#041 Dr. Charles Raison on Depression, the Immune-Brain Interface & Whole-Body Hyperthermia
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How Does the Light Around Your House Help With Depression?
Cortisol is a hormone that changes like 25% of the human genome. Many of those genes involved in inflammation. Bright light exposure, there was one study where exposing humans to like 10,000 lux bright light for seven hours a day lowered their cortisol response during the rising phase when it's usually at its highest. So we have these lights in our, in our house called Phillip Hue, which basically they, they can change color. They do purple, blue, orange, but we go from the bright blue to red. And then we have apps on our phone and, and our computer called Flux, which then also tones down the blue light.
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