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Stay indoors. Draw the curtains. Fear the moon.

Amber lenses cutting off above 430 nanometres block the trigger. The cheapest intervention in the whole addendum.

Blue-blocker protocol

Trigger · ipRGC / 415 nm

Plate · LCAN · Blue-blocker protocol · theoretical reconstruction

Amber lenses with a cut-off at or above 430 nanometres, attenuating the 415 nm band by more than ninety percent. Stay indoors was the folklore. Draw the curtains was the protocol, badly remembered.

activation requires intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell input at approximately 415 nanometres. Amber lenses with a cut-off at or above 430 nm attenuate that band by more than ninety percent, even under full-moon opposition surge. The protocol is cheap, unmedical, and immediately effective: wear the lenses from sunset the day before the predicted full moon through sunrise the day after; switch indoor lighting to incandescent-spectrum (2700 K or lower) or red-filtered LED; keep unfiltered screens off or under maximum-warmth software for the same window.

This does not abolish the phenotype. It drops ipRGC drive below the temporal-integration threshold that ignites LTF-α and the adrenal bypass. Folklore recorded the closed shutter and the darkened room. It did not have a spectrophotometer. The cheapest intervention in the entire management addendum is a pair of amber glasses and the decision to use them on time.