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A Midwestern Doctor@MidwesternDoc · Sep 18, 2026

Researchers gave office workers who lived under LEDs a 60W incandescent desk lamp. Two weeks later, every one of them…

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A thread argues that incandescent bulbs banned by the government in 2022 provide infrared radiation beneficial to human health, citing research linking LEDs to sleep disruption, obesity, and other health issues. It highlights a Senate bill (S. 1568) seeking to end the ban and claims historical studies showed full-spectrum lighting improved classroom behavior and health outcomes.

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    Researchers gave office workers who lived under LEDs a 60W incandescent desk lamp. Two weeks later, every one of them had their color vision improve by 25%. The government banned those bulbs in 2022 for "wasting" energy as infrared. But that "waste" is actually one of the most important nutrients our bodies depend upon, and the improvement lasted for weeks after the lamps were taken away (while nothing changed in the controls). Decades of forgotten research show the artificial light we replaced it with is a root cause of many inexplicable illnesses (e.g., insomnia, obesity, cancer, and hyperactivity in children). Here I show what that research found and how a bill now before the Senate can bring these bulbs back.🧵 midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-hidden-h…

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    In 1973, John Ott put full spectrum lights in two Chicago classrooms. Within a week, hyperactive first graders settled down, one boy who couldn't sit still taught himself to read, and the class later had a third as many cavities. The schools refused to continue it.

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    Bulbs are graded on lumens, a 1924 measure that ignores infrared and barely registers the blue spike in LEDs. When 52 bulbs were tested, cool white LEDs suppressed melatonin 8 times more than incandescents, and 248 circadian scientists now want warning labels on them.

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    This week @SenMikeLee's LIT Act (S. 1568), which ends the ban, got its first hearing. The Department of Energy backed it ("DOE supports greater consumer choice. Period."), while Democrats & the lighting industry opposed it despite strong public demand for the bulbs. Full debate:

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    After his glasses broke, John Ott's crippling arthritis went away. He then had 15 cancer patients remove theirs and get natural light for a summer. 14 stopped progressing. The 15th kept his glasses on. Here's the forgotten science of why: midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-hidden-h…

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    We need real medicine so I've dedicated myself to exposing Pharma corruption and revealing life-changing therapies the medical cartel buried. If you want to support this mission please give me (@MidwesternDoc) a follow and visit me on Substack! midwesterndoctor.com