323. How the light spectrum affects us for better or worse, with Daniel Ebbett.

We often hear sound bites about blue light exposure as being ‘bad’ or see influencers wearing orange glasses on Instagram lives, but if you really, really wanted to understand the light spectrum, what’s useful, harmful and helpful then you want to meet Daniel Ebbett.  We talk: 

• The light spectrum and its impact on our health - for better or worse.
• What common health conditions might have a light-related root cause.
• What neurotransmitters are affected by light - one of then being implicated in depression!
• How Daniel managed to convince his old boss to replace their office lighting for employee wellbeing and what the results were. 
• Technology and the stress placed on our system
• Whether the apps we can use to dim blue light actually work
• Why dimmable lights are bad news
• How to hack your blue light in the evenings to ensure you reduce it dramatically and protect your natural circadian rhythms
• What our biggest light source is in the evenings - and it isn’t your devices! 
• What the most impactful changes we can make to our homes and devices are?
• How the rest of the natural world is impacted by excess blue light.
• How travelling can be hacked to ensure you’re not messing up all your good work at home. 
• How Daniel, as someone who knows everything there is to know about light, sets up his home - living/bedroom/outside and devices (and he’s measured the set-up with a $4000 spectrometer to ensure it’s optimised - so that we don’t have to)

Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details and the articles we discussed, over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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