BITESIZE | The Power of Light To Transform Your Health | Linda Geddes #141

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Alternative Health, Mental Health

4.8 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Sleep is one of the most important pillars of health. Our bodies and our brains are designed to function during the day and rest at night. Feel Better Live More Bitesize is my new weekly podcast for your mind, body and heart. Each week I’ll be featuring inspirational stories and practical tips from some of my former guests. This week’s guest is award-winning journalist, Linda Geddes. Circadian rhythms are 24-hour cycles that are kept in time by light and dark cycles. These rhythms can become disrupted by changing our exposure to light which can affect our sleep and make us feel sluggish during the day. Exposure to bright light after sunset is a modern phenomenon. Darkness is a signal to our bodies that it’s time to rest and access to bright light and screens at night disrupts these signals. There are simple things that we can do to help reset our circadian rhythms. Linda shares the findings of her own experiment of getting rid of light at night in her own home. Finally, she gives her tips on what we can all do to get more light into our days and darken our nights. Access to sunlight, even in winter, is crucial for living a happy and fulfilling life. I hope you feel inspired to get outside! Show notes and the full podcast are available at drchatterjee.com/77 Follow me on instagram.com/drchatterjee/ Follow me on facebook.com/DrChatterjee/ Follow me on twitter.com/drchatterjeeuk DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on my website.

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0:59.6	Welcome to Feel Better Live More, bite size, your weekly dose of optimism and positivity to get you ready for the weekend.
1:09.6	Today's clip is from episode 77 of the podcast
1:13.2	with the award-winning journalist Linda Geddes.
1:17.6	And in this clip, she explains why light is so important for our health
1:21.8	and why even in winter we should find ways to brighten up our days
1:27.4	and darken our nights.
1:32.5	In all our discussions on our health, have we missed a big piece in the jigsaw?
1:37.4	Could our exposure to light potentially be more important than the food that we eat?
1:43.4	Our biology is kind of set up to work with this 24-hour cycle of light and darkness.
1:49.7	And if you mess with that, things start to happen to, first of all, to these circadian rhythms,
1:56.4	so these 24-hour fluctuations in our biology.
1:59.1	So if you're exposed to light at night, one thing that does
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