Rowan Jacobsen
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first heard Jul 2022
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And in the medical establishment, this is kind of like the idea that light can affect our molecules is kind of like they just discovered this yesterday, which makes no sense.
But so I think the future is going to be focused on catching up fast and realizing
that light medicine can play a huge difference in our health and not just, you know, there's going to be many different aspects to that.
But yeah, we, we now understand that every photon of light can change the behavior of a molecule when it hits it.
And that we're each getting bombarded with trillions of photons every second.
So that's going to do something.
And it seems to mostly be good stuff, because as you say, we kind of evolved to expect that.
But we need to start thinking about what all those trillions of photons are doing and making sure we get them to do what we want them to do and not what we don't want them to do.
Light is 100% connected to mood.
And this part is not controversial.
The mechanisms are very well established.
And it happens through both the eyes and the skin.
But we know when light hits skin, it triggers a little game of molecular pinball that ends up with a release of endorphins in the brain.
And the same thing, like also when light hits the eyes and the skin, it triggers cortisol, which can be a problem.
Like we know too much cortisol is sort of like the hormone of getting you off your butt and like direct to like be active during your day.
And it sort of raises your energy level, raises your game.
And that can be good as long as it then goes away in the evening.
Cortisol can be a problem if we have so much stress or so much challenge in our day that it never goes down.
but it should normally have these rhythms where in the morning, we are in the morning light, we get a release of endorphins in the brain and our cortisol levels rise enough for us to check off all the tasks we need to do during the day.
And then when the light disappears in the evening,
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