
I’m talking with Dr. Jack Kruse today, a respected neurosurgeon and CEO of the Kruse Longevity Center. He’s a member of several professional medical associations. Dr. Jack is also very well-researched in a lot of areas. These include topics like cold thermogenesis, light, and how to avoid the typical healthcare issues that develop with age.
In today’s episode, we go deep into topics like “junk light,” sunlight, hormonal rhythms, vitamin D, and more. Why he thinks grounding or earthing isn’t always beneficial and how electromagnetic fields play a big role in how our food is grown. We talk about why so many kids (and adults) aren’t getting optimal sleep and how to change that. It all goes back to getting the basics down, like plenty of sunlight and eating whole foods.
He touches on the biomechanics behind these topics, but in a way that’s easy to understand. Dr. Kruse can be pretty controversial but he backs up what he’s saying with scientific evidence.
I’ve followed Dr. Kruse for a long time and I’m excited to finally be able to share this podcast episode with you! I hope you’ll learn a lot from our talk today.
Episode Highlights With Dr. Kruse
- What junk light is and why it can be so harmful
- Why sunlight is so important and not dangerous… and why it is so important for kids
- The problems with screens that you probably didn’t know of
- Understanding light functionally
- Why light is a medicine
- Six meta analysis show that lack of sunlight is more dangerous to your health than smoking
- The deeper problems with blue light beyond just sleep disturbances
- How blue light cases break down in the retina and brain changes and destroys dopamine
- Why he recommends avoiding melatonin supplementation in kids
- Where melatonin is actually made (in the mitochondria) and how to optimize it
- The reasons he recommends avoiding sunscreen and increasing sunlight exposure, especially in kids
- Low Vitamin D levels correlate highly with melanoma and the sun helps increase Vitamin D levels… so why lack of sunlight is more correlated to melanoma than sun exposure and how blue light comes into play
- Why sunglasses decrease melanin production in the skin and why he says to avoid them because you’ll be more sensitive to the sun
- Ways to optimize your light exposure
- Light exposure tips: open windows inside so it isn’t filtered through glass
- More reasons to get morning sunlight
- A reason kids don’t need as much sunlight as their grandparents do
- How to do grounding correctly
- His water recommendations for optimizing this for our kids
- How screens are dehydrating, especially to kids
- The food and light connection and what to know about water
- His top tips for longevity
- Mitochondrial DNA is only inherited through the mom
- What transgenerational epigenetics is and why we need to understand it as parents
- The real deal on Vitamin D (a neurosteroid he says not to supplement) and Omega-3
Resources We Mention
- Dr. Jack Kruse – website
- Dr. Jack Kruse – Membership and Patreon
- Spectroscope
- A week’s worth of camping synchs internal clock to sunrise and sunset, CU-Boulder study finds
- Going Somewhere: Truth about a Life in Science by Andrew A. Marino
- Health and Light: The extraordinary Study that Shows How light Affects Your Health and emotional well being by John N. Ott
- Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the meaning of life by Nick Lane
- Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili
- Light in shaping life: Biophotons in biology and medicine by Roeland van Wijk
More From Wellness Mama
- 373: Why Sunlight Is As Important As Nutrition and Exercise for Health & Lifespan With Ari Whitten
- 429: Andy Mant on How Light Can Heal (or Damage) Your Health & Hormones
- 301: How to Use Light to Drastically Improve Health With Matt Maruca
- 094: Justin & Melissa Strahan on Red Light Therapy for Cellular Health & Healing
- Surprising Benefits of Sunbathing and Tanning
- The Benefits of Sunlight for Sleep and Hormones
- Why I Eat My Sunscreen to Protect Skin From the Inside Out
- Benefits of Safe Sun Exposure for Reduced Cancer Risk (& Vitamin D)
- The Benefits of Red Light Therapy (Photobiomodulation)
Here is another one. https://reference.medscape.com/medline/abstract/29543853
And another:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7400257/
Read it. https://www.sciencealert.com/how-blue-wavelengths-light-affect-retinal-cell-tissues-eye-disease?fbclid=IwAR0V48h8GcxKeachKzgbghQqzQB9zzQT9Ktsu3Ap7GEjKjRI2wU6QRvoPtw