556: Sunlight Can Help You Lose Weight And Get Healthier Than Ever With Randy Lee
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
We pay so much attention to diet and exercise, as we pursue a healthy, ancestral lifestyle, that most of us tend to overlook the role of natural light in our health. Randy Lee, the author of The Mitochondriac Manifesto, reminds us today of how pivotal its role is in our wellbeing. He goes over the science related to how light controls our biology, along with the role of melanin and the conditions that favor longevity and photobiomodulation. In sum, Randy reveals how sunlight may be the key, not only to weight loss, but to optimal health.
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| 0:00.0 | we're meant to get sun exposure, you know, without clothes, like directly on our skin and our eyes. |
| 0:05.6 | And so we're meant to be charging our body up routinely. And modern living has us, it's shielding us |
| 0:14.1 | from those natural waves that power up our body. And so what happens is we have more carbs and we eat more food and to make up for the |
| 0:23.0 | lack of, well, we feel compelled to get an auxiliary form of electrons in the food. So if anyone |
| 0:30.6 | is concerned about either weight or metabolic issues like diabetes, get more sun exposure and you |
| 0:36.3 | won't need to eat as much food and then |
| 0:38.7 | you won't have the free radical burden, the metabolic burden with insulin and stuff like that. |
| 0:44.0 | So that's one of the ways that we can alleviate one of the modern illnesses that |
| 0:48.6 | huge percentage of our population has come down with. |
| 0:57.7 | From of our population has come down with. From the Weston A. Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for Wise Traditions |
| 1:03.4 | in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts. |
| 1:06.1 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 1:14.8 | And now here is our host and producer Hilda Labrata Gore. |
| 1:20.8 | Hey, Hilda here! |
| 1:23.5 | We know that ultra-processed food isn't good for us. |
| 1:26.9 | What if ultra-processed light, man-made light, isn't good for us either. |
| 1:31.6 | This is episode 556, and our guest today is Randy Lee. |
| 1:35.7 | He is also known as the mito-man. |
| 1:38.3 | Randy is a citizen scientist and the author of the mitochondriac manifesto. |
| 1:43.2 | Today, Randy sheds light, no pun intended, on the |
| 1:47.2 | importance of light to our well-being. He discusses how light controls our biology. He covers the |
| 1:54.6 | purpose of melanin and how its role is much more than that of just a sunscreen or sunprotector. |
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