Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors

Re:Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors by kaibee on Thursday November 28, 2019 @10:56PM (#21661910)

> cancer progresses much faster in summer than in winter

This sounds fascinating. Do you have a source?

Btw, I love f.lux and have been using it since probably like 2010, possibly earlier. Its basically the first thing I install on any computer.

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Re:Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors by gewa on Friday November 29, 2019 @12:56AM (#21662377)

These are pretty bold claims. I'm not sure if a single communication from 15 years ago is enough to to build such a relationship. Please note, that any claims about "cancer" in general are hard to make, because they have such variety of phenotypes.

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Re:Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors by herf on Thursday November 28, 2019 @11:30PM (#21662065)

I made a note about Blask's 2005 work below, which is the main work I was thinking about. We can say that constant light is bad for cancer.

But as I'm refreshing my memory, winter can cut both ways. For some, it makes more darkness and more melatonin (which is thought to be protective of cancer). For others, winter results in not seeing enough light, and so melatonin amplitude goes down. And so this is associated with increased cancer.

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Re:Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors by hvidgaard on Friday November 29, 2019 @02:13AM (#21662679)

My immediate thought is that is very closely related to sleep.

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