Dr. Leland Stilman is board certified in internal medicine and specializes in

natural and integrative medicine. He majored in environmental health at

Connecticut College and went on to earn his medical doctorate from the

University of Virginia School of Medicine. He is a passion for doing whatever

it takes to discover the root cause of his patient's medical problems. He

focuses not only on the patient but upon all aspects of the environment they

live in, including their relationship with light, which we are going to chat

about today.

Leland, welcome. Thank you for having me. It's good to be here. It's great to have

you. You have helped my wife call me intremendously and a lot of what you had

work with her on was light and so we're going to talk about light. Light is

everywhere and yet we underestimate light and the impact it can have not only

on our sleep or overall health and so I'm going to start there. Why aren't we

talking about the connection between light and our sleep and light and our

overall health and well-being? Why do you think that's the case? That's a great

question. Light has actually been a part of the practice of medicine since

Hippocrates. The Hippocraticoth actually starts with I swear to Apollo, the

healer because Apollo is not only the Greek God of the Sun. He's also the Greek

God of, I think it's music, which is actually another underappreciated health and

wellness modality, let's say. He's also a healer physician. So it's always been

with us. In 1904 the Nobel Prize was given to, I think it was Neil's Finson for

the innovation of ultraviolet light therapy for the treatment of, I think it was

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