348: Andy Mant - How Light Impacts Your Health
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2020
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Andy Mant (IG: @iamandymant) is the founder and CEO of BLUblox, a company specializing in evidence based advanced light filtering eyewear.
He's a wealth of knowledge on the topic of light and how the right light is essential for thriving and junk light depletes our health.
Andy's company believes in giving and help give the gift of sight to those in need with their buy one donate one glasses campaign.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Andy & his wife Katie turned $1500 into a multimillion dollar company
- Outsourcing tasks to prevent burnout
- Learning from the success & failures of other businesses
- Andy suffered from SAD (seasonal affective disorder) living in Britain
- Caffeine & junk light led to anxiety for Andy
- Watching the sunrise in the morning as a substitute for caffeine
- Swiss water extracted coffee naturally removes the caffeine
- What is your circadian rhythm?
- Scrolling your phone first thing in the morning tells your brain it’s midday
- How junk light negatively impacts your eyes (sleep) & skin
- Blue light can trash your mental health
- It's (mostly) time to ditch your sunglasses
- Your eyes contain the highest concentration of DHA & what happens when it reacts with UV light
- Morning sunlight helps you prevent sunburn later in the day
- The 3 different BLUblox lenses
- Not all blue light glasses are created equal
- Is all lost if your eyes are briefly exposed to junk light at night?
- LED lights flicker causing disruption to your neurological system
- How to ideally light your home to help protect yourself from junk light
- Mimic ancestral light environments
- Software to help decrease junk light coming from your computer & cell phone
- Night Shift on your iPhone isn't a perfect solution
- Andy's 5 pillars of Ultimate Health
- Running a business with your life partner
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| 0:00.0 | It all comes back to mimicking what our ancestors would have done because our brain doesn't know it's 2020. |
| 0:05.3 | It still thinks it's 2020 BC and we need to create our environment that mimics us being in that era so we can manage light hygiene correctly because we can mimic |
| 0:16.4 | this environment that ancestors were living in without too much disruption to the technological enjoyment that we have in our lives today. Hello and We will bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and wellness, |
| 0:43.5 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 0:47.6 | And this week we have Andy Mante on the show. |
| 0:49.9 | He's the founder and CEO of Blue Blocks, a company specializing in evidence-based advanced light filtering eyewear, |
| 0:56.0 | and he's a wealth of knowledge on the topic of everything light and how the right light is essential for thriving and junk light depletes our health. |
| 1:03.4 | Andy's company believes in giving and they help give the gift a sight to those in need |
| 1:07.6 | with their buy-one donate-one glasses campaign. |
| 1:10.4 | I know you guys haven't been hearing much of my voice lately. I've been with our girls Sorrell and as you mamas |
| 1:16.3 | know out there that is a full-time job but I'm going to do my best to chime in as much |
| 1:20.3 | as I can and connect with you guys. Otherwise, you will be seeing and hearing from me |
| 1:24.8 | mostly over on our Instagram at Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 1:27.9 | So today we're super excited to have Andy on the show |
| 1:30.2 | talking about light filtering eyewear. |
| 1:32.1 | As you probably know, there are so many of these on the market and |
| 1:34.8 | Jesse and I are committed to finding the best of everything and bringing that information to you |
| 1:39.4 | that is why we've chosen to not only partner with Blue Blocks, but Jesse and I wear these glasses |
| 1:44.6 | around the house. We use them during the day when we're on our computers and we use them at night |
| 1:49.3 | when we're watching Netflix or on our screens, really important information. |
| 1:53.6 | There's so much to learn about avoiding junk light |
| 1:56.0 | and getting the right kind of light. |
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