How to Light Up Your Brain with Wes Pfiffner

Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik

Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com

Education, Brain, Memory, Jimkwik, Productivity, Business, Kwikbrain

4.7 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Our bodies absorb light and use it as fuel for our bodies, but few of us have been taught about how to harness the power of light to boost our health and happiness.

Our natural environment deeply affects our bodies—our circadian rhythms are affected by sunlight and increasingly, negatively affected by the blue light so many of us spend hours looking at in the form of laptops and phones. This is problematic because of circadian rhythms regulate our body—telling us when to eat, sleep and produce hormones. We’ve talked a lot on the Kwik Brain podcast about the power of sleep for our brains, so this is an important issue to be aware of if we want to get the most out of our minds!

The Joovv red light therapy device is something I use on a daily basis to ensure I jump start my circadian rhythms and get enough light each day. Today’s guest, Wes Pfiffner, is one of the directors of the company, and he’s here to tell us how impactful red light therapy can be for our bodies and brains.

In this episode, we explain the benefits of light therapy, why being conscious of our circadian rhythms is so important, and why we need to watch our usage of blue light. To finish, Wes will give you some quick and simple to harness the power of light in your everyday life.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Quick Brain, Bites-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more.
0:06.0	I'm your coach, Jim Quick.
0:08.0	Free. You're mine. Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity.
0:15.0	I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear.
0:18.0	I knew what I needed to do and how to do it.
0:20.0	I know Kung Fu.
0:22.0	Show me. I know Kung Fu.
0:24.4	Show me.
0:28.0	Welcome back, quick brain. So here's your question of the day.
0:29.9	How do you light up your brain?
0:32.9	We all want that.
0:33.6	We don't want to be on the dim mode, right?
0:35.2	We want to be able to light up our brain
0:36.9	so we could shine brightly.
0:38.6	And it's interesting, the word bright
0:40.2	is often associated with intelligence and genius. it's a word reflecting light and that's the conversation we're going to have today.
0:46.6	We're going to talk about the benefits and some of the drawbacks of different qualities of light
0:51.6	towards your cognition, towards your focus, towards your memory,
0:54.5	towards actually accelerated your learning and that's what this session really is all
0:59.1	about. I'm excited to have a friend here. His name is Wes Fyfner and he's from Juve and some of you have been
1:05.4	hearing about this. It's really spreading in the biohacking community with our friends Ben Greenfield,
1:10.4	Dave Asprey, they're talking about red light therapy and near infrared and so we're going to talk about the power light has over our mind to be able to enhance and improve the different things that we need to do every single day to be productive.
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