Summary: In Defense of Sunlight: How the transition to indoor living created the epidemic of modern chronic disease. ABOUT MATT MARUCA Matt Maruca founded Ra Optics to make the world's finest blue light blocking glasses, and created The Light Diet, a diet that directly addresses the root of the modern chronic disease epidemic, mitochondrial dysfunction. Matt did this after having suffered from poor health and chronic fatigue at a young age due to technology overuse and an indoor lifestyle. He is now 20 years old and travels the world, studying and teaching about the relevance of light in human health. IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS How Matt became the youngest biohacker in the world and the prodigy of Dr. Jack Kruse. The Light Diet: Matts Prescription for Health - Going beyond just food and nutrition. Herodot: The First Man to Get an Idea about Vitamin D in 525 BC. Why did we loose our hair after evolving from apes? Perhaps so our skin could be a solar panel to assimilate sunlight. DHA - The Most Important Fat and how vegans and vegetarians process DHA. Circadian Medicine & The Light Diet: • Going to Sleep With the Sun or Not Long After Sunset. • What to do if you are up past sunset and how to shield from artificial light. • Eating with the sun. • Waking up with sunrise - bathing your skin in AM sunlight on your skin and getting the light on your eye. • Drink Good Quality Water. • Be Outside More During the Day. Do You Really Think The Sun Causes Skin Cancer? The Role of Sunlight on Mental Health RA Optics - Blue Light Blocking glasses made by Matt. Discount Code: VITALVEDA HELP SUPPORT THIS SHOW! Starting and growing a podcast requires a lot of time, energy, and money. Do you appreciate this information, and want to support my intention to deliver as much life enriching knowledge as possible to as many people as possible? The easiest, and most effective way you can help is to do this: • Subscribe to the show by clicking "subscribe" in iTunes. • Write us a review in iTunes and your podcast app • Share this show/episode with 1 friend right now You'd be amazed how much these three simple steps do to help us grow! Here's the magic link for reviews: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/vital-veda-podcast-ayurveda-holistic-health-cosmic/id1402499244 In addition, share this episode with every friend that you think will benefit from this knowledge. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for listening, and joining me on this evolutionary journey.
