Flourescent lights-serious environmental
contaminants and biological stressors
By Mark Abriel, D.C.,  Byron Bay Holistic Chiropractic

 Compact flourescent bulb governments are attempting to

introduce into every home, work space and medical faciility.

GLOBAL WARMING HIDDEN AGENDA?

Global warming is the concern of the day, despite Antarctic ice core samples
indicating that planetary temperatures have fluctuated far more in the last
ten thousand years, than in the last one hundred, as a result of
increased man made greenhouse gas emissions.

“If we’re going to get serious about global warming, we need to get serious about
nuclear power” said John Howard, ex Australian prime minister, in 2007, lending fuel to the argument that the whole global warming crisis is a fabricated event to serve
other political agendas, such as the proliferation of nuclear technology.

The answers by governments, not only Australian, to the theorized global warming planetary scenario appear to be an attempt, conscious or otherwise, to replace biologically safe technologies, with biologically harmful  ones. The premise being that the biologically dangerous ones are energy saving, and therefore produce less carbon emissions. This is despite the reality that carbon gas emissions comprise only a small percentage of  greenhouse gases, and that  even if the carbon gas content was of great significance, that there are only very limited
improvements in carbon emissions from the substitution of one technology for another.

SCIENTISTS REJECT GLOBAL WARMING HYPOTHESIS

 19,ooo Scientists reject the Global Warming Hypothesis: http://oism.org/pproject/

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BIO-RESONANT  BEING REPLACED BY BIO-STRESS TECHNOLOGIES

One of the most significant of the changes, from bio-friendly  to bio-stress technology, is the substitution of  incandescent lighting(normal light bulbs) for compact flourescent bulbs.

At the end of February, 2007, the Australian government announced plans to phase out incandescent light bulbs and replace them with compact fluorescent bulbs. By legislating to restrict the sale of less energy efficient, but cheaper, incandescent light bulbs,ex  environmental minister Malcolm Turnbull said that australia’s greenhouse gas emissions, 565 million tons per year, could be reduced by 4 million tons by 2012.

If these figures are real, then we have 561 million tons of greenhouse gases in 2012 per year instead of 565 million.

“Here’s something practical that everyone will participate in” said the prime minister, John Howard.

FLOURESCENT BULBS CONTAIN MERCURY

The new compact fluorescent bulbs the government wants to see in every home, medical facility, and office,  all contain the heavy metal mercury, and like all fluorescent tubes, generate light through cathode ray tubes, (as in an x-ray machine) releasing ionising radiation(x-rays, gamma rays, cosmic rays) as well as microwaves.

The heavy metal mercury is one of the most toxic substances known. The mercury in tens of millions of  discarded compact flouro bulbs is going to end up in rivers, oceans, and soils, creating a true planetary and biological emergency.
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Mercury is not the only health threat related to the use of fluorescent lighting.

HEALTH EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE TO FLOURESCENT LIGHTING

Photobiologist Dr. John Ott, author of “Health and Light” has studied the effects of light on biological systems for the past forty years.

Dr. Ott  writes that malillumination is as significant an issue as malnutrition. Light, as from the sun, is full spectrum, composed of seven colours(red through violet), all of which Dr. Ott’s research shows are necessary for normal human functioning, and development. Light from fluorescent bulbs is not full spectrum, being heavily weighted towards certain wavelengths, and deficient in others.


Fritz Hollwich, Professor Emeritus , Dept. of Opthalmology at the University of Munster, Germany,  discovered high levels of ACTH and cortisol, stress hormones produced by the adrenal glands, in test subjects sitting under fluorescent lighting. These findings were absent in others under full spectrum lights. Based on the research of Dr. Hollwich and other scientists, non full spectrum fluorescent bulbs are now banned in German hospitals and medical facilities!

INCREASED ADRENAL HORMONE LEVELS SUPPRESS THE IMMUNE RESPONSE, IN FAVOUR OF RAPID HEART BEAT, CONTRACTION OF BRONCHIOLES, SWEATING, AND OTHER PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES TO PREPARE THE ORGANISM  FOR “FIGHT OR FLIGHT’”. THE RESULT OF THIS ONGOING STIIMULATION AS HANS SELYE, MD. WROTE IN HIS LANDMARK BOOK “THE STRESS OF LIFE” IS FIRST ADRENAL HYPERTROPHY(ENLARGEMENT) AND THEN HYPOTROPHY(SHRINKING), LEADING TO WEAKENED IMMUNE SYSTEM, CHRONIC FATIGUE, EXHAUSTION, DIGESTIVE BREAKDOWN, DEGENERATIVE DISEASE OF ALL TYPES,  AND EMOTIONAL INSTABILITY.

THE PINEAL GLAND,( RELATED TO THE “THIRD EYE”, SECOND CHAKRA)  INSIDE THE BRAIN, SETS OUR BIOLOGICAL CLOCK. THE PINEAL  IS LIGHT SENSITIVE, PRODUCING MELATONIN IN RESPONSE TO LIGHT EXPOSURE. THE PINEAL ALSO PRODUCES THE NEUROTRANSMITTER, SEROTONIN, WHICH HAS A  CALMING, ANTI-AGGRESSIVE EFFECT.

 STRESSORS, VERY SIGNIFICANTLY PHOTOBIOLOGICAL STRESSORS(LIGHTS SUCH AS NON-FULL SPECTRUM, FLICKERING X-RAY EMITTING FLOUROS) DISTURB SEROTONIN OUTPUT.

LOWERED SEROTONIN OUTPUT: TENSE, STRESSED, AGGRESSIVE POPULATIONI.
INCREASED ADRENAL STRESS HORMONES: RUN DOWN, SORE THROATS, CHRONIC FATIGUE, LOSS OF “JOY OF LIFE”.

NON-FULL SPECTRUM FLOURESCENT LIGHTS ARE BANNED IN GERMANY, YET GOVERNMENTS WANT TO PHASE OUT INCANDESCENT LIGHTS, AND REPLACE THEM WITH COMPACT FLOURESCENTS.


 A recent Stanford University study, headed by Professor Victor Carrion,  measuring cortisol levels from saliva swabs in  traumatized children, demonstrated that high cortisol levels were likely to cause shrinkage and damage to the hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible for memory and emotional control.  The study is the first to relate increased cortisol levels and stress with childhood psychiatric and learning disorders.


According to Traditional Chinese Medicine,  the ancient Indian healing system of Ayurveda as well as chiropractic, adrenal stress, and increased stress hormone production, are a root cause of depletion of vital force paving the way for degenerative disease.


Exposure to fluorescent lighting has been associated with many health problems including  headaches, irritable bowel syndrome,  eyestrain, fatigue, irritability, difficulty in concentration, increased rate of misjudgements and accidents, aging of the retina, increased incidence of miscarriage, allergic skin reactions, dermatitits, eczema and psoriasis.

But as Hans Selye, M.D. showed in “The Stress of Life” , stress is the trigger for any disease state, mental or physical. Anything which is a stressor can be involved in the genesis of disease, and fluorescent lights are a signficant stressor.

The flicker  in fluorescent lighting is another factor which has been known to trigger behavioural problems, including hyperactivity in children.

Opto-electronics have made great steps forward in recent years, and LED lights are the most energy efficient light sources developed. They last for hundreds of thousands of hours, and are full spectrum with very bio-c0mpatible emissions.  LED’s are already being used in some traffic lights, so it’s only another step for them to be utilized in house lighting.

Flourescent lighting has been a major source of man made EMF(electro-magnetic radiation) for decades.  With the LED lighting alternative, and the ever increasing amount of man made radiation, in the air with now wireless internet, and bluetooth mobile phones, all world governments , rather than encourage use of fluorescent lighting, should follow the initiative of countries such as germany, who have banned non-full spectrum fluorescent lights.