736: The Science of Light & Your Health with Matt Maruca
Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™
Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay
5 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Matt shares his groundbreaking philosophy on light, challenging conventional wisdom and revealing how strategically timed exposure to natural light can profoundly impact your well-being. Discover the core principles of his "light diet," and how optimizing your circadian rhythm through morning, midday, and evening sunlight can boost mitochondrial health, enhance energy levels, and improve overall vitality.
Matt delves into the science of specific light spectrums, particularly near-infrared, explaining their crucial role in cellular protection and regeneration. He also uncovers the hidden ways modern artificial lighting can negatively affect your hormones and energy, and introduces the innovative blue light glasses from Ra Optics, designed to support your body's natural light cycles.
Tune in to understand the profound connection between light, energy, and consciousness, and how embracing a balanced "light diet" can revolutionize your health and beauty from the inside out. This episode is a must-listen for anyone curious about optimizing their health through the power of light. Discover more about Matt Maruca and Ra Optics at https://raoptics.com/ and on Instagram @thelightdiet.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. Kay, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, |
| 0:05.4 | and today's podcast is all about light. This is my good friend Matt Maruka. He is coming on the |
| 0:11.6 | podcast to talk and teach us about light and its special frequencies. He's the founder and CEO of |
| 0:18.0 | raw optics. This is a company that has taught me so much about the essential role that |
| 0:22.7 | light plays in health. He develops really advanced light-based products. And it's been his own |
| 0:28.9 | decade-long personal journey that led him to light. He really, I love how he focuses on the fact |
| 0:36.1 | that human beings require light. |
| 0:38.8 | Your mitochondria are powered by light. |
| 0:41.3 | And he has a profound interest in the nature of consciousness and existence itself. |
| 0:45.5 | Matt spends his time traveling and teaching and working with top executives and celebrities, |
| 0:49.8 | building the future of lighting for the world. |
| 0:52.1 | And he also loves running and surfing, traveling, for sure, singing and exploring the world. |
| 0:57.8 | Welcome, Matt. |
| 0:59.2 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:01.0 | That's quite the bio, actually. |
| 1:03.4 | I love that my team sends that over. |
| 1:05.8 | Yeah, it's great. |
| 1:06.9 | I'm so glad to be here and I'm so glad to reconnect with you and speak. |
| 1:10.7 | I think it's amazing that you're so openly loving the light because I'm in an industry |
| 1:16.9 | in a field where in medicine we talk all about sunscreen and prevention of being in the light |
| 1:22.6 | too much and just avoidance of light. And I think that that leads us to give a negative connotation to, |
| 1:30.0 | you know, sunlight and all the various spectrums of it. But tell me a little bit about your |
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