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🗓️ 27 May 2024
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0:00.0 | Dr. Alexis Cohen, welcome to the podcast. |
0:03.7 | You know, you shared something pretty mind-blowing that I think a lot of individuals, |
0:07.6 | this might be new for them, even the ones that have been listening to my podcast for a long time. |
0:11.2 | You share that junk light is, in your view, one of the biggest |
0:16.1 | contributors to chronic disease here in America. Can you expand on that and tell our |
0:21.6 | audience why you feel that way? |
0:24.0 | Yeah, absolutely. |
0:25.0 | So I actually recently put a post about this on my Instagram saying that, you know, |
0:28.5 | junk light, not junk food is the biggest issue that we have in America and trying to be |
0:31.8 | kind of provocative on purpose because there's so much talk about diet and exercise in our culture and in within the space of health and yet people are getting sicker and fatter every year and we're not really getting to the point of like what's actually fundamentally going on from a metabolic from a physiologic level and also from like a willpower level like why are people struggling to execute on these things so I |
0:54.4 | recently within the past 12 months actually about a year ago exactly really got involved in the |
1:00.9 | area of circadian and light biology and just completely changed my entire |
1:07.2 | approach to health and life, which was already kind of charted out pretty extensively. |
1:11.9 | I lost 100 pounds about 13 years ago and I really |
1:15.0 | went down like the diet and exercise path. I actually developed an eating disorder |
1:18.9 | after losing that weight and also IBS and so had a lot of health challenges to figure out for myself. |
1:25.0 | And yet still, light wasn't on my radar even throughout my time at Princeton where I completed my PhD in the |
1:31.1 | rabbinowitz lab studying metabolism and I really was interested in the |
1:34.5 | microbiome at that point too. I thought the microbiome was like the foundational |
1:37.8 | thing that we were missing and yet still light wasn't on my radar and then |
1:41.8 | after graduation I came across Dr. |
1:44.8 | Jack Cruz's work this was last April and completely just it changed my |
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