whygetfat on Nostr: Eric Novack MD, orthopedic surgeon: "When I was a kid [..] we didn't see these elbow ...
Eric Novack MD, orthopedic surgeon: "When I was a kid [..] we didn't see these elbow ligament injuries, which are super common in throwing athletes, for the so-called Tommy John surgery. He was the Major League Baseball pitcher who had the first really successful operation, in terms of return to sport.
"Now these things are happening every single day. The surgeries are happening all the time in teenagers, and ACL tears or ligament injuries in the knee. We're seeing enormous number of ACL injuries in younger people, particularly in young women. There is this hand wringing, particularly for this ACL in young women. Why is it happening?
"I have never once heard anybody say, 'Huh. Is it because these kids are on devices all day long? By the way, we don't activate their healthy systems during the day by getting them morning sun. Oh by the way, they're on their devices all night so their melatonin-focused repair system doesn't have a chance to help them build things up.'
"Because that is really incontrovertible. While albeit a very complex and complicated multifactorial system, melatonin absolutely helps dictate repair systems, both overnight from the central systems, and during the day due our intracellular melatonin production, which is primarily stimulated by the near infrared system.
"So we're not giving these growing bodies the opportunity to do the necessary repair.
"So yeah, probably playing volleyball 11 months a year and doing this [makes spiking motion] isn't the greatest thing for you. But imagine how much better off we'd be if we were actually giving these kids' bodies a chance to actually recover.
"And that doesn't even account in the young women and men for the hormonal disruptions that happen when we have them sitting under LED blue-only lights for nine hours during the day."
Eric Novack MD with maxgulhanemd (npub19yj…unad) @ 37:59–40:19 https://youtu.be/ok3Ymhbx-L4&t=2279
"Now these things are happening every single day. The surgeries are happening all the time in teenagers, and ACL tears or ligament injuries in the knee. We're seeing enormous number of ACL injuries in younger people, particularly in young women. There is this hand wringing, particularly for this ACL in young women. Why is it happening?
"I have never once heard anybody say, 'Huh. Is it because these kids are on devices all day long? By the way, we don't activate their healthy systems during the day by getting them morning sun. Oh by the way, they're on their devices all night so their melatonin-focused repair system doesn't have a chance to help them build things up.'
"Because that is really incontrovertible. While albeit a very complex and complicated multifactorial system, melatonin absolutely helps dictate repair systems, both overnight from the central systems, and during the day due our intracellular melatonin production, which is primarily stimulated by the near infrared system.
"So we're not giving these growing bodies the opportunity to do the necessary repair.
"So yeah, probably playing volleyball 11 months a year and doing this [makes spiking motion] isn't the greatest thing for you. But imagine how much better off we'd be if we were actually giving these kids' bodies a chance to actually recover.
"And that doesn't even account in the young women and men for the hormonal disruptions that happen when we have them sitting under LED blue-only lights for nine hours during the day."
Eric Novack MD with maxgulhanemd (npub19yj…unad) @ 37:59–40:19 https://youtu.be/ok3Ymhbx-L4&t=2279