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

Surgeon. And today's podcast is going to be so

interesting we have Zaid Dahaj. He is a citizen scientist. He's a champion of photo

biomodulation and that is saying that sunlight is actually good for you and maybe we're too

indoctrinated in the sunscreen. Sun is bad culture.

So I'm so curious.

I've been reading your posts and also your newsletter and just I love, he has a lot of scientific,

really important things to say about sun and infrared and how different light frequencies.

The human body has evolved to love light, actually.

So let's talk about it.

Tell me your background a little.

Yeah, so my background is definitely unconventional. I don't have a degree, no PhD, no certification

to my name, at least no centralized, quote, centralized certification. So for me, it's,

I've really taken an obsessive approach to understanding circadian biology and everything that has to do with light.

Ever since, really, my dad passed of a heart attack at the age of 51, and I was 18 at the time.

So for me, this is really, it goes beyond just an area of study.

It's really a mission for me.

And I think the most important thing on my end is to try to

educate myself and other people through this work. And so a quick breakdown of circadian biology

is we're essentially just talking about the 24-hour cycle that your body follows in relation to the

movement of the sun and the moon. And so if we look at the entire body as one system,

it is a circadian system, meaning you have light sensitive proteins in your skin,

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