Well, hello, hello, guys.

You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K., Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and today's podcast is

all about light.

This is my good friend Matt Maruka.

He is coming on the podcast to talk and teach us about light and its special frequencies.

He's the founder and CEO of raw optics. This is a company that has taught me so much about the

essential role that light plays in health. He develops really advanced light-based products.

And it's been his own decade-long personal journey that led him to light.

He really, I love how he focuses on the fact that human beings require light, your mitochondria

are powered by light, and he has a profound interest in the nature of consciousness and existence itself.

Matt spends his time traveling and teaching and working with top

executives and celebrities building the future of lighting for the world. And he also loves

running and surfing, traveling for sure, singing and exploring the world. Welcome, Matt.

Thank you so much for having me. That's quite the bio, actually. I love that my team sends that over.

Yeah, it's great. I'm so glad to be here and I'm so glad to reconnect with you and speak.

I think it's amazing that you're so openly loving the light because I'm in an industry in a field

where in medicine we talk all about sunscreen and prevention of being in the light too much and just avoidance of light.

And I think that that leads us to give a negative connotation to, you know, sunlight and all the various spectrums of it.

But tell me a little bit about your philosophy on why light and sun are so important for humans.

Yeah, well, since we last spoke, I'm glad to share that I've learned a lot and my views have evolved quite a lot too.

And I think that's how it should be, right?

So one of the biggest changes is that where before I was sort of under

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