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Malillumination and Bl ..
Systems: A Challenge |.,
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Until recently, the main concern,
regarding interior artificial lighting to
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interactions are with wavelengths be,
of visible light and take in the entire ule
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This raises many very serious
reaching questions as to what extent
including especially electrical cal,
interior designers, may be more',
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to interior lighting from artificial su.
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The living cell and the fundame !!.
process involves so many overlapping
that perhaps it is now time to stand I ...
good overall look at the whole pictur,
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terms or phrases to bring certain ( ....
closer understanding within a great.
disciplines.
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biological combustion. When
combustion we think right away of this .
sort of combustible material, that is ti,
other words-nutrition.
Oxygen is definitely a requisit.
adjustment of the carburetor in you.
engine is done with a very delicate:
Some automobiles now sold in ch.
altitudes where the air is a little thing,
more delicate methods to adjust ,.
amount of oxygen. When extra oxyg. .
premature babies in their incubat ...
blindness, deafness and brain tissus
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Light: The Ignition system for metabolism
We take for granted that a combustion engine also
needs an ignition system and that if the spark plugs
are dirty it is a waste of time to work all day adjusting
the carburetor or putting different additives ir the
gasoline. But we are totally ignoring the biological
combustion. or metabolic ignition system-that is.
the interaction of light or electromagnetic energy.6
Light is generally thought of as something ciner
than electrical energy such as radio waves, but it is
just as much a part of the total electromagnetic
spectrum and, therefore, actually does come within
the technical classification of being electric energy.
As previously mentioned, every chemical.
mineral, vitamin or substance of any kind that we
take into our bodies has a maximum wavelength
absorption characteristic of electromagnetic
energy. We also know that this wavelength energy
penetrates the skin and directly interacts with the
chemicals and minerals in the blood supply. Blue
light . at wavelengths of approximately 4000
angstroms is used to interact with and break down
the bilirubin serum in the blood of premature babies
with jaundice so that the liver and kidneys can
excrete it. Without exposure to this part cular
wavelength, the bilirubin serum builds up to a toxic
level that ultimately causes brain damage and
possible death.
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Interaction between toxic build-ups and exposure
to light spectra
In a similar way, the build-up of toxic levels in the
blood of factory workers from exposure to industrial
chemicals could be influenced by the type of
artificial lights used in the working area.7
The European Society for the Study of Drug
Toxicity has reported that the lethal dose rate is
lower for drugs when administered during the
nighttime than during the daytime.
Those minerals and chemicals in the individual
cells of our bodies that would normally be
metabolized by the wavelengths that are missing
remain in the equivalent of darkness, even though
other wavelengths are present. The end result
would be an incomplete metabolic or biological
combustion process.
Light and endocrine processes
We also know that light received through the eyes
in addition to vision stimulates the pineal and
pituitary glands.ª These master glands control the
endocrine system that regulates the production and
release of hormones that control body chemistry.
This would then seem to me to be a carry-over of the
basic principles of photosynthesis in plants, which
is sometimes referred to as a conversion of light
energy into chemical energy, to animal life which
has not heretofore been recognized. Thus it is the
wavelengths that are missing in various types of
artificial light or that are filtered from the spectrum
of natural light by window glass, windshields,
eyeglasses and particularly tinted contact lenses or
aunalasses, smog and even
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However, more and more arin ,
constantly appearing in recognize.l
scientific journals,1-4 indicating that
lacking any part of the full spect ...
wavelengths of natural outdoor day!i(,
condition now referred to as malill
has been shown to affect human,
behavior in a way similar to malri,
results primarily from what is lacking,
diet.
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suntan lotions, that are not only responsible for the
condition of malillumination, but also are failing to
activate certain endocrine functions.9
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Many doctors are referring to cancer as a disease
of endocrine imbalance and treating the master
endocrine gland, the pituitary, with drugs or
performing surgery without realizing the important
role that light plays in controlling this gland that acts
as the balance wheel of the endocrine system.10
Cancer is often described as being an
uncontrolled growth that has gone wild. Such a
condition would certainly seem to be directly
related to a mixed up metabolic or biological
combustion process.
Fluorescent, mercury vapor, sodium vapor,
multi-vapor lights: culprits of allergic response
All fluorescent lights contain mercury vapor lines
that are customarily shown on wavelength charts as
only one one-hundredth of their true intensity and
one hundred times their true width, in order to
represent the same relative energy and get them on
an ordinary size sheet of paper. This gives a grossly
distorted impression of the intensity of these
wavelengths being one hundred times less intense
than they actually are and also showing a high peak
of energy including a band of wavelengths one
hundred times broader than actually exists. Other
types of gaseous discharge lights, including
mercury vapor, sodium vapor, multi-vapor, etc., also
contain similar very narrow lines or wavelength
peaks.
If the wavelength absorption characteristics of a
food or drug happen to coincide with such an
extreme peak of energy in an artificial light source,
then the result could be an over-reaction or an
allergic type of response.
Another major problem with all fluorescent lights
as well as all the other types of gaseous discharge
tubes or bulbs is that they emit RF radiation beyond
the range of visible wavelengths. These are known
to cause computers and scanning equipment used
in hospitals to give erroneous or erratic readout
results and, accordingly, plastic diffusers with a
grounded wire grid are recommended for the
fluorescent light fixtures. This RF radiation has now
been found to cause muscle weakness and other
physiological and psychological problems.11
Loss of muscle strength from radiations, synthetic
clothing, bleached sugars and flour
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Loss of muscle strength can easily be
demonstrated by using the relatively new
technique of kinesiology. Have a person stand
under ordinary fluorescent light fixtures with arm
held straight forward and palm facing downward.
Press downward on the wrist while the person
resists, in order to establish the stength of the
shoulder muscle. This should be done first with the
fluorescent lights turned off and then repeated with
the lights turned on. Usually there will be a very
noticeable difference in the muscle strength.
However, this test does not always work, as there
are other factors that grossly affect muscle strength
that must be eliminatec
ase include not only
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such items as ordinary eyeglasses and especially
tinted contact lenses and deeper colored
sunglasses, including the type that turn darker
outdoors, but also radiation type smoke detectors
within a distance of fifty feet on floors above or
below test area location. Any wrist watch or nearby
clock with a luminous dial or battery-operated
mechanism, calculators, video display terminals,
certain types of synthetic clothing, especially vinyl
imitation leather and polyester, and what the patient
may have eaten during the previous three or four
hours such as refined sugar or white bleached flour
will also weaken muscle strength. The wavelength
characteristics of light reflected from different
colored walls is similar to that passing through
filters of similar colors and must also be considered. ;
For some unknown and unexplainable reason, pink
and orange produce the greatest loss of strength
and blue the least when compared to full spectrum
outdoor natural daylight. The recent rapid swing
toward the new, more efficient but at the same time
grossly distorted pink and orange spectrum range
of the new type sodium vapor lighting only raises
further very serious problems concerning its effect
on human health and behavior.
Synergistic effects or counteractions
Certain single items that weaken muscle strength
will complement each other when combined and
produce a synergistic effect while other
combinations may counteract each other and
produce no effect.
Of a similar note, hospitals that have installed
electronic fetai monitoring equipment in their
maternity wards are experiencing an alarming
increase in the rate of Caesarian section births, 12
due to loss of uterine muscle strength of the mother.
Radiation type smoke detectors, digital wrist
watches and polyester sheets and night clothing are
espcially high on the list that diminish the sex drive
and/or cause impotency.
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All these recent findings are helping to make it
possible to better understand the results of
previously reported studies13-14 of the effect of
different colors or wavelengths of light on
laboratory animals that could not be fully explained
and were therefore ignored.
These studies indicated that the most significant
abnormal conditions found in laboratory animals
resulted from exposure to pink fluorescent light.
They included excessive calcium deposits in the
heart tissue, smaller number and lower survival rate
of young in the litters, significantly greater tumor
development or cancer, which has now been
confirmed by six major medical centers, plus a
strong tendency toward irritable, aggressive
(constant fighting with one another), and
cannibalistic behavioral patterns.
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Learning behaviour and lighting fixtures
A study conducted in a windowless elementary
classroom showed dramatic reactions in children to
an improved lighting environment.15
Under their normal classroom lighting, some first
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graders in the study demonstrated nervous fatigue,
irritability, lapses of attention and hyperactive
behavior. After installing full spectrum lighting with
lead foil shields over the cathode ends of the
fluorescent tubes to stop suspected soft x-rays and
an aluminum screen and grid over the entire fixture
to stop known RF radiation, which is characteristic
of all fluorescent tubes, a marked improvement
appeared in the youngsters.
Without any use of drugs, the first graders settled
down and paid more attention to their teachers.
Nervousness diminished and teachers reported that
overall classroom performance improved. The
children were unaware of the special cameras
mounted near the ceiling that snapped sequences
of time-lapse pictures during the class day. With the
standard type of unshielded lights still in operation,
students could be observed fidgeting to an extreme
degree, leaping from their seats, flailing their arms
and paying little attention to their teachers. After the
full spectrum shielded lighting was installed, the
same children were filmed two and three months
later. Behavior was entirely different. Youngsters
appeared calmer and far more interested in their
work. One little boy, who stood out in the first films
because of his constant motion and who was
inattentive to everything, had changed to a quieter
child; able to sit still and concentrate on routine.
According to his teacher, he was capable of doing
independent study and had even learned to read
during the short period of time.
There is a lot to be learned about how light and
radiation affects not only human muscle strength
but also its effect on general health and behavior,
including work production and efficiency. But the
fact that it does is now indisputable. Perhaps the
expression "the last spark of life" should be taken
more literally, for it appears to be this electrical
dimension that makes the difference between a
living cell and a dead one.
(John Nash Ott)
Printed contemporaneously in the Wisconsin
Architect, journal of the Wisconsin Society of
Architects.
References
(1) Ann R. Kennedy, "Fluorescent Light Induces Malignant
Transformation in Mouse Embryo Cell Cultures." Science, Vol.
207, 14 March 1980, pp. 1209-1211
(2) Matthews O. Bradley and Nancy A. Sharkey, "Mutagenicity
and Toxicity of Visible Fluorescent Light to Cultured Mammalian
Cells." Nature, Vol. 266, 21 April 1977, pp. 724-726.
(3) Yoshisuke Ozaki and Richard L. Wurtman, "Spectral Power
Distribution of Light Sources Affects Growth and Development
of Rats." Photochemistry and Photobiology. Vol. 29, pp.339-341.
(4) Cora G. Saltarelli and Christine P. Coppola, "Influence of
Visible Light on Organ Weights of Mice." Laboratory Animal
Science, Vol. 29, No. 3, June 1979, pp. 319-322.
(5) John N. Ott, Health and Light. New York: Simon and Schuster,
Pocket Books Division, paperback, 1976; Old Greenwich, Conn .:
Devin-Adair, hardback, 1973 (April).
(6) John N. Ott, My Ivory Cellar. Old Greenwich, Conn .: Devin-
Adair, 1958.
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(7) Dennis P. Valenzeno, Ph. D. and John P. Pooler, Ph. D.,
"Phototoxicity, the Neglected Factor." JAMA, Vol. 242. No. 5.
Aug. 3, 1979, pp. 453-454.
(8) John N. Ott, "The Eyes' Dual Function, Part I, II & Ill." The Eye.
Ear, Nose and Throat Monthly, Vol. 53. July 1974, p. 281;
November, pp. 465-469; and Vol. 53, Nos. 7 and 8, pp. 173-180.
(9) John N. Ott, "The Dual Function of the Eyes." The Optician.
Vol. 178, No. 4595, July 13, 1979, pp. 13-15.
(10) John N. Oft. "Light, the Missing Link?" The Journal of the
Northwest Academy of Preventive Medicine, Vol. 2, No. 1. pp. 14-
19.
(11) Proceedings: The American Conference of Governmental
Industrial Hygienists Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 26-
28, 1979.
(12) Ronald L. Wiliams, Ph. D. and Warren E. Hawes. M.D.,
"Caesarian Section, Fetal Monitoring, and Perinatal Mortality in
California." AJPH, Vol. 69, No. 9. September 1979, pp. 864-870.
(13) John N. Ott, "Effects of Wavelengths of Light on
Physiological Functions of Plants and Animals." Illuminating
Eng., 1965, Vol. LX, pp. 254-261.
(14) John N. Ott. "Some Responses of Plants and Animals to
Variations in Wavelengths of Light Energy." Annais, N.Y.
Academy of Science, No. 117, 1964. pp. 624-635.
· (15) John N. Ott. "Influence of Fluorescent Lights on
Hyperactivity and Learning Disabilities." Journal of Learning
Disabilities, August/September 1976.
(16) John Nash Ott. "The Influence of Light and Radiation on
Plants. Animals and People." The Construction Specifier,
November 1977, pp. 31-38.
Transmutation of the Elements
in Oats: New Analyses
By the end of the summer, 1979, it seemed
appropriate to undertake new analyses on the
quantitative variation of Elements occuring during
the germination process in the Oats species. Such
oats (Blond Hybrid, Peniarth Variety) would be
subjected to a culture for about four weeks in very
pure water (pH 5.7, ± 0.1 acidity), and protected
from any possible external input of minerals-via
the ambient air, for example.
This new research involved modifications when
compared with those conducted over the previous
twenty years. It would account for hard to measure
activities and variations of two principal anions:
Phosphorous and Sulphur. All the previous
analyses were limited to the quantitative variations
of the cations because of techical limitations
connected with the Physical analysis and the
Chemical analysis instruments.
The Microanalysis Laboratory of the CNRS (the
French National Scientific Research Center) had
just received a mass spectometer that is linked to a
computer. The instrument enjoys improvements in
both sensitivity and specificity; so, the quantitative
dosages to both Phosphorus and Sulphur became
accessible to meaningful readings.
Previously, chemical analyses
were made
through acids of the ashes of the oats. This meant
that the Phosphorus and Sulphur (in their organic
form) would become volatile at temperatures.
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