The Link Between Autoimmune Disease, Chronic Fatigue, And Hidden Infections with Dr. Steven Phillips and Dana Parish
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
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🗓️ 5 May 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy, I think a lot of people suffer from anxiety and depression |
| 0:06.0 | Along with their quote autoimmune diseases and people tell them well you're anxious because you have fibromyalgia or because you have RA |
| 0:14.1 | No, you're not anxious because you have those things necessarily. I mean, yes, they suck. You're it's depressing |
| 0:20.0 | But there's a brain component here. There's a neurologic component |
| 0:24.0 | Hey, we wanted to talk to Mark most people don't realize that our exposure to light has a huge impact on our health |
| 0:32.3 | And that's because we're wired to respond to the changing position of the sun |
| 0:35.8 | Which regulates our bodies circadian rhythm and either helps us to feel energized and awake or lets us know it's time for bet |
| 0:42.3 | But our modern always on culture means we're now surrounded by conventional LEDs |
| 0:46.5 | And fluorescent bulbs and digital devices with bright-lit screens that have a junk light around the clock |
| 0:50.8 | My friend Dave asked by actually coin that phrase junk light to describe the excess of blue light as well as green and violet light that disrupts our circadian rhythms |
| 0:58.7 | junk light reduces our ability to produce melatonin which is a key hormone for regulating our internal clock sleeping well and even aging well |
| 1:05.4 | It's important to realize we actually need to be exposed as certain amounts of blue light in a daytime |
| 1:09.8 | Otherwise, we may feel as to sleep you're tired |
| 1:12.5 | It's the excess of all that blue light along with other types that leads to a long list of potential problems |
| 1:18.4 | So how can we get just the right amount of light throughout the day? |
| 1:21.9 | Well going outside is of course key, but we almost all work on computers these days and have our phones with us 24 |
| 1:27.7 | And that's why I was really excited to learn about the true dark daylight glasses |
| 1:32.0 | True dark daylights are meant to be worn during the day they come with either clear lenses that block 40% of blue light or yellow lenses that block |
| 1:39.6 | 75% of blue light |
| 1:41.6 | Some of these daylights also act as transition sunglasses that in addition to boxing toxic blue light indoors |
| 1:47.2 | Also have photochromatic lenses that are darker when exposed to natural sunlight outdoors and block 99% of UVA UVB rays |
| 1:55.4 | So they double the sunglasses with true dark daylights you help prevent eye strain and headaches from overexposure junk light |
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