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UV light produces this complex pro hormone in the body called pro opio malanacordon or Palm C.

Palm C is cleaved into 10 different hormonal products, one of which is beta endorphin, which is a natural opioid that the body makes in response to UVB light in particular.

Whenever you are exposed to full spectrum light, you're getting the maximum possible expression of this beta

endorphin, which not only improves mood, reduces anxiety, depression, but also improves overall

dopamine status. We're not getting these natural impetus for dopamine production that help us

kind of cruise at altitude and feel good all day long. So instead, we have to get on the dopamine

roller coaster. All that is is your body saying, we need dopamine and we're not getting it from our environment, which means we need to go seek it out.

Vitamin D is something a lot of people will supplement with, but all of the big trials like the vital study showed no benefit to supplementing with vitamin D on any chronic disease states, despite the fact that vitamin D deficiency is highly associated with the incidence and severity of multiple different disease states.

So if we look at the total burden on our healthcare system, clearly the risk benefit is much weighted towards the benefit of getting more sun exposure and not the risks,

given that the benefits are supporting the amelioration or the prevention of diseases that are the biggest

burdens on our health care system.

Alexis, for you when it comes to health optimization, a big piece of this is making our

mitochondria healthy. So let's start out talking about what the mitochondria are and why they're

so important. The mitochondria, people may have

heard of them as the powerhouse of the cell, but I'm really interested in making mitochondria

great again, which is a slogan that I'm actually trademarking right now, because if we look at

the chronic disease epidemic that we're facing, if we actually go down to the root of what's happening,

this is really mitochondrial dysfunction in one or more

tissues, underlying diabetes, obesity, autoimmune conditions, neurodegeneration, cancer,

dot, dot, dot. So mitochondria are much more than simply powerhouses, as we learn in, let's say,

high school. But mitochondria are also making a special type of water called Deuterum Depleted

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