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Artificial lighting is harmful to health – study

Искусственное освещение наносит вред здоровью - исследованиеConstantly included artificial lighting is extremely negative consequences for health.

Dutch scientists conducted a special study, which found out and called the negative effects exerted on a living organism by artificial lighting.

Full information about this study, published in the publication Current Biology.

All conclusions were made on the basis of long observation of laboratory mice. Scientists stripped the mice at 24 weeks of natural light by placing them under artificial light. At the end of the observation period, the specialists have noticed a significant deterioration in the overall health of the mice.

In particular, scientists have identified failures in the so-called “clock” in the brain of rodents. These changes reduced the activity of the mice of almost 70%. It led to a decrease in muscle mass and strength, bone destruction, as well as various inflammations. Scientists were able to neutralize all the negative consequences of the experiment, mice kept under natural light for two weeks.

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