313. From Blue Light to Sunrise: How Light Impacts Your Well-Being with Dr. Martin Moore-Ede
Be Well by Kelly Leveque
Kelly Leveque
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🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
For over 40 years, Dr. Martin Moore-Ede has been a leading expert on circadian clocks and the health impacts of electric light exposure at night. In this episode, Dr. Moore-Ede explains how LED lights can disrupt our natural rhythms, the crucial role of melatonin in metabolic health, and ways to boost it naturally. We also discuss why morning light is essential, how blue light glasses affect us, and practical ways to optimize lighting for good quality sleep. He also shares insights on managing light exposure to prevent health issues like breast cancer and obesity, along with tools and products to support a healthy circadian clock. Make sure to check out his new book, The Light Doctor: Using Light to Boost Health, Improve Sleep, and Live Longer, and discover how small adjustments can make a big difference!
We also cover:
(00:00:00) Introductions
(00:01:24) Dr. Moore-Ede’s Discovery: Why Circadian Clocks Matter for Health
(00:15:32) Melatonin’s Role in Metabolic Health & The Real Energy Cost of LEDs
(00:29:03) Effects of Daily Light Variability & Why We Have Morning & Evening Types
(00:36:51) Best Tips for Blue Light Blocking
(00:45:04) Optimizing Your Room for Better Sleep & Health Risks of Poor Light Control
Resources:
• Click here for full show notes
• Read: The Light Doctor Dr. Martin Moore-Ede
• Website: thelightdoctor.com
• YouTube: Dr Martin Moore-Ede
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The light we see is important to our health |
| 0:01.9 | as the food we eat, |
| 0:04.0 | the water we drink, and the air we breathe. |
| 0:06.3 | And that is, I think, increasingly, |
| 0:09.4 | we know to be true |
| 0:10.9 | and why light needs to be paid attention to, |
| 0:15.0 | and most people just take light for granted. |
| 0:17.2 | So that's the reason to be on your podcast, |
| 0:19.9 | and I hope the audience will not take light for granted by the time we finish. |
| 0:29.9 | For over 40 years, Dr. Maura Ead has been the leading world expert on circadian clocks |
| 0:35.4 | and health problems caused by electric light at night. |
| 0:38.5 | As a professor at Harvard Medical School from 1975 to 1998, he led the team that located the |
| 0:44.3 | supercasmatic nucleus, the biological clock in the human brain that controls the timing of sleep |
| 0:50.1 | and wake and showed how it synchronized by light. Since 2010, he has been the director of |
| 0:55.6 | the circadian lighting research center, which identified the key blue signal that synchronizes |
| 1:00.7 | circadian clocks and developed patented LED lights, which provide health optimized light across the |
| 1:06.3 | day and night based on comprehensive medical research. He has published over 180 scientific articles and authored 10 books. |
| 1:13.7 | His latest book, The Light Doctor, Using Light to Boost, Health, Improve Sleep, and Live |
| 1:18.2 | Longer has just been released, and we're going to dive into that research today. |
| 1:24.1 | All right, everyone, welcome back to the podcast today. |
| 1:26.6 | I am so excited to have Dr. Martin Mour Eid. |
| 1:29.8 | He discovered our circadian clocks. |
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