Episode Highlights With Anjan Katta
- His own experience with the pitfalls of modern technology
- The downside of so much blue light at all times of day and night
- What the designer of LCD screens thought they would be used, and what he would have done differently if he had known we’d be using them this much
- Light is a master signaling mechanism for hormone and circadian health
- What are the most harmful negative impacts of modern technology
- Evolutionary mismatch with modern technology
- The comparison of the evolutionary mismatch with sugar
- What flicker rate is, and why it's important to understand
- The real deal with blue light and how this confuses our nervous system
- Light is the master switch for so many aspects of hormones and health
- The evidence that a lot of ADHD is a circadian dysfunction and how light comes into play
- What screen apnea is, and why it's an emerging term
- Nature deficit disorder
- How screens affect even our breath rate and thus our nervous system
- The circadian-aligned computer he created that is blue-light-free, flicker-free, and usable in the sunshine
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