177: Eating light
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Human beings have been called "light-eaters." Basically, food is light "slowed down," so that we can ingest it and get energy from it. In today's episode, Dewey Layman explores how the light in our food and our environment shapes our health. He dives into how our brains are wired for light, why it's a good idea to include plenty of seafood in our diet, and how getting enough sunlight can decrease not only our appetite, but the actual amount of food we need to eat to function well. Dewey is the COO of Ra Optics (a blue-blocking glasses company) and the Founder and CEO of L-Dopa, a quantum health consulting company, and, as such, he shares insights from his years of research into light and its effects.
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| 0:00.0 | Probably one of the coolest things I ever learned was that most of you know in the brain there's eight lobes the |
| 0:06.6 | Ocipital the parietal frontal and temporal the occipital lobes in the back are will control vision and light. |
| 0:14.0 | So that means there's 2 out of 8, so that means there's 25% of your brain that's tied to light. Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast, sponsored by the Weston A Price Foundation for |
| 0:29.5 | Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the healing arts. |
| 0:33.3 | We're your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom |
| 0:36.4 | to help you achieve optimal health. Hey guys, I'm Hilda Labrata Gore and this is episode 177. Our guest today is Dewey Lehman. |
| 0:53.7 | Last week we talked with Dewey, the CEO of Raw Optics, a blue blocking glasses company, and the |
| 0:59.3 | founder and CEO of L Dopa, a Quantum Health Consulting Company. |
| 1:03.6 | And it was such a fascinating conversation |
| 1:05.8 | we had to have him back. |
| 1:07.2 | Basically, Dewey told us last time |
| 1:09.3 | about the effects of junk light, artificial light |
| 1:12.2 | that interferes with our body's internal mechanisms. |
| 1:15.2 | Go back and check out that episode if you haven't heard it yet. |
| 1:18.0 | This week we wanted to examine the flip side of the equation, that is, how can light positively impact our health and how does sunlight |
| 1:25.6 | specifically affect our bodies and the food we eat basically Dewey explains today |
| 1:30.8 | how all that we ingest gets its energy from light, hence the idea |
| 1:35.2 | that we are really light eaters. And then he does a deep dive into how our brains |
| 1:40.4 | are wired for light, why it's a good idea to eat a lot of seafood, and even how |
| 1:45.5 | getting enough sunlight can decrease the amount of food we need to create energy for our |
| 1:49.6 | bodies. |
| 1:50.6 | Before we begin the conversation, we want to thank our sponsors. Vintage |
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