How Blue Light affects Weight, Mood, Hormones & What to do!

It's not really the food that keeps you fat, sick, and depressed....it's blue light after dark. My special guest, James Swanwick and I talk all things Blue light and how to naturally balance your light to get your body right!

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Resources we discuss....
1. A study I’ll link below in 2019 shoes that just one hour blue light after dark can actually impair glucose tolerance and increases sugar intake.
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6811685/
3. Another paper shows increase risk of atherosclerosis and lipid metabolism issues with blue light after dark. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32700826/
4. And yet another paper in 2019 showed increase risk of insulin resistance with a disrupted circadian rhythm from artificial light at night.
5. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30531917/
6. Sleep deprivation - your body needs more calories for energy production when are aren’t running on a full nights sleep.
7. Blue Light after dark and radiation. Both stimulate a stress response in the body and require your body to seek more calories.
Weight gain is associated with artificial light at night:
Another 2019 study found that women who slept with a light or television on were 17% more likely to have gained 5 kilograms, or 11 pounds or more after 5 years of doing so. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/sleeping-artificial-light-night-associated-weight-gain-women

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Too much Blue light and depression
A paper from 2017 showed a correlation between artificial light at night and mood regulation and brain circuits as well as how it affected hormone functions.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5299389/
A 2020 study showed how even outdoor area level lighting such as street lighting and environmental lights at night outdoors can affect the sleep, stress, and mood in adolescents.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32639562/


Blue light fast
- do all your normal routine at night after the sunsets except no blue light
- A morning fast.... no light until sunlight and watch the sunrise
- Wear blue light blocking glasses on computer and the amber colored when you get home at night for one week straight
- Try a natural light day only. No artificial light from environment or devices for one day.

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