87. Optimizing Your Sleep, Health and Happiness with The Light Diet: Interview with Matt Maruca
The Kris Gethin Podcast
Kris Gethin
4.9 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Knowledge and Mileage, Kris talks with Matt Maruca, extreme biohacker and expert on the circadian rhythm. Matt has used his struggles as a teenager with his health to develop his signature program The Light Diet which focuses on optimizing your circadian rhythm and biological processes through sun exposure and limiting blue light.
Tune in to hear how light exposure is being found to be a root cause of a healthy lifestyle.
Time Stamps
- Why Matt started to focus on holistic health at the age of 13 [4:00]
- The beginnings of Matt's idea of a Light Diet [8:45]
- Managing allergies through dietary and lifestyle changes [12:15]
- Sun Exposure vs Red Light Therapy and seasonal affective disorder [18:45]
- Does sunlight cause cancer? The history of the research on sunlight [28:30]
- Optimizing circadian rhythm with a sun exposure protocol [33:45]
- How does your circadian rhythm effect your body composition? [43:30]
- Should you move your training outside? [51:00]
- Is the increase of blue light devices contributing to childhood obesity? [54:30]
- Matt simplifies ATP [1:02:30]
- How Matt manages his light exposure while traveling [1:06:00]
- Why Matt follows a seafood ketogenic diet [1:08:00]
Featured Guest: Matt Maruca
Related Links/Products Mentioned
- Ra Optics
- Matt's Blue Blockers
- Joovv
- Niels Finsen's Treatment of Tuberculosis of the Skin
- Dminder App
- Study on Leptin Resistance and Obesity
People Mentioned
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, Chris Gathin, and another episode of the Knowledge and Mileage Podcast is |
| 0:05.7 | upon us. While I am here in Boise, Idaho, it's fall is set upon us. It's lovely cold. |
| 0:13.2 | I love all seasons. However, the person that I'm speaking to on the other end of the mic, |
| 0:18.3 | and if you're viewing this, you can see the person opposite me is |
| 0:22.4 | Matt Maruka, who is joining us from Mexico, I believe, at the moment. What are you doing over there, |
| 0:28.6 | Matt? Yeah, so I'm here basically dialing in my health or testing out some stuff, I should say, |
| 0:34.5 | with what I call the light diet. I'm basically here to get more light |
| 0:37.8 | to improve my body functions. So I found that fascinating that, you know, from the age of safe, |
| 0:44.3 | was it like 14 and younger, you're dealt with some health issues. And there was no apparent answer |
| 0:53.2 | for you when you sought professional help, sort doctors, or anything like that. |
| 0:58.0 | And at a very young age, and you are extremely mature for your age. You're 20 years old now, I believe. |
| 1:05.0 | But you are an absolute wealth of knowledge. When I listened to you several times, and obviously a mutual friend of us, Tim Gray, it spoke very highly of knowledge. When I listened to you several times and obviously a mutual friend of |
| 1:12.2 | us, Tim Gray, has spoke very highly of you. I couldn't believe it when I heard that you were |
| 1:16.8 | 18 years old when I heard about you on the first podcast. Then 19, then 20. I'm like, wow, this guy |
| 1:22.1 | knows his stuff. Before we get into the show, guys, I want to introduce to you the enzyme formula that I've |
| 1:29.9 | been utilizing for a couple of years now to help me break down the immense amount of protein |
| 1:36.4 | I consume on a daily basis, and that's called mass zines by bi optimizers. |
| 1:43.0 | Now, as we are getting through the winter, I'm sure there's a lot of you |
| 1:47.0 | out there bulking up and taking in even more calories from protein. And chances are you're not |
| 1:53.1 | assimilating all of it. And sometimes it makes you bloated, you feel a little bit gassy, and chances are that protein could be fermenting |
| 2:02.9 | in your gut. So if you want to assimilate and break down those heavier proteins, I do suggest |
| 2:09.0 | to all of my clients, and I suggest to you guys as well, to take mass zimes. Mass zimes are offering |
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