So something is odd with this scientific research. Any explanations?
That's ok.
I usually have really dim orange lights...
Edit: Or was it the contrapositive..
What it's saying is that the color of light doesn't make a difference, especially if the light is dim. There was research into the effects of the color of dim light and separate research into the effects of bright light during different times of the day.
The research into bright light found that lots of it in the morning was really beneficial, and bright light late into the night is harmful. The statistics in the research showed it was very accurate, and the article doesn't doubt it.
The other research, into the effects of the color of dim light found that dim blue light late at night was harmful, but dim yellow light wasn't, although the statistics on this research didn't show a very strong effect. The article discusses some follow-up research that shows there is likely was no effect at all.
The takeaway is that it's still important to get lots of light in the morning, and not too much light late at night, but it's not worth worrying about what color the light is.
F.lux is fairly intrusive.
Any real doctor would tell you, that if it works for you, keep the habit. We are different, and there are outliers in everything.
The obsession with blue light came out of a hypothesis based on an analysis of proteins found in the eye, not on actual research of their effect. Further research showed that mammals circadian rhythms are likely more affected by yellow light, than blue light: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/researchers-discover...
I haven’t found anything else that influences it.
PaulHoule•2h ago
https://lab.rockefeller.edu/cohenje/assets/file/098CohenBook... (review)
are really bright, as our the lights used for treating SAD. I always thought the fear over screens was the kind of bogus thing people wanted to believe in.