Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila
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Re: Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila
#2*in Drosophila
Re: Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila
#3*in Drosophila
Conspiracy theories, engage!
Re: Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila
#4Their model animal is a fly (Drosophila). I can imagine that impacting the claims significantly. Insects and mammals differ quite a lot.
I wouldn’t expect the same results in mammals (or any animals really).
Re: Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila
#5*in Drosophila
Big clickbait. I don't care about my LED screens damaging flies brains, my fly-trap makes a very bigger damage.
Re: Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila
#6Their model animal is a fly (Drosophila). I can imagine that impacting the claims significantly. Insects and mammals differ quite a lot. I wouldn’t expect the same results in mammals (or any animals really).
Still, you are only making an assumption. Not very scientific if you.
Re: Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila
#7Their model animal is a fly (Drosophila). I can imagine that impacting the claims significantly. Insects and mammals differ quite a lot. I wouldn’t expect the same results in mammals (or any animals really).
Given the amount of blue (and every other visible wavelength) light the Sun puts out it seems like evolution should have handled this by now.
Re: Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila
#8Nice clickbait. Full title of the article:
> Daily blue-light exposure shortens lifespan and causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila
Drosophila are fruit flies. File under "interesting, but likely not applicable to mammals".
EDIT: From front page to flagged in 32 minutes. That's impressive.
Re: Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila
#9If you are a human and not a fly here is what concerns you "... humans are exposed to more blue-enriched LED illumination for most of the day, or even at night due to shift work and light pollution in large cities.6 However, long-term consequences of increased daily blue-light exposure across the human lifespan are not known." saved you a clickbait.
Re: Daily blue light shortens lifespan, causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila
#10Their model animal is a fly (Drosophila). I can imagine that impacting the claims significantly. Insects and mammals differ quite a lot. I wouldn’t expect the same results in mammals (or any animals really).
Given the amount of blue (and every other visible wavelength) light the Sun puts out it seems like evolution should have handled this by now.
It more or less has in mammals... though it's kind of swung the other way. Sunlight is required to produce Vitamin D, which it turns out is pretty darn important.
The catch is that most people don't get enough sunlight exposure to produce enough vitamin D.