Episode Highlights With Roudy

• The fun way that drinking cacao at night leads to him being super energetic and extroverted while usually an introvert 
• How he incorporates dance into his life
• What he learned by living with no artificial light and how it drastically changed his life
• You can’t get healthy in the same light environment that got you sick
• The quality of our life is entirely dependent on the quality of light that enters our eyes
• How light impacts us at a cellular level
• Why most blue light blockers don’t work and what to know about it
• One massive misconception about light in the modern world
• Light is the language that is spoken by every living thing on earth, and light has shaped evolution and the growth of plant and animal species
• How our light environment directly impacts our mitochondria and cellular function 
• About 1/3 of our energy comes from food, and 2/3 comes from the sun
• Melanin is actually incredibly powerful and supportive, and when sunlight hits the water beneath our skin, it produces naturally powerful hydrogen water 
• How our light exposure can support our circadian health and how getting it wrong can wreck it
• Why the sunlight can make us feel so joyful 
• How Einstein’s work relates to light and matter and how natural light impacts us
• Sunlight is literally impacting your thinking and your behavior- it turns into dopamine
• His take on sunglasses and sunscreen and why to reevaluate these options
• Humans do photosynthesize at a deeper level than plants do! How this impacts hemoglobin 
• Melanin is one of the darkest substances in the universe and can absorb all frequencies of light, so the more melanin you have, the more effective absorber of light you are
• Sunscreen is full of chemicals and why most of them are very toxic 
• What you need to know about melanoma and skin cancer, and how it might not be from sunlight
• The very real downsides of too much artificial light exposure especially to your mitochondria
• How this all connects to cortisol, weight gain, and inflammation 
• When we sleep 50-70 billion cells are meant to die and be replaced each night and healthier ones are meant to be reborn but how we interrupt this process
• Our body views artificial light as a predator as far as cortisol and nervous system response
• Artificial light can spike glucose levels without us eating any food at all!
• How even the thyroid is impacted by this whole cascade as well
• 7 steps to solve the light problem and harness the power of light (they’re basically free)

Resources Mentioned

• Viva Rays - Use code wellnessmama for a discount
• The 7 Steps to Harnessing the Power of Light
• Circadian App
• UBlockout
• The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life
• Dminder app