Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon.

Today on the podcast, we're interviewing one of my favorite friends from way back, Mike Belkowski, from BioLite.

And he's the founder of BioLite. He develops amazing red light therapy treatment panels, which I myself have loved and used. And today we're going to learn about methylene blue mitochondrial health and all the things you need to be doing, you biohackers out there. This one's for you. All right, Mike, say hello to the audience and tell us a little bit about yourself. Well, Kay, thanks for having me. Hello to everyone. If you haven't listened to me before, I think Kay and I've had discussions. I don't know, two or three or times, maybe four times at this point over the years. So it's always exciting when we get together and have a little conversation. But yeah, so my claim to fame the last five years or so has been red light therapy. And for good reason, you know, you mentioned mitochondrial

health. And so the more I read, the more I learn, the more I listen to other experts in the area

of longevity, anti-aging, biohacking, what have you, the more I revere the mitochondria for all

aspects of health and wellness and of course longevity or

increasing your health span, however you want to put it. And so Red Light Therapy is one of the

lowest hanging fruits as far as improving your mitochondrial health. Of course I don't want to

throw foundational pieces under the bus like

getting outside and grounding, getting outside getting full sun exposure, of course, eating the

right foods, reducing stress as much as possible, getting good sleep. All of that stuff is a must

do. But the caveat is in this modern world we live in, compared to 100, 150 years ago,

we're fighting an uphill battle with countless environmental stressors. Speaking of food,

I mean, we don't have to look any further than how the food is being sprayed with toxins or even the soil just isn't as rich as it used to be.

So we're not getting the same nutrients. We used to. We live inside. 99.9% of our lives were indoors out of the full spectrum sunlight.

Very few of us probably touch the grass every day or the trees or

what have you. And it's these habits that we've lost over the decades or the century plus

that has led to this rise in whatever condition you want to point at. It could be diabetes. It can be

obesity, cardiovascular disease, disease metabolic disease even eye

health we're looking at screens far too long and so we're having an epidemic with myopia and age

related macular degeneration all of that to say again the modern stresses again we can look at 5g

Wi-Fi Bluetooth we're bombarded from every direction that we weren't, again, 100, 150 years

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