Dhru Purohit

Super powerful.

We're gonna go back to the challenge in a second.

Again, you have four items here that are part of this beginner challenge, but just to showcase how powerful regular sunlight at the appropriate dose is.

I'm going to be sprinkling in some more of these studies that you've highlighted.

And one of those areas is metabolic health.

We know when it comes to the four biggest drivers of mortality, one of those big drivers is poor metabolic health.

Now that can look like, uh,

diabetes, full blown, you know, type two diabetes that people are dealing with, but it can also look like, as we know now, it can look like a poor metabolic health that is undiagnosed because it doesn't have a name, but you just have out of whack blood sugar.

you're on a blood sugar and glycemic rollercoaster.

Your fasting insulin is really high, but it hasn't been caught by your doctor because not every doctor's looking at that and people get blood work pretty infrequently.

And you feel hangry or you feel low energy on a regular basis.

So poor metabolic health, which we've done a lot of episodes on in the past, can show up in all sorts of different ways.

And I believe the statistics are that separate from diabetes, there's like over 100

100 million Americans that are in that pre-diabetic range that are on their way to getting diabetes that's there.

Connecting it back to sunlight, some fascinating studies about the role of sunlight exposure on metabolic health.

Can you talk about a couple of those?

You know, the more and more that people hear, the more that I hope that they feel excited about taking on this challenge, which is largely free to do.

There might be some low cost suggestions inside of there, you know, like getting blue light blocking glasses, which we'll get into a second, but largely most of these things are free and they're not gonna take you a lot of extra time.

They're small little changes.

So let's continue down the beginner challenge.