{"id":62681,"date":"2025-12-07T18:56:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62681"},"modified":"2025-12-07T18:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:59:16","slug":"exposure-to-bright-light-at-night-increases-heart-disease-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62681","title":{"rendered":"Exposure to bright light at night increases heart disease risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Night_Bright_Light_Exposure.jpg\" alt=\"Night Bright Light Exposure\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Night_Bright_Light_Exposure.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Night_Bright_Light_Exposure-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exposure to artificial light at night disrupts your body\u2019s natural sleep-wake rhythm, raising your risk of heart disease, heart attack, stroke, and heart failure<\/li>\n<li>A large-scale study found that adults living in the brightest nighttime environments had up to a 56% higher risk of heart failure and a 47% higher risk of heart attack compared to those in the darkest settings<\/li>\n<li>When combined with air pollution, bright night environments amplify cardiovascular risk even more \u2014 nighttime light accounted for up to 39% of the extra heart failure risk linked to polluted air<\/li>\n<li>Nighttime light not only harms your heart but also increases the risk of mental health disorders, including depression, anxiety, PTSD, and bipolar disorder, while reducing exposure to bright daylight worsens these effects<\/li>\n<li>Restoring a natural light-dark cycle \u2014 bright days and truly dark nights \u2014 helps regulate your hormones, protect your heart, improve mood, and reduce your risk of chronic disease<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/consciousness\/exposure-to-bright-light-at-night-increases-heart-disease-risk\/\">https:\/\/nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/consciousness\/exposure-to-bright-light-at-night-increases-heart-disease-risk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exposure to artificial light at night disrupts your body\u2019s natural sleep-wake rhythm, raising your risk of heart disease, heart attack, stroke, and heart failure A large-scale study found that adults living in the brightest nighttime environments had up to a 56% higher risk of heart failure and a 47% higher risk of heart attack compared &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62681\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exposure to bright light at night increases heart disease risk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62683,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62681\/revisions\/62683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}