Summary
What happens to our health if the body thinks that its daytime when its nighttime and nighttime when its daytime? Sarah Kleiner shares her experience healing herself of Hashimotos, IBS, skin issues, and birth complications. She talks about out how to optimize leptin and how the benefits of sunlight exposure are more about melatonin and less about vitamin D. She also talks about sunscreen, how long to expose our eyes to the sun in the morning, when the best time of year to use sauna therapy and drink deuterium depleted water, the deliterious effects of sunglasses, which kind of light therapy won't disregulate your circadian rhythm at night, why she uses ultraviolet bug zappers throughout her house, her thoughts on earthing products, and more.
Key Points
- Melatonin as a mitochondrial antioxidant and signaling molecule
- Impact of light exposure on health and circadian rhythm
- Metabolic approaches to weight management
- Deuterium depletion for mitochondrial function and longevity
Key Moments
Winter darkness is meant for maximizing melatonin
Darker winter months offer a healing advantage by letting the body maximize its own melatonin production rather than compensating with vitamin D.
"But shouldn't we say that we need to be really maximizing our sleep and our rest and our kind of going inward right now, rather than trying to act like it's summer year round, you know? And I know the vitamin D conversation, there's, there's multi sides to it."
Infrared light drives subcellular melatonin production
About 50% of sunlight is infrared, which triggers subcellular melatonin production and structures water inside cells via exclusion zones.
"Yeah. And even when it's cloudy and rainy, there's a ton of infrared outdoors and red. And yeah, when you look into Dr. Gerald Pollack's work and his study of infrared and the impact it has on exclusion zone water, and I view health a little bit more through that lens,"
Infrared builds exclusion zone water inside cells
Infrared and ultrasound can both build exclusion zone water inside cells, per Gerald Pollack's research on structured water.
"But after that second round of IVF, I was like doing deuterium depletion, cold plunging, grounding, sunlight, red light therapy on my belly. Let's do it. And it worked. So yeah, I have talked with Dr. Boros a few times and some of his proteges as well. Dr. Petra, she works a lot with cancer patients and deuterium. So I think it's a really interesting topic as well."
Hospitals need windows that let infrared light through
A new Mayo Clinic project is adding quartz glass panes so patients receive infrared and natural sunlight spectrums that standard windows block.
"I mean, centralized medicine, it is what it is, you know, but I'm glad that the people that are going to be in those facilities hopefully will be able to get some natural light because I think the hospital environment, one of the reasons why it's such a terrible environment for people to be in when they're sick is that they have absolutely zero infrared light in their environment. And they're around so much non-native EMF, blue light. I mean, it's just, you feel terrible when you're in one of those places. So it's bad for everybody. Yeah."
95% of melatonin is made in mitochondria, not pineal
Only 5% of melatonin comes from the pineal gland. The other 95% is produced in mitochondria, stimulated by near-infrared light during the day.
"That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. It's so fascinating. I think for years I thought it was all made in the pineal gland. Then I looked into Russell Ryder's work. I interviewed him. I read his book and you know, he's worked with Doris Lowe quite a bit and you know, he says only 5% is made in the pineal and 95% is made in the mitochondria, which to me, it was a huge light bulb moment. Like, wow, that's,"
