I’ve been doing sunrise 30 minutes, UVA rise 30-40 and UVB 50-70 minutes since April. I feel better. Happier. Calmer. But I have no idea how to get off my low dose meds yet. I’ll read more as you write!!
Not sure how it was determined that people are "broken at the circadian level."
Perhaps a disrupted circadian rhythm adds to all the other woes of modern society, but people being "broken" seems a bit of an overstatement. The cause of nearly all chronic diseases is multi-factorial. We don't wake up and realize there is a problem until after the train is off the tracks and crashed at the bottom of the canyon. If we could sense the problem sooner, there would be fewer causes, and the fix would be a lot simpler.
Jetlag is the most obvious way that people experience their circadian rhythms. If circadian rhythm is such a delicate flower that can easily be derailed by modern life, why is it that you can eliminate jet lag just by going outside and standing barefoot in wet grass for 15 or 20 minutes? It resets the clock that quickly. Without doing that, I'll be a mess for a few days going from the West Coast of the US to Europe. With it, I adjust to the local time within a day or so (as soon as I can compensate for the loss of sleep).
I suspect it is possible that some people are so fouled up that it's harder for them to reboot their system, but I'd think those are the minority in the Pareto Principle concept (which can be paraphrased as 80-90% of the time there is an easy fix, 10-20% of the time there is no easy solution).
You can also track your heart rate variability (HRV) as an indication of your seasonal circadian variability. You should see a peak in July (in the Northern Hemisphere) and a trough in January, with a fairly gentle slope connecting the two. I suspect it's mainly due to the length of available sunlight that it peaks in July. But as long as you are healthy it's a pretty steady pattern. Year-round exercise doesn't affect it, aside from when you overtrain. And if you follow it long enough and are as old as I am (68) you'll see a very gradual decline year-to-year. At least until something goes wrong. If you can fix that, the trend goes up for a while. If you don't the downward trend can accelerate.
HRV doesn't seem to be affected by wintering in Florida and living in Idaho. Even though Florida has a few more hours of sunlight in the winter. Maybe it's got more to do with the distance from the sun (which is pretty much the same in both FL and ID)?
The human body is a very robust, self healing system, when it hasn't been poisoned by BigAg, BigPharma and the sociopathic billionaires on the planet.
But I do agree there are only positive benefits from getting more exposure to the sun for your skin and eyes, provided that you avoid getting burned/blinded. I don't know, but I would suspect, sunbathing with your eyes closed and facing directly at the sun, it is possible to get most of the benefits of looking directly at the sun at dawn and dusk. I'm sure someone has calculated how deep photons can travel through various tissues. And I suspect it's possible to use a NIR red light device for your eyes safely by standing farther away and keeping your eyes closed (and not protected by goggles). Someone way smarter than me could probably crunch the numbers and calculate a safe and hopefully beneficial distance for doing so.
Saying people are broken at the circadian level is an understatement, not overstatement. If you dedicate the majority of your time to looking at the research involved along with the mechanisms, this becomes clear.
The circadian mechanism is designed to be very sensitive by its nature to sense time across unfathomably complex processes within the body that operate at the quantum level.
The human body is resilient in a certain environment that is evolutionary appropriate.
The society we live in is about as detached from nature as you could possibly imagine, which is why chronic diseases are accelerating for people at a younger age.
Other things matter, but nothing comes close to the sheer impact of circadian biology. Your food is made from photosynthesis. Your exercises are beneficial because of their ability to induce favorable changes at the sub-atomic level.
I’m easily willing to bet that 80-90% of all health funnels down to light environment, circadian mechanisms, and the fine balance of electrons/protons/neutrons, deuterium depletion.
I have laid all of this out on all my platforms, including here on Substack. It’s undeniable
I absolutely agree that chronic disease manifests at the cellular level and below. I've read passionately about health for 20 years, and that's the basic truth that I've found in the books that were worth reading. And all that shows up as mitochondrial dysfunction, with the symptoms linked to whatever part of the body that such dysfunction is occurring.
That anyone can somehow tweak circadian rhythms as a primary means of correcting things seems a stretch. The primary means of correction are the energy inputs and specific nutrients, not the system that helps to regulate them. The system will self correct when the correct inputs are given. You are correct in pointing out how corporate bullshit has convinced us to disable some very valuable and critical energy inputs. That's a great and valuable message.
My general belief, from what I've read, is that energy is the key to everything. There are subtractive processes that deplete energy and there are additive processes that build and restore energy. And if your body is being overwhelmed by subtractive processes and cannot maintain homeostasis, the most effective course of action is to go on a fast. It'll purge those subtractive processes and break down and recycle all the damaged tissue (provided you don't have late stage cancer, in which case there may not be time to turn things around before it is too late).
I suspect you should write a book, and put forth a fully thought out and coherently organized thesis. In doing so, you'll discover either that you are right and that you will be able to communicate that those ideas more clearly and simply, or that there are holes in your beliefs and need to keep searching for your truth. And if you publish without finding those holes, the critical thinkers of the world who take the time to read what you've written will help point them out to you. It's never a good idea to publish in haste.
The trouble with Substack is the more a person writes, the more difficult it is for someone to come along in the middle and make sense of what is going on. Especially if it's mostly about a fairly narrow topic. You clearly have a great ability to comprehend stuff that most people can't. I'm not convinced that your conclusions about what all that stuff means are always valid. But perhaps I joined the party (on Yoho's recommendation) at the wrong point in the journey?
I’d urge you to study the rest of my work, at least here on Substack. It covers everything you’ve been speaking about, especially around mitochondrial function. I take a first principles approach
Reading this with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.
I’ve been doing sunrise 30 minutes, UVA rise 30-40 and UVB 50-70 minutes since April. I feel better. Happier. Calmer. But I have no idea how to get off my low dose meds yet. I’ll read more as you write!!
Not sure how it was determined that people are "broken at the circadian level."
Perhaps a disrupted circadian rhythm adds to all the other woes of modern society, but people being "broken" seems a bit of an overstatement. The cause of nearly all chronic diseases is multi-factorial. We don't wake up and realize there is a problem until after the train is off the tracks and crashed at the bottom of the canyon. If we could sense the problem sooner, there would be fewer causes, and the fix would be a lot simpler.
Jetlag is the most obvious way that people experience their circadian rhythms. If circadian rhythm is such a delicate flower that can easily be derailed by modern life, why is it that you can eliminate jet lag just by going outside and standing barefoot in wet grass for 15 or 20 minutes? It resets the clock that quickly. Without doing that, I'll be a mess for a few days going from the West Coast of the US to Europe. With it, I adjust to the local time within a day or so (as soon as I can compensate for the loss of sleep).
I suspect it is possible that some people are so fouled up that it's harder for them to reboot their system, but I'd think those are the minority in the Pareto Principle concept (which can be paraphrased as 80-90% of the time there is an easy fix, 10-20% of the time there is no easy solution).
You can also track your heart rate variability (HRV) as an indication of your seasonal circadian variability. You should see a peak in July (in the Northern Hemisphere) and a trough in January, with a fairly gentle slope connecting the two. I suspect it's mainly due to the length of available sunlight that it peaks in July. But as long as you are healthy it's a pretty steady pattern. Year-round exercise doesn't affect it, aside from when you overtrain. And if you follow it long enough and are as old as I am (68) you'll see a very gradual decline year-to-year. At least until something goes wrong. If you can fix that, the trend goes up for a while. If you don't the downward trend can accelerate.
HRV doesn't seem to be affected by wintering in Florida and living in Idaho. Even though Florida has a few more hours of sunlight in the winter. Maybe it's got more to do with the distance from the sun (which is pretty much the same in both FL and ID)?
The human body is a very robust, self healing system, when it hasn't been poisoned by BigAg, BigPharma and the sociopathic billionaires on the planet.
But I do agree there are only positive benefits from getting more exposure to the sun for your skin and eyes, provided that you avoid getting burned/blinded. I don't know, but I would suspect, sunbathing with your eyes closed and facing directly at the sun, it is possible to get most of the benefits of looking directly at the sun at dawn and dusk. I'm sure someone has calculated how deep photons can travel through various tissues. And I suspect it's possible to use a NIR red light device for your eyes safely by standing farther away and keeping your eyes closed (and not protected by goggles). Someone way smarter than me could probably crunch the numbers and calculate a safe and hopefully beneficial distance for doing so.
Saying people are broken at the circadian level is an understatement, not overstatement. If you dedicate the majority of your time to looking at the research involved along with the mechanisms, this becomes clear.
The circadian mechanism is designed to be very sensitive by its nature to sense time across unfathomably complex processes within the body that operate at the quantum level.
The human body is resilient in a certain environment that is evolutionary appropriate.
The society we live in is about as detached from nature as you could possibly imagine, which is why chronic diseases are accelerating for people at a younger age.
Other things matter, but nothing comes close to the sheer impact of circadian biology. Your food is made from photosynthesis. Your exercises are beneficial because of their ability to induce favorable changes at the sub-atomic level.
I’m easily willing to bet that 80-90% of all health funnels down to light environment, circadian mechanisms, and the fine balance of electrons/protons/neutrons, deuterium depletion.
I have laid all of this out on all my platforms, including here on Substack. It’s undeniable
I absolutely agree that chronic disease manifests at the cellular level and below. I've read passionately about health for 20 years, and that's the basic truth that I've found in the books that were worth reading. And all that shows up as mitochondrial dysfunction, with the symptoms linked to whatever part of the body that such dysfunction is occurring.
That anyone can somehow tweak circadian rhythms as a primary means of correcting things seems a stretch. The primary means of correction are the energy inputs and specific nutrients, not the system that helps to regulate them. The system will self correct when the correct inputs are given. You are correct in pointing out how corporate bullshit has convinced us to disable some very valuable and critical energy inputs. That's a great and valuable message.
My general belief, from what I've read, is that energy is the key to everything. There are subtractive processes that deplete energy and there are additive processes that build and restore energy. And if your body is being overwhelmed by subtractive processes and cannot maintain homeostasis, the most effective course of action is to go on a fast. It'll purge those subtractive processes and break down and recycle all the damaged tissue (provided you don't have late stage cancer, in which case there may not be time to turn things around before it is too late).
I suspect you should write a book, and put forth a fully thought out and coherently organized thesis. In doing so, you'll discover either that you are right and that you will be able to communicate that those ideas more clearly and simply, or that there are holes in your beliefs and need to keep searching for your truth. And if you publish without finding those holes, the critical thinkers of the world who take the time to read what you've written will help point them out to you. It's never a good idea to publish in haste.
The trouble with Substack is the more a person writes, the more difficult it is for someone to come along in the middle and make sense of what is going on. Especially if it's mostly about a fairly narrow topic. You clearly have a great ability to comprehend stuff that most people can't. I'm not convinced that your conclusions about what all that stuff means are always valid. But perhaps I joined the party (on Yoho's recommendation) at the wrong point in the journey?
I’d urge you to study the rest of my work, at least here on Substack. It covers everything you’ve been speaking about, especially around mitochondrial function. I take a first principles approach