Fat Cells, Insulin Resistance, Blue Light & Circadian Rhythms
Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina
Vanessa Spina
4.6 • 795 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Fat Cells, Insulin Resistance, Blue Light & Circadian Rhythms! This is one of my favorite episodes of Fast Keto! Andy Mant is an exceptionally fascinating guest and we talk about how blocking blue light helps to lower cortisol, the effect of light on skin and scar tissue, melatonin as a hormone and red light therapy. This is a must listen episode!
Andy Mant is the founder and CEO of BLUblox, a company specializing in evidence based advanced light filtering eyewear. Andy started BLUblox after becoming dissatisfied with the quality and standards of blue light blocking glasses available and so set about to design lenses that match the evidence is the academic literature. Andy was born in the UK and moved to Australia in 2011. After moving and about 2 years after arriving Andy gained a lot of weight and become chronically fatigued and lacked energy. Dietary approaches only worked to a certain degree and after stumbling across light and health Andy forged a passion and niche understanding of all things light related to health. Today Andy is a leading figure in managing light to improve health and wellbeing.
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Light and fat cells
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-16689-4
400-550 nm the light needed to be blocked 100% after sunset
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/21/16/6405
Blue light and insulin resistance
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180604172736.htm
Blue light and leptin/ghrelin
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ije/2012/530726/
Sleep deprivation and Leptin
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4871543/
Sun Exposure and T2-D
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20619913
Blue light and skin
How to turn your iPhone red
Light and health group link
https://www.facebook.com/groups/135133877132861/?ref=group_header
Study on increasing REM sleep with black out sleep mask (also shows cortisol and melatonin differences between control and study groups)https://www.sleepfoundation.org/articles/earplugs-and-eye-masks-help-promote-sleep
Study on blue light increasing cortisol
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11231993
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Fast Keto. I'm your host, Ketogenic Girl. |
| 0:05.7 | Did you know that your body can actually be either a sugar burner or a fat burner? |
| 0:12.0 | On this podcast, we talk all about how to make your body a fat-burning, fat-fueled machine |
| 0:18.0 | and engaging your full metabolic flexibility. I'm Vanessa Spina. I am a |
| 0:23.4 | sport nutrition specialist, a biomedical science student at U of T, and I am the author of the |
| 0:31.5 | best-selling cookbook keto essentials available on Amazon and creator of the Ketogenic Girl Challenge |
| 0:37.0 | program. |
| 0:37.8 | And I am obsessed with optimizing our health through all these different biohacks, |
| 0:42.8 | ketogenesis, intermittent fasting, all of these amazing tools that center around making the body |
| 0:49.0 | a fat-adapted, fat-fueled machine. |
| 0:52.8 | With this in mind, I present interviews to you with biomedical scientists, |
| 0:56.6 | physicians, and people from all around the world who have experienced remarkable results from |
| 1:01.7 | following a low-carb or ketogenic diet and getting their body into ketogenesis. So I hope you guys |
| 1:08.6 | enjoy these interviews with this goal in mind. |
| 1:11.9 | Hey, you guys, welcome to this episode of Fast Keto. I'm absolutely thrilled to have |
| 1:16.2 | Andy Mant joining us again on the podcast today. It's his second time on the show. He is an |
| 1:22.2 | absolutely fascinating guest to have on. And today we talked all about cortisol levels and blue light and how we |
| 1:30.3 | can lower our levels of cortisol and stress by blocking blue light, how blue light works, how red light |
| 1:36.9 | works, red light therapy. And we talk all about melatonin, how melatonin is a hormone in the body, |
| 1:43.5 | and how it is regulated by our circadian rhythms. It's absolutely one of my most favorite episodes of Fast Keto that we've ever had. I hope you guys really enjoy and head over to Instagram. Let us know any takeaways you had about the episode, any light bulb moments, any insights that you had, because I know that |
| 2:01.6 | Andy would love to hear them too. So I can't wait to hear what you guys think of this episode |
| 2:06.2 | today with Andy Mant. As you know, everyone is facing challenges with this recent pandemic. |
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