Amber light, fat cells, and nature Researchers took human fat cells and shined different colors of light on them.. violet, blue, green, yellow, amber (nanometers), and red Only one wavelength consistently did something dramatic: Amber light made fat cells break down their stored fat droplets. This wasn’t done by the normal fat burning hormone pathway, but by turning on the cells cleanup and recycling machinery Autophagy + lysosomes = internal fat digestion. Autophagy being the cell’s self-cleaning process, and lysosomes being acidic sacs that digest waste The cell essentially ate its own fat droplets from the inside out as a result of amber light exposure This pathway is not the classic adrenaline to HSL to fat breakdown route The researchers even blocked the usual lipase pathways, and the amber light effect still happened So, the study tells us that amber light activates the cell’s recycling machinery that destroys fat droplets It’s not a stretch at all to suggest that light wavelengths can influence adipocyte (fat cell) behavior in a measurable way ••• Every wavelength does something different in the body because different molecules and tissues absorb different photons Blue light is highly stimulating and alerting. Red and infrared boosts mitochondrial ATP. UV-A and UV-B offer distinct benefits Amber sits in an interesting middle zone because it penetrates deeper than blue, carries more energy than red, and interacts with metabolic tissue like fat Amber is also heavily involved in: • cerebellar development • circadian signaling • mitochondrial dynamics • melanin intermediates • POMC related pathways Fat cells responding to amber light fits the pattern of amber being a metabolic wavelength Amber exists in the natural world for your benefit. It’s most abundant during sunrise and sunset due to Rayleigh Scattering, where you have a high concentration of red/infrared/oranges/yellow/ambers Golden hour is an amber rich experience You literally bathe in amber light just by stepping outside during sunrise and sunset Firelight offers a lot of amber along with many of the same wavelengths that sunrise and sunset provide Full spectrum sunlight during the day offers amber as well, but at less concentration since it’s mixed with the rest of the spectrum Incandescents are a man-made lighting source that is rich in amber light By maintaining circadian alignment, you bring amber back into your life during both the day (sunrise, sunbathing, sunset, incandescents) and night (firelight & low lux incandescents)

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Daylight savings time is ass on every level. Nature doesn’t observe it. The sun still rises and sets on its own schedule. We’re the only species arrogant enough to think we can “save” daylight by lying to our circadian clocks. We need permanent standard time because it aligns our social clock with the solar clock

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If UV was inherently carcinogenic, our species wouldn’t exist. Full stop

Different spectrums of light from the sun offers unique benefits due to circadian timing

When someone claims that a tan is a sign of skin or DNA damage, remind them that this entire narrative has its roots in eugenics and scientific racism, not objective circadian biology The early dermatology and photobiology frameworks that demonized tanning were developed during an era when darker skin tones were pathologized, not understood “Sun damage” became a term that conveniently upheld the pseudoscientific belief that pale skin was biologically superior, a view promoted by eugenicists who associated light skin with purity and intelligence So, when they parrot the idea that melanin production equals damage, ask them why they’re defending a framework built on racist pseudoscience rather than updated circadian photobiology Melanin is NOT a damage response It’s an adaptive and photoprotective system that presents the following benefits: 1. Powerful antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals and maintains redox balance 2. Natural anti-venom that binds and neutralizes toxic compounds, including heavy metals 3. Anti-tumor agent that suppresses abnormal cell proliferation through redox and immune modulation 4. Biological nnEMF shield that dissipates excess electromagnetic stress at the cellular level 5. Detoxifying polymer that chelates and eliminates environmental toxins and heavy metals 6. Photoprotective barrier which is nature’s built-in sunscreen that adapts to UV exposure from full spectrum sunlight 7. Lipid peroxidation defender that prevents oxidative damage to cellular membranes and fats 8. Broad spectrum anti-viral that inhibits viral replication via photochemical and immune pathways 9. Anti-microbial shield that resists bacterial and fungal invasion through oxidative control 10. Neuroprotective agent that safeguards neurons from oxidative and excitotoxic stress And so much more God and nature infused those benefits into melanin by design. A tan is your body training under full spectrum sunlight It’s an adaptation. That’s why it’s found throughout the entire natural world, especially in human beings, through three forms (neuromelanin, eumelanin, pheomelanin) I’ll tie your mainstream dermatologist into a Gordian knot by forcing the question they won’t want to answer Whose interests does this “damage” narrative actually serve? I’ll tell you this It doesn’t fucking serve the people

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