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Ep. 72 - Light and Hormone Health with Andy Mant of BLUblox

Dec 6, 2019

01:38:20

“What we’re finding is, because we’re not allowing our skin enough time to repair itself, it’s accelerated aging in all of us.” - Andy

“We’re firm believers that technology is amazing, but we need to take these preventative measures against the EMF’s and blue light that’s coming out of not just the laptop, but other sources. We’ve also got to remember as well that our body craves natural light so even if we can only get out at three points during the day, there’s no excuse that people can’t get out.” - Andy

“Because light sends messages to your brain to tell the time of the day, it doesn’t matter if you’re wearing the blue light glasses for three hours before bed. You take them off before bed and exposure yourself to blue light, you’re sending another message to your brain.” - Andy

“Light has so much more to answer for than a lot of people give it credit for. It would be very naive of me to say that blue light is the sole cause of all these issues, but I think it’s a major contributor to a lot of poor lifestyle choices that we knowingly or unknowingly make.” - Andy

In today’s episode, we welcome back Andy Mant of BLUblox to talk about the harmful effects of blue light not only on our eyes, but on our bodies and our hormones as well. Andy and Lacy discuss why we need to care about blue light on a basic level, and expands to talk about how blue light exposure affects our hormones, specifically in terms of fertility per recent studies. They also talk about how blue light interacts with our circadian rhythms. Andy provides tips and hacks for things you can do in your house and to your technology devices to lessen blue light exposure, and increase exposure to healthy light.

In This Episode We Talk About:

Some of the developments with Lacy’s spirit/medium gifts
What’s to come in the new year for To Be Magnetic (The Pathway 2.0,
Motivation, The Index)
Why we need to care about blue light
Artificial versus natural blue light
Some of the different effects of blue light during the day and during
the night
What is happening in terms of our bodies and aging when we’re exposed
to artificial blue light
The skin’s own body clock
Some things you can do for your home lights and devices to help at
nighttime
Specific programs for your devices that help reduce exposure
Hack for our phones
How light sends different messages to our bodies to produce certain
hormones
What we can do to re-regulate
Other sources of “junk light” in our homes to be mindful of
How these regulatory behaviors help get us back to what our ancestors
were doing
Melatonin as an antioxidant
Their process at BLUblox and what sets them apart and their product
apart, specifically their sleep mask
The link between infertility and levels of melatonin
The other hormones involved in fertility that run on light-dark
cycles and circadian rhythms
The ways blue light and circadian rhythm affect male hormones as well
Several studies on reproductive health and post-partum trends and how
they are affected by circadian rhythms
How mothers pass on circadian rhythms to their children
Some of the major issues facing our skin as far as blue light is
concerned
Ways you can protect your skin from blue light and regulate its
circadian rhythm
Technology that is affecting our hormones outside of light
An ideal for light management and light hygiene in the Northern and
Southern hemispheres