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Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
And then even if you barely get outside, you're really gonna feel the effects and they're gonna be good and your body's gonna love it and your body's gonna thank you for that.
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
So first step, 10 to 30 minutes, morning, unfiltered, sunlight.
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
Just bring those activities outside.
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
I wanna add one point to that, is that even if it's cloudy, so many people say, oh, I live in the UK, I live in a very cloudy area.
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
that doesn't mean there's no sunlight.
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
The sun is still out.
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
If you can see, if you go outside at midnight, then you can tell me that there's no sun, right?
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
But if you're outside and even if it's cloudy, still you're getting those beneficial wavelengths of light into your eyes and onto your skin.
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
And, you know, if it is cloudy, I would encourage people to lean more towards 30-minute range.
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
You know, if it's a very bright, no-cloud day, you can get away with 10, 15 minutes.
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
But, you know, cloudy, lean towards that longer time being outside.
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
There's three really interesting human studies here.
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
I'll start with the first one.
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
This is a study by Dr. Glenn Jeffery out of the University College of London.
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
And what he did was a really fascinating study.
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
It was a randomized placebo-controlled trial, one of the best studies you can do.
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
What he did was he isolated a specific wavelength of light, 670 nanometers, which falls underneath the red light spectrum.
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
So it's red light.
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
He shined red light on the backs of participants, of healthy adults.
Dhru Purohit Show
Can Sunlight Add Years to Your Life? Here's What the Science Says About the Sun’s Ability to Radically Improve Your Health with Jonathan Jarecki
And he had two groups, right?