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Using Light (Sunlight, Blue Light & Red Light) to Optimize Health

Huberman Lab

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Light Therapy Is a Very Potent Way to Improve Skin and Wound Healing

U v b exposure and red light, as we'll soon see, is a very potent form of increasing things like wound healing and skin health for very a mechanistically backed reasons. But if the particular light therapy that you're considering involves very local application, rather than illuminating broad swaths of skin, it's probably not going to be as potent or effective. Now i'd like to shift our attention to the effects of light on mood. We talked about this in terms of seasonal effect ive disorder, but many of us don't suffer from seasonal effect of disorder. So i want to drill a little deeper into how light impacts mood.

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