The 80/20 of Health: Light, Protein, Nutrition, and Hormones with Dr. Leland Stillman

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

Resources We Mention

• Dr. Stillman - Website and group coaching programs
• Skindeep database
• Book: The Influence of Ocular Light Metabolism by F. Hollwich
• Book: The invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg