growth hormone is our quintessential anti-aging hormone. It helps us burn fat for fuel. It helps us preserve lean body tissue, bone tissue, right? If you're concerned about osteoporosis, osteomalacia, growth hormone is key for preserving bone tissue as well as muscle tissue. The better sleep we get, the better we recover and heal. Welcome back to the podcast. Today's episode is on the top two deficiencies linked to cancer and autoimmune disease. And most doctors will not tell you these deficiencies, but you have to address them if you're going to really be able to heal properly and prevent chronic disease. So you guys are in for a treat here. Of course, if you need anything from a natural health perspective, doctorjockers.com is a one-stop shop. The best articles, infographics, best research on all the major health topics we talk about on the podcast. Just go to doctorjockers.com. 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Vitamin D across the board is one of the most well studied nutrients for keeping inflammation or control, reducing your risk of autoimmune conditions, cancer, heart disease, neurodegeneration. And what is the number one source of vitamin D? It's not a supplement, it's actually the sun, UVB rays. That's how our ancestors optimize their vitamin D levels. Whenever I see people with cancer and autoimmune disease, I would say 80% of the time, they're very, very deficient in vitamin D. Now supplements can be helpful, but the best thing to raise your vitamin D levels is get good high quality sun exposure in the middle of the day, right? That UVB ray will get into your skin, will activate your mitochondria and will help with the vitamin D synthesis. Now, what else do you get from sunlight? You get red light, which activates cytochrome C oxidase and increases cellular energy production. This cytochrome C oxidase enzyme, it's the terminal enzyme of the mitochondrial electron transport chain. It's responsible for transferring electrons from cytochrome C to oxygen and ultimately, to contribute to ATP, which is cellular energy. If you wanna have more energy, you need to get that red light exposure. When is red light high? Sun rise and sunset. You also add those periods of time. You also have infrared light very high as well. Now infrared is gonna be all throughout the day, but especially higher in the morning and in the evening. Infrared helps activate nitric oxide in your bloodstream for better circulation and oxygenation. That means you get better oxygenation to the deep tissues of your body. The more oxygen and nutrients that you're getting into those cells, the better they're gonna be able to burn fat for fuel and do their desired function. Also infrared helps stimulate mitochondrial melatonin production. Now, we think about melatonin as our sleep hormone, right? And it is, pineal gland melatonin. So we have a gland in our brain called the pineal gland. That releases melatonin at night for us to go to sleep. More on that to come. But in our mitochondria, we also produce melatonin and it is the most powerful endogenous antioxidant from mitochondria. Endogenous means we internally produce it. So we produce it ourselves. However, we're producing it in response to infrared wavelengths. They literally are like the key in the lock, right? Opening up the door for melatonin to be produced and to clean up all the oxidative stress in the mitochondria. That makes our mitochondria stronger and more stress resilient. And ultimately, the quality of our life, the risk of us getting chronic disease goes down significantly. The quality of life goes up when we have stronger, more stress resilient mitochondria. So we need to protect the mitochondria and the melatonin not only is it a powerful antioxidant there, but it also activates antioxidants like superoxide, this mutate as well as glutathione peroxidase. So that's key. We need to be getting in the sun, okay? And there's actually an ancient proverb that says, if you want to have great energy during the day, watch the sunrise. And if you want to sleep well at night, watch the sunset. Why? Because we get the red and the infrared light, right? Those wavelengths are so healing and therapeutic for our body. The one caveat with the sun is, don't get sunburned, right? So go out, get your UV light. Just don't get too much to where you burn from the sun. A little bit of light pinking or tanning, really good. That's actually a sign that you're getting enough, right? Good quality sun exposure and getting the vitamin D absorption, but again, you don't want to be sunburned. So that's the number one deficiency is sun light, right? Number two is darkness. That's right. Most people are deficient in darkness, okay? And darkness is to the body, what vitamin D is to the body? We know that blue light exposure at night. So all your bright lights, all of those things are actually known carcinogens. That means we know, research has shown, we know they increase your risk of cancer when you're exposed to these bright blue lights at night. Why? Because they're telling your brain, it's daytime when it's really nighttime. It throws off your circadian rhythm. You see light, blue light puts a break on your pineal gland's ability to produce melatonin. And when you get out of the blue light and you get into darkness, your pineal gland starts producing the sleep hormone melatonin. Now, it's different than mitochondrial melatonin. It's the same compound, but the sleep hormone goes systemically, right, in your bloodstream and starts initiating a deep healing and cleansing process, right? And obviously puts us to sleep, okay? One Lancet study showed that poor sleep increases insulin resistance by 30%. So our blood sugar metabolic health takes a huge hit when we don't sleep on. You've probably experienced it. You've had a bad night's sleep. You had more cravings that day. You didn't eat as well because you were more insulin resistant, okay? And you had more inflammation in your body. And therefore you were making worse choices when it came to your nutrition. Well, I just wanna interrupt this podcast for a very important public service announcement. One of the most dangerous things you may be doing for your health is cooking a healthy meal at home. I know that sounds crazy, but here's what the science says. Most of us are unknowingly swallowing thousands of shreds of microplastic with every stir fry, egg scramble or veggie saute. Now, where's it coming from? Your non-stick pan. In fact, one, two thousand twenty four study found that just a single scratch on a teflon coated surface can release over nine thousand plastic particles into your food. And those plastic particles don't just pass through your body. They build up in your arteries in your brain and they disrupt your hormones along the way. One study found that people with plastic lodged in their arteries were four and a half times more likely to suffer a heart attack or a stroke. Another found plastic particles, the size of a crantip, inside actual brain tissue. And others now link microplastics to hormonal imbalances and fertility issues. So just like cigarette smoke in the 1950s or leaded gasoline in the 70s, microplastics are today's invisible toxin. They're creeping into our bodies daily while the science scrambles to catch up. And it's not just old pans. Even brand new non-stick cookware can start shredding particles from the very first use. That's why I switched to the P600 ceramic cookware. It's 100% free from Teflon, PFA's and plastic coatings. It's made with Swiss engineered ceramic and it's truly non-toxic. It cooks beautifully, cleans easily, and most importantly, it doesn't poison your food. 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If you're not sleeping well, it dramatically increases your risk of developing neurodegenerative conditions. That means dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease. Because you get increased amount of metabolic waste sitting in your brain tissues, driving up inflammation, damaging and poisoning the mitochondria. And ultimately that's gonna result in poor function. Also, it increases your risk of depression, of anxiety in different mood disorders. So sleep is really key for brain health, but also it activates human growth hormone. And growth hormone is our quintessential anti-aging hormone. It helps us burn fat for fuel. It helps us preserve lean body tissue, bone tissue, right? If you're concerned about osteoporosis, osteomalacia, growth hormone is key for preserving bone tissue as well as muscle tissue. The better sleep we get, the better we recover and heal. Believe it or not, having a really strong fit body is not just about exercise, not just about lifting weight. We actually do the best healing and growth of our muscles at night when we're sleeping if we have enough growth hormone. And that also turns on more fat burning and more mitochondrial biogenesis, meaning we get more mitochondria in the cells of our body. The more mitochondria means more cellular energy, that means better energy, better mental clarity and better fat burning. So guys, we gotta watch the sunrise, watch the sunset. That's one of the most powerful things you can do for your health. At night, dim your lights. Now, watching sunrise and sunset actually sets your circadian rhythm. When you watch a sunrise in the morning, it activates cortisol and stress hormones and tells your brain, okay, it's daytime now. That means in roughly 12 hours or so, it's gonna be nighttime and that's gonna be when I need to go to sleep, right? So watching a sunrise really helps with that. At night, after sunset, dim your lights, okay? Watch the sunset, you get your red infrared light, go outside, right after that, make sure all the lights in your house are dimmed or turned off. I mean, if you just wanna have fire or candle light, that's great, right? Or at least dim your lights, okay? If you're gonna use electronics, if you're gonna watch something on TV, if you're gonna be on your phone or your computer, make sure you got blue light blocking glasses on, all right? That's key. So blue light blocking glasses on, if the electronics are on, those are super helpful. They're gonna block out the blue light and not take, basically, not put the break on melatonin production. You also wanna make sure you're winding down and you should not have goals after 9 p.m. So I always make sure, okay, no goals after 9 p.m. I've got my kids down, I'm not on my email working or doing anything like that. I'm ready to relax. I might have a conversation with my spouse, you know, my wife, or I might be reading a book, right? With very dim light or candle light, okay? And preparing my body to go to sleep. Try to get the bed early, somewhere between 9 to 11 p.m. They say every hour of sleep before midnight is equivalent to three hours of the regenerative capacity of the sleep after midnight. So try to get the bed early, if your schedule allows, do everything you can to protect really good quality sleep. Make sure you got a dark room, okay? I like a dark room. I don't like blackout shades unless for some reason, there's like a lot of light coming in at night, like a street light or something. Otherwise, I like to be able to wake up to the sunrise, right? So I want a dark room, but I still want the sunlight to come in, and that's perfect time to wake up. That's when you actually have good healthy circadian rhythm, wakes up with the early morning sun, okay? That's a sign you have a really good healthy circadian rhythm. So you want a little bit of sunlight to be able to come in if possible, okay? But other than that, you want your room to be as dark as possible. I also recommend an eye mask. It's one of the best things. Every time I turn somebody on to wearing an eye mask at night, it takes a little bit getting used to. A lot of people are not used to something or on their face or over their eyes at night. But after a night or two, you get used to it, and it makes a huge difference in your sleep quality. If you're checking your sleep using an aura ring or something like that, you'll notice you have better deep and REM sleep. And that's when you really do the best fat burning, brain detoxifying benefits during deep and REM sleep. You want to keep your room cool. Ideally, somewhere between 60 to 58 degrees. So turn on the air conditioning, have an overhead fan. That's going to help you sleep deeper. Don't exercise at night or eat late at night for the best sleep. That will hamper your sleep if you're eating late at night. Of course, cut off caffeine. You know, let's say 10 hours before you go to sleep. Make sure you've cut off your caffeine usage as well. And that will really help. Now again, that ancient proverb says, watch the sunrise if you want to have great energy and watch the sunset if you want to have great sleep at night. That right there is a huge truism. And if you start doing this, you're going to address your sunlight, the sunlight deficiency as well as a darkness deficiency. If you address those two deficiencies, that will significantly reduce your risk of developing chronic inflammatory conditions like cancer, heart disease, as well as diabetes, and autoimmune conditions, and give you better energy, better mental clarity, better fap earning, right? And really more mojo so you can thrive in life. So please share this video with somebody you know and you care about, comment below as well. You know, if you have any questions, would love to know your experience with this as well. And we'll see you in a future video. 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