Episode Highlights With Dr. Stillman
- How he got into functional medicine and conventional medicine and now works with many families
- The importance of light, sunlight, and how to optimize this
- We are each our own primary healthcare providers and his approach of partnering with families for better outcomes
- How to create an optimized natural light environment and know the level of lux in the light exposure you get
- Average indoor light exposure is about 20 lux and it can be 100k+ outdoors even on a cloudy day
- How hormones and neurotransmitters are impacted by light exposure
- The real problem with sunscreen and sunglasses and the amazing health outcomes from increasing light exposure
- How much light exposure do we actually need?
- What the literature on sunscreen and skin cancer prevention actually says and why certain ones can be especially harmful
- The sun reduces all cause mortality
- What UVB light is and how it's beneficial (this research was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1904)
- Reasons not to wear sunglasses and the surprising history of how they became popular
- The connection between nutrition and light
- Why skin cancer rates double every few decades even with more sunscreen use and what to do about this
- How to “eat your sunscreen” and nourish your body from the inside out with folate and other nutrients
- Lentil sprouts: an easy hack for consuming folate
- His take on high dose iodine
- Why we need more minerals and how to get them effectively
- The stress and mineral connection
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