Lynn D PhD 🧠😷🥽💉💪🏽🌞💙🌻🛸👽💕

Neuropsychologist, nature lover, global adventurer, scuba diver, shark enthusiast, Zumba addict, @Stanford alumna, health & fitness activist 🧠 #NOVID #NOVAVAX

[Richard Bernabe @bernabephoto]

You guys, please be careful with your accounts here on X. Four or five times a week I get a DM from one of you asking me to vote for your podcast on Google or Spotify. It means that your account has been hijacked and that you’re trying to phish for others to hijack. It seems like I’m getting these with more and more frequency so just be careful out there. Be careful what you links you click, especially if they’re in your DMs.

[Lynn D PhD 🧠😷🥽💉💪🏽🌞💙🌻🛸👽💕 @zdrlynn]

@DiaryofaSickGrl @PillCounterKel 🙌🏽

[Lynn D PhD 🧠😷🥽💉💪🏽🌞💙🌻🛸👽💕 @zdrlynn]

@BobMcGwier_N4HY How blessed you are to have each other! I am so happy for you! Congratulations!💞

[Roger Seheult, MD @RogerSeheult]

🚨🚨🚨🚨Today the U.S. House passed the Sunshine Protection Act, advancing legislation that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent nationwide.

This is the biggest legislative step this issue has taken in years but it is not law.

The bill now moves to the U.S. Senate, where there is still an opportunity for it to be debated, amended, or rejected. If you care about health and circadian biology, this is the time to speak up.

The scientific case against permanent DST has become increasingly strong:

• Morning light is the most powerful signal for synchronizing the human circadian clock.
• Permanent DST delays sunrise for much of the year, especially in winter, reducing exposure to morning light when our brains need it most.
• Later sunrises are associated with chronic circadian misalignment, sleep loss, poorer mood, reduced alertness, and increased cardiometabolic risk.
• Studies comparing western versus eastern portions of time zones consistently show worse health outcomes where people experience later sunrises despite sharing the same clock time.
• The American Academy of Sleep Medicine and numerous sleep and circadian experts recommend permanent Standard Time, not permanent DST, as the option that best aligns with human biology.

The argument for permanent DST is largely one of convenience and preference for lighter evenings. The argument for permanent Standard Time is one of physiology and public health.

If you believe our laws should reflect the best available scientific evidence, now is the time to respectfully contact your U.S. Senators. Tell them that while ending the twice-yearly clock changes is a worthy goal, permanent Daylight Saving Time is not the healthiest solution. Ask them instead to support permanent Standard Time, which preserves the morning light our circadian system depends on.

Please REPOST this. The Senate has not yet voted, and informed voices can still make a difference.

@LeaderJohnThune is the Senate majority leader that will determine when this legislation comes to the Senate for debate. He should know how you feel.

[Lynn D PhD 🧠😷🥽💉💪🏽🌞💙🌻🛸👽💕 @zdrlynn]

@DavidJoffe64_2 @DavidJoffe64 💕

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

A stomach parasite doesn't care about politics.
It cares about weak safeguards.
As Cyclospora cases surge across multiple states, Taco Bell is pulling fresh ingredients while investigators trace the source.
Food safety isn't optional…it's public health.
Beginning in July 2025, under the Trump administration, the CDC dramatically scaled back FoodNet.
Instead of actively monitoring eight major foodborne pathogens, it now requires surveillance for only two:
Salmonella
Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC)
The six pathogens no longer routinely tracked through FoodNet include:
CYCLOSPORA… (the parasite causing cyclosporiasis) along with the following…
Campylobacter
Listeria
Shigella
Vibrio
Yersinia

[Harshi Peiris, Ph.D. @Neuroscope_mp]

🚨 COVID just got scarier for your brain?
Huge 27-million patient study:
New Parkinson’s diagnoses spike after infection — peaking hard at 6 months.

The real twist? Risk vanishes after a year. This isn’t “COVID creates Parkinson’s.” It’s likely unmasking it early in people already on the path.

Neuroinflammation, inflammasome, same drug trials for both… This thread is gold. Must read. 👇

[Gary Brecka @thegarybrecka]

If you're over 40, here's my advice:

Lift weights.

Muscle is your insurance policy against frailty, insulin resistance, falls, and loss of independence.

Train for the next 40 years.

[Lynn D PhD 🧠😷🥽💉💪🏽🌞💙🌻🛸👽💕 @zdrlynn]

@FarvingCo Cool, but be careful: Grapefruit interacts with a lot of medications. Look it up or check with your pharmacist.

[Lynn D PhD 🧠😷🥽💉💪🏽🌞💙🌻🛸👽💕 @zdrlynn]

@mryoung151 😞

[Lynn D PhD 🧠😷🥽💉💪🏽🌞💙🌻🛸👽💕 @zdrlynn]

@AtomsDNA @wonderartsy Gersons are WAY more comfortable in the heat!

[Lynn D PhD 🧠😷🥽💉💪🏽🌞💙🌻🛸👽💕 @zdrlynn]

@populus_tree @wonderartsy Gerson duck bills are super comfy especially in hot conditions. I wear one in the sauna every day. I've even slept overnight in them. They are awesome!

[Harshi Peiris, Ph.D. @Neuroscope_mp]

Multiple large studies now show that the shingles vaccine is associated with a 51% lower risk of dementia.

One of the more consistent signals in Alzheimer’s research lately.
What do you make of this?
Could preventing certain infections meaningfully protect brain health long-term?

Thread with the studies:

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

Miami Dolphins using far-UVC?
Well I’ll be damned.
Florida.
The place where they’ll tell you not to trust scientists… right before benefiting from something invented by them.
Funny how science becomes acceptable when it helps your football team instead of your public schools.

[Al Haddrell @ukhadds]

Far-UVC is rapidly being recognised as an effective way to reduce the amount of infectious pathogens in indoor air

Given the importance of player's health when it comes to their performance, it's not surprising to see NFL teams utilising this new tech

https://t.co/ecf0UCLnPf

[💜Javichu @javichu73]

@ukhadds Far-UVC is the future and we should be using a lot more.

This is the way 💪

[Lynn D PhD 🧠😷🥽💉💪🏽🌞💙🌻🛸👽💕 @zdrlynn]

@javichu73 @ukhadds 💕💕💕

[Roger Seheult, MD @RogerSeheult]

🚨🚨🚨We may be less than two years away from losing access to some of the most biologically useful forms of indoor lighting in the United States.

On July 25, 2028, the Department of Energy’s 125 lumens-per-watt standard for General Service Lamps is scheduled to take full effect. From that date forward, covered light bulbs manufactured in or imported into the United States will have to meet that efficiency threshold.

The problem is that lumens measure visible brightness—not biological usefulness.

A bulb designed to provide a broad, sunlight-like spectrum, support circadian physiology, reduce blue light exposure in the evening, or emit near-infrared wavelengths may use energy in ways that are not fully reflected in its lumen rating. Near-infrared light, for example, is invisible to the human eye and therefore contributes no lumens, even though it may have important biological effects.

In practical terms, the 125-lumen-per-watt rule could eliminate many circadian, broad-spectrum, and infrared-emitting bulbs from the American market.

On April 8, 2025, a formal Petition for Rulemaking was submitted to the DOE requesting the creation of a new “General Wellness Lamp” product class. These lamps would be exempt from the 125-lumen-per-watt requirement while still meeting the 45-lumen-per-watt congressional backstop—representing approximately 75% lower energy use than traditional incandescent lighting.

There have been encouraging political signals supporting consumer choice in lighting. However, executive orders and departmental policy statements do not, by themselves, change the Code of Federal Regulations.

The 125-lumen-per-watt rule remains legally binding, with a compliance date of July 25, 2028. There is currently no waiver protecting general-wellness lighting. Proposed legislation that would repeal the rule has not passed.

A durable solution requires the DOE to complete a formal rulemaking that creates a legally recognized General Wellness Lamp category.

This is becoming urgent. A typical federal rulemaking may take 18 to 24 months. For a final rule to be completed with a reasonable margin before July 2028, the DOE would need to begin the formal process very soon.

This should not be framed as a choice between energy efficiency and health. We should be able to preserve efficient lighting while also recognizing that light is more than visual illumination. Its spectrum, timing, intensity, and wavelength composition can affect circadian rhythms, sleep, alertness, metabolism, and potentially mitochondrial biology.

Researchers, clinicians, manufacturers, and members of the public who care about healthy lighting should begin paying attention to this issue now. We need coordinated engagement with the DOE, Congress, the scientific and medical communities, and the public before the regulatory window closes.

We should not allow a standard based solely on visible lumens to unintentionally remove lighting designed around human biology.

@SecretaryWright
@realDonaldTrump
@HHSGov
@RobertKennedyJr

https://t.co/KaqkUah6Qf

[Harshi Peiris, Ph.D. @Neuroscope_mp]

Two identical twins. Same DNA. Same childhood.
One developed MS. One didn't.

Scientists went looking for the difference — and found it in an unlikely place: the bacteria living in their small intestines, not their genes.

Thread on the 2025 study that's changing how we understand MS. 🧵

[Lynn D PhD 🧠😷🥽💉💪🏽🌞💙🌻🛸👽💕 @zdrlynn]

@Neuroscope_mp Thank you for your guidance! I will happily add cool cooked potaoes to my daily legumes, greek yogurt, fruits, vegetables, sauerkraut and other fermented foods👍🏽