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Jonathan Jarecki

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840 total appearances

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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's in my backpack.

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 know it sounds crazy to a lot of people.

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 if you're not in college, if you're working in an environment, just buy an incandescent light bulb and place it on your desk on a little lamp, 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 I quite literally bring an incandescent light bulb everywhere I go.

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 want to point out this paper really quickly 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

Another paper by Glen Jeffery.

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's not published yet.

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's in pre-print.

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's going to be published in scientific reports, nature scientific reports, very reputable journal.

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

Not published yet again.

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 read the pre-print paper.

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

Literally what they did is they had these participants that were in a artificially lit environment, no windows.

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

They tested their color contrast in their eyes.

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 basically, it's very simply color contrast.

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 have an improvement in color contrast, you can think of it just as an improvement in visual function.

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

Okay, let's just keep it simple like 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

Improvement in visual function.

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

They found a very strong improvement in visual function simply by adding

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

two 60-watt incandescent light bulbs to the desk.

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

Now, this was... The participants weren't getting the infrared... The incandescent light bulb shined on them.