#035: Blue Blockers & The Light Diet w/ Matt Maruca

Health Hacker Life

Notes:

2:41 - when Matt woke up to quantum health and biology

5:40 - what are blue blockers and what is a ‘light diet’

12:52 - artificial light blocking glasses vs. blue blocking glasses

14:23 - Matt’s relation to light and when he wears glasses

26:24 - the studies and science that highlight the impact of light

50:54 - 5g technology and it’s effects

52:44 - a great app to easily track how to get more good light each day and UVA vs. UVB light

1:05:28 - Matt’s final health hacks and the 8 steps of the light diet

Links:

• Matt’s website
• RA Optics
• the light diet
• iris software for your computer that reduces blue light
• f.lux software for you computer
• The Self Mastery Show podcast
• how to make your iPhone red
• sauna space full spectrum bulbs
• why sunbathers live longer
• why working outdoors is beneficial
• penetration depth of different light wavelengths on human skin
• Dr. Michael Wallace on mitochondria and modern diseases today
• dminder app to optimize light exposure
• Light in Shaping Live (book)
• photo of TJ and Amanda wearing their blue blocker glasses

Quotes:

14:46 - “The first way I approach artificial light is recognize I am a being of the sunlight and therefore powered by the light of the sun.”

22:29 - “If we are exposed to any light at night it’s still having some effect on our sleep.”

54:50 - “The research is so clear that sun is so critical for so many processes in our body… sure by the time you kit 60 or 70 you might have slightly fewer wrinkles but you are going to make it to 60 or 70.”

01:10:21 “The thing that makes up who we are is the light within us.”