Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

I do know that my grandfather, he had to walk to school.

That's what he did.

They spent so much more time, even in my childhood in the 1980s,

I played outside.

I had no reason to be inside.

There were no devices.

There was no video games.

The TV was very basic and wasn't really on that much, right?

And here we are.

And the evidence would say that we spend 93% of our time indoors and we never step outside and get exposure to the sunlight, which has healing effects.

And depending on the time of the day,

provides different nutrients that our body is starving for.

And these nutrients, they're not the same as like fiber and polyphenols, but I want you to think of them as nutrients because blue light in the morning is how our body knows that the day has started.

And if you don't get outside in the morning, your body will not know when the day starts and when it ends.

And we shouldn't be surprised that it's confused and out of rhythm and not really doing the things that we want it to do.

But if you do that, if you step outside in the morning, get that exposure to light, or this time of year, you can get a lamp that provides 10,000 lux.

If you do that, then you will notice from the very beginning, increased energy,

You will notice that you have better focus, that you're able to get more work done, more cognitive endurance.

You continue this for a matter of time and you're gonna notice it improves your mood.

And the other thing that you're gonna notice is that it gets to the evening and you're ready to go to bed and you're gonna sleep well.