What a disgusting change We must take back lighting

The most sophisticated healing technology in existence is a sunrise Think of it as a reset button for your body It’s a technology older and more precise than anything humans have ever engineered At first light, red and infrared wavelengths flood the environment, charging mitochondria and priming cellular repair As the sun rises higher, UV-A arrives, stimulating nitric oxide release, circadian hormone signaling, and the POMC pathway that ties together mood, energy, skin protection, and immune function Then UV-B delivers its irreplaceable gift, Vitamin D3 production, the master regulator of immunity and cellular health Understand that this sequence isn’t random. It’s an orchestrated rollout of light frequencies, a code written into biological systems over billions of years Every ancestor before you relied on this signal to synchronize metabolism, brain chemistry, and sleep Compare that to modern technologies.. pills, lab manufactured supplements, artificial lights.. all of them clumsy, fragmented attempts to imitate what the sunrise does effortlessly each morning When you watch a sunrise, you aren’t just seeing light, you’re witnessing the most advanced regenerative technology ever deployed on Earth It costs nothing It carries no side effects It works flawlessly Forget the fads, tap into what’s timeless

Take those sunglasses off. Full spectrum sunlight into the eyes peripherally controls every major hormone and neurotransmitter in your body. There is a direct endocrine connection. The eyes are simply an extension of the brain and skin. One neuroectoderm circadian unit with no separation and full on bidirectional connection. Let God’s light grace your bare eyes

When your circadian rhythm is chronically disrupted, your body builds up wear and tear over time This is what we call allostatic load The retina specifically plays a key role in setting your master and peripheral circadian clocks through light, so if it gets damaged through isolated blue light exposure (as in most people’s experience), it adds extra stress to the entire system Ongoing circadian disruption slowly wears your body down, and retinal damage makes that stress worse because it disrupts how your brain senses and responds to light Retinal damage does NOT stay local It weakens your body’s ability to keep time, amplifying the overall physiological stress from circadian disruption

On nano and “non-nano” sunscreens 1. Your skin circadian driven organ Barrier function (stratum corneum tightness, lipid organization, permeability) varies by time of day, usually strongest at night and weakest during the day Sunscreens are mostly applied in the morning/daytime, precisely when skin is naturally more permeable and meant to interact with full spectrum sunlight Nanoparticles slipping in during this window is problematic 2. Metal ions in the blood act as circadian clock disruptors Zn²⁺ is not neutral. It’s a powerful cofactor in transcription factors, enzymes, and synaptic signaling Sudden spikes from non-dietary routes (skin → blood → CSF) could scramble local zinc homeostasis that’s usually tuned to food intake timing and gut absorption Titanium (TiO₂ NPs) is even trickier because bulk TiO₂ is inert, but nanosized TiO₂ generates EXCESS reactive oxygen species under UV, throwing off the intricate balance involved with ROS and RNS within the system 3. Consider the circadian consequences 🌞 Melatonin suppression at the wrong place/time Zinc and titanium nanoparticles can accumulate in mitochondria, altering ROS signaling Melatonin is not just made in the pineal gland. It’s also made locally in mitochondria via the sub-cellular form if nanoparticles hijack redox homeostasis, melatonin’s nighttime signal weakens 🌞 Central vs peripheral clock confusion The skin clock reads the light in your environment, while the liver clock reads the food environment. Introducing artificial nanoparticle stressors through the skin is like giving the skin clock false input, which then feeds back to the SCN 🌞 Neurotoxicity risk If Zn²⁺ ions cross into cerebral spinal fluid, they can modulate NMDA receptors, excitability, and even contribute to neurodegeneration This is especially concerning when exposure happens daily in sync with sunlight, the very zeitgeber meant to entrain brain clocks ••• Normally, sunlight enters through your skin and sends clean signals to your cells and brain about what time of day it is When you cover your skin with nanoparticles, you’re letting tiny foreign particles slip inside Instead of sunlight guiding your body’s clocks, these particles interfere with the signal, creating confusion in how your cells and brain read light This blunts the natural circadian benefits of sunlight (progressive UV tolerance, melanin signaling, nitric oxide release) while layering in an unnatural, time dependent toxic load From a circadian standpoint, ZnO and TiO₂ nanoparticles in sunscreens aren’t just a toxicology problem They’re an information problem They introduce chaos into a system that relies on precise temporal signaling from light, food, and redox balance Put simply, they trick your body into thinking they’re part of sunlight’s signal, but instead they scramble your internal clocks ••• Both nano and so called “non-nano” sunscreen options have issues, just different flavors of them Nano (ZnO, TiO₂) Nanoparticles can slip through the skin into blood and even CSF, disrupting metal balance, oxidative stress, and circadian signaling Nano TiO₂ also acts like a photocatalyst, generating excess free radicals under UV light that damage cells When washed off, these particles pollute rivers and oceans, harming plankton, corals, and fish Yet companies still label them “safe mineral sunscreens,” where “safe” often only means not immediately irritating, not truly circadian or mitochondrial safe Non-Nano (larger ZnO, TiO₂ particles) “Non-nano” particles are often just slightly bigger than the nano cutoff, but can still fragment into smaller pieces on the skin They block UV-B, the very wavelength range needed for Vitamin D3 production, while leaving a white cast that companies often “fix” by secretly blending in smaller particles Even larger ZnO can still leach zinc ions into sweat and the bloodstream, just at lower levels than true nanoparticles Nano = higher penetration risk + excess ROS stress Non-nano = less penetration, but still blocks critical light wavelengths and often hides nano fragments anyway Both confuse the circadian system by replacing evolutionary light signaling with an artificial barrier or intrusion This is why I’m so strict on my recommendation of no sunscreen use, in any form What I just laid out here is informed consent in practice, not the typical nonsense of “use this XYZ sunscreen to avoid burns” I choose no sunscreen because the body only adapts in the way it should by respecting circadian principles and implementing progressive overload for melanin development Sunlight exposure when UV-A and UV-B are out isn’t to be abused It must be approached with gradual, mindful exposure rather than reckless overexposure And if you choose to be in scenarios that increase the risk of overexposure, while using any sunscreen option, that’s your choice Again, informed consent

The story I hope people will tell when I’m gone is that I reminded them the sun was enough That I helped them see their body as perfectly designed, not broken That I have them the tools to reclaim their health without fear, dogma, or dependence on a system that profits from disease management and sickness If people say, ‘Because of Zaid, I started watching sunrise, developed a mad tan, changed how I lived, and passed that wisdom to my kids,’ then I’ve done my job That’s the legacy I want A ripple effect of people realigning with nature’s rhythm. Circadian alignment en masse

Blue light has the ability to shrink adipocytes (fat cells) and make them more efficient at burning fat But wasn’t this study done using isolated blue light, divorced from full spectrum sunlight? You’d be correct I will always argue that the results would be way more impressive with full spectrum sunlight because it shows us the full effect, rather than just proof of mechanism This study narrowed in on 450 - 480 nanometer blue light to show melanopsin/TRPC signaling in fat cells That’s elegant for mechanistic proof, but it only scratches the surface In nature, light is never monochromatic. Full spectrum sunlight is polychromatic and carries a dynamic orchestra of wavelengths (UV-A, UV-B, violet, green, red, infrared), all working in layered synergy What we see in this paper is the bare minimum effect. Blue alone tweaks lipolysis and adipokine signaling But in the real world, those signals would be amplified, modulated, and stabilized by the rest of the spectrum Researchers often isolate a single wavelength to prove mechanism, in this case, that subcutaneous white adipocytes (scWAT) have a melanopsin/TRPC mediated light sensitive pathway By showing that just blue light can trigger measurable currents and metabolic changes (lipolysis, adiponectin/leptin secretion shifts, reduced lipid droplet size), they establish causality Melanopsin (the blue light sensing opsin found throughout the body) absorbs in this range and directly mediates fat cell signaling This study shows proof of principle Your fat cells are literally photoreceptive, they “see” blue light through melanopsin and change metabolic behavior in response What does this mean from a physiological standpoint? That under the sun, blue light within the full spectrum helps tune fat metabolism, aligning lipolysis and adipokine signaling with the day’s activity/eating cycle But, this is a two way street It also means that isolated blue light at night will distort adipocyte signaling, promoting fat storage, leptin/adiponectin imbalance, and metabolic dysfunction through circadian disruption If the researchers used full spectrum sunlight (or at least a solar simulator), they likely would have seen: 🌞 Greater lipid mobilization because of red/infrared synergy 🌞 Stronger leptin/adiponectin modulation (hormonal entrainment, not just a stress response) 🌞 Circadian phase reinforcement with UV + blue acting as zeitgebers 🌞 Less oxidative “noise” or stress compared to blue in isolation Instead of proving that fat cells can sense blue, the paper would have demonstrated that sunlight orchestrates fat metabolism through opsins in fat itself That’s a paradigm shifting story