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🗓️ 10 March 2025
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In this episode of The Art of Being Well, Dr. Will Cole sits down with Matt Maruca, founder & CEO of Ra Optics, to explore the powerful connection between light, mitochondria, and overall health. Matt shares his personal journey of overcoming chronic gut issues, allergies, and migraines by understanding circadian rhythms and the impact of blue light. They discuss why artificial light may be one of the biggest health disruptors of our time, the science behind light therapy, and practical ways to optimize your health through sunlight, meal timing, and blue light protection. For all links mentioned in this episode, visit www.drwillcole.com/podcast.
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0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
0:05.4 | Hi, it's Dr. Will Cole. |
0:09.1 | This podcast is the manifesto for a new breed of health seekers. |
0:15.1 | This is the art of being well. |
0:25.6 | Thank you. is the art of being well. What's up and welcome to the art of being well? |
0:29.8 | Inflammation is the commonality between just about every health problem under the sun, |
0:35.2 | from autoimmune conditions to anxiety, brain fog, fatigue, |
0:40.5 | digestive problems, hormonal issues, fertility issues. There's, at the very least, |
0:48.4 | science is showing inflammatory components to all of those problems and the vast majority of cases |
0:53.6 | if not being overtly inflammatory |
0:56.2 | conditions. For the past 15 plus years in our functional medicine telehealth clinic, we've measured |
1:02.3 | not only inflammation, but the underlying drivers of inflammation, like environmental toxins, |
1:07.5 | unhealthy gut inflammatory foods, nutrient efficiencies, and even quantifying the drivers |
1:13.4 | of mental-emotional components. So looking at things like chronic stress and unresolved trauma |
1:18.3 | and its impact on inflammation. My heart, my passion is to make functional medicine |
1:23.1 | accessible and affordable for people around the world. So there's an at-home urine test that can measure |
1:30.3 | oxidative stress. It measures specifically aldehydes in the body that are elevated in states |
1:36.5 | of oxidative stress, which is a component of chronic inflammation. If you want to learn more about |
1:42.3 | this at-home urine test, you do it in the comfort |
1:44.4 | of your own home, and you can see where you're at on the inflammation spectrum. Because in addition |
1:48.7 | to the urine oxidative stress test, there is the inflammation spectrum assessment where you can |
1:56.0 | look at the different systems of your body, and I adapted that assessment from questions that I |
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