In this episode, Matt Maruca talks about the critical role of sunlight to our health:
* Matt's health journey
* Methods to enhance mitochondrial function
* Outdoor lifestyle curing his issues
* Light as the main controller of hormones
* Sensitivity to blue light
* Light regulating metabolism
* Blue light and cortisol
* Infrared essential for mitochondrial function
* Sunlight and skin cancer
* Sun as the base of the food chain
* Why we're always breathing
* How our bodies make water
* Efficacy of exogenous vitamin D
* The Light Diet
* Epigenetics
* The foreign bacteria that makes up our bodies
* Main controller of mitochondrial function
* The amount of sunlight we need daily
* Eye is the most important surface for light
* Most important time of day for sunlight exposure
* Importance of watching the sunrise and set
* Sungazing
* Going to sleep with the sun
* How blue light blocking glasses work
* Getting light exposure when it's cloudy
* Campfires and infrared saunas
* Benefits of cold exposure
* Reducing Seasonal Affective Disorder
* Looking directly at the sun
* Blocking blue light in the evening
* 8 steps of the Light Diet
* Cultivating the inner light