339: Scott Nelson - The Joovv Origin Story, Light Therapy, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Scott Nelson is a co-founder for Joovv (IG: @joovvsocial), the first company to develop a modular, full-body light therapy device. Prior to starting Joovv, he spent his entire professional career in leadership positions with some of the largest medical device companies in the world. In his spare time, Scott is also the host of Medsider Radio, a top-ranked medical device podcast.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The Joovv origin story
- Keep evolving you’re approach to natural health
- Raising awareness about light therapy
- The challenges of running a family business
- The transition from Minneapolis to California
- Joovv uses red light and near infrared light
- The benefits of light therapy
- How light therapy differs from sun exposure
- A high quality light therapy device can be looked at like a supplement
- The difference between saunas and light therapy
- Use light therapy 3-5x a week for proactive health and wellness
- A simple 8-10 minute light therapy routine
- Stacking vibration therapy
- Red light is better absorbed in the skin
- Near infrared light penetrates into deeper tissues
- Bare skin is best for light therapy
- Can light therapy increase your testosterone & progesterone production?
- The damaging impact of blue light at night
- Light therapy can stimulate melatonin production
- Biohacking tip: wear blue light blocking glasses
- Change bright white LED lights to warmer incandescent bulbs
- Red and near infrared light are beneficial for seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
- Joovv strives to reduce EMF exposure as much as possible
- Red and near infrared light & thyroid health
- Ultimate health = physical and emotional wellness
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| 0:00.0 | Our devices deliver a very specific wavelength, red and near-infrared light, |
| 0:05.2 | and those two very specific wavelengths have been shown to resonate very well |
| 0:10.0 | with our cells through the cellular respiration process to produce more energy. |
| 0:19.7 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast, episode 339. |
| 0:23.9 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman, |
| 0:26.0 | and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:28.9 | Each week we will bring you inspiring and informative conversations |
| 0:32.0 | about health and wellness, covering topics of nutrition. inspiring and |
| 0:34.3 | informative conversations about health and wellness covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 0:37.9 | And today we have Scott Nelson on the show. He's the co-founder of Juve, |
| 0:42.1 | which is the first company to develop a modular |
| 0:44.8 | full-body light therapy device. Prior to starting with Juve he spent his entire |
| 0:49.1 | professional career in leadership positions with some of the largest medical device companies in the world. |
| 0:54.4 | In his spare time Scott is also the host of MedSider radio, a top-ranked medical device |
| 0:59.6 | podcast and you might be asking what is Juve? It's a device you can purchase |
| 1:04.3 | have in your home and you can use it to enhance your health using red light and |
| 1:08.6 | infrared light. You can think of this as a light supplement or light therapy and I've been using |
| 1:14.3 | due regularly for 10 to 20 minutes a day and loving it and some of the benefits |
| 1:19.0 | include optimizing your sleep, helping with joint pain and inflammation, and improving cognitive function. |
| 1:25.0 | But in the episode, we don't just talk about you if we get into what it's like to run a business with family members, |
| 1:30.0 | how light therapy differs from sun exposure, the difference between saunas and light therapy differs from sun exposure, |
| 1:33.0 | the difference between saunas and light therapy, |
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