‍Another extremely knowledgeable teacher on light and health. Learn as much as you can. Our Inner Furnace must be firing optimally to become the best footballer possible.

Quotes:

• Melatonin switches our body into night mode, the repair and digest mode. Mainly produced in the pineal gland as well as the eyes. Blue light at night destroys melatonin and disrupts the repair of rods and cones in our eyes.
• Even colors after sunset that our eyes can clearly differentiate is too bright for our body to perform repair and regeneration. Makes too bright for our eyes to regenerate rods and cones.
• Melatonin is our main antioxidant and antagonist for cortisol. Good melatonin levels at night support your immune system which are constantly counteracting cancerous developments. Helps lower estrogen levels
• Better melatonin levels allow your mitochondria to save ATP for the following day as body heat lowers for sleep
• The better the cameras are in your smartphone, the less likely it will pickup the flicker because of more sophisticated algorithms.
• Flicker meter to measure flicker and spectrometer to measure color temperature
• Flicker is a stressor to the body. Decreases productivity by 20%, vision comfort, natural posture behavior
• A black background and white font will have much less of a visual impact. Kindle oasis reader. No flicker and you can manipulate color temperature
• Glass windows turn sunlight to junk light. Glass takes out NIR and UVB light. Glass windows will increase skin cancer. It isolates UVA.
• You can ground AC to DC transformers for EMF radiation

Dr. Alexander Wunsch: Sun, Circadian Rhythms & Light Therapies - SelfHack

Alexander Wunsch in English

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