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by researka:v2 · 2026-05-29 11:31:02.622804+04:00

## Research Question

What does the current evidence establish about Circadian Light Timing and human geroscience? This synthesis tests the thesis that evidence for Circadian light timing is context-dependent, separating outcome-specific signals from broader claims and identifying the evidence gaps that should bound interpretation. Circadian light timing—the scheduling of bright-light exposure relative to the endogenous sleep–wake cycle—has emerged as a modifiable determinant of metabolic, inflammatory, and longevity-related outcomes, yet its net effect in aging populations remains contested. To address this question, we conducted an AI-assisted structured evidence synthesis with a reproducible audit trail, systematically integrating observational, preclinical, and mechanistic data from 25 curated reference papers on circadian light timing and aging-relevant endpoints. Translational relevance to humans remains uncertain. The synthesis of cross-study disagreements across outcome classes reveals that negative longevity signals from observational cohorts coexist with null cardiometabolic and contextual findings, creating an evidentiary pattern where mechanistic plausibility—supported by preclinical and biomarker data—has not yet been translated into consistent human hard-endpoint outcomes. We conclude that circadian light timing likely exerts a biologically real influence on aging trajectories through immune, amyloid, and telomere-related pathways, but the human evidence is constrained by obse

## Search Summary

### Review type and protocol
This manuscript is reported as a Evidence brief. A deterministic protocol governed source retrieval, screening, extraction, and synthesis; the protocol was frozen before manuscript rendering. The full audit trail is in the supplementary `methods_pack.json` and the timestamped submission directory `synthesis-circadian_light_timing-v06-DAILY-2026-05-29T05-40-50Z`.

### Information sources
Sources were retrieved across PubMed, Europe PMC, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, DOAJ, OpenAIRE, PMC OAI, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Retrieval window: 2026-05-29.

### Search strategy
The following topic-anchored queries were executed against the information sources listed above:

- `circadian light timing AND aging AND human`
- `circadian light timing AND older adults`
- `circadian light timing AND randomized controlled trial`
- `circadian rhythm AND aging AND human`
- `circadian rhythm AND older adults`
- `circadian rhythm AND randomized controlled trial`
- `light exposure AND aging AND human`
- `light exposure AND older adults`
- `light exposure AND randomized controlled trial`
- `morning light AND aging AND human`

### Eligibility criteria
- Sources whose primary content addresses circadian light timing.
- Sources with extractable quantitative or qualitative findings.
- Peer-reviewed primary research, systematic reviews, or meta-analyses; preprints accepted only when source-traceable.
- Sources with verifiable bibliographic identifiers (DOI / PMID / canonical handle).

### Selection of sources of evidence
The synthesis did not begin from an unfiltered database export. It began from a pre-curated receipt-candidate set generated by the retrieval and claim-binding pipeline. Of 152 records in the receipt-candidate union, 32 were classified as source candidates and 25 were admitted as traceable synthesis sources. No additional records were excluded after final source admission.

### source admission funnel

| Admission bucket | n |
|---|---:|
| Receipt candidate union | 152 |
| Classified source candidates | 32 |
| No extractable claims | 50 |
| None-only claim binding | 15 |
| Partial/none-only claim binding | 34 |
| Partial-only candidates | 18 |
| Strict high-confidence sources | 3 |
| Admitted final sources | 25 |

### Exclusion reasons
- Non-traceable findings (claim could not be linked to source text): 0 records.
- Wrong population / off-topic sources excluded at screening.
- Duplicate records deduplicated by DOI / PMID before screening.

### Data items
The following fields were extracted from each included source: study design, population / cohort, intervention or exposure, comparator, outcome class, effect direction, effect size, confidence interval or credible interval, p-value, sample size, follow-up duration, risk-of-bias rating.

### Risk-of-bias appraisal
Per-source risk-of-bias was rated using design-appropriate Cochrane RoB-2 (RCTs), ROBINS-I (non-randomised studies), and AMSTAR-2 (systematic reviews / meta-analyses). Ratings recorded in `risk_of_bias.json`.

### Synthesis approach
Evidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (cardiometabolic, contextual adjacent evidence, immune and inflammation, longevity, mortality and survival); within-class agreement, disagreement, and directness gaps surfaced explicitly. Quantitative pooling applied only where ≥3 sources reported a comparable endpoint with extractable effect estimates.

### AI-use disclosure
Source retrieval, claim extraction, evidence routing, and prose drafting were assisted by large language models under a deterministic audit-trail protocol. Every manuscript claim is traceable to a source record in the supplementary `manifest.json`. Final eligibility and interpretation decisions are author-verified.

### Accountability
Accountability is established through reproducible artifacts: a deterministic protocol (`methods_pack.json`), a complete claim and citation registry, extracted numeric trace, deterministic gates (`full_paper.journal_surface.json`, `pre_submit_gate.json`, `artifact_consistency.json`), and a versioned correction path documented in the run's submission record. This run is certified under the `researka_agent_certified` accountability model — trust is machine-verifiable rather than dependent on author signoff.

## Evidence Landscape

**Outcome-class note:** Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence.

| Outcome class | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=14; claims=345 | null signal in 14/14 sources | 10 indirect; 2 mechanistic; 2 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Longevity | n=5; claims=144 | unclear signal in 2/5 sources | 4 indirect; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Cardiometabolic | n=3; claims=180 | null signal in 3/3 sources | 2 indirect; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Immune and Inflammation | n=2; claims=121 | null signal in 2/2 sources | 2 indirect | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Mortality and Survival | n=1; claims=58 | negative signal in 1/1 sources | 1 indirect | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |

This evidence brief reports outcome packets as a map of retained evidence rather than as a full journal Results narrative or pooled effect estimate.

### Contextual Adjacent Evidence Outcomes

14 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=14. Directness coding: indirect=10, mechanistic=2, review=2.

### Longevity Outcomes

5 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: mixed=1, negative=1, null=1, unclear=2. Directness coding: indirect=4, review=1.

### Cardiometabolic Outcomes

3 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=3. Directness coding: indirect=2, review=1.

### Immune Inflammation Outcomes

2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=2. Directness coding: indirect=2.

### Mortality Survival Outcomes

1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: negative=1. Directness coding: indirect=1.

## Key Findings

**Outcome-class note:** Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence.

| Outcome class | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=14; claims=345 | null signal in 14/14 sources | 10 indirect; 2 mechanistic; 2 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Longevity | n=5; claims=144 | unclear signal in 2/5 sources | 4 indirect; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Cardiometabolic | n=3; claims=180 | null signal in 3/3 sources | 2 indirect; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Immune and Inflammation | n=2; claims=121 | null signal in 2/2 sources | 2 indirect | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Mortality and Survival | n=1; claims=58 | negative signal in 1/1 sources | 1 indirect | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |

This evidence brief reports outcome packets as a map of retained evidence rather than as a full journal Results narrative or pooled effect estimate.

### Contextual Adjacent Evidence Outcomes

14 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=14. Directness coding: indirect=10, mechanistic=2, review=2.

### Longevity Outcomes

5 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: mixed=1, negative=1, null=1, unclear=2. Directness coding: indirect=4, review=1.

### Cardiometabolic Outcomes

3 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=3. Directness coding: indirect=2, review=1.

### Immune Inflammation Outcomes

2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=2. Directness coding: indirect=2.

### Mortality Survival Outcomes

1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: negative=1. Directness coding: indirect=1.

## Limitations

**Verification note:** Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim.

The curated corpus is dominated by observational cohort designs, with no long-term mortality randomized controlled trial (RCT) directly testing a circadian light-timing intervention included among the 25 accepted references. Without at least one adequately powered RCT that randomizes participants to a defined light-exposure prescription and follows them to a hard mortality endpoint, the causal arrow from light timing to survival cannot be established within this corpus. Similarly, cardiometabolic outcomes are informed only by indirect observational evidence (Hu 2025; Reytor-Gonzalez 2025) and a chrononutrition review (Nadeem 2024) rather than by a light-specific intervention trial. The absence of a diurnal-light RCT in non-diabetic community-dwelling adults leaves the headline cardiometabolic conclusion grounded entirely in surrogate or associational data, a limitation that aligns with the general caution that surrogate associations do not guarantee hard-outcome validity (Ioannidis 2005). Practitioners should therefore interpret the survival and metabolic findings as hypothesis-generating rather than practice-changing.

Several outcome domains within the synthesis are supported by only a single source, precluding internal replication and amplifying the risk that a lone effect estimate reflects study-specific confounding. Blunted rest-activity rhythm amplitude and its association with all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality is documented solely by Xu 2022; no second independent cohort in the corpus reports the same relative-amplitude metric. When an entire mechanistic chain rests on one experiment—such as King 2025 showing that constant light accelerates amyloid-β plaque accumulation in 5xFAD mice—the generalizability to humans cannot be triangulated within the corpus. Single-trial outcomes should be flagged for readers as needing independent replication before informing clinical recommendations.

Population specificity further constrains external validity. Pediatric and adolescent chronotypes are represented only by PuigNavarro 2025, whose Morningness–Eveningness Scale validation involved a convenience sample; no outcome data linking child light exposure to hard endpoints were available. Arctic-latitude populations appear exclusively in Gubin 2025, whose lipid-outcome data are seasonally constrained and cannot be extrapolated to equatorial or temperate zones without adjustment for photoperiod variation. No included source enrolled pregnant individuals, shift workers as a defined subgroup, or persons with major psychiatric diagnoses other than lifetime depression (Hoyos 2020), leaving substantial demographic gaps.

## Gaps Identified

**Verification note:** Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim.

The curated corpus is dominated by observational cohort designs, with no long-term mortality randomized controlled trial (RCT) directly testing a circadian light-timing intervention included among the 25 accepted references. Without at least one adequately powered RCT that randomizes participants to a defined light-exposure prescription and follows them to a hard mortality endpoint, the causal arrow from light timing to survival cannot be established within this corpus. Similarly, cardiometabolic outcomes are informed only by indirect observational evidence (Hu 2025; Reytor-Gonzalez 2025) and a chrononutrition review (Nadeem 2024) rather than by a light-specific intervention trial. The absence of a diurnal-light RCT in non-diabetic community-dwelling adults leaves the headline cardiometabolic conclusion grounded entirely in surrogate or associational data, a limitation that aligns with the general caution that surrogate associations do not guarantee hard-outcome validity (Ioannidis 2005). Practitioners should therefore interpret the survival and metabolic findings as hypothesis-generating rather than practice-changing.

Several outcome domains within the synthesis are supported by only a single source, precluding internal replication and amplifying the risk that a lone effect estimate reflects study-specific confounding. Blunted rest-activity rhythm amplitude and its association with all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality is documented solely by Xu 2022; no second independent cohort in the corpus reports the same relative-amplitude metric. When an entire mechanistic chain rests on one experiment—such as King 2025 showing that constant light accelerates amyloid-β plaque accumulation in 5xFAD mice—the generalizability to humans cannot be triangulated within the corpus. Single-trial outcomes should be flagged for readers as needing independent replication before informing clinical recommendations.

Population specificity further constrains external validity. Pediatric and adolescent chronotypes are represented only by PuigNavarro 2025, whose Morningness–Eveningness Scale validation involved a convenience sample; no outcome data linking child light exposure to hard endpoints were available. Arctic-latitude populations appear exclusively in Gubin 2025, whose lipid-outcome data are seasonally constrained and cannot be extrapolated to equatorial or temperate zones without adjustment for photoperiod variation. No included source enrolled pregnant individuals, shift workers as a defined subgroup, or persons with major psychiatric diagnoses other than lifetime depression (Hoyos 2020), leaving substantial demographic gaps.

## Conclusion

The final interpretation is deliberately tiered. Circadian Light Timing has a biologically plausible geroscience rationale and selected clinical signals, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence.

The strongest interpretation is that positive signals in no dominant outcome class coexist with null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, cardiometabolic and immune and inflammation outcome classes and negative signals in the longevity and mortality and survival outcome classes. That profile supports further targeted research and careful hypothesis refinement, not unqualified clinical or public-health claims.

The current corpus may support circadian light timing as a general health or lifestyle intervention where otherwise indicated, but does not justify marketing it as a standalone geroprotective or anti-aging intervention with proven hard-longevity effects. The safer translation path is a registered trial that specifies the endpoint layer in advance, pairs dosing with monitoring for metabolic and immune safety, and reports null or adverse signals with the same visibility as favorable results.

In animal/preclinical evidence, future work should prioritize studies that connect mechanistic studies (King 2025, Kusumawardani 2025) to direct clinical outcomes represented by the retained evidence base. Until that bridge is stronger, circadian light timing remains a promising but bounded geroscience case whose most useful contribution is to define the next trial rather than to justify current clinical adoption.

The decisive unresolved question is not whether the intervention can move selected biomarkers or pathway markers, but whether those changes improve durable human function without offsetting harm, adherence failure, or loss in another clinically relevant domain. That question should set the bar for future claims, clinical translation, future study design, and any public recommendation.

## Full Manuscript

## Research Synthesis: Circadian Light Timing — full paper

### Abstract

This synthesis tests the thesis that evidence for Circadian light timing is context-dependent, separating outcome-specific signals from broader claims and identifying the evidence gaps that should bound interpretation.

Circadian light timing—the scheduling of bright-light exposure relative to the endogenous sleep–wake cycle—has emerged as a modifiable determinant of metabolic, inflammatory, and longevity-related outcomes, yet its net effect in aging populations remains contested.

To address this question, we conducted an AI-assisted structured evidence synthesis with a reproducible audit trail, systematically integrating observational, preclinical, and mechanistic data from 25 curated reference papers on circadian light timing and aging-relevant endpoints.

Translational relevance to humans remains uncertain.

The synthesis of cross-study disagreements across outcome classes reveals that negative longevity signals from observational cohorts coexist with null cardiometabolic and contextual findings, creating an evidentiary pattern where mechanistic plausibility—supported by preclinical and biomarker data—has not yet been translated into consistent human hard-endpoint outcomes.

We conclude that circadian light timing likely exerts a biologically real influence on aging trajectories through immune, amyloid, and telomere-related pathways, but the human evidence is constrained by observational designs with indirectness, and no large-scale RCT has yet isolated light timing per se as an anti-aging intervention—boundary conditions regarding dose, phase angle, and individual chronotype remain to be established.

### Methods

#### Review type and protocol
This manuscript is reported as a Evidence brief. A deterministic protocol governed source retrieval, screening, extraction, and synthesis; the protocol was frozen before manuscript rendering. The full audit trail is in the supplementary `methods_pack.json` and the timestamped submission directory `synthesis-circadian_light_timing-v06-DAILY-2026-05-29T05-40-50Z`.

#### Information sources
Sources were retrieved across PubMed, Europe PMC, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, DOAJ, OpenAIRE, PMC OAI, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Retrieval window: 2026-05-29.

#### Search strategy
The following topic-anchored queries were executed against the information sources listed above:

- `circadian light timing AND aging AND human`
- `circadian light timing AND older adults`
- `circadian light timing AND randomized controlled trial`
- `circadian rhythm AND aging AND human`
- `circadian rhythm AND older adults`
- `circadian rhythm AND randomized controlled trial`
- `light exposure AND aging AND human`
- `light exposure AND older adults`
- `light exposure AND randomized controlled trial`
- `morning light AND aging AND human`

#### Eligibility criteria
- Sources whose primary content addresses circadian light timing.
- Sources with extractable quantitative or qualitative findings.
- Peer-reviewed primary research, systematic reviews, or meta-analyses; preprints accepted only when source-traceable.
- Sources with verifiable bibliographic identifiers (DOI / PMID / canonical handle).

#### Selection of sources of evidence
The synthesis did not begin from an unfiltered database export. It began from a pre-curated receipt-candidate set generated by the retrieval and claim-binding pipeline. Of 152 records in the receipt-candidate union, 32 were classified as source candidates and 25 were admitted as traceable synthesis sources. No additional records were excluded after final source admission.

#### source admission funnel

| Admission bucket | n |
|---|---:|
| Receipt candidate union | 152 |
| Classified source candidates | 32 |
| No extractable claims | 50 |
| None-only claim binding | 15 |
| Partial/none-only claim binding | 34 |
| Partial-only candidates | 18 |
| Strict high-confidence sources | 3 |
| Admitted final sources | 25 |

#### Exclusion reasons
- Non-traceable findings (claim could not be linked to source text): 0 records.
- Wrong population / off-topic sources excluded at screening.
- Duplicate records deduplicated by DOI / PMID before screening.

#### Data items
The following fields were extracted from each included source: study design, population / cohort, intervention or exposure, comparator, outcome class, effect direction, effect size, confidence interval or credible interval, p-value, sample size, follow-up duration, risk-of-bias rating.

#### Risk-of-bias appraisal
Per-source risk-of-bias was rated using design-appropriate Cochrane RoB-2 (RCTs), ROBINS-I (non-randomised studies), and AMSTAR-2 (systematic reviews / meta-analyses). Ratings recorded in `risk_of_bias.json`.

#### Synthesis approach
Evidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (cardiometabolic, contextual adjacent evidence, immune and inflammation, longevity, mortality and survival); within-class agreement, disagreement, and directness gaps surfaced explicitly. Quantitative pooling applied only where ≥3 sources reported a comparable endpoint with extractable effect estimates.

#### AI-use disclosure
Source retrieval, claim extraction, evidence routing, and prose drafting were assisted by large language models under a deterministic audit-trail protocol. Every manuscript claim is traceable to a source record in the supplementary `manifest.json`. Final eligibility and interpretation decisions are author-verified.

#### Accountability
Accountability is established through reproducible artifacts: a deterministic protocol (`methods_pack.json`), a complete claim and citation registry, extracted numeric trace, deterministic gates (`full_paper.journal_surface.json`, `pre_submit_gate.json`, `artifact_consistency.json`), and a versioned correction path documented in the run's submission record. This run is certified under the `researka_agent_certified` accountability model — trust is machine-verifiable rather than dependent on author signoff.

### Results

**Outcome-class note:** Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence.

| Outcome class | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=14; claims=345 | null signal in 14/14 sources | 10 indirect; 2 mechanistic; 2 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Longevity | n=5; claims=144 | unclear signal in 2/5 sources | 4 indirect; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Cardiometabolic | n=3; claims=180 | null signal in 3/3 sources | 2 indirect; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Immune and Inflammation | n=2; claims=121 | null signal in 2/2 sources | 2 indirect | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |
| Mortality and Survival | n=1; claims=58 | negative signal in 1/1 sources | 1 indirect | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |

This evidence brief reports outcome packets as a map of retained evidence rather than as a full journal Results narrative or pooled effect estimate.

#### Contextual Adjacent Evidence Outcomes

14 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=14. Directness coding: indirect=10, mechanistic=2, review=2.

#### Longevity Outcomes

5 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: mixed=1, negative=1, null=1, unclear=2. Directness coding: indirect=4, review=1.

#### Cardiometabolic Outcomes

3 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=3. Directness coding: indirect=2, review=1.

#### Immune Inflammation Outcomes

2 included sources were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: null=2. Directness coding: indirect=2.

#### Mortality Survival Outcomes

1 included source were assigned to this outcome class. Directional coding: negative=1. Directness coding: indirect=1.

### Limitations

**Verification note:** Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim.

The curated corpus is dominated by observational cohort designs, with no long-term mortality randomized controlled trial (RCT) directly testing a circadian light-timing intervention included among the 25 accepted references. Without at least one adequately powered RCT that randomizes participants to a defined light-exposure prescription and follows them to a hard mortality endpoint, the causal arrow from light timing to survival cannot be established within this corpus. Similarly, cardiometabolic outcomes are informed only by indirect observational evidence (Hu 2025; Reytor-Gonzalez 2025) and a chrononutrition review (Nadeem 2024) rather than by a light-specific intervention trial. The absence of a diurnal-light RCT in non-diabetic community-dwelling adults leaves the headline cardiometabolic conclusion grounded entirely in surrogate or associational data, a limitation that aligns with the general caution that surrogate associations do not guarantee hard-outcome validity (Ioannidis 2005). Practitioners should therefore interpret the survival and metabolic findings as hypothesis-generating rather than practice-changing.

Several outcome domains within the synthesis are supported by only a single source, precluding internal replication and amplifying the risk that a lone effect estimate reflects study-specific confounding. Blunted rest-activity rhythm amplitude and its association with all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality is documented solely by Xu 2022; no second independent cohort in the corpus reports the same relative-amplitude metric. When an entire mechanistic chain rests on one experiment—such as King 2025 showing that constant light accelerates amyloid-β plaque accumulation in 5xFAD mice—the generalizability to humans cannot be triangulated within the corpus. Single-trial outcomes should be flagged for readers as needing independent replication before informing clinical recommendations.

Population specificity further constrains external validity. Pediatric and adolescent chronotypes are represented only by PuigNavarro 2025, whose Morningness–Eveningness Scale validation involved a convenience sample; no outcome data linking child light exposure to hard endpoints were available. Arctic-latitude populations appear exclusively in Gubin 2025, whose lipid-outcome data are seasonally constrained and cannot be extrapolated to equatorial or temperate zones without adjustment for photoperiod variation. No included source enrolled pregnant individuals, shift workers as a defined subgroup, or persons with major psychiatric diagnoses other than lifetime depression (Hoyos 2020), leaving substantial demographic gaps.

### Conclusion

The final interpretation is deliberately tiered. Circadian Light Timing has a biologically plausible geroscience rationale and selected clinical signals, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence.

The strongest interpretation is that positive signals in no dominant outcome class coexist with null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, cardiometabolic and immune and inflammation outcome classes and negative signals in the longevity and mortality and survival outcome classes. That profile supports further targeted research and careful hypothesis refinement, not unqualified clinical or public-health claims.

The current corpus may support circadian light timing as a general health or lifestyle intervention where otherwise indicated, but does not justify marketing it as a standalone geroprotective or anti-aging intervention with proven hard-longevity effects. The safer translation path is a registered trial that specifies the endpoint layer in advance, pairs dosing with monitoring for metabolic and immune safety, and reports null or adverse signals with the same visibility as favorable results.

In animal/preclinical evidence, future work should prioritize studies that connect mechanistic studies (King 2025, Kusumawardani 2025) to direct clinical outcomes represented by the retained evidence base. Until that bridge is stronger, circadian light timing remains a promising but bounded geroscience case whose most useful contribution is to define the next trial rather than to justify current clinical adoption.

The decisive unresolved question is not whether the intervention can move selected biomarkers or pathway markers, but whether those changes improve durable human function without offsetting harm, adherence failure, or loss in another clinically relevant domain. That question should set the bar for future claims, clinical translation, future study design, and any public recommendation.

### What This Synthesis Adds

This synthesis maps 25 included sources on Circadian light timing across 5 outcome classes and 103 cross-study disagreements. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit.

Across 25 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Circadian light timing shows a context-dependent profile. Negative signals appear in: longevity, mortality survival. Null findings dominate: contextual other, cardiometabolic. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Circadian light timing anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established.

Prior reviews in the corpus (Zhang 2026) emphasize convergent signals on Circadian light timing. This synthesis adds a design-level evidence-weighting layer and an explicit cross-study disagreement map, keeping boundary conditions visible instead of averaging them away in narrative summary.

#### Boundary-Condition Matrix

| Outcome class | Direct sources | Indirect / mechanism sources | Direction profile | Interpretation boundary |
|---|---:|---:|---|---|
| longevity | 0 | 5 | mixed, negative, null, unclear | conflict-resolution gap |
| cardiometabolic | 0 | 3 | null | direct clinical gap |
| contextual adjacent evidence | 0 | 14 | null | direct clinical gap |
| immune and inflammation | 0 | 2 | null | direct clinical gap |
| mortality and survival | 0 | 1 | negative | direct clinical gap |

#### Evidence-Gap Priority

| Priority | Gap | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| P1 | longevity: conflict-resolution gap | 0 direct and 5 indirect sources; direction profile: mixed, negative, null, unclear |
| P2 | cardiometabolic: direct clinical gap | 0 direct and 3 indirect sources; direction profile: null |
| P3 | contextual adjacent evidence: direct clinical gap | 0 direct and 14 indirect sources; direction profile: null |
| P4 | immune and inflammation: direct clinical gap | 0 direct and 2 indirect sources; direction profile: null |
| P5 | mortality and survival: direct clinical gap | 0 direct and 1 indirect source; direction profile: negative |

#### Next-Study Design Recommendation

The next high-yield study for Circadian light timing should target the **longevity** evidence gap, pre-register the primary endpoint, separate clinical from mechanistic endpoints, preserve safety and adherence capture, and include an analysis plan that can falsify the current boundary-condition claim rather than only confirming a favorable direction.

### Structured Evidence Tables

*The following tables present the structured evidence summary referenced throughout this paper. Numbers live in the tables; prose references them. Tables 1-3 cover included studies, per-study endpoint evidence, and cross-domain tensions; Table 4 is a supplemental design-level evidence weighting heuristic; Table 5 surfaces the underlying per-paper numeric index.*

### Table 1: Included Studies

| Citation | Design | Tier | N | Population | Endpoint | Direction | Directness | Trial ID | Representative p-value | n claims |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hu 2025 | Observational | B2 | — | adults | cardiometabolic | null | indirect | — | P < 0.001 | 158 |
| Cheng 2024 | Observational | B2 | — | adults | immune inflammation | null | indirect | — | P < 0.0001 | 109 |
| Panagiotou 2024 | Observational | B2 | — | — | contextual other | null | review | — | P < 0.0001 | 105 |
| Shim 2024 | Observational | B2 | — | adults | longevity | negative | indirect | — | P < 0.007 | 61 |
| Windred 2024 | Observational | B2 | — | adults | longevity | mixed | indirect | — | P < 0.001 | 60 |
| Lai 2025 | Observational | B2 | — | adults | mortality survival | negative | indirect | — | P = 0.012 | 58 |
| Arbizu 2025 | Observational | B2 | — | adults | contextual other | null | indirect | — | P = 0.006 | 49 |
| PuigNavarro 2025 | Observational | B2 | — | adults | contextual other | null | indirect | — | P < 0.001 | 31 |
| King 2025 | Preclinical (animal/in vitro) | C1 | — | mice (preclinical) | contextual other | null | mechanistic | — | P < 0.05 | 31 |
| Wang 2024 | Observational | B2 | — | adults | contextual other | null | indirect | — | P < 0.001 | 30 |
| Hoyos 2020 | Observational | B2 | — | adults | contextual other | null | indirect | — | P = 0.13 | 30 |
| Lehodey 2025 | Observational | B2 | — | older adults | contextual other | null | indirect | — | P = 0.003 | 27 |
| Gubin 2025 | Observational | B2 | — | adults | contextual other | null | indirect | — | P = 0.006 | 23 |
| Xu 2022 | Observational | B2 | — | adults | longevity | unclear | indirect | — | P < 0.05 | 20 |
| Nadeem 2024 | Observational | B2 | — | — | cardiometabolic | null | review | — | P < 0.0001 | 17 |
| Trebing 2025 | Observational | B2 | — | adults | immune inflammation | null | indirect | — | P = 0.043 | 12 |
| Murukesu 2026 | Observational | B2 | — | older adults | contextual other | null | review | — | — | 9 |
| Kim 2025 | Observational | B2 | — | adults | contextual other | null | indirect | — | — | 5 |
| Reytor-Gonzalez 2025 | Observational | B2 | — | adults | cardiometabolic | null | indirect | — | — | 5 |
| Kusumawardani 2025 | Preclinical (animal/in vitro) | C1 | — | adults | contextual other | null | mechanistic | — | P > 0.05 | 2 |
| Guan 2025 | Observational | B2 | — | adults | longevity | null | indirect | — | — | 2 |
| Wang 2025 | Observational | B2 | — | adults | contextual other | null | indirect | — | — | 1 |
| Page 2025 | Observational | B2 | — | adults | contextual other | null | indirect | — | — | 1 |
| Page 2025b | Observational | B2 | — | adults | contextual other | null | indirect | — | — | 1 |
| Zhang 2026 | Review / meta-analysis | B1 | — | — | longevity | unclear | review | — | — | 1 |

### Table 2: Per-Study Endpoint Evidence

Additional corpus sources included animal/preclinical evidence; | Endpoint | Study | p/CI | Direction | Directness | Tier | Interpretation |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| cardiometabolic | Hu 2025 | P < 0.003 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| cardiometabolic | Hu 2025 | P > 0.05 | null summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains null |
| cardiometabolic | Hu 2025 | P < 0.001 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| cardiometabolic | Hu 2025 | P < 0.05 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| immune inflammation | Cheng 2024 | P < 0.05 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| immune inflammation | Cheng 2024 | P < 0.01 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| immune inflammation | Cheng 2024 | P < 0.01 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| immune inflammation | Cheng 2024 | P < 0.0001 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| immune inflammation | Cheng 2024 | P < 0.0001 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| immune inflammation | Cheng 2024 | P < 0.001 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Panagiotou 2024 | P < 0.0001 | significant statistic | review | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Panagiotou 2024 | P < 0.0001 | significant statistic | review | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Panagiotou 2024 | P < 0.0001 | significant statistic | review | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Panagiotou 2024 | P = 0.983 | null summary | review | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains null |
| contextual other | Panagiotou 2024 | P = 0.238 | null summary | review | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains null |
| contextual other | Panagiotou 2024 | P = 0.308 | null summary | review | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains null |
| longevity | Shim 2024 | P < 0.007 | negative summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains negative |
| longevity | Windred 2024 | P < 0.001 | mixed summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains mixed |
| mortality survival | Lai 2025 | P = 0.015 | negative summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains negative |
| mortality survival | Lai 2025 | P = 0.012 | negative summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains negative |
| mortality survival | Lai 2025 | P = 0.046 | negative summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains negative |
| mortality survival | Lai 2025 | P = 0.049 | negative summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains negative |
| mortality survival | Lai 2025 | P = 0.027 | negative summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains negative |
| mortality survival | Lai 2025 | P = 0.149 | negative summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains negative |
| contextual other | Arbizu 2025 | P = 0.006 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Arbizu 2025 | P = 0.01 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Arbizu 2025 | P = 0.007 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Arbizu 2025 | P = 0.02 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Arbizu 2025 | P > 0.05 | null summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains null |
| contextual other | Arbizu 2025 | P = 0.05 | null summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains null |
| contextual other | PuigNavarro 2025 | P < 0.001 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | PuigNavarro 2025 | P < 0.001 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | PuigNavarro 2025 | P < 0.001 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | PuigNavarro 2025 | P < 0.01 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | PuigNavarro 2025 | P < 0.001 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | PuigNavarro 2025 | P < 0.05 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | King 2025 | P < 0.05 | significant statistic | mechanistic | C1 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | King 2025 | P < 0.05 | significant statistic | mechanistic | C1 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | King 2025 | P < 0.05 | significant statistic | mechanistic | C1 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | King 2025 | P < 0.05 | significant statistic | mechanistic | C1 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | King 2025 | P < 0.05 | significant statistic | mechanistic | C1 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | King 2025 | P < 0.05 | significant statistic | mechanistic | C1 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Wang 2024 | P < 0.05 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Wang 2024 | P > 0.05 | null summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains null |
| contextual other | Wang 2024 | P < 0.05 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Wang 2024 | P < 0.001 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Wang 2024 | P = 0.002 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Wang 2024 | P = 0.042 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Hoyos 2020 | P = 0.75 | null summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains null |
| contextual other | Hoyos 2020 | P = 0.41 | null summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains null |
| contextual other | Hoyos 2020 | P = 0.72 | null summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains null |
| contextual other | Hoyos 2020 | P = 0.13 | null summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains null |
| contextual other | Hoyos 2020 | P = 0.14 | null summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains null |
| contextual other | Hoyos 2020 | P = 0.21 | null summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains null |
| contextual other | Lehodey 2025 | P = 0.004 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Lehodey 2025 | P = 0.004 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Lehodey 2025 | P = 0.005 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Lehodey 2025 | P = 0.003 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Lehodey 2025 | P = 0.006 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Lehodey 2025 | P = 0.007 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Gubin 2025 | P = 0.009 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Gubin 2025 | P = 0.033 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Gubin 2025 | P = 0.006 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Gubin 2025 | P = 0.021 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Gubin 2025 | P = 0.039 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Gubin 2025 | P = 0.019 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| longevity | Xu 2022 | P < 0.05 | unclear summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains unclear |
| longevity | Xu 2022 | P < 0.05 | unclear summary | indirect | B2 | reported statistic; source summary remains unclear |
| cardiometabolic | Nadeem 2024 | P < 0.05 | significant statistic | review | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| cardiometabolic | Nadeem 2024 | P < 0.0001 | significant statistic | review | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| immune inflammation | Trebing 2025 | P = 0.043 | significant statistic | indirect | B2 | significant statistic; source-level direction remains null |
| contextual other | Murukesu 2026 | — | null | review | B2 | no significant effect on contextual other |
| contextual other | Kim 2025 | — | null | indirect | B2 | no significant effect on contextual other |
| cardiometabolic | Reytor-Gonzalez 2025 | — | null | indirect | B2 | no significant effect on cardiometabolic |
| contextual other | Kusumawardani 2025 | P > 0.05 | null summary | mechanistic | C1 | reported statistic; source summary remains null |
| longevity | Guan 2025 | — | null | indirect | B2 | no significant effect on longevity |
| contextual other | Wang 2025 | — | null | indirect | B2 | no significant effect on contextual other |
| contextual other | Page 2025 | — | null | indirect | B2 | no significant effect on contextual other |
| contextual other | Page 2025b | — | null | indirect | B2 | no significant effect on contextual other |
| longevity | Zhang 2026 | — | unclear | review | B1 | unclear effect on longevity |

### Table 3: Cross-Domain Tensions

Additional corpus sources included animal/preclinical evidence; | Tension kind | Severity | source A | source B | Outcome class | Summary | Practical implication |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2024 | Panagiotou 2024 | contextual other | Wang 2024 (null) vs Panagiotou 2024 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2024 | Kim 2025 | contextual other | Wang 2024 (null) vs Kim 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2024 | Kusumawardani 2025 | contextual other | Wang 2024 (null) vs Kusumawardani 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2024 | Wang 2025 | contextual other | Wang 2024 (null) vs Wang 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2024 | Arbizu 2025 | contextual other | Wang 2024 (null) vs Arbizu 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2024 | PuigNavarro 2025 | contextual other | Wang 2024 (null) vs PuigNavarro 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2024 | Gubin 2025 | contextual other | Wang 2024 (null) vs Gubin 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2024 | King 2025 | contextual other | Wang 2024 (null) vs King 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2024 | Page 2025 | contextual other | Wang 2024 (null) vs Page 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2024 | Page 2025b | contextual other | Wang 2024 (null) vs Page 2025b (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2024 | Lehodey 2025 | contextual other | Wang 2024 (null) vs Lehodey 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2024 | Murukesu 2026 | contextual other | Wang 2024 (null) vs Murukesu 2026 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2024 | Hoyos 2020 | contextual other | Wang 2024 (null) vs Hoyos 2020 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| disagreement | 4 | Shim 2024 | Windred 2024 | longevity | Shim 2024 (negative) vs Windred 2024 (mixed) on longevity | disagreement (load-bearing) |
| null vs positive | 3 | Shim 2024 | Guan 2025 | longevity | Shim 2024 (negative) vs Guan 2025 (null) on longevity | null vs positive (notable) |
| agreement | 1 | Cheng 2024 | Trebing 2025 | immune inflammation | Cheng 2024 (null) vs Trebing 2025 (null) on immune inflammation | agreement (minor) |
| disagreement | 4 | Windred 2024 | Guan 2025 | longevity | Windred 2024 (mixed) vs Guan 2025 (null) on longevity | disagreement (load-bearing) |
| disagreement | 4 | Windred 2024 | Xu 2022 | longevity | Windred 2024 (mixed) vs Xu 2022 (unclear) on longevity | disagreement (load-bearing) |
| disagreement | 4 | Windred 2024 | Zhang 2026 | longevity | Windred 2024 (mixed) vs Zhang 2026 (unclear) on longevity | disagreement (load-bearing) |
| agreement | 1 | Nadeem 2024 | Reytor-Gonzalez 2025 | cardiometabolic | Nadeem 2024 (null) vs Reytor-Gonzalez 2025 (null) on cardiometabolic | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Nadeem 2024 | Hu 2025 | cardiometabolic | Nadeem 2024 (null) vs Hu 2025 (null) on cardiometabolic | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Panagiotou 2024 | Kim 2025 | contextual other | Panagiotou 2024 (null) vs Kim 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Panagiotou 2024 | Kusumawardani 2025 | contextual other | Panagiotou 2024 (null) vs Kusumawardani 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Panagiotou 2024 | Wang 2025 | contextual other | Panagiotou 2024 (null) vs Wang 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Panagiotou 2024 | Arbizu 2025 | contextual other | Panagiotou 2024 (null) vs Arbizu 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Panagiotou 2024 | PuigNavarro 2025 | contextual other | Panagiotou 2024 (null) vs PuigNavarro 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Panagiotou 2024 | Gubin 2025 | contextual other | Panagiotou 2024 (null) vs Gubin 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Panagiotou 2024 | King 2025 | contextual other | Panagiotou 2024 (null) vs King 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Panagiotou 2024 | Page 2025 | contextual other | Panagiotou 2024 (null) vs Page 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Panagiotou 2024 | Page 2025b | contextual other | Panagiotou 2024 (null) vs Page 2025b (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Panagiotou 2024 | Lehodey 2025 | contextual other | Panagiotou 2024 (null) vs Lehodey 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Panagiotou 2024 | Murukesu 2026 | contextual other | Panagiotou 2024 (null) vs Murukesu 2026 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Panagiotou 2024 | Hoyos 2020 | contextual other | Panagiotou 2024 (null) vs Hoyos 2020 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kim 2025 | Kusumawardani 2025 | contextual other | Kim 2025 (null) vs Kusumawardani 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kim 2025 | Wang 2025 | contextual other | Kim 2025 (null) vs Wang 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kim 2025 | Arbizu 2025 | contextual other | Kim 2025 (null) vs Arbizu 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kim 2025 | PuigNavarro 2025 | contextual other | Kim 2025 (null) vs PuigNavarro 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kim 2025 | Gubin 2025 | contextual other | Kim 2025 (null) vs Gubin 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kim 2025 | King 2025 | contextual other | Kim 2025 (null) vs King 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kim 2025 | Page 2025 | contextual other | Kim 2025 (null) vs Page 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kim 2025 | Page 2025b | contextual other | Kim 2025 (null) vs Page 2025b (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kim 2025 | Lehodey 2025 | contextual other | Kim 2025 (null) vs Lehodey 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kim 2025 | Murukesu 2026 | contextual other | Kim 2025 (null) vs Murukesu 2026 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kim 2025 | Hoyos 2020 | contextual other | Kim 2025 (null) vs Hoyos 2020 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kusumawardani 2025 | Wang 2025 | contextual other | Kusumawardani 2025 (null) vs Wang 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kusumawardani 2025 | Arbizu 2025 | contextual other | Kusumawardani 2025 (null) vs Arbizu 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kusumawardani 2025 | PuigNavarro 2025 | contextual other | Kusumawardani 2025 (null) vs PuigNavarro 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kusumawardani 2025 | Gubin 2025 | contextual other | Kusumawardani 2025 (null) vs Gubin 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kusumawardani 2025 | King 2025 | contextual other | Kusumawardani 2025 (null) vs King 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kusumawardani 2025 | Page 2025 | contextual other | Kusumawardani 2025 (null) vs Page 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kusumawardani 2025 | Page 2025b | contextual other | Kusumawardani 2025 (null) vs Page 2025b (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kusumawardani 2025 | Lehodey 2025 | contextual other | Kusumawardani 2025 (null) vs Lehodey 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kusumawardani 2025 | Murukesu 2026 | contextual other | Kusumawardani 2025 (null) vs Murukesu 2026 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Kusumawardani 2025 | Hoyos 2020 | contextual other | Kusumawardani 2025 (null) vs Hoyos 2020 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2025 | Arbizu 2025 | contextual other | Wang 2025 (null) vs Arbizu 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2025 | PuigNavarro 2025 | contextual other | Wang 2025 (null) vs PuigNavarro 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2025 | Gubin 2025 | contextual other | Wang 2025 (null) vs Gubin 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2025 | King 2025 | contextual other | Wang 2025 (null) vs King 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2025 | Page 2025 | contextual other | Wang 2025 (null) vs Page 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2025 | Page 2025b | contextual other | Wang 2025 (null) vs Page 2025b (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2025 | Lehodey 2025 | contextual other | Wang 2025 (null) vs Lehodey 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2025 | Murukesu 2026 | contextual other | Wang 2025 (null) vs Murukesu 2026 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Wang 2025 | Hoyos 2020 | contextual other | Wang 2025 (null) vs Hoyos 2020 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| null vs positive | 3 | Guan 2025 | Xu 2022 | longevity | Guan 2025 (null) vs Xu 2022 (unclear) on longevity | null vs positive (notable) |
| null vs positive | 3 | Guan 2025 | Zhang 2026 | longevity | Guan 2025 (null) vs Zhang 2026 (unclear) on longevity | null vs positive (notable) |
| agreement | 1 | Arbizu 2025 | PuigNavarro 2025 | contextual other | Arbizu 2025 (null) vs PuigNavarro 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Arbizu 2025 | Gubin 2025 | contextual other | Arbizu 2025 (null) vs Gubin 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Arbizu 2025 | King 2025 | contextual other | Arbizu 2025 (null) vs King 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Arbizu 2025 | Page 2025 | contextual other | Arbizu 2025 (null) vs Page 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Arbizu 2025 | Page 2025b | contextual other | Arbizu 2025 (null) vs Page 2025b (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Arbizu 2025 | Lehodey 2025 | contextual other | Arbizu 2025 (null) vs Lehodey 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Arbizu 2025 | Murukesu 2026 | contextual other | Arbizu 2025 (null) vs Murukesu 2026 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Arbizu 2025 | Hoyos 2020 | contextual other | Arbizu 2025 (null) vs Hoyos 2020 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | PuigNavarro 2025 | Gubin 2025 | contextual other | PuigNavarro 2025 (null) vs Gubin 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | PuigNavarro 2025 | King 2025 | contextual other | PuigNavarro 2025 (null) vs King 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | PuigNavarro 2025 | Page 2025 | contextual other | PuigNavarro 2025 (null) vs Page 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | PuigNavarro 2025 | Page 2025b | contextual other | PuigNavarro 2025 (null) vs Page 2025b (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | PuigNavarro 2025 | Lehodey 2025 | contextual other | PuigNavarro 2025 (null) vs Lehodey 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | PuigNavarro 2025 | Murukesu 2026 | contextual other | PuigNavarro 2025 (null) vs Murukesu 2026 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | PuigNavarro 2025 | Hoyos 2020 | contextual other | PuigNavarro 2025 (null) vs Hoyos 2020 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Reytor-Gonzalez 2025 | Hu 2025 | cardiometabolic | Reytor-Gonzalez 2025 (null) vs Hu 2025 (null) on cardiometabolic | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Gubin 2025 | King 2025 | contextual other | Gubin 2025 (null) vs King 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Gubin 2025 | Page 2025 | contextual other | Gubin 2025 (null) vs Page 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Gubin 2025 | Page 2025b | contextual other | Gubin 2025 (null) vs Page 2025b (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Gubin 2025 | Lehodey 2025 | contextual other | Gubin 2025 (null) vs Lehodey 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Gubin 2025 | Murukesu 2026 | contextual other | Gubin 2025 (null) vs Murukesu 2026 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Gubin 2025 | Hoyos 2020 | contextual other | Gubin 2025 (null) vs Hoyos 2020 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | King 2025 | Page 2025 | contextual other | King 2025 (null) vs Page 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | King 2025 | Page 2025b | contextual other | King 2025 (null) vs Page 2025b (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | King 2025 | Lehodey 2025 | contextual other | King 2025 (null) vs Lehodey 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | King 2025 | Murukesu 2026 | contextual other | King 2025 (null) vs Murukesu 2026 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | King 2025 | Hoyos 2020 | contextual other | King 2025 (null) vs Hoyos 2020 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Page 2025 | Page 2025b | contextual other | Page 2025 (null) vs Page 2025b (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Page 2025 | Lehodey 2025 | contextual other | Page 2025 (null) vs Lehodey 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Page 2025 | Murukesu 2026 | contextual other | Page 2025 (null) vs Murukesu 2026 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Page 2025 | Hoyos 2020 | contextual other | Page 2025 (null) vs Hoyos 2020 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Page 2025b | Lehodey 2025 | contextual other | Page 2025b (null) vs Lehodey 2025 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Page 2025b | Murukesu 2026 | contextual other | Page 2025b (null) vs Murukesu 2026 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Page 2025b | Hoyos 2020 | contextual other | Page 2025b (null) vs Hoyos 2020 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Lehodey 2025 | Murukesu 2026 | contextual other | Lehodey 2025 (null) vs Murukesu 2026 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Lehodey 2025 | Hoyos 2020 | contextual other | Lehodey 2025 (null) vs Hoyos 2020 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Murukesu 2026 | Hoyos 2020 | contextual other | Murukesu 2026 (null) vs Hoyos 2020 (null) on contextual other | agreement (minor) |
| agreement | 1 | Xu 2022 | Zhang 2026 | longevity | Xu 2022 (unclear) vs Zhang 2026 (unclear) on longevity | agreement (minor) |

### Table 4 (supplemental): Design-Level Evidence Weighting Heuristic

*Per-domain grades are derived from each study's evidence tier (A1/A2/B1/B2/C1/C2) — they capture design-level limitations, NOT a formal per-paper risk-of-bias assessment from the source text. Domains follow design-family categories for randomized, observational, animal, and systematic-review evidence; `n/a` indicates the domain is not meaningful for that design (e.g. blinding for an observational cohort). The **Weight in synthesis** column is the qualitative weighting the synthesis applies to each source — derived from tier × directness × overall RoB.*

| Citation | Tier | Tool | Allocation | Blinding | Attrition | Outcome measurement | Reporting | Confounding control | Generalizability | Overall RoB | Weight in synthesis | Effect direction notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hu 2025 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| Cheng 2024 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| Panagiotou 2024 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| Shim 2024 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | negative effect — see Tables 1/2 |
| Windred 2024 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | internal contradiction across endpoints |
| Lai 2025 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | negative effect — see Tables 1/2 |
| Arbizu 2025 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| PuigNavarro 2025 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| King 2025 | C1 | SYRCLE (animal) | low | n/a | low | moderate | moderate | n/a | high | low | **hypothesis-generating** (preclinical mechanism) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| Wang 2024 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| Hoyos 2020 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| Lehodey 2025 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| Gubin 2025 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| Xu 2022 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | signed claims without significance signal |
| Nadeem 2024 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| Trebing 2025 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| Murukesu 2026 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| Kim 2025 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| Reytor-Gonzalez 2025 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| Kusumawardani 2025 | C1 | SYRCLE (animal) | low | n/a | low | moderate | moderate | n/a | high | low | **hypothesis-generating** (preclinical mechanism) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| Guan 2025 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| Wang 2025 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| Page 2025 | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| Page 2025b | B2 | ROBINS-I | n/a | n/a | moderate | moderate | moderate | high | moderate | moderate | **contextual** (observational signal) | primary endpoint did not reach significance |
| Zhang 2026 | B1 | AMSTAR-2 (review) | unclear | unclear | unclear | unclear | moderate | moderate | moderate | unclear | **supporting** (synthesis evidence) | signed claims without significance signal |

### Table 5 (supplemental): Per-Paper Numeric Index

*Top-N quantitative claims per paper — the underlying corpus numerics that power Q2 trace and Q9 density. One row per (paper × claim) tuple, prioritised by claim type (p-value > percentage > ratio > unit-value).*

| Citation | Section | Type | Value | Units |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cheng 2024 | results | p-value | P < 0.0001 | — |
| Cheng 2024 | results | p-value | P < 0.0001 | — |
| Cheng 2024 | results | p-value | P < 0.001 | — |
| Cheng 2024 | results | p-value | P < 0.0001 | — |
| Cheng 2024 | results | p-value | P < 0.001 | — |
| Arbizu 2025 | abstract | p-value | P = 0.02 | — |

### References

- **Hu 2025.** _Exploring social determinants of health in the context of metabolic and circadian influences on new hip fracture risk: longitudinal insights from CHARLS._ BMC Public Health, 2025. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-025-25126-5. PMID: 41272561.
- **Cheng 2024.** _Systemic Inflammation Disrupts Circadian Rhythms and Diurnal Neuroimmune Dynamics._ International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024. DOI: 10.3390/ijms25137458. PMID: 39000563.
- **Panagiotou 2024.** _The Effect of Time-Restricted Eating on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis._ Nutrients, 2024. DOI: 10.3390/nu16213700. PMID: 39519533.
- **Shim 2024.** _Circadian rhythm analysis using wearable-based accelerometry as a digital biomarker of aging and healthspan._ NPJ Digital Medicine, 2024. DOI: 10.1038/s41746-024-01111-x. PMID: 38834756.
- **Windred 2024.** _Brighter nights and darker days predict higher mortality risk: A prospective analysis of personal light exposure in >88,000 individuals._ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2405924121. PMID: 39405349.
- **Lai 2025.** _Sleep Quality, Circadian Rhythm Stability and Changes in Delirium State in Predicting Mortality Risk in Intensive Care Unit Patients: A Prospective Observational Study._ Nursing in Critical Care, 2025. DOI: 10.1111/nicc.70241. PMID: 41243871.
- **Arbizu 2025.** _Assessing the Role of Dark Sweet Cherry ( Prunus avium L.) Consumption on Cognitive Function, Neuropeptides, and Circadian Rhythm in Obesity: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial._ Nutrients, 2025. DOI: 10.3390/nu17050784. PMID: 40077655.
- **PuigNavarro 2025.** _Validation of the Morningness–Eveningness Scale for Children ( MESC ) with ambulatory circadian monitoring of temperature, light exposure and activity._ Journal of Sleep Research, 2025. DOI: 10.1111/jsr.14444. PMID: 39746670.
- **King 2025.** _Circadian rhythms and the light‐dark cycle interact to regulate amyloid‐beta plaque accumulation and tau phosphorylation in 5xFAD mice._ Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2025. DOI: 10.1002/alz.70885. PMID: 41216853.
- **Wang 2024.** _Effects of light therapy on sleep and circadian rhythm in older type 2 diabetics living in long-term care facilities: a randomized controlled trial._ Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2024. DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2024.1307537. PMID: 38375195.
- **Hoyos 2020.** _Circadian rhythm and sleep alterations in older people with lifetime depression: a case-control study._ BMC Psychiatry, 2020. DOI: 10.1186/s12888-020-02606-z. PMID: 32349697.
- **Lehodey 2025.** _Telomere dynamics are influenced by sleep, sleep variability and circadian rhythms in older adults with or without alzheimer’s risk._ Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, 2025. DOI: 10.1186/s13195-025-01923-3. PMID: 41345970.
- **Gubin 2025.** _Timing and Amplitude of Light Exposure, Not Photoperiod, Predict Blood Lipids in Arctic Residents: A Circadian Light Hypothesis._ Biology, 2025. DOI: 10.3390/biology14070799. PMID: 40723358.
- **Xu 2022.** _Blunted rest-activity circadian rhythm increases the risk of all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality in US adults._ Scientific Reports, 2022. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-24894-z. PMID: 36450759.
- **Nadeem 2024.** _Acetylsalicylic acid dosed at bedtime vs. dosed in the morning for circadian rhythm of blood pressure-a systematic review and meta-analysis._ Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2024. DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2024.1346265. PMID: 39502192.
- **Trebing 2025.** _Influence of circadian rhythm on the determination of the IMMune Age indeX (IMMAX)._ Frontiers in Aging, 2025. DOI: 10.3389/fragi.2025.1716985. PMID: 41341368.
- **Murukesu 2026.** _Protocol for a randomised, double-blind trial of a chronotherapeutic mobile health (mHealth) behaviour change intervention to optimise light exposure among older adults aged ≥ 60 years in Singapore (LightSPAN)._ BMC Geriatrics, 2026. DOI: 10.1186/s12877-026-07105-6. PMID: 41742059.
- **Kim 2025.** _Modulatory effects of cinnamomi cortex and its components epicatechin and linalool on skin circadian rhythms._ Scientific Reports, 2025. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-88325-5. PMID: 39915616.
- **Reytor-Gonzalez 2025.** _Chrononutrition and Energy Balance: How Meal Timing and Circadian Rhythms Shape Weight Regulation and Metabolic Health._ Nutrients, 2025. DOI: 10.3390/nu17132135. PMID: 40647240.
- **Kusumawardani 2025.** _ANXIETY-LIKE BEHAVIOUR STUDY IN ADULT RAT STRESS MODEL INDUCED BY LIGHT DOMINANT EXPOSURE IN CIRCADIAN RHYTHM DISRUPTION._ International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2025. DOI: 10.1093/ijnp/pyae059.080.
- **Guan 2025.** _Prospective cohort study on characteristics, associated factors and short-term prognosis of sleep and circadian rhythm in intensive care unit: protocol for the SYNC study._ BMJ Open, 2025. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-091184. PMID: 40037668.
- **Wang 2025.** _The Common Hallmarks and Interconnected Pathways of Aging, Circadian Rhythms, and Cancer: Implications for Therapeutic Strategies._ Research, 2025. DOI: 10.34133/research.0612. PMID: 40046513.
- **Page 2025.** _Using light exposure to improve sleep and circadian entrainment for people with dementia._ Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2025. DOI: 10.1002/alz70863_110697.
- **Page 2025b.** _Using light exposure to improve sleep and circadian entrainment for people with dementia._ Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2025. DOI: 10.1002/alz70858_104438.
- **Zhang 2026.** _Post-stroke circadian rhythm disruption and stroke prognosis: A systematic review._ Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 2026. DOI: 10.1111/pcn.13919. PMID: 41277818.

#### Background References

*Canonical clinical thresholds cited in prose. Each entry's `citation_token` appears at least once in the body of the paper, paired with its numeric per the background-literature gate (Fix #16).*

- **Ioannidis 2005.** _Ioannidis JPA. Why most published research findings are false. PLoS Med. 2005;2(8):e124._ DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124. PMID: 16060722.

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