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For today, I want to highlight research beginning at UT Austin, University of Texas at Austin,

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led by Dr. Francisco Gonzalez Lima.

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In the link, it is study number 2, Effects of Transcranial Infrared Light Stimulation

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on Symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

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Page is 4 through 60 with the diagnosis of Autism.

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There is a form listed at the bottom of the link provided, basic information, eligibility,

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and so forth, and or an email address and a phone number.

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I do not have connections to this study or to the researchers or the university.

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However, I do have interest.

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The podcast has hours of episodes discussing light and human biology.

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Artificial light predates autism and Alzheimer's and obesity and the CVD and cancer problems

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and all of these modern health conditions.

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Childhood disorders.

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It is too common to hear children are attempting suicide at younger and younger ages now.

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I think this is all connected here.

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Artificial light predates autism.

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Autism predates all of these, at least most, I think of these environmental risk factors

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being considered and studied.

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Upstream in these problems mentioned is going to be how?

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Living organisms like humans, even humans, use light for life.

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Humans are the only species that will remove itself from its natural environment.

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You've heard during the cause of autism episode how humans use different wavelengths of light

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for different aspects in life and how our modern environments have replaced the full

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sun spectra with isolated artificial light and how rates of autism follows these changes.

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How humans evolved under getting 20 to 30,000 lux in the morning sunrise and the sunset the

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evening sun.

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The 100,000 to 120,000 lux in the midday sun.

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Two, the 300 to 500 lux of this isolated artificial light and the 300 to 500 lux at night because

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humans can now extend the day.

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Remember the several mentions of melanopsin, this blue light chromophore that wasn't discovered

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in the human biology until 1998 and fully understood how it is sequenced, rabidomeric

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opsin in subsequent years, 2002, 2005 and such, but over the last 20 years after that we have

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found it everywhere, endothel, organs and all over the brain.

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And the monosympnaptic connections to the super-chiasmatic nucleus and the habinula,

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these are vital.

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Remember the SCN being the master clock and everything in our body runs on clock operating

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procedures.

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Artificial light at night is a region of interest too.

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I suspect light, the various types of light is a missing link with autism research and

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why so many things in autism research is inconsistent, the genetic studies being a dead end and so

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on.

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Environmental signals are powerful and our biology receiving these such as mitochondria

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are very sensitive.

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Remember the two episodes on mitochondria, the solo episode and the wonderful Dr. Richard

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Fry explaining to us how sensitive these mitochondria are.

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And remember the four red light chromophores within the mitochondria.

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All of this is going to be very exciting as Dr. Francisco Gonzalez Lima and his team

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of researchers begin this work.

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