I often say that disease is a normal and expected result of our adaptive mechanisms simply trying to cope with our lifestyle.

In short, our culture has hijacked our evolution. And I like to underscore this concept by leveraging my great, great, great, great, great, great,

grandfather, times 600, who lived as a hunter-gatherer in 10,321 BC in the area of East Africa

that we now call Kenya.

His name was Fege Ansarck, which somewhat unimaginatively is my name spelled backwards.

Fegg's lifestyle and ecosystem mirrored those of hundreds of generations before him.

And across vast swaths of time human biology evolved in relationship to its environment.

Now, I have virtually the same exact biology as FEDGE, maybe a closer shave, but our cultural

conditions could not be more different. Now, this change in culture has created evolutionary mismatches.

Our hard-wrought advantages have now become disadvantageous.

Now, there are many, many examples of how culture has rendered the adaptive maladaptive.

And today, I explore the human relationship with light.

I dive into many of the ancient health-conferring aspects of being exposed

to the right amount of light and the right kind of light at the right times.

I will also outline how our modern rapport with light, both artificial and natural light,

leads to a variety of negative physiological and psychological conditions.

And I will introduce protocols related to deliberate light therapy

that can realign you with your adaptive mechanisms

and lead to greater well-being.

And I will try to accomplish this in a light-hearted manner.

Now, let me begin with a guilty pleasure and admission. I love movies. I absolutely adore

documentaries and good TV series. As Skyler and I were members of Netflix when they used to send you those red DVD containing

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