Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

So you mentioned before, you know, two great ways to minimize or decrease depression for a human being is healthy nutrition and exercise.

Those two things.

Getting some sunlight is really good too.

Sunlight, probably quality sleep as well.

Oh yeah.

I mean, people are depressed often have trouble sleeping, but one of the ways to fix your circadian rhythms is make sure every morning you look at the

sun, you go outside. Even if it's cloudy, just look at where it should be. And that that information

comes through your eyes to your brain and kind of sets your clock and it will improve your sleep.

Yeah, Dr. Andrew Huberman has done a lot of research on that and preaches it almost every day about the research and breathing. Yeah. He says that's the number, his number one health tip is get outside and look at the sun. First in the morning, right? Yeah. Not when it's already up and you can't look at it. No, I mean, and it's okay if you didn't get up at dawn, but, you know, before midday. Yeah, get up for 10, 15 minutes and look towards

the sun, right? Just allow your eyes to gaze towards it. And you'll be getting outside,

and you'll be getting some vitamin D. Because you spend way too much time inside. Yeah. Being

outside is, you know, I mean, exercising outside, I think is better for us than inside.

What do you think is the root cause of depression? Why someone could get depressed or chronic

depression? Because we all go through sadness and grief and loss and heartache and, you know,

relationships and deaths and, you know, career ending, things like that, where there might be a

season of sadness sadness but the chronic

depression what is the root cause of that i don't think we know uh you know there are people looking

for the genes implicated in depression they have not had success finding them um there is depression

caused by events the people with a cancer diagnosis get depressed we understand exactly why

and if they're healed or cured

their depression might lift but then you have other people and I've interviewed

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