41: Vivarays Founder Roudy Nassif Sheds Light on Balancing Life and Sleep
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, engineer and health entrepreneur Roudy Nassif joins Morgan for an enlightening discussion on the effects that natural and indoor light can have on the body. After being diagnosed with ADHD, Roudy learned to bio hack his system using natural sunlight. His experience inspired him to found Vivarays, which makes light-filtering glasses that help balance circadian rhythms to support improved sleep and energy.
Join us as Roudy helps Morgan overcome pregnancy insomnia and shares his insights on the connections between improved sleep and living an outdoor lifestyle. He also sheds light on the differences between Vivarays and typical blue light filtering glasses, and how his company’s innovative technology mimics temperature changes the body would naturally be exposed to.
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| 0:00.0 | That might seem weird for some people, but I'm naked outside in the sun. |
| 0:06.3 | Hello, everyone. I'm Morgan, co-founder of Primal Kitchen and host of the Primal Kitchen podcast. |
| 0:11.2 | Today, I'm talking to light expert and founder of Viva Rays, Rudy Nassif. |
| 0:16.3 | Rudy has been educating thousands of healthcare practitioners and doctors about the biological |
| 0:20.8 | effects of light and helping them optimize their personal life as well as their patients has been educating thousands of healthcare practitioners and doctors about the biological effects |
| 0:21.3 | of light and helping them optimize their personal life as well as their patients' well-being. |
| 0:26.0 | Today, he'll be discussing how his eyewear can help protect us from the effects of artificial |
| 0:30.1 | light and too much screen time. Hi, Rudy. How are you? Hi, Morgan. I'm awesome. How are you? |
| 0:36.0 | I'm great. Thanks so much for joining. |
| 0:38.9 | So I'm just dying to hear the story. |
| 0:41.9 | We, just for those folks listening, we know Rudy, he works a lot with the primal health coach |
| 0:46.4 | folks. |
| 0:46.8 | And he came highly recommended as just an expert on circadian rhythm and light and how our |
| 0:51.8 | modern lifestyle is affecting our health. |
| 0:55.8 | And he did send me a pair of his Veveray glasses and I told him I would be wearing them right now, but my husband like fully |
| 0:59.6 | the shipment and they're like completely his. Now I don't even think they would fit me. I think he's like |
| 1:04.8 | stretched them beyond the shape of my head. So I got to get hooked up with another pair. And my |
| 1:10.3 | husband is not like a biohacker type. |
| 1:13.0 | He's just like, you know, and it's not like his thing. I'm much more lean that way. And he is |
| 1:18.9 | obsessed with these glasses. So I call him like his Clark Keg glasses. It's kind of like being |
| 1:25.4 | married to a new person. So anyway, thank you for that. |
| 1:28.8 | But fill me in. So how did you get here? This is such an interesting business and something that's like, |
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