For today, I want to highlight research beginning at UT Austin, University of Texas at Austin,
led by Dr. Francisco Gonzalez Lima.
In the link, it is study number 2, Effects of Transcranial Infrared Light Stimulation
on Symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Page is 4 through 60 with the diagnosis of Autism.
There is a form listed at the bottom of the link provided, basic information, eligibility,
and so forth, and or an email address and a phone number.
I do not have connections to this study or to the researchers or the university.
However, I do have interest.
The podcast has hours of episodes discussing light and human biology.
Artificial light predates autism and Alzheimer's and obesity and the CVD and cancer problems
and all of these modern health conditions.
Childhood disorders.
It is too common to hear children are attempting suicide at younger and younger ages now.
I think this is all connected here.
Artificial light predates autism.
Autism predates all of these, at least most, I think of these environmental risk factors
being considered and studied.
Upstream in these problems mentioned is going to be how?
Living organisms like humans, even humans, use light for life.
Humans are the only species that will remove itself from its natural environment.
You've heard during the cause of autism episode how humans use different wavelengths of light
for different aspects in life and how our modern environments have replaced the full
sun spectra with isolated artificial light and how rates of autism follows these changes.
How humans evolved under getting 20 to 30,000 lux in the morning sunrise and the sunset the
evening sun.
The 100,000 to 120,000 lux in the midday sun.
Two, the 300 to 500 lux of this isolated artificial light and the 300 to 500 lux at night because
humans can now extend the day.
Remember the several mentions of melanopsin, this blue light chromophore that wasn't discovered
in the human biology until 1998 and fully understood how it is sequenced, rabidomeric
opsin in subsequent years, 2002, 2005 and such, but over the last 20 years after that we have
found it everywhere, endothel, organs and all over the brain.
And the monosympnaptic connections to the super-chiasmatic nucleus and the habinula,
these are vital.
Remember the SCN being the master clock and everything in our body runs on clock operating
procedures.
Artificial light at night is a region of interest too.
I suspect light, the various types of light is a missing link with autism research and
why so many things in autism research is inconsistent, the genetic studies being a dead end and so
on.
Environmental signals are powerful and our biology receiving these such as mitochondria
are very sensitive.
Remember the two episodes on mitochondria, the solo episode and the wonderful Dr. Richard
Fry explaining to us how sensitive these mitochondria are.
And remember the four red light chromophores within the mitochondria.
All of this is going to be very exciting as Dr. Francisco Gonzalez Lima and his team
of researchers begin this work.
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