Weight Loss Stalls & Hacking Cortisol with Light
Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina
Vanessa Spina
4.5 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Weight Loss Stalls & Hacking Cortisol with Light
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’s 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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400-550nm the light needed to be blocked 100% after sunset
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/21/16/6405
Breast milk study – Chrononutrition for Babies
Blue light and leptin/ghrelin
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ije/2012/530726/
Sleep deprivation and Leptin
Blue light and insulin resistance
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180604172736.htm
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
Light and fat cells
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-16689-4
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. And I am obsessed with |
| 0:38.9 | optimizing our health through all these different biohacks, ketogenesis, intermittent fasting, |
| 0:45.2 | all of these amazing tools that center around making the body a fat-adapted, fat-fueled machine. |
| 0:52.4 | 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 |
| 1:08.4 | guys enjoy these interviews with this goal in mind. |
| 1:17.2 | Hey guys, welcome to this episode of Fast Keto today. I'm thrilled to have Andy Mantt joining us on the show and he is talking all about how our circadian rhythms impact our |
| 1:25.4 | cortisol levels, how it relates to lower or higher blood |
| 1:30.1 | glucose levels and cortisol, and the connection all back to weight loss, wellness, and |
| 1:37.3 | light. And it was a super fascinating episode today. We talked all about the light spectrum, |
| 1:43.6 | artificial light versus daylight, how this |
| 1:46.1 | affects cortisol levels in the body, how to get better sleep. When we sleep is when our body heals. |
| 1:53.0 | It repairs. It burns fat. It's so important to get good sleep. And he shared so much great |
| 1:59.9 | insight into how we can optimize our hormones, balance |
| 2:04.2 | them out and get really great sleep. And we also talk about some really fascinating topics |
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