A Root Cause of Chronic Disease Decreasing Your Lifespan - Fix This Today! | Dr. Cowan
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Numerous experts have explored the myriad factors associated with chronic disease. However, our guest today sheds light on an often overlooked factor: junk light. Our modern lifestyles frequently experience diminished exposure to natural sunlight and constant exposure to blue light emitted by phones, devices, and indoor workspaces. Dr. Alexis Cowan emphasizes the importance of minimizing our exposure to junk light and maximizing sunlight for our health.
Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru sits down with Dr. Alexis Cowan to discuss the impact of junk light on our well-being and longevity. Dr. Cowan explains how exposure to junk light can alter our circadian rhythm and hormone levels, disrupting our sleep patterns and eating behaviors. Additionally, she underscores the significance of sunlight exposure for weight management, mood regulation, and daily motivation. Dr. Cowan offers practical tips to minimize blue light exposure and incorporate red light therapy for those unable to attain optimal sun exposure in their daily routines.
Dr. Alexis Cowan is a Princeton-trained PhD in molecular biology who operates at the interface of physiology and metabolism. She specializes in circadian biology, microbiome-host interactions, and the metabolic effects of nutritional and exercise modalities. Dr. Alexis teaches coursework on topics in health, translational science, and scientific literacy. She also sees highly motivated clients in a one-on-one capacity.
In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Cowan dive into:
-Junk light as a contributor to chronic disease
-The implications of having too much junk light
-What does the absence of sunlight and too much junk light cause
-How much sun should you get a day and build up your tolerance
-Skin cancer risks
-What damages skin and causes aging
-The correlation between melanoma and skin cancer
-Metabolism, weight loss, and sunlight exposure
-Simple hacks to reduce your blue light exposure
-Red light therapy
-Dr. Cowan’s journey
-Akkermansia for gut health and immunity
-Sunlight and motivation and goals
Also mentioned in this episode:
-Dr. Cowan’s Podcast, Undoctrinate Yourself: / @undoctrinateyourself
-Study on LASIK surgery: www.fda.gov/me...
-Melanoma Exposure Study: pubmed.ncbi.nl...
-Study about high occupational sun exposure seemed to be inversely associated with melanoma: www.sciencedir...
-Sun exposure is associated with increased survival from melanoma: academic.oup.c...
-Study about low UV exposure and Vitamin D levels related to increased mortality due to skin cancer: ar.iiarjournal...
-Study about the positive association between melanoma risk and intermittent sun exposure in contrast to reduced risk with high levels of occupational exposure: pubmed.ncbi.nl...
For more on Dr. Alexis Cowan:
-Instagram: / dralexisjazmyn
-Website: dralexisjazmyn...
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I work from home since a little over 1.5 years ago. I started sitting outside at lunch and even laying out getting a little tan during lunch and my mental health has never been better. I fully believe EVERYTHING she is saying. My physical health has improved as well and also my weight. Not much else has changed. Sleeping better too. This is important stuff!
Wow! Just wow. As a Naturopathic Physician of 23 years, I've NEVER heard this absolutely sane and clear exposition about our utter dependence on sunlight broken down so brilliantly. Her passion is also palpable, as well as her rather impressive intellectual capacity. I'm inspired and sharing this data with patients as I learn more and more from her and some others. She though, is SO articulate about this absolutely essential topic and it's wide ranging effects on health.
It is a wow moment but listen to the Rick Rubin podcast featuring Dr Jack Kruse and Andrew Huberman and your mind will be blown.
She's brilliant, like Kruse. It's exciting to see this kind of intelligence and critical thinking in the current generation. I'm 68 and still unlearning so much garbage from my past.
Thank you both.
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Absolutely agree! Kruse is the main brain.
What a fascinating interview! Love this woman!
Love Dr. Alexis. She's absolutely brilliant!
Thank you this was unbelievable Dr. Cowan You’re absolutely amazing intelligent person. You blew my mind. I’ve never heard someone with incredible understanding and knowledge on their subject…still scratching my head. I don’t know how a human being can retain what you’ve learned and thank you for teaching us!
Dr Kruze laid it out for her
Such an interesting guest. I could keep listening to her.
This guest was able to articulate a difficult subject and break it down for the layperson. Thank you for letting her speak and allow her to get her ideas out. I love her passion. Please get Dr. Jack Kruse on at some point.
She is so RIGHT!
200K hours of gaming, if this woman was even anywhere near accurate, I would be totally frucked ages ago...hah! However yes, it IS an issue, yet the TOXIC food supply is FOR SURE vastly more immediately problematic. Yet I suppose too many others already have that angle, so she is trying to break into the market with this other metric...probably eats LOADS of stuff that is OTHER than meant for peeps, yet whatever.
@@bluetrinityhaloseven7244 everybody is dealt a different mitochondrial hand depending on how your mother's ancestral line lived their lives. Just because you appeared to have tolerated 200K hours of gaming doesn't mean that others can. And just because you tolerated it doesn't mean your health is anywhere near optimal. Screen time has a lot of issues associated with it including myopia, nervous system dysregulation, anxiety and mood disorders, retinal dysfunction, photoaging of the skin and more. Unfortunately, your light environment can hurt you whether or not you believe it to be the case. If you actually listened to the podcast and follow my work (or Jack Kruse's work) you would understand that your light environment regulates your appetite, resting energy expenditure, your ability to burn fat, mitochondrial function, mood, cravings, propensity to reach for vices including junk food and more. Yes--the modern food system is a problem, but no it is not the foundational problem. Getting your light environment right actually allows you to make good choices in your life including what, when, and how to eat, and to think critically. Being blue light toxic and sun deficient makes you a slave to your urges and weakens your ability to be sovereign in a society that seeks to strip you of your power at every turn.
@@bluetrinityhaloseven7244 it has nothing to do with an "angle". I have beat your hours spent gaming in hours spent dedicated to my studies. For a decade I was bought in on the "Diet and exercise" approach to everything health, and yet I was forced to reckon with the truth when I began learning about just how fundamental light is. It would be intellectually dishonest of me to NOT share this information when it has so radically changed my own life at a very core level AND is 100% supported by the published literature and my direct experience and the experiences of my clients, friends, and family. And re: food--80% of my food comes from local organic farms. I support regenerative farming practices when it comes the meat I eat. If you even spent 5 minutes looking into my work you would see that I'm not saying diet and exercise aren't important, they just aren't the most important. And I don't say that lightly. It took me 13 years of studies to have this realization. I'm just trying to save you all time. Don't believe a word I say, do your due diligence and look into it yourself.
So young and gives the same wise advice from my grandma!!!!
I just want to say Dr. Cowan is like the girlie Good Will Hunting of Quantum Biology and I AM HERE FOR IT. I want more. So glad to have found her. Thank you, Dhru!
I just started following Dr Cowan's studies and it is really ground breaking I have started scheduling purposeful sunlight exposure and I am already feeling better,
Thank goodness she discovered Dr. Kruse… 🖖🏽
I concur
This was an excellent discussion with an impressive guest. I'd love to hear more.
What an amazing and inspiring woman! Thank you so much 🙏
The cell phone one of the biggest culprits.
Dr. Cowans comment about how discovering the realisation that we have unwittingly removed ourselves from the most basic gift of nature and the things that have allowed our evolution since the before the time we crawled out of the ocean has for her brought the whole health, diet, exercise field full circle and actually makes all of that make sense is absolutely spot on. I have in the last 6-9 months had exactly the same realisation and embraced light, magnetism and water into my life as fully as possible and taken my health to a new level. Sleep was the last bastion I always failed on but not any more since re setting with nature. Great discussion and I advise anyone to try what is essentially available free from nature and see how it can change your understanding and hopefully make your journey easier and more fulfilling without arguing about which diet is best. 🙏
Brilliant information. She inspires me. Just like Kruse. Thank you.
Brilliant!
We golf 2-3 days per week in the am, and sit out most afternoons
I agree with this because I live in a urban setting and I’ve often tried to see celestial things that have come through, but the light pollution outside of my home is so strong. I can’t see anything in the sky. I’ve gone to lights out at 7 PM and I only have very low light and it has helped my immune system to recover somewhat.
@@grannypb1 Thank you for speaking out about light pollution. 💫
Sunlight is key to Covid treatment, the goverment and pharma wanted people to stay indoors.
Check jack kruse
Fantastic 👍
What does this lovely lady thinks about photomodulation and the red light and nir therapies? love to hear a insight
Wish she comes with a book.
Flows like silk !
Barefoot grounding is good? How about avoiding dirty eletricity from underground cables?
Per the quantum eye doc there are several contact lense brands that do not block any light.
I wish she would change her narrative regarding those of us who live in the north where the ground is frozen for almost half the year. I tried eating low carb during that time & damaged my thyroid, my hormones, sleep, gained weight, low mood, no ambition, was SO tired...not good .
Before electricity our ancestors here grew gardens in summer and made ' ice huts- (igloo idea but added wood, mud, moss etc for added insulation, that would keep food froze till there was fresh garden food again.
They also salted & fermented fresh foods that kept indefinitely. They also canned fruit & vegetables in sealer jars over wood burning stoves.
We still do these these things today except with electric stoves & freezers etc. So please a stop the narrative of just eating meat that isn't true even where the ground is frozen almost half the year!
If i exercise outside, my muscles still hurt. I love the outdoors, just to me it seems there's never one latest hypothesis that sees the whole picture.
We are following from out of America her talking is not clear for us bcz she's talking very fast and I can't catch all her recommendations I'm talking English as British not as American so please put the names that she recommends for apps or to buy through Amazon clearly as a notes under discription
Fasting and a low carb diet will always do more than anything else. Taurine, alphaketoglutarate, glycine and L -cysteine will also help a great deal.
And bla bla bla bla bla
No. The light is fundamental. Food is a secondary source of energy. Your channel could benefit by incorporating this knowledge. Diet won't matter if you're indoors 23 hours a day and looking at screens after sunset. It's non-negotiable.
Fasting plus low carb is starvation for your body. Carbs area signal of abundance
A one size fits all diet doesn’t work for everyone. I will agree with your statement, however, that is for me not everyone.
Maybe then too much red light might turn out to be detrimental? If used too much to replace the blue?
How do I find Dr. Alexis’s courses she describes at the end of this interview?
Great!
I buy some incandescent bulbs. A more bakanced light spectrum, this dient seem to be mentioned?
Amber glasses in the evening hurt my eyes, what to use then?
Thank you..packed with info.
Interesting topic, and Dr. Cowan is obviously educated and knowledgeable; but the content was presented in a way that was a bit too technical for me... lower and slower please for those of us who are not up on all of the terms :) Thank you!
That was simple ...you have to put the work in ...nothing of value comes without effort
I stopped it every now and then to take notes and just chew on it! You can rewind.
Does cataract lens replacement block beneficial light
Yes
Vitamin d a biomarker, yes, yet this lady says vitamin d studies dont show that its as important for health as we think. Or did I mishear this?
SHES TALKING TOO FAST!!!! Can this be READ anywhere? Thank you!!!
Read the transcript.
Many young people speak to fast for me, so I often go into the you tube settings and slow the video down.
You can also slow down the speed; click on the upper er right hand corner of the screen and then it will give you a playback option
For me, not too fast, but too technical. 😣
@@markturner59thank you! That did make a difference.
What about the famous truck driver picture with high skin ageing on one side? Is that not UV?
Do we need blue light sunscreen? Lol
He had windows up so all he got was UV a
I really enjoy her information, but she speaks way too fast and it’s hard to assimilate absorb the info at the speed that she is speaking and I’m not a novice to this info, but it still difficult for me
Did you try setting the videos playback speed to .75? If not, try it, it may help.
I actually sped it up to 1.25
What about cataracts caused by the sun?
Myth
You really have to forget what you learned about the microbiome when it was not on the foundation of adequate light…
Glyphosate
Because we are being poisoned..