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to the show. Hey, everyone. Today was part two on photo biomodulation or red light therapy with

Ari Witten. And this was just fantastic. Now, we make a few great parallels. The one that I want

to paint for you is you can think of red light therapy, these devices

that you can buy and use at your home.

It's kind of like a funky looking light panel.

It can be thought of as a way of replacing the long-term exposure we should be having to natural

sunlight, not like a tanning bed where you're getting a ton of

light in a short period of time. But even when we were hunter-gatherers outside in the shade,

we were getting this long-term exposure to natural light. And that actually has an effect. It has

a hermetic effect on our mitochondria actually making them

better able to produce antioxidants. And this might be one of the key mechanisms as to why

there has been documented such a litany of benefits to using a red light therapy device.

So we go into some of that, some of the research, some of the research behind

thyroid is absolutely staggering. And he goes into some of the details there. And we also talk

about how to best use these devices and give you kind of a simple protocol and a more detailed

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