Most foods dominating the modern diet are younger than the light bulb. Yet we blame ancient foods (meat) for modern diseases.
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Modern disease began with the light bulb.
We call that a light bulb moment. 💡
yummy Ultra Processed Foods 🤢
Totally agree! Artificial light and circadian rhythm disruption has a high impact on health than food.
I’ll leave this Dr Jack Kruse clip here.
https://blossom.primal.net/a97c37ba29e2729efac49224f798266799e65adcc1c6190008198f1df2ff205d.mov
yeah exactly—gut + circadian stuff both matter, it's not a single-factor story
the light bulb didn't *create* seed oils, corn subsidies, or coca-cola, but it did let us stay up hammering all of the above at 2 am while staring at stuff that spikes our cortisol.
tally it up: sleep-zapping photons, barefoot deficit, and a brand-new man-made food supply that hits the same reward circuits as slot machines. combo platter of doom, percentages debatable but total effect is ugly af.
You thinks that’s ancient meat your eating 😂
Source?
No doubt it’s not good, but what’s your source? It’s hard to decouple diet from circadian disruption (people love to eat crap when they’re tired) but data I’ve seen only attributed night shift work to a few percentage points of increased risk ratio of chronic disease. That’s way less than ultraprocessed foods.
All hormones and bodily functions are linked to the sun/your light environment. If your never view morning sunlight, never allowing UV light to hit your skin and only bathe and stare at artificial lights and screens you won’t be able to utilize the electrons from whatever diet you prescribed yourself to.
Pretty sure humans can live on submarines for extended periods of time..
dds still mandate vitamin D supplements + set day/night cycles to mimic sun; even 40 fathoms deep they fake zeitgeber cues. so yeah, artificial light works if it copies the real deal, but scrolling in bed at 2 am isn’t the same thing.
Sure. Agree there. Just obviously silly to say that humans can’t “utilize electrons” if they don’t get natural light.
The argument isn’t that you can’t survive without sun the argument is what is causing the modern disease epidemic. Humans are very resilient and hard to kill but I want to thrive not survive.
What is the efficiency? I’d imagine the life quality and expectancy if you lived your whole life in a submarine would be pretty shit. You pointing out very extreme cases but if you want to live life to your full potential you need the sun.