Among the laundry list of health problems COVID has inflicted on the world's population, one of the more perplexing could be an increase in the number of girls experiencing what is known as idiopathic precocious puberty – abnormally early onset of...
, highlighting a potential link between the virus and a trigger for early adolescence.in Rome suggests it might not have anything to do with the infection at all.
"We have found that blue light exposure, sufficient to alter melatonin levels, is also able to alter reproductive hormone levels and cause earlier puberty onset in our rat model. In addition, the longer the exposure, the earlier the onset,"Though far from a slam-dunk on the case of why more girls around the world might have hit puberty when they did during the
or other disorders of the nervous system, a good proportion are idiopathic, meaning there's just no obvious cause.jumped from 25 in April 2019 to 58 in March 2020, researchers were stumped, proposing anything from high calorie foods to the fear of the pandemic might be to blame.in use of smart devices. Or, to be more precise, a significant increase in time spent exposed to the blue light emitted from our phones and tablets each day.
Using rats as a more convenient test subject, the team of researchers demonstrated this hypothesis could have a lot going for it.
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