October roundup 🎃

🐎 Here's a list of everything published on Naturally Natural in October, 2021

Oct 31, 2021

Hi,

Happy Halloween!

Here’s this month’s roundup, where you can revisit your favorite posts and catch up on the ones you missed.

This is also a great time to send me feedback! What did you enjoy? Do you have any suggestions for what I could do differently and better? Is there a topic you would like to see me cover in the future? This newsletter is for YOU after all!

Here are October’s posts:

🌟 How to help your tribe stabilize and strengthen their circadian rhythms:

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👉Start Here

Hi, A person deciding to resynchronize their circadian rhythm faces a difficult journey. They will need guidance and support to overcome the challenges they will face. These obstacles may include: uncertainty, confusion, and mistakes judgement from their friends, family, and co-workers…

3 years ago · 1 like · Nikko Fujita

🪶 How to get health benefits from Autumn sunshine:

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Cool weather sunbathing🌥

Hi, I hope your Fall season🍃is off to a great start🚀! Today's natural living tip is that this is a great time to... sunbathe!? Yes, it turns out that exposing skin to low-intensity sunlight has many benefits. For example: solar preconditioning early in the morning gives up to SPF 15 protection for the rest of the day…

3 years ago · 1 like · Nikko Fujita

🪶 How waking up in the middle of the night can sometimes be a sign of normalcy:

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Consolidated vs unconsolidated sleep😴

Hi, Have you ever woken up and been unable to sleep in the middle of the night? How would your perspective on that experience change if you thought of it as natural? Today I'd like to share with you an older study about human sleep. This paper busted apart one of my core assumptions about sleep: that humans need 8 solid hours of it per night…

3 years ago · 1 like · Nikko Fujita

🪶 How everyone, but especially people in their childbearing years, can benefit from the melatonin boost that strong circadian rhythmicity brings:

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Rhythmicity from the start👶

Hi, I have been wanting to share today's review for a long time. I learned a ton about melatonin from this paper, such as how it: is a more powerful antioxidant than vitamin C and vitamin E protects ova and sperm from damage is suppressed in mothers with pre-eclampsia and eclampsia…

3 years ago · 1 like · 1 comment · Nikko Fujita

🪶 How to make your home provide stronger circadian cues:

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Home Sweet Circadian Home🏡

Hi, I hope your day is off to a great start! Last weekend, Energies published a literature review about designing buildings for circadian rhythmicity. This info is meant help architects design for better visual👀 and non-visual🙈 light cues. It's amazing and forward-thinking, and will likely be regulated in the future…

3 years ago · 1 like · Nikko Fujita

🌟 How to read through the double-speak used by scientists on the topic of causality:

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Experimental Evidence is Still Lacking🔬

Hi, There's a thread in research about circadian disruption that presents an interesting dilemma. To illustrate, I'm going to use a recent review about circadian dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Here are some direct quotes from just the first two pages that exemplify the issue…

3 years ago · Nikko Fujita

🌟 How to introduce your family to darkness, gently:

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Try it at home🕯

Hi, So what exactly does a circadian day look like? Well, in a circadian environment, activity can take place around the clock, just as in nature. This is a future goal for humanity. But it will take some shifts. For example, here's a building with regular night lighting…

3 years ago · 1 like · Nikko Fujita

🪶 How to relate with people who don’t think artificial light affects them negatively (or conversely, how to relate with people who do think artificial light affects them negatively):

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We are all different🌅

Hi, Here's an amazing fact: sensitivity to evening light can have a 50-fold variation among individuals! Where do you think you fit on the spectrum of light-sensitivity? Homes also vary in their evening brightness. Is your home on the dimmer or brighter side of evening…

3 years ago · 1 like · Nikko Fujita

Also, did you notice the new emoji code? Based on your feedback, I am now categorizing posts as follows:

🌟 hero posts: in depth articles about particular subjects, meant to inform, inspire, and empower you to guide those in your care to make their own “naturally natural” decisions
🪶 research posts: quick tips from specific research articles meant to encourage you and keep you in the loop about the research I am reading
🐎 roundups: recaps of each month’s activity so you can review your favorite posts and catch up on anything you missed
📯 announcements: milestones and updates about this publication and it’s growth and transformation
🎧 podcasts: coming soon!

I have also changed to a simpler font scheme and started adding images to posts to help you get a more visual sense of what is going on here.

Let me know what you think!

Best,

Nikko

P.S. As always, the list of citations also grew in October. Here is that link for the research-minded; I update it after each new post:

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Citations 🗃

Alkhatatbeh, B., Asadi, S. (2021). Role of Architectural Design in Creating Circadian-Effective Interior Settings. Energies, 14, 6731. This review of 128 papers concludes that architects and interior designers have significant power to positively impact mood, health, and wellbeing of building occupants by designing for proper visual and non-visual light cues around the 24-hour day…

3 years ago · 1 like · Nikko Fujita