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.
"We need to be really maximizing our sleep and rest and going inward right now, rather than trying to act like it's summer year round."
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.
"When you look into Dr. Gerald Pollack's work on infrared and exclusion zone water, the implications for infrared and subcellular melatonin are huge."
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.
"I did deuterium depletion, cold plunging, grounding, sunlight, red light therapy on my belly. And it worked."
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.
"Patients in the hospital need to be exposed to infrared, need UV. They need a natural sunlight spectrum. But our windows shut all those spectrums out."
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.
"Only 5% is made in the pineal and 95% is made in the mitochondria. To me, it was a huge light bulb moment."
