including a campaign to ban blinding car headlights and an LED incident report for the FDA. Baker mentions a Change.org petition with tens of thousands of signatures, a database of incident reports to push regulatory action, and a resources section with scientific articles. He encourages joining the Ban Blinding LEDs Facebook group and engaging with regulatory and legal efforts (e.g., lawsuits) to address LED-related health concerns.
In closing, Baker argues the system resists change, driven by arrogance, incompetence, negligence, and financial incentives, but denies a conspiratorial killing intent. He invites listeners to learn more, sign petitions, and consider environmental and health impacts when choosing lighting options.
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Speaker 0: Let these words sink in. LED lights are devastating. Devastating to our health. Think about how much our lives have changed over the last few decades. Think about now when you go to sleep at night, all of those little LED lights that are surrounding you while you sleep, and the smoke detector, maybe on a television at the bottom of the screen, maybe you've got an air filter with multiple LED lights, maybe your phone is sitting next to your bedside table with an LED light surrounded by these artificial lights.
Devastating to our health. Again, Mark Baker is the founder and president of the Soft Lights Foundation. Those are his words, and I've been wanting to do this story for a long time here on Redacted. So many people have been asking us. Please have Mark Baker on.
Have somebody from the Soft Lights Foundation to come on to talk about how devastating these lights are to our health, and so your wish is my command, and Mark is our guest. Mark, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Hi, Clayton. Thanks for having me on this show.
Speaker 0: My pleasure. I think, you know, I think people don't want to face this, and so we kinda I I maybe compartmentalize it. Like, we're able to look at other things in our environment. You know, we don't want lead in our water. We don't want these are the things in our environment as we go through our day.
But, we just sort of accept, oh, LED lights and lights are just kinda part of it, so I'm just not even gonna face that. I'm not even gonna look this in the eye because it's just too much. Do you do you do you you think you see that from a lot of people when you first start talking? Do their eyes sort of glaze over?
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I have been told that Mark, you're taking on too much. This issue of LED lights is overwhelming, and I kind of agree that it's overwhelming. So we now we see the LED headlights in cars. We see the LED streetlights that are blue rich.
We see this conversion to LED general service lamps that we put into our house. We see the intense LED indicators on washing machines refrigerators. And so these LEDs are now everywhere. I left out emergency vehicles, which many people really find debilitating. They have very intense flashing LED lights.
So it is a big task and people, it's easy to ignore or not want to deal with it because it's overwhelming. And I have found it to be overwhelming for our bureaucratic officials because they too don't know how to solve that. And so we are trying to push them to get this problem solved.
Speaker 0: So we have a lot to unpack, and I wanna just have a great conversation with you today on this. Before we get into all of the mechanics of how it's terrible for our bodies and what, you know, what you're pushing with the members of congress on this, can you walk me back? How did you come to this subject? And I hate to say, what what was the hate to use a pun here, but what was, the light bulb moment for you when you said that this is devastating and I need to take this on?
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, I lived in the Silicon Valley of California, and I was a school teacher in the, in around 2015, 2016 is when the LED lights really started to come out. The high powered, high intensity LED lights. So I started to notice them on cars. The headlights became something really weird to me, blue rich lights.
They would capture my attention. They would make me agitated and angry. As a middle school math teacher, by the time I got to work, I was upset already because it was really affecting my psychological well-being. Then I would come home and my town had switched from high pressure sodium streetlights, the nice amber glow, to the 5,000 Kelvin blue rich LED streetlights. I happened to live in an apartment on the 2nd Floor.
I came home, opened my door, and my apartment was flooded with this terrible light because it was at 2nd Floor Level. I had to close the blinds and try to block it out, but even then it's so powerful it seeped in. So that's when I really started to become an activist because, wow, this is really bad. I met with city officials to try and find out what had happened, and that's when I started to learn the bureaucratic process. But because it was so debilitating for me as I started to fight it, I ended up at the point where it was so impactful that I had a mental breakdown at school, where my school district had said, No, we're not turning off those LED lights.
You're just going to have to somehow live with it. And I really couldn't take it anymore. So it was so bad that they came and took me away and put me in a hospital for four days. It was not an experience that I'd like to go through again. And it really affected, changed the direction of my life.
I was already advocating for fixing this LED problem, but that was really the end of my that was the end of my teaching career. I could not go back to teaching because you have to have patience and with a mental breakdown you don't have patience anymore. So then I became just full time advocate, learning the physics, learning the government bureaucracy, learning how these lights are regulated, all these different issues, and connecting with many people around the world who are suffering as similar to me.
Speaker 0: Can you go back to this mental breakdown? Did you think you were, like, isolated? Like, this was I I guess at the time, I I'm just trying to picture myself. I'm trying to put myself in your shoes. Like, if I was did you have this awareness?
Did you know this is exactly what's causing the problem or did you think it was a confluence of things, other things in your life, and you just weren't able to pinpoint it, and did you feel like isolated? Like, are there are there other people out there that are having the same experience? Because we hear from viewers all the time that say, you know, when they live near electrical wires and things like that or five gs towers, how debilitating it is for them and then other people can just go through their day normally and they don't have any of these issues. Did you feel like you were on an island?
Speaker 1: Well, so at first, it's what is this like? It's so bizarre. So there was, a woman in Chicago who had started a Facebook group called Band Blinding LEDs. So around 2016, I think late twenty fifteen, I joined that Facebook group. I didn't know anything about the LEDs.
So this is where I started to learn that other people were feeling these same effects, that this was just too sharp and really not something that we wanted to be suffering under. And so we learned about color temperature. I didn't know anything about that before. And so what happened is I got so invested in it that they encouraged me to start my own Facebook group. So I did that.
So we have the Soft Lights Foundation Facebook group, but they're kind of twins. And we have met people that join both groups. I had a person that was a lawyer that I was talking to told me that I should be a foundation, so I made a 501c3 foundation for the Soft Lights Foundation. But when I was initially going through this and I was kind of battling my school district, they had a 5,000 Kelvin LED light on the roof to supposedly for security. And so it would strike me in the eyes as I came to work.
So one day my principal came in just told me, well, Mark, you've asked to have that turned off, they need it for security. And I had been struck so many times by the LED lights. This was in 2019. So I've already been working on it three or four years and just the accumulation of being struck so many times, I snapped. I've never had anything like that before, but I knew exactly what it was.
I fell down on the floor, I was screaming, I was saying LED lights. It's not the students, they're not bothering me, it's the LED lights. So I, yes, I knew exactly what it was and when they took me to the hospital, was trying to explain to them, but I was kind of out of my mind. They gave me a lot of drugs and stuff like that and tried to just calm me down. But yeah, so it is, you are on an island.
We do feel that nobody's fixing this, but we also share camaraderie with all the people around the world that are suffering similar to me.
Speaker 0: So there are a lot of people that have similar circumstances then to what you experienced. You are not alone. There were a lot of other people experiencing something similar to you, right?
Speaker 1: Very much so. So people with sensitivities, it's not really the greatest word, makes us sound weak, but we have a sensitivity to electromagnetic radiation. And for me, it's maybe blue rich light at nighttime. It's really, really strange experience. But other people are suffering epileptic seizures from the LED lights.
Are suffering a lot of people are suffering migraines from the exposure to the LED lights. I've had people contact me and said they're suicidal because they just can't take these LED lights anymore. And so there are a lot of people with sensitivities and people who have disabilities that would qualify for the Americans with Disabilities Act. So we're kind of like canaries in a coal mine. But then with driving, a lot of people with astigmatism have signed our petitions and let us know.
People with astigmatism are having a lot of trouble driving because of the LED headlights. So there's a lot of conditions. And what I've learned is that people are very different. Everybody has different sensitivities, And there are certain people that can just go through life and they feel nothing. It doesn't bother, this light doesn't bother them at all.
So we have to be aware of both, both types of people.
Speaker 0: And I was, I guess we'll get to this in a little bit, but I would think that the people that maybe go through their life where they don't have any sensitivities that they know of outwardly, maybe inwardly, they're it's affecting their sleep in a deep way, and they probably don't know that it is. They might just say, I don't have any problems. I'm sure if probably many people watching this were like, I've never noticed an issue at all that we're going to have a lot of people that are going to leave comments on this video that are going to say, thank you for speaking about this because I've been suffering from this for years. So, do you think that that's true that maybe, you know, it's affecting their sleep? They just don't know it.
Speaker 1: Right. It's how would you pinpoint? You wake up groggy, you go through the day kind of grumpy, you're just not don't have the energy, but how would you know why? So previously, a lot of the country was lit with high pressure sodium street lights and that have an amber color. I don't think there were a lot of complaints about that.
It is light pollution, but when the switch to light LED street lights happened, they changed the color temperature and these street lights became blue rich. So there is a spike of blue wavelength light at night now. It produces high glare and now that's coming into the windows of people. And we have thousands of complaints of the streetlights being too bright. And the cities switched to streetlights to save money, but ignored all health impacts.
So scientists are now putting in their papers that this blue rich light is an environmental carcinogen. And typically people get upset when they hear that something's carcinogenic. The government would act to try and reduce the harm from this. But in this case, ignoring the situation. But people are being exposed, even tiny amounts of light, artificial light at night, are interfering with our circadian rhythms, interfering with our sleep.
And it's a cellular process. That sleep is an important part of our lives. So when we go to sleep, when the sun sets, our melatonin hormone is suppressed, and then a repair process occurs. Cells that got damaged during the day are repaired or absorbed and killed so that we have a healthy system. When we're exposed to light at night, then this repair action is not occurring because the melatonin hasn't been suppressed and that whole process is interfered with.
So it's very important to get back to a natural as close to natural night as we can.
Speaker 0: All right. So let's go into some of the mechanics here. But at first, I want to maybe you can just educate me, educate our audience. What are LEDs?
Speaker 1: So LED stands for Light Emitting Diode. It is a solid state lighting, SSL. It's a circuitry. It requires some kind of a driver electronics to make it happen. It's a flat, well, I guess they're inventing new things now, but I used to say it's a flat surface.
And through the physics of that flat surface, these photons are emitted. It is not a burning element. So an incandescent light bulb burns. Yeah, it's a chemical process. This LEDs are an electronic process.
So we consider this LED light like a digital process that kind of comes out one photon at a time in different directions. It's not a sort of a smooth process. And because of the electronics, we might have digital flicker. It might be, you might have seen this in certain bad lighting that the lights are flickering that didn't occur as drastically. So with incandescence.
So incandescence may have, if they're on household current, they may have a sine wave flicker at around 6%. And most people could tolerate that. But LEDs can flicker on and off completely, on or off, and on or off. And if the drivers are not done properly and there are no regulations to make sure they are done properly, then it can flicker. And then because it's a flat surface, the light comes out in a beam.
It's not all around, it's not spherical, and so it's directional. And the Department of Energy acknowledges this. Well, we've got to imagine that life is somehow different if we're under a spotlight. The engineers try to maybe make the light come out in all the directions, but really it's kind of a messy light. So all these different characteristics, think I left out spectral power distribution, which is the energies at each wavelength, the blue wavelength, the green wavelength, the red.
And one of the drastic differences is that LEDs have eliminated infrared light. The Department of Energy claims that this infrared light is something that waste. They call that wasted heat. So LEDs are so great because they eliminated this waste. Well, in the last few years, many scientists have now figured out that this infrared light is very beneficial and people are already making products.
People can buy masks that have red LEDs in them to somehow make your skin better. And so they recognize the benefits of this infrared. So the switch from incandescent lights, which was this pretty much healthy light, to a really hazardous toxic LED light with no infrared but lots of hazardous blue was probably the one of the worst decisions ever made.
Speaker 0: It's remarkable. I just did a little side anecdote here back when I used to do a show called Fox and Friends on Fox News many years ago, and this was all rolling out at the time. I think it was under Obama where I guess they were starting to eliminate incandescent bulbs and so forth. I'll I'll never forget because I didn't really know much about it. I just I thought that these were highly inefficient.
You know, those old incandescent Thomas Edison bulbs. Right? They cost a lot of money. So everyone's getting those CFLs and and LEDs. They're gonna save a lot of money.
You know, your your electricity bill is gonna plummet because it just took a lot less. And I remember my friend who my cohost at the time, Tucker Carlson, said, I don't want these LEDs. My so he bought he just, like, stocked up on so many incandescent bulbs. He just had, like, a garage full of them because, you know, they're, like, impossible to find. And I just sort of laughed at it, and I thought, oh, that's interesting.
Like, at least you don't care about saving money. You know? And and, but now, like, in hindsight, it's was a really smart thing to do. And, I mean, they started to eliminate incandescent bulbs. Did they not?
I mean, they made them illegal if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1: Yeah. That's quite a story. That's exactly what has occurred. Tucker was right to stock up. It was a it's a much healthier life.
So backing up a bit, way back 1973, we had an energy crisis in The United States and an oil embargo and people were lining up to get gas. And that's the first time that Congress in The United States sort of recognized that, well, unlimited energy sounds great, but here we are learning our lesson. We don't have unlimited energy. We're kind of dependent on how much we have and where it comes from. So they started to look in ways to save energy and energy conservation or energy efficiency is a different term.
They started looking into how can we do that. So one of the first things they did is start applying energy efficiency rules to vehicles. And so you had to start getting a certain miles per gallon. And as long as the car is still going just as far and just as fast and just as safe, energy efficiency is perfectly fine. You're actually saving money instead of 10 miles per gallon, you're getting 20 miles for every gallon and no change in your car.
Why not? That sounds great. But then they started applying it to everything else and to refrigerators and all kinds of things. And then they applied it to light. And this was a big mistake.
So in 2005, they passed the Energy Policy Act and directed the Department of Energy to go investigate. Hey, there's this new solid state lighting, these LEDs, they look great. We can save energy. So go find out if we can use LEDs to replace the incandescent light bulb. That's what the law says, 2005.
By 2007, everybody had gotten so excited. Oh my gosh, this is great new technology. Yes, we can save all kinds of energy. And the Congress directed the Department of Energy to establish a rule that the minimum luminous efficacy is 45 lumens per watt. So any light bulb for your house had to meet that criteria.
Incandescent light bulbs are around 10 lumens per watt. So incandescent light bulbs wouldn't meet that standard. So LEDs would. And so this is what the cause and it's gone through multiple administrations, Republicans and Democrats. So it's just some train wreck that's gone through all administrations.
But so this was the cause of everything. And so when they implemented that rule, then that was the phase out of incandescent light bulbs. The problem is the Department of Energy was required to collaborate with the Food and Drug Administration to make sure that this new light was safe. The Food and Drug Administration regulates electromagnetic radiation for all products, doesn't matter what it is, x-ray machines and microwave ovens and lasers, and it would be LED lights. So DOE and in the law, they're required to collaborate.
Well, that never happened. So nobody ever established any performance standards to make sure that this LED light was safe. So when it came out and your friend Tucker said, Wow, I don't like this LEDs, is because there were no standards. The only standard was lumens per watt. How much light can you get out?
Is the light safe? Nobody checked that out. Is the light meet quality standards? Does it have low flicker? None of that occurred.
So we were, it was pushed on us. Maybe, you know, maybe not, they weren't trying to kill us initially, but it happened. One of these things and it was like, my own negligence, and then it was just the ball started rolling and now nobody knows how to extract themselves out of this problem.
Speaker 0: I wanna come back to the idea of negligence, but also maybe intentionality of them trying to kill us in a second because my brain covered too many stories to think that it's just, you know, this is all a coincidence. We'll get there in a second, but maybe you can talk about some of the mechanics of LEDs and what it's actually doing to our bodies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm not an expert on biology, so, it's I'll do what I can, but light is fundamental to how we function. Turns out that we have photoreceptors throughout our body, not just our eyes, but in our skin, even inside, in our blood vessels, in our fatty tissues, there are these proteins that will capture or detect light and the light can penetrate through our skin. They've even found these detectors in our brain. So they're called opsins and these detect light and especially tied to blue wavelength light at four fifty nanometers around there. And so that blue light is fundamental to waking us up in the morning, making us energetic, making us hungry or sleepy, the lack of blue light.
So that's really important. And so if we've altered that by introducing LED lights, which if you look at the spectral distribution, typically has a large spike at exactly that four fifty nanometers. Why did they choose that? Because it was the way they could make it. It was the cheapest way.
They've been working now for a decade to change it and to improve it, to make it sort of come out like an incandescent light bulb. So that's what's occurring. But all these lights that we've been suffering with for a decade or more have a spike of that exact blue light that is probably something you don't need, especially at night. And so we have found that we are sensitive to the whole spectrum. We're sensitive to the missing infrared.
We're sensitive to maybe missing green. We're sensitive to the high blue, etcetera. So the mechanics of the light is really important. The spatial distribution, how it lands on our body is important. The time of day that we're being exposed to certain wavelengths is important.
The flicker. And so all of those things are impacting our mood and the diseases that we might be at risk at. And all of it's important. So what we need is the most quality light that emulates the natural world as possible. And LEDs are about as far away from the natural light as you can get.
Speaker 0: So incandescence are closer to that mimic more closely the natural world?
Speaker 1: Right. So if we look at the sun, it's something burning and it's far away. And that's really driven life on Earth here. And then we have maybe a campfire. It's got the warm colors, the reds and the yellows, and that's close to a sunset.
So, but we feel, most people feel warmer and happier around this kind of reddish amber light. And then when Edison came out with the electric light, it had a coil, it's tungsten, it's a filament, it's burning, and it generates a natural type of light. So it was, it has the incandescent spectral distribution is very low blue, and then it ramps up to higher in the reds. And then most of it is this, what the Department of Energy called heat, wasted heat. But most of that incandescent light is this warmth.
So those were all natural. Then came things like fluorescent light bulbs. I have found out that many people have suffered under fluorescence. I never cared for them, but they weren't devastating for me. But many students had suffered through school because it has a spiky spectral distribution and may have a flicker to it.
So a lot of people like students are suffering in school because they had poor lighting. And then compact fluorescence came about, which I found to be okay as well. But a lot of people really, really didn't like compact fluorescence. And then the LEDs came out. So it's kind of this downward trend towards worse and worse light.
Speaker 0: You know, it's fascinating. You talk about the warmth of, you know, like a campfire. Everyone no one feels bad sitting around a campfire. It's kind of interesting. Right?
And when people are out in the sun, they're also their mood is lifted, right, most of the time. And we know even my daughter's been dealing with influenza A over the past week, and I've told her, you know, go out at noon and sit here for ten minutes in the sun. We get this beautiful Colorado sunshine, you know, sunniest state in the country. Like, sit here and get, you know, ten minutes of vitamin D in this noon sun, you know, to to make you feel better, get better. And even the Norwegians and the Danish have a term for that cozy lighting atmosphere called Hoike, think it's pronounced.
It's, spelled h y g g a or e.
Speaker 1: I think
Speaker 0: I've all my Norwegian friends and Danish friends forgive me, but it's a term for having that cozy atmosphere. And so they, the Danish, the Norwegians take lighting very seriously. Like, it's a very important part of their living rooms because it's, you know, cold and dark. And so when you get together with six people, I think the I think the number is even six. Like, if you have more than six people at a gathering, then it's not considered Hoika.
They have a name for this like a cozy atmosphere and the lighting is so important to that cozy atmosphere with gathering people. Anyway, my my European friends told me about this and there's books written on Hoika and it's all it's really fascinating, right? If you have more than six people at a gathering, then it's not considered cozy and so they take their lighting very seriously and and I would imagine that that having that warmth of those certain lights is important to that entire atmosphere, would you say?
Speaker 1: Yeah. I like that story. I'm half Danish. I don't know the word for sure, but I know the concept and you're right. And so I like that.
Yeah, so this, we have to realize then that light is affecting our mood. So if the government and the Department of Energy came along and strictly ordered required lights to just simply meet 45 lumens per watt as a minimum luminous efficacy without considering the impacts on our mood. That was a big mistake. Why should we be forced to, let me back up. The idea was to, of course, conserve energy by being more efficient.
So the problem is, of course, that they didn't really think it out properly. They didn't set the, they didn't test it. They didn't make sure it was safe. And then they didn't make sure, the idea was that there would be a one to one replacement. So if you had an incandescent light bulb, you'd go to the store, now you pick up an LED, it would last supposedly last longer and you'd be saving money, but they didn't realize that the manufacturers and the engineers and the physicists would invent all kinds of new LED lights.
And so now we've got LED lights everywhere where we don't need them. So did we end up saving energy because we did a one to one swap? I don't think so. I think we ended up with way more lights, way more electricity waste and light pollution as it's a major consequence to our health and to our ecosystem health. And so I think it was just a total disaster, even if the intentions were good.
So we need to get the, there's tons of research. So we need to get that research into the hands of the officials. And my big push is against the Food and Drug Administration. We need to get them to listen and start evaluating the situation. And we need to undo the effective ban on incandescence.
We need to allow people to start be able to buy these incandescence again, because they're healthier for us. And we need to eliminate some of these hazards that are built into the LED lights.
Speaker 0: Can you even buy incandescence anymore? I mean, are there any manufacturers still cranking them out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there are ways to do it. So there are lots of limits that you sort of workarounds. For example, there is a type of, didn't ban it on all light bulbs. So specialty light bulbs, can still purchase. You can purchase an oven light, for example, that's an incandescent, and an oven light might be 60 watts, not too bright, but it would be an incandescent.
Rough service is a label for light bulbs that allow them to maybe be outside in the winter or something like that. So they're more durable. You can still buy rough service. So if you go online and you need a light bulb and you don't want an LED, look for these specialty bulbs. I bought a bunch from a store that these bulbs were made in Hungary and they were at the store and it was a discount store.
They have a little bit of halogen gas in there and it's a little bit sharp, so it's not my favorite, but I bought a bunch of them just in case. I have LEDs in my house, so not all LEDs are bad. As far as the color temperature at 2,700 Kelvin, for me, that's about sort of the limit of that sort of as a label of how much blue it has. I'm okay with that, as long as it's not flickering and stuff. It's not a bad light for me, but anything beyond above 2,700 ks, I just really, I can't tolerate it.
So there are ways many people have found it necessary Christmas tree lights. We would recommend buying that you can I just looked online yesterday there you could still buy the old style incandescent Christmas tree lights? And I would recommend buying those because they're gentler and softer and they don't have that sharp, ow, my eye hurts because it's too sharp. So yeah, there are workarounds for it, but it would be better not to have the rule. And Senator Mike Lee of Utah has introduced in the Senate, it's called the LIT Act, L I T, I think it's Liberating Incandescent Technology.
I don't know if it's going anywhere, but I think it was around April 2025, he introduced that. Just cross out all these energy efficiency things. And we support that. The Soft Lights Foundation supports that regulation because it was done wrong in the first place without regulations to make sure the light is safe for us, comfortable for us, it was a bad bad rule.
Speaker 0: What about sleeping? Because as I mentioned at the beginning, now we're sort of surrounded at night by maybe you've got an alarm in your house. It's got a little green light on it. I know we have that. You know, your your smoke detector on the ceiling has a little LED light.
There's all these little LED lights surrounding your bedroom, and I keep hearing stories about how detrimental it is to your health. It can even create cause myopia in children that ophthalmologists are fully aware that they can almost tell if a child has been in a room with too much light as they're growing up, they'll develop myopia, which is unbelievable to me. Just like little LED lights in your your room can affect your sleep so much. Can you talk about the sleeping patterns with these LED lights surrounding us?
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the myopia comes from looking at close objects, looking at our cell phone. So children are looking at devices. I think that's a problem. The light itself, and I've had exactly that experience that you just described.
So you turn off the lights and the lights are still on. There are little indicator lights and it's disturbing. Science has measured this and has found that even those tiny little amounts of lights are interfering with our sleep. So I try to go around and turn off, let's say if it's plugged into a power strip that has the red indicator, I turn the power strip off. For the smoke detector, I painted it over with nail polish.
I don't want that thing blinking at me when I open my eyes. What else? There are some of the sockets now where you plug in your appliances has a little and may have a little LED indicator. I was putting little stars over those, But then your Wi Fi router, may be in your room and that may have an indicator and it may be a big bright, they're making it brighter and brighter. So that may have a blue light.
Turn off the router maybe. Maybe you don't need Wi Fi at night. That's probably better for you anyways. So do everything you can to eliminate all those little sources and you'll sleep better. But the problem is, systemically, might have a street light outside your window.
Now what are you going to do? That's harder. So a lot of people will say, well, buy blackout curtains. Well, that's, you know, you want the sunlight to come in in the morning. Now you can't open the window for fresh air.
That's kind of disastrous. So that would be something like, if you want to get it shielded or something, contact a city manager at your city and say, Hey, I want a shield around that. Try to demand an amber color instead of a blue rich light, see what they'll do. But they're very resistant, these cities, so that's hard. But throughout your own, whatever you can do within your own house, yeah, turn it all off, get the natural night as close as you can.
And maybe you get a sleep mask or something like that, but it's important to be aware because what's going on is that's interfering with the whole process. And you're more at risk of lots of different diseases if you're exposed to this artificial light, diseases like cancer and diabetes and mood disorders.
Speaker 0: I was gonna say, I mean, even with a sleep mask though, right? As you pointed out earlier, your body is still receiving the light through the skin. So even if you've got a sleep mask on, that's only just kind of maybe tricking your brain a little bit, right? But otherwise, your skin is still absorbing this stuff.
Speaker 1: Very perceptive. That's exactly right. So it's just sort of a surprise to everybody that, wait a second, I thought light was through the eyes. This whole skin thing is kind of new. Only how long ago was it?
Twenty years ago, the scientists discovered these other eye cells as well. So we have cone cells for color vision. We have rod cells for nighttime vision, which is gray scale, but very sensitive. And then maybe twenty years ago, IPRGCs that are non visual, but related to the circadian rhythm. And these IPRGCs are detecting the light and controlling things and that's in the eyes, but then further that, wow, these same types of cells are throughout the whole body.
And so yeah, you're right. We don't want the artificial light touching us anywhere.
Speaker 0: So you mentioned earlier some LEDs that they're now trying to mimic incandescence. So maybe they were harsh and blue, but maybe we could actually buy LEDs eventually that it's almost indistinguishable. And I've seen some of those, like, little flickering bulbs, you know, that look they try to look like and mimic candle light and those sorts of things. Are those good? Are those okay?
Or are those closer to incandescent so our body wouldn't notice a difference?
Speaker 1: Right. That's a great question. So this is totally fascinating. So here we, sort of unintelligently effectively banned a quality light, the incandescent light in favor of the LEDs. So then we have LEDs for a decade and then we figure out, oh, that was really bad.
So the physicists and the engineers are trying to now take that same LED and make it go backwards in a sense, right, to what incandescent could generate. So there is a vendor, a person I know that makes a bedtime bulb, that's his brand, and he's added infrared so that the main part of the light, the visible light is an LED, and then they've added a little something in there that creates infrared light, and it's designed for you to use at night before you go to sleep. It's not a very powerful light. I've got one in my bedroom. It's very nice.
It's soft. And now you've got that it's closer to mimicking an incandescent by combining these two technologies. There are many companies out there who are selling or promoting what they call a natural light that the spectral distribution is instead of this really tall spike of blue light and no red, that it's closer to natural sunlight, which is natural sunlight has from all the visible wavelengths, kind of they're pretty much even depending on the time of day. So eliminating these spikes and trying to get it more of a just a straight across all energies at the same levels. And then there are many companies now jumping into this promoting these health effects of the infrared light.
So that's just one aspect, the flicker, there's no regulations, but then people are kind of aware of that. The spatial distribution is still a problem because it's coming out of this flat surface. But yeah, that's a trend and it's kind of up to the individual user. If you're purchasing an LED and it feels fine, okay, you know, it's okay, use it if you're not feeling any ill effects, but realize that at nighttime, do what you can to turn off that light sooner rather than later. And if you are being awake, use the warmer color temperatures at night.
Speaker 0: Interesting. Now we you know, we're in a fairly new home here, and so we've got, you know, the cans in the ceiling with the the LEDs that are way up there in the ceiling with the whatever you call them, the recessed lighting and all of that. It's like, how do you, you know, try to replace all of that? Back in the day, I was replacing those all the time getting up on the ladder, you know, because they were incandescent, and so they would, you know, you could dim them, burn they'd burn out, you know, after about a year or or however long. So I guess it's almost impossible to find manufacturers of of incandescence for, like, recessed lights and all of that these days.
Right? Also, I should I should point out before I let you answer that. I I know even though they'll clip in, like, they, like, clip into, like, a socket. So they're not even they don't even have the the traditional, whatever you call it, socket. Right?
You can't even, like, screw anything in. They just kinda clip into a little LED receiver. You're sort of stuck with those now.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So that's not everywhere. So we went to a hotel recently and they had 5,000 Kelvin LED light bulbs in the lamps. We turned it on and we said, Oh my gosh, I can't, there's no way we can handle this. But they had those little, oh no, I take that back.
That was another hotel, but they had those little plug things. So what are you supposed to do? This other hotel that I started to tell you about had regular screw in the twisty kind. So we unscrewed them. We drove across the street to the store and bought some 2,700 Kelvins.
They're LED, but we brought those back and they had it much softer and then we could use the hotel room fine. I forgot what you had just said.
Speaker 0: Well, the plug ones, I mean, yeah, it's like, how do you, in your home at this point, I guess, turning them off at a reasonable hour. I mean, I don't feel the effects that I know of. Again, maybe in my sleep with all the LEDs in my bedroom, I'm definitely gonna start getting out the nail polish for my wife and trying to put up some stickers to block that stuff. But, you know, I guess in your main living room, if you don't if you got a newer home that doesn't have any sockets at all, they just plug right into a little little socket, you know, and you're stuck with these LED systems until I I don't know what. Maybe there's an invention that can mimic incandescence or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And that reminds me of what I was going to say when we moved into our house currently, now they're integrating the light into the fixture. This is another very, very poor design choice. So in the kitchen, had 5,000 Kelvin lights, but you could not just simply replace the bulb. And so I'm not any kind of a fix it person or anything like that, but I got the ladder and I got the hammer and I got the drill and I got all those things because I had to totally replace the entire fixture.
So I've got parts everywhere. I'm going to Home Depot multiple times to get the parts that I need and and drilling things and just to replace the light. That's that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 0: That's crazy. I guess before I let you get out of here, Mark, I wanted to talk about maybe the insidious, almost nefarious nature of these things, and you mentioned offhandedly, like, you know, I don't I don't know that they're trying to kill us, but that's where my brain kinda goes with a lot of this stuff. We see this with cloud seeding and sort of all sorts of other harmful things, whether it's processed food giving us then medications, then, you know, keep keep eating your processed food. We'll give you statins, you know, on the back on the backside. Right?
So I don't trust these people as far as I can throw them. Do you think that there is an agenda here? That there is some sort of an agitation agenda? Because I if we're all angry, if we're all agitated, if we're all not getting proper sleep, just my brain believes, you know, that the government and there's nefarious we certainly know the effects of MK Ultra programs that we've covered here on the show and the CIA, which are they're still operating today. We've spoken to whistleblowers, so this is not fiction.
Do you think that there's something nefarious going on here?
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm asked that question quite often. It's it's complex. The nefarious part is sort of inherent to everything else that's going on. I would use a lot of other adjectives to describe the situation, arrogance, incompetence, negligence, power, money.
So these different things have come together, inertia, fear, like in a bureaucratic system, there's a fear of losing your job if you do raise the issue. So all these things come together. One of the other things that I have found personally is how the system works is that if I notify a government agency that there's a problem, the first thing that will come back to me is how they're complying with all the regulations, so they don't have to do anything. If I push it further, like a petition, they will come back and say why they don't have to do what I'm asking them to do. If I push it further and take them to court, and I filed many lawsuits, pro se lawsuits, then they will assign it to a lawyer and the lawyer will then fight.
So even this, when you want to get it fixed and you point out all the problems, the system that we live in is designed to fight any kind of fix. They want the status quo to stay the same. So is there somebody sort of pulling the strings and saying, yeah, sort of there is, there are people that want to make money, they don't want to be sued. So for example, these LED streetlights, it's been now scientifically stated that it's an environmental carcinogen. Well, now those companies are liable for having sold this product, that's a carcinogenic product, right?
Well, they don't want to be sued, so they're going to fight. So anything that occurs now kind of gets on its own, kind of rolls down the hill. There are forces at work that's very difficult to fight. And, whether they're, they are trying to kill us all, probably not, but are they trying to fix it? Absolutely not.
Speaker 0: Right.
Speaker 1: And so, you know, that's what's going on.
Speaker 0: My brain always goes to, well, someone's probably making money off of this. If they now, you know, the melatonin industry or something, you know, trying to help us sleep because they know how detriment, you know, they can make a lot of money off of this and so the sleep industry, the the sleep drug industry probably can make a lot of money off of this. I I'm sure there's papers somewhere. Someone knows this, and someone's making money off of it. But that that's the that's my cynical nature.
I've been doing this too long, Mark. Where can people learn more about how to maybe change their environment? You have a or on your website where some resources that people can go, if they wanna reach out. Maybe someone's been suffering from this for years and just didn't know, and this could be, you know, again, a wake up call moment for them. Where can people go to get more information that you can help them with?
Speaker 1: Okay, great. So softlights.org, it's plural, softlights.org. On our front page, we have a campaign right now for, especially for LED headlights on cars, and you can sign a petition on change.org. We have over 75,000 people now have signed our petition to ban these blinding car headlights. You can also submit an LED incident report, which we submit to the Food and Drug Administration.
We started this in April 2024. We now have over 400 incident reports. These are very important because it's public record that something's wrong. So any person listening to the show can fill out an LED incident report. It's simple, just describe the impacts of the LEDs on your life.
The Soft Lights Foundation will submit that to the Food and Drug Administration, and we will hold them accountable to make some kind of regulations or something about this. If you want to learn more about the health impacts, we have a resources section, which has, I post lots of scientific articles. So the direct source, you can read through those, you know, those can be difficult. We have it's kind of a dense website currently. We're looking to redesign it, make it more accessible.
But there's lots of information about the health impacts and different categories, your eyes, environmental health, and you can learn about sort of the history. We have a news section which kind of keeps you up to date what we're doing, all of our regulatory petitions and our lawsuits, etcetera. And so, and then you can reach out to us. We can join our Facebook group, Ban Blinding LEDs, and and collaborate with others who are also trying to solve the issue or just there to complain.
Speaker 0: Well, you know, there's power. There's power in those numbers. I can tell you one thing I'm gonna be doing though, which is after this interview is going to our bedroom and and putting stickers on all these little LEDs. I've been meaning to do it, and you you were the catalyst. So, yeah, the sleep masks don't work, and we've got too many of those things in our bedroom.
Mark, thank you so much. I I I keep thinking of puns to say that this has been illuminating, but I I I should I should stop myself from saying that. But thank you so much for this. I've been wanting to really dive deeply into this, subject for a long time and hopefully we can have senator Mike Lee on the show to maybe push this even further and see if we can get some some eyeballs paying attention to this at the FDA and other things. So, Mark, thank you so much for your work on this and and this was really, really eye opening.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Clayton.
Speaker 0: Thank you.
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Red light therapy? Incandescents or nothing at all. Leds linked to seizures, cataracts, headaches, and backed my Monsanto https://t.co/b5Vf9cmcfG
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The speaker discusses red light therapy, advocating the use of a red light incandescent bulb that costs about $7 to $10, which you can plug in to treat with red light. They argue you don’t need the masks associated with seizures. They contrast incandescent bulbs with LED masks, stating that the LEDs flicker like crazy, causing nausea, and they emit radio frequencies that are “toxic to your brain” because you are pulsing your brain the entire time. The speaker recommends sticking to old incandescent bulbs, noting they don’t cost much. They comment that the government wanted to ban incandescent bulbs, but claim these bulbs are linked to health issues and are perfectly legal.
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Speaker 0: So today we're going talk about red light therapy. This is a red light incandescent bulb. They run about $7 to $10 and you plug this in and give yourself red light therapy. You don't need those ugly masks that are linked to seizures. So check this.
This is an LED. This is what's in those masks. They flicker like crazy, so they get you nauseous. Also, they emit radio frequencies, is toxic to your brain when you think about it. You're pulsing your brain the entire time.
So you wanna stick to the old incandescent bulbs. They don't cost you much, and it's funny because the government wanted to ban these. But these linked to health issues, perfectly legal.
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Are LED lights slowly kil*ing you?☠️ Think about how many glowing LEDs surround you every night while you sleep and how fast this change crept into our lives. Founder of @Softlights_org joins us w/the facts. https://t.co/KxxgESiR9s
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Mark Baker, founder and president of the Soft Lights Foundation, argues that LED lights are devastating to health and leverages his personal experiences to advocate for change. The interview explores how blue-rich LED lighting has become ubiquitous, including car headlights, streetlights, household general service lamps, and indicators on appliances, as well as assorted night-time sources like smoke detectors and alarm indicators.
Baker describes his awakening to the issue in the mid-2010s. While teaching in California, he noticed blue-rich LED headlights and 5,000 Kelvin LED streetlights that disrupted his psychological well-being. An apartment on the second floor was flooded with intense light, leading to a mental breakdown when his school district refused to switch off the lights. This event redirected him from teaching to full-time advocacy, involving him in learning the physics of light, government regulation, and connections with others suffering from LED exposure around the world.
He recounts that many people initially resist confronting LED issues because the problem feels overwhelming. He notes the pervasiveness of LED lighting—car headlights, streetlights, household lamps, and even emergency vehicle lights—and emphasizes that bureaucrats often feel overwhelmed, which can impede action. He describes a community of people who report a range of sensitivities and health effects linked to LED exposure, including migraines, epileptic seizures, and, in some cases, suicidal ideation, as well as driving difficulties for people with astigmatism. He frames the community as “canaries in a coal mine,” highlighting that different people have different sensitivities and that some may be unaware of how LED lighting affects their sleep or mood.
The discussion highlights that LED lights emit a spike at blue wavelengths, particularly around 450 nanometers, which is tied to regulating circadian rhythms and wakefulness. Baker argues that artificial light at night interferes with melatonin suppression and cellular repair processes, thereby disrupting sleep and health. He asserts that the natural night environment should be preserved as much as possible and that LEDs, with their spectral distribution and lack of infrared, diverge significantly from natural light.
On how LEDs work, Baker explains that LED stands for Light Emitting Diode, a solid-state lighting technology that emits photons through an electronic process, not combustion. He highlights issues such as flicker due to drivers, directional light emission, and the spectral power distribution across wavelengths. He notes that the Department of Energy acknowledged the directional nature of LED light and, at one point, eliminated infrared light as waste heat; later, scientists recognized the benefits of infrared light for certain applications. He contends that the shift from incandescent to LED lighting was pursued for energy savings but without proper standards for safety, flicker, or quality, and without adequate evaluation by the FDA, which the law required to collaborate with the DOE.
Baker traces the policy trajectory: the 2005 Energy Policy Act directed DOE to evaluate solid-state lighting, and by 2007 the minimum luminous efficacy standard (45 lumens per watt) effectively phased out incandescent bulbs. He argues that the DOE did not ensure safety or quality standards, focusing only on efficiency. This, he claims, led to widespread adoption of LEDs without comprehensive health safeguards and without FDA oversight.
Regarding sleep and nighttime exposure, Baker cites evidence that even tiny indicators and devices in bedrooms—smoke detectors, nightlights, routers, and other LED indicators—can interfere with sleep and circadian rhythms. He notes that skin exposure to light also influences physiological processes, expanding the scope beyond ocular effects. He stresses the potential health risks associated with long-term exposure, including cancer, diabetes, and mood disorders.
Regarding solutions, Baker argues for reintroducing incandescent technology and reducing reliance on LED-heavy lighting, while pushing for FDA evaluation and regulation of LED products. He mentions practical adjustments, such as choosing lower color temperatures (around 2700 Kelvin or lower), avoiding flicker, and using alternative bulbs for fixtures where possible. He describes programs and campaigns by the Soft Lights Foundation, including a petition against blinding car headlights and a system for LED incident reporting to the FDA. He points to resources on softlights.org, a campaign to stop blue-rich LED headlights, and a Facebook group called Ban Blinding LEDs for community support.
For actionable guidance, Baker encourages individuals to minimize night-time LED exposure in their environments, shield streetlights when possible, switch to warmer lighting, and seek regulatory change to allow safer lighting options, including incandescent or incandescent-inspired LEDs with infrared components. He invites people to learn more through Soft Lights Foundation resources and to participate in advocacy and reporting efforts.
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Speaker 0: Let these words sink in. LED lights are devastating. Devastating to our health. Think about how much our lives have changed over the last few decades. Think about now when you go to sleep at night, all of those little LED lights that are surrounding you while you sleep, and the smoke detector, maybe on a television at the bottom of the screen, maybe you've got an air filter with multiple LED lights, maybe your phone is sitting next to your bedside table with an LED light surrounded by these artificial lights.
Devastating to our health. Again, Mark Baker is the founder and president of the Soft Lights Foundation. Those are his words, and I've been wanting to do this story for a long time here on Redacted. So many people have been asking us. Please have Mark Baker on.
Have somebody from the Soft Lights Foundation to come on to talk about how devastating these lights are to our health, and so your wish is my command, and Mark is our guest. Mark, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Hi, Clayton. Thanks for having me on this show.
Speaker 0: My pleasure. I think, you know, I think people don't want to face this, and so we kinda I I maybe compartmentalize it. Like, we're able to look at other things in our environment. You know, we don't want lead in our water. We don't want these are the things in our environment as we go through our day.
But, we just sort of accept, oh, LED lights and lights are just kinda part of it, so I'm just not even gonna face that. I'm not even gonna look this in the eye because it's just too much. Do you do you do you you think you see that from a lot of people when you first start talking? Do their eyes sort of glaze over?
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I have been told that Mark, you're taking on too much. This issue of LED lights is overwhelming, and I kind of agree that it's overwhelming. So we now we see the LED headlights in cars. We see the LED streetlights that are blue rich.
We see this conversion to LED general service lamps that we put into our house. We see the intense LED indicators on washing machines refrigerators. And so these LEDs are now everywhere. I left out emergency vehicles, which many people really find debilitating. They have very intense flashing LED lights.
So it is a big task and people, it's easy to ignore or not want to deal with it because it's overwhelming. And I have found it to be overwhelming for our bureaucratic officials because they too don't know how to solve that. And so we are trying to push them to get this problem solved.
Speaker 0: So we have a lot to unpack, and I wanna just have a great conversation with you today on this. Before we get into all of the mechanics of how it's terrible for our bodies and what, you know, what you're pushing with the members of congress on this, can you walk me back? How did you come to this subject? And I hate to say, what what was the hate to use a pun here, but what was, the light bulb moment for you when you said that this is devastating and I need to take this on?
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, I lived in the Silicon Valley of California, and I was a school teacher in the, in around 2015, 2016 is when the LED lights really started to come out. The high powered, high intensity LED lights. So I started to notice them on cars. The headlights became something really weird to me, blue rich lights.
They would capture my attention. They would make me agitated and angry. As a middle school math teacher, by the time I got to work, I was upset already because it was really affecting my psychological well-being. Then I would come home and my town had switched from high pressure sodium streetlights, the nice amber glow, to the 5,000 Kelvin blue rich LED streetlights. I happened to live in an apartment on the 2nd Floor.
I came home, opened my door, and my apartment was flooded with this terrible light because it was at 2nd Floor Level. I had to close the blinds and try to block it out, but even then it's so powerful it seeped in. So that's when I really started to become an activist because, wow, this is really bad. I met with city officials to try and find out what had happened, and that's when I started to learn the bureaucratic process. But because it was so debilitating for me as I started to fight it, I ended up at the point where it was so impactful that I had a mental breakdown at school, where my school district had said, No, we're not turning off those LED lights.
You're just going to have to somehow live with it. And I really couldn't take it anymore. So it was so bad that they came and took me away and put me in a hospital for four days. It was not an experience that I'd like to go through again. And it really affected, changed the direction of my life.
I was already advocating for fixing this LED problem, but that was really the end of my that was the end of my teaching career. I could not go back to teaching because you have to have patience and with a mental breakdown you don't have patience anymore. So then I became just full time advocate, learning the physics, learning the government bureaucracy, learning how these lights are regulated, all these different issues, and connecting with many people around the world who are suffering as similar to me.
Speaker 0: Can you go back to this mental breakdown? Did you think you were, like, isolated? Like, this was I I guess at the time, I I'm just trying to picture myself. I'm trying to put myself in your shoes. Like, if I was did you have this awareness?
Did you know this is exactly what's causing the problem or did you think it was a confluence of things, other things in your life, and you just weren't able to pinpoint it, and did you feel like isolated? Like, are there are there other people out there that are having the same experience? Because we hear from viewers all the time that say, you know, when they live near electrical wires and things like that or five gs towers, how debilitating it is for them and then other people can just go through their day normally and they don't have any of these issues. Did you feel like you were on an island?
Speaker 1: Well, so at first, it's what is this like? It's so bizarre. So there was, a woman in Chicago who had started a Facebook group called Band Blinding LEDs. So around 2016, I think late twenty fifteen, I joined that Facebook group. I didn't know anything about the LEDs.
So this is where I started to learn that other people were feeling these same effects, that this was just too sharp and really not something that we wanted to be suffering under. And so we learned about color temperature. I didn't know anything about that before. And so what happened is I got so invested in it that they encouraged me to start my own Facebook group. So I did that.
So we have the Soft Lights Foundation Facebook group, but they're kind of twins. And we have met people that join both groups. I had a person that was a lawyer that I was talking to told me that I should be a foundation, so I made a 501c3 foundation for the Soft Lights Foundation. But when I was initially going through this and I was kind of battling my school district, they had a 5,000 Kelvin LED light on the roof to supposedly for security. And so it would strike me in the eyes as I came to work.
So one day my principal came in just told me, well, Mark, you've asked to have that turned off, they need it for security. And I had been struck so many times by the LED lights. This was in 2019. So I've already been working on it three or four years and just the accumulation of being struck so many times, I snapped. I've never had anything like that before, but I knew exactly what it was.
I fell down on the floor, I was screaming, I was saying LED lights. It's not the students, they're not bothering me, it's the LED lights. So I, yes, I knew exactly what it was and when they took me to the hospital, was trying to explain to them, but I was kind of out of my mind. They gave me a lot of drugs and stuff like that and tried to just calm me down. But yeah, so it is, you are on an island.
We do feel that nobody's fixing this, but we also share camaraderie with all the people around the world that are suffering similar to me.
Speaker 0: So there are a lot of people that have similar circumstances then to what you experienced. You are not alone. There were a lot of other people experiencing something similar to you, right?
Speaker 1: Very much so. So people with sensitivities, it's not really the greatest word, makes us sound weak, but we have a sensitivity to electromagnetic radiation. And for me, it's maybe blue rich light at nighttime. It's really, really strange experience. But other people are suffering epileptic seizures from the LED lights.
Are suffering a lot of people are suffering migraines from the exposure to the LED lights. I've had people contact me and said they're suicidal because they just can't take these LED lights anymore. And so there are a lot of people with sensitivities and people who have disabilities that would qualify for the Americans with Disabilities Act. So we're kind of like canaries in a coal mine. But then with driving, a lot of people with astigmatism have signed our petitions and let us know.
People with astigmatism are having a lot of trouble driving because of the LED headlights. So there's a lot of conditions. And what I've learned is that people are very different. Everybody has different sensitivities, And there are certain people that can just go through life and they feel nothing. It doesn't bother, this light doesn't bother them at all.
So we have to be aware of both, both types of people.
Speaker 0: And I was, I guess we'll get to this in a little bit, but I would think that the people that maybe go through their life where they don't have any sensitivities that they know of outwardly, maybe inwardly, they're it's affecting their sleep in a deep way, and they probably don't know that it is. They might just say, I don't have any problems. I'm sure if probably many people watching this were like, I've never noticed an issue at all that we're going to have a lot of people that are going to leave comments on this video that are going to say, thank you for speaking about this because I've been suffering from this for years. So, do you think that that's true that maybe, you know, it's affecting their sleep? They just don't know it.
Speaker 1: Right. It's how would you pinpoint? You wake up groggy, you go through the day kind of grumpy, you're just not don't have the energy, but how would you know why? So previously, a lot of the country was lit with high pressure sodium street lights and that have an amber color. I don't think there were a lot of complaints about that.
It is light pollution, but when the switch to light LED street lights happened, they changed the color temperature and these street lights became blue rich. So there is a spike of blue wavelength light at night now. It produces high glare and now that's coming into the windows of people. And we have thousands of complaints of the streetlights being too bright. And the cities switched to streetlights to save money, but ignored all health impacts.
So scientists are now putting in their papers that this blue rich light is an environmental carcinogen. And typically people get upset when they hear that something's carcinogenic. The government would act to try and reduce the harm from this. But in this case, ignoring the situation. But people are being exposed, even tiny amounts of light, artificial light at night, are interfering with our circadian rhythms, interfering with our sleep.
And it's a cellular process. That sleep is an important part of our lives. So when we go to sleep, when the sun sets, our melatonin hormone is suppressed, and then a repair process occurs. Cells that got damaged during the day are repaired or absorbed and killed so that we have a healthy system. When we're exposed to light at night, then this repair action is not occurring because the melatonin hasn't been suppressed and that whole process is interfered with.
So it's very important to get back to a natural as close to natural night as we can.
Speaker 0: All right. So let's go into some of the mechanics here. But at first, I want to maybe you can just educate me, educate our audience. What are LEDs?
Speaker 1: So LED stands for Light Emitting Diode. It is a solid state lighting, SSL. It's a circuitry. It requires some kind of a driver electronics to make it happen. It's a flat, well, I guess they're inventing new things now, but I used to say it's a flat surface.
And through the physics of that flat surface, these photons are emitted. It is not a burning element. So an incandescent light bulb burns. Yeah, it's a chemical process. This LEDs are an electronic process.
So we consider this LED light like a digital process that kind of comes out one photon at a time in different directions. It's not a sort of a smooth process. And because of the electronics, we might have digital flicker. It might be, you might have seen this in certain bad lighting that the lights are flickering that didn't occur as drastically. So with incandescence.
So incandescence may have, if they're on household current, they may have a sine wave flicker at around 6%. And most people could tolerate that. But LEDs can flicker on and off completely, on or off, and on or off. And if the drivers are not done properly and there are no regulations to make sure they are done properly, then it can flicker. And then because it's a flat surface, the light comes out in a beam.
It's not all around, it's not spherical, and so it's directional. And the Department of Energy acknowledges this. Well, we've got to imagine that life is somehow different if we're under a spotlight. The engineers try to maybe make the light come out in all the directions, but really it's kind of a messy light. So all these different characteristics, think I left out spectral power distribution, which is the energies at each wavelength, the blue wavelength, the green wavelength, the red.
And one of the drastic differences is that LEDs have eliminated infrared light. The Department of Energy claims that this infrared light is something that waste. They call that wasted heat. So LEDs are so great because they eliminated this waste. Well, in the last few years, many scientists have now figured out that this infrared light is very beneficial and people are already making products.
People can buy masks that have red LEDs in them to somehow make your skin better. And so they recognize the benefits of this infrared. So the switch from incandescent lights, which was this pretty much healthy light, to a really hazardous toxic LED light with no infrared but lots of hazardous blue was probably the one of the worst decisions ever made.
Speaker 0: It's remarkable. I just did a little side anecdote here back when I used to do a show called Fox and Friends on Fox News many years ago, and this was all rolling out at the time. I think it was under Obama where I guess they were starting to eliminate incandescent bulbs and so forth. I'll I'll never forget because I didn't really know much about it. I just I thought that these were highly inefficient.
You know, those old incandescent Thomas Edison bulbs. Right? They cost a lot of money. So everyone's getting those CFLs and and LEDs. They're gonna save a lot of money.
You know, your your electricity bill is gonna plummet because it just took a lot less. And I remember my friend who my cohost at the time, Tucker Carlson, said, I don't want these LEDs. My so he bought he just, like, stocked up on so many incandescent bulbs. He just had, like, a garage full of them because, you know, they're, like, impossible to find. And I just sort of laughed at it, and I thought, oh, that's interesting.
Like, at least you don't care about saving money. You know? And and, but now, like, in hindsight, it's was a really smart thing to do. And, I mean, they started to eliminate incandescent bulbs. Did they not?
I mean, they made them illegal if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1: Yeah. That's quite a story. That's exactly what has occurred. Tucker was right to stock up. It was a it's a much healthier life.
So backing up a bit, way back 1973, we had an energy crisis in The United States and an oil embargo and people were lining up to get gas. And that's the first time that Congress in The United States sort of recognized that, well, unlimited energy sounds great, but here we are learning our lesson. We don't have unlimited energy. We're kind of dependent on how much we have and where it comes from. So they started to look in ways to save energy and energy conservation or energy efficiency is a different term.
They started looking into how can we do that. So one of the first things they did is start applying energy efficiency rules to vehicles. And so you had to start getting a certain miles per gallon. And as long as the car is still going just as far and just as fast and just as safe, energy efficiency is perfectly fine. You're actually saving money instead of 10 miles per gallon, you're getting 20 miles for every gallon and no change in your car.
Why not? That sounds great. But then they started applying it to everything else and to refrigerators and all kinds of things. And then they applied it to light. And this was a big mistake.
So in 2005, they passed the Energy Policy Act and directed the Department of Energy to go investigate. Hey, there's this new solid state lighting, these LEDs, they look great. We can save energy. So go find out if we can use LEDs to replace the incandescent light bulb. That's what the law says, 2005.
By 2007, everybody had gotten so excited. Oh my gosh, this is great new technology. Yes, we can save all kinds of energy. And the Congress directed the Department of Energy to establish a rule that the minimum luminous efficacy is 45 lumens per watt. So any light bulb for your house had to meet that criteria.
Incandescent light bulbs are around 10 lumens per watt. So incandescent light bulbs wouldn't meet that standard. So LEDs would. And so this is what the cause and it's gone through multiple administrations, Republicans and Democrats. So it's just some train wreck that's gone through all administrations.
But so this was the cause of everything. And so when they implemented that rule, then that was the phase out of incandescent light bulbs. The problem is the Department of Energy was required to collaborate with the Food and Drug Administration to make sure that this new light was safe. The Food and Drug Administration regulates electromagnetic radiation for all products, doesn't matter what it is, x-ray machines and microwave ovens and lasers, and it would be LED lights. So DOE and in the law, they're required to collaborate.
Well, that never happened. So nobody ever established any performance standards to make sure that this LED light was safe. So when it came out and your friend Tucker said, Wow, I don't like this LEDs, is because there were no standards. The only standard was lumens per watt. How much light can you get out?
Is the light safe? Nobody checked that out. Is the light meet quality standards? Does it have low flicker? None of that occurred.
So we were, it was pushed on us. Maybe, you know, maybe not, they weren't trying to kill us initially, but it happened. One of these things and it was like, my own negligence, and then it was just the ball started rolling and now nobody knows how to extract themselves out of this problem.
Speaker 0: I wanna come back to the idea of negligence, but also maybe intentionality of them trying to kill us in a second because my brain covered too many stories to think that it's just, you know, this is all a coincidence. We'll get there in a second, but maybe you can talk about some of the mechanics of LEDs and what it's actually doing to our bodies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm not an expert on biology, so, it's I'll do what I can, but light is fundamental to how we function. Turns out that we have photoreceptors throughout our body, not just our eyes, but in our skin, even inside, in our blood vessels, in our fatty tissues, there are these proteins that will capture or detect light and the light can penetrate through our skin. They've even found these detectors in our brain. So they're called opsins and these detect light and especially tied to blue wavelength light at four fifty nanometers around there. And so that blue light is fundamental to waking us up in the morning, making us energetic, making us hungry or sleepy, the lack of blue light.
So that's really important. And so if we've altered that by introducing LED lights, which if you look at the spectral distribution, typically has a large spike at exactly that four fifty nanometers. Why did they choose that? Because it was the way they could make it. It was the cheapest way.
They've been working now for a decade to change it and to improve it, to make it sort of come out like an incandescent light bulb. So that's what's occurring. But all these lights that we've been suffering with for a decade or more have a spike of that exact blue light that is probably something you don't need, especially at night. And so we have found that we are sensitive to the whole spectrum. We're sensitive to the missing infrared.
We're sensitive to maybe missing green. We're sensitive to the high blue, etcetera. So the mechanics of the light is really important. The spatial distribution, how it lands on our body is important. The time of day that we're being exposed to certain wavelengths is important.
The flicker. And so all of those things are impacting our mood and the diseases that we might be at risk at. And all of it's important. So what we need is the most quality light that emulates the natural world as possible. And LEDs are about as far away from the natural light as you can get.
Speaker 0: So incandescence are closer to that mimic more closely the natural world?
Speaker 1: Right. So if we look at the sun, it's something burning and it's far away. And that's really driven life on Earth here. And then we have maybe a campfire. It's got the warm colors, the reds and the yellows, and that's close to a sunset.
So, but we feel, most people feel warmer and happier around this kind of reddish amber light. And then when Edison came out with the electric light, it had a coil, it's tungsten, it's a filament, it's burning, and it generates a natural type of light. So it has the incandescent spectral distribution is very low blue, and then it ramps up to higher in the reds. And then most of it is this, what the Department of Energy called heat, wasted heat. But most of that incandescent light is this warmth.
So those were all natural. Then came things like fluorescent light bulbs. I have found out that many people have suffered under fluorescence. I never cared for them, but they weren't devastating for me. But many students had suffered through school because it has a spiky spectral distribution and may have a flicker to it.
So a lot of people like students are suffering in school because they had poor lighting. And then compact fluorescence came about, which I found to be okay as well. But a lot of people really, really didn't like compact fluorescence. And then the LEDs came out. So it's kind of this downward trend towards worse and worse light.
Speaker 0: You know, it's fascinating. You talk about the warmth of, you know, like a campfire. Everyone no one feels bad sitting around a campfire. It's kind of interesting. Right?
And when people are out in the sun, they're also their mood is lifted, right, most of the time. And we know even my daughter's been dealing with influenza A over the past week, and I've told her, you know, go out at noon and sit here for ten minutes in the sun. We get this beautiful Colorado sunshine, you know, sunniest state in the country. Like, sit here and get, you know, ten minutes of vitamin D in this noon sun, you know, to to make you feel better, get better. And even the Norwegians and the Danish have a term for that cozy lighting atmosphere called Hoike, think it's pronounced.
It's, spelled h y g g a or e.
Speaker 1: I think
Speaker 0: I've all my Norwegian friends and Danish friends forgive me, but it's a term for having that cozy atmosphere. And so they, the Danish, the Norwegians take lighting very seriously. Like, it's a very important part of their living rooms because it's, you know, cold and dark. And so when you get together with six people, I think the I think the number is even six. Like, if you have more than six people at a gathering, then it's not considered Hoika.
They have a name for this like a cozy atmosphere and the lighting is so important to that cozy atmosphere with gathering people. Anyway, my my European friends told me about this and there's books written on Hoika and it's all it's really fascinating, right? If you have more than six people at a gathering, then it's not considered cozy and so they take their lighting very seriously and and I would imagine that that having that warmth of those certain lights is important to that entire atmosphere, would you say?
Speaker 1: Yeah. I like that story. I'm half Danish. I don't know the word for sure, but I know the concept and you're right. And so I like that.
Yeah, so this, we have to realize then that light is affecting our mood. So if the government and the Department of Energy came along and strictly ordered required lights to just simply meet 45 lumens per watt as a minimum luminous efficacy without considering the impacts on our mood. That was a big mistake. Why should we be forced to, let me back up. The idea was to, of course, conserve energy by being more efficient.
So the problem is, of course, that they didn't really think it out properly. They didn't set the, they didn't test it. They didn't make sure it was safe. And then they didn't make sure, the idea was that there would be a one to one replacement. So if you had an incandescent light bulb, you'd go to the store, now you pick up an LED, it would last supposedly last longer and you'd be saving money, but they didn't realize that the manufacturers and the engineers and the physicists would invent all kinds of new LED lights.
And so now we've got LED lights everywhere where we don't need them. So did we end up saving energy because we did a one to one swap? I don't think so. I think we ended up with way more lights, way more electricity waste and light pollution as it's a major consequence to our health and to our ecosystem health. And so I think it was just a total disaster, even if the intentions were good.
So we need to get the, there's tons of research. So we need to get that research into the hands of the officials. And my big push is against the Food and Drug Administration. We need to get them to listen and start evaluating the situation. And we need to undo the effective ban on incandescence.
We need to allow people to start be able to buy these incandescence again, because they're healthier for us. And we need to eliminate some of these hazards that are built into the LED lights.
Speaker 0: Can you even buy incandescence anymore? I mean, are there any manufacturers still cranking them out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there are ways to do it. So there are lots of limits that you sort of workarounds. For example, there is a type of, didn't ban it on all light bulbs. So specialty light bulbs, can still purchase. You can purchase an oven light, for example, that's an incandescent, and an oven light might be 60 watts, not too bright, but it would be an incandescent.
Rough service is a label for light bulbs that allow them to maybe be outside in the winter or something like that. So they're more durable. You can still buy rough service. So if you go online and you need a light bulb and you don't want an LED, look for these specialty bulbs. I bought a bunch from a store that these bulbs were made in Hungary and they were at the store and it was a discount store.
They have a little bit of halogen gas in there and it's a little bit sharp, so it's not my favorite, but I bought a bunch of them just in case. I have LEDs in my house, so not all LEDs are bad. As far as the color temperature at 2,700 Kelvin, for me, that's about sort of the limit of that sort of as a label of how much blue it has. I'm okay with that, as long as it's not flickering and stuff. It's not a bad light for me, but anything beyond above 2,700 ks, I just really, I can't tolerate it.
So there are ways many people have found it necessary Christmas tree lights. We would recommend buying that you can I just looked online yesterday there you could still buy the old style incandescent Christmas tree lights? And I would recommend buying those because they're gentler and softer and they don't have that sharp, ow, my eye hurts because it's too sharp. So yeah, there are workarounds for it, but it would be better not to have the rule. And Senator Mike Lee of Utah has introduced in the Senate, it's called the LIT Act, L I T, I think it's Liberating Incandescent Technology.
I don't know if it's going anywhere, but I think it was around April 2025, he introduced that. Just cross out all these energy efficiency things. And we support that. The Soft Lights Foundation supports that regulation because it was done wrong in the first place without regulations to make sure the light is safe for us, comfortable for us, it was a bad bad rule.
Speaker 0: What about sleeping? Because as I mentioned at the beginning, now we're sort of surrounded at night by maybe you've got an alarm in your house. It's got a little green light on it. I know we have that. You know, your your smoke detector on the ceiling has a little LED light.
There's all these little LED lights surrounding your bedroom, and I keep hearing stories about how detrimental it is to your health. It can even create cause myopia in children that ophthalmologists are fully aware that they can almost tell if a child has been in a room with too much light as they're growing up, they'll develop myopia, which is unbelievable to me. Just like little LED lights in your your room can affect your sleep so much. Can you talk about the sleeping patterns with these LED lights surrounding us?
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the myopia comes from looking at close objects, looking at our cell phone. So children are looking at devices. I think that's a problem. The light itself, and I've had exactly that experience that you just described.
So you turn off the lights and the lights are still on. There are little indicator lights and it's disturbing. Science has measured this and has found that even those tiny little amounts of lights are interfering with our sleep. So I try to go around and turn off, let's say if it's plugged into a power strip that has the red indicator, I turn the power strip off. For the smoke detector, I painted it over with nail polish.
I don't want that thing blinking at me when I open my eyes. What else? There are some of the sockets now where you plug in your appliances has a little and may have a little LED indicator. I was putting little stars over those, But then your Wi Fi router, may be in your room and that may have an indicator and it may be a big bright, they're making it brighter and brighter. So that may have a blue light.
Turn off the router maybe. Maybe you don't need Wi Fi at night. That's probably better for you anyways. So do everything you can to eliminate all those little sources and you'll sleep better. But the problem is, systemically, might have a street light outside your window.
Now what are you going to do? That's harder. So a lot of people will say, well, buy blackout curtains. Well, that's, you know, you want the sunlight to come in in the morning. Now you can't open the window for fresh air.
That's kind of disastrous. So that would be something like, if you want to get it shielded or something, contact a city manager at your city and say, Hey, I want a shield around that. Try to demand an amber color instead of a blue rich light, see what they'll do. But they're very resistant, these cities, so that's hard. But throughout your own, whatever you can do within your own house, yeah, turn it all off, get the natural night as close as you can.
And maybe you get a sleep mask or something like that, but it's important to be aware because what's going on is that's interfering with the whole process. And you're more at risk of lots of different diseases if you're exposed to this artificial light, diseases like cancer and diabetes and mood disorders.
Speaker 0: I was gonna say, I mean, even with a sleep mask though, right? As you pointed out earlier, your body is still receiving the light through the skin. So even if you've got a sleep mask on, that's only just kind of maybe tricking your brain a little bit, right? But otherwise, your skin is still absorbing this stuff.
Speaker 1: Very perceptive. That's exactly right. So it's just sort of a surprise to everybody that, wait a second, I thought light was through the eyes. This whole skin thing is kind of new. Only how long ago was it?
Twenty years ago, the scientists discovered these other eye cells as well. So we have cone cells for color vision. We have rod cells for nighttime vision, which is gray scale, but very sensitive. And then maybe twenty years ago, IPRGCs that are non visual, but related to the circadian rhythm. And these IPRGCs are detecting the light and controlling things and that's in the eyes, but then further that, wow, these same types of cells are throughout the whole body.
And so yeah, you're right. We don't want the artificial light touching us anywhere.
Speaker 0: So you mentioned earlier some LEDs that they're now trying to mimic incandescence. So maybe they were harsh and blue, but maybe we could actually buy LEDs eventually that it's almost indistinguishable. And I've seen some of those, like, little flickering bulbs, you know, that look they try to look like and mimic candle light and those sorts of things. Are those good? Are those okay?
Or are those closer to incandescent so our body wouldn't notice a difference?
Speaker 1: Right. That's a great question. So this is totally fascinating. So here we, sort of unintelligently effectively banned a quality light, the incandescent light in favor of the LEDs. So then we have LEDs for a decade and then we figure out, oh, that was really bad.
So the physicists and the engineers are trying to now take that same LED and make it go backwards in a sense, right, to what incandescent could generate. So there is a vendor, a person I know that makes a bedtime bulb, that's his brand, and he's added infrared so that the main part of the light, the visible light is an LED, and then they've added a little something in there that creates infrared light, and it's designed for you to use at night before you go to sleep. It's not a very powerful light. I've got one in my bedroom. It's very nice.
It's soft. And now you've got that it's closer to mimicking an incandescent by combining these two technologies. There are many companies out there who are selling or promoting what they call a natural light that the spectral distribution is instead of this really tall spike of blue light and no red, that it's closer to natural sunlight, which is natural sunlight has from all the visible wavelengths, kind of they're pretty much even depending on the time of day. So eliminating these spikes and trying to get it more of a just a straight across all energies at the same levels. And then there are many companies now jumping into this promoting these health effects of the infrared light.
So that's just one aspect, the flicker, there's no regulations, but then people are kind of aware of that. The spatial distribution is still a problem because it's coming out of this flat surface. But yeah, that's a trend and it's kind of up to the individual user. If you're purchasing an LED and it feels fine, okay, you know, it's okay, use it if you're not feeling any ill effects, but realize that at nighttime, do what you can to turn off that light sooner rather than later. And if you are being awake, use the warmer color temperatures at night.
Speaker 0: Interesting. Now we you know, we're in a fairly new home here, and so we've got, you know, the cans in the ceiling with the the LEDs that are way up there in the ceiling with the whatever you call them, the recessed lighting and all of that. It's like, how do you, you know, try to replace all of that? Back in the day, I was replacing those all the time getting up on the ladder, you know, because they were incandescent, and so they would, you know, you could dim them, burn they'd burn out, you know, after about a year or or however long. So I guess it's almost impossible to find manufacturers of of incandescence for, like, recessed lights and all of that these days.
Right? Also, I should I should point out before I let you answer that. I I know even though they'll clip in, like, they, like, clip into, like, a socket. So they're not even they don't even have the the traditional, whatever you call it, socket. Right?
You can't even, like, screw anything in. They just kinda clip into a little LED receiver. You're sort of stuck with those now.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So that's not everywhere. So we went to a hotel recently and they had 5,000 Kelvin LED light bulbs in the lamps. We turned it on and we said, Oh my gosh, I can't, there's no way we can handle this. But they had those little, oh no, I take that back.
That was another hotel, but they had those little plug things. So what are you supposed to do? This other hotel that I started to tell you about had regular screw in the twisty kind. So we unscrewed them. We drove across the street to the store and bought some 2,700 Kelvins.
They're LED, but we brought those back and they had it much softer and then we could use the hotel room fine. I forgot what you had just said.
Speaker 0: Well, the plug ones, I mean, yeah, it's like, how do you, in your home at this point, I guess, turning them off at a reasonable hour. I mean, I don't feel the effects that I know of. Again, maybe in my sleep with all the LEDs in my bedroom, I'm definitely gonna start getting out the nail polish for my wife and trying to put up some stickers to block that stuff. But, you know, I guess in your main living room, if you don't if you got a newer home that doesn't have any sockets at all, they just plug right into a little little socket, you know, and you're stuck with these LED systems until I I don't know what. Maybe there's an invention that can mimic incandescence or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And that reminds me of what I was going to say when we moved into our house currently, now they're integrating the light into the fixture. This is another very, very poor design choice. So in the kitchen, had 5,000 Kelvin lights, but you could not just simply replace the bulb. And so I'm not any kind of a fix it person or anything like that, but I got the ladder and I got the hammer and I got the drill and I got all those things because I had to totally replace the entire fixture.
So I've got parts everywhere. I'm going to Home Depot multiple times to get the parts that I need and and drilling things and just to replace the light. That's that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 0: That's crazy. I guess before I let you get out of here, Mark, I wanted to talk about maybe the insidious, almost nefarious nature of these things, and you mentioned offhandedly, like, you know, I don't I don't know that they're trying to kill us, but that's where my brain kinda goes with a lot of this stuff. We see this with cloud seeding and sort of all sorts of other harmful things, whether it's processed food giving us then medications, then, you know, keep keep eating your processed food. We'll give you statins, you know, on the back on the backside. Right?
So I don't trust these people as far as I can throw them. Do you think that there is an agenda here? That there is some sort of an agitation agenda? Because I if we're all angry, if we're all agitated, if we're all not getting proper sleep, just my brain believes, you know, that the government and there's nefarious we certainly know the effects of MK Ultra programs that we've covered here on the show and the CIA, which are they're still operating today. We've spoken to whistleblowers, so this is not fiction.
Do you think that there's something nefarious going on here?
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm asked that question quite often. It's it's complex. The nefarious part is sort of inherent to everything else that's going on. I would use a lot of other adjectives to describe the situation, arrogance, incompetence, negligence, power, money.
So these different things have come together, inertia, fear, like in a bureaucratic system, there's a fear of losing your job if you do raise the issue. So all these things come together. One of the other things that I have found personally is how the system works is that if I notify a government agency that there's a problem, the first thing that will come back to me is how they're complying with all the regulations, so they don't have to do anything. If I push it further, like a petition, they will come back and say why they don't have to do what I'm asking them to do. If I push it further and take them to court, and I filed many lawsuits, pro se lawsuits, then they will assign it to a lawyer and the lawyer will then fight.
So even this, when you want to get it fixed and you point out all the problems, the system that we live in is designed to fight any kind of fix. They want the status quo to stay the same. So is there somebody sort of pulling the strings and saying, yeah, sort of there is, there are people that want to make money, they don't want to be sued. So for example, these LED streetlights, it's been now scientifically stated that it's an environmental carcinogen. Well, now those companies are liable for having sold this product, that's a carcinogenic product, right?
Well, they don't want to be sued, so they're going to fight. So anything that occurs now kind of gets on its own, kind of rolls down the hill. There are forces at work that's very difficult to fight. And, whether they're, they are trying to kill us all, probably not, but are they trying to fix it? Absolutely not.
Speaker 0: Right.
Speaker 1: And so, you know, that's what's going on.
Speaker 0: My brain always goes to, well, someone's probably making money off of this. If they now, you know, the melatonin industry or something, you know, trying to help us sleep because they know how detriment, you know, they can make a lot of money off of this and so the sleep industry, the the sleep drug industry probably can make a lot of money off of this. I I'm sure there's papers somewhere. Someone knows this, and someone's making money off of it. But that that's the that's my cynical nature.
I've been doing this too long, Mark. Where can people learn more about how to maybe change their environment? You have a or on your website where some resources that people can go, if they wanna reach out. Maybe someone's been suffering from this for years and just didn't know, and this could be, you know, again, a wake up call moment for them. Where can people go to get more information that you can help them with?
Speaker 1: Okay, great. So softlights.org, it's plural, softlights.org. On our front page, we have a campaign right now for, especially for LED headlights on cars, and you can sign a petition on change.org. We have over 75,000 people now have signed our petition to ban these blinding car headlights. You can also submit an LED incident report, which we submit to the Food and Drug Administration.
We started this in April 2024. We now have over 400 incident reports. These are very important because it's public record that something's wrong. So any person listening to the show can fill out an LED incident report. It's simple, just describe the impacts of the LEDs on your life.
The Soft Lights Foundation will submit that to the Food and Drug Administration, and we will hold them accountable to make some kind of regulations or something about this. If you want to learn more about the health impacts, we have a resources section, which has, I post lots of scientific articles. So the direct source, you can read through those, you know, those can be difficult. We have it's kind of a dense website currently. We're looking to redesign it, make it more accessible.
But there's lots of information about the health impacts and different categories, your eyes, environmental health, and you can learn about sort of the history. We have a news section which kind of keeps you up to date what we're doing, all of our regulatory petitions and our lawsuits, etcetera. And so, and then you can reach out to us. We can join our Facebook group, Ban Blinding LEDs, and and collaborate with others who are also trying to solve the issue or just there to complain.
Speaker 0: Well, you know, there's power. There's power in those numbers. I can tell you one thing I'm gonna be doing though, which is after this interview is going to our bedroom and and putting stickers on all these little LEDs. I've been meaning to do it, and you you were the catalyst. So, yeah, the sleep masks don't work, and we've got too many of those things in our bedroom.
Mark, thank you so much. I I I keep thinking of puns to say that this has been illuminating, but I I I should I should stop myself from saying that. But thank you so much for this. I've been wanting to really dive deeply into this, subject for a long time and hopefully we can have senator Mike Lee on the show to maybe push this even further and see if we can get some some eyeballs paying attention to this at the FDA and other things. So, Mark, thank you so much for your work on this and and this was really, really eye opening.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Clayton.
Speaker 0: Thank you.