Episode 169: Danielle Hamilton ON Unlocking the Power of Light for Blood Sugar Control and Beyond

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Hey guys, we've got a specialepisode here for you.
This is my interview with DanielHamilton.
She is an expert on blood sugar,insulin resistance.
And holistic health.
The conversation evolves into anin-depth discussion on how light
exposure, particularly bluelight and red light affects our
body's circadian rhythm.
Incident sensitivity and overallmetabolic health.

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Very at 90 stuff guys.
And without further ado, here'smy interview with Daniel
Hamilton.

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We have a special guest joining us Danielle Hamilton is
a functional Nutritional therapypractitioner.
She's an expert in the realm ofblood sugar, insulin resistance.
And holistic health is a passionfor unraveling the complexities
of metabolic wellness.
Danielle's mission is to guideindividuals in uncovering and

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enhancing their understanding ofblood sugar issues, empowering
them to reclaim their vibranthealth and longevity.
Danielle is also the host of thepodcast, unlock your sugar
shackles where she sharesinvaluable insights and And
actual tips for breaking freefrom the grips of sugar
dependency and reclaimingcontrol over one's health

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destiny.
Daniel Hamilton, welcome to theKeto Think Alpha podcast, or
should I say welcome back.

danielle-hamilton_1_04- (01:17):
Thanks.
Yeah.
I'm happy to be back.
Thanks for having me.

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You know, um, before we went live, you talked about, uh,
you know, from changing yourperspective on, you know, blood
sugar regulation to thecircadian rhythm.
I want to talk to you about thatlater on, but that, um, we, we
actually met, uh, back in 2020,and I believe in that was.

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You know, I told you this beforewe went live.
We recorded this, uh, episode.
It was episode 10, and Iremember being so grateful for
you coming on, but I rememberyou talking about, you know,
suffering from various healthissues like, you know, frequent
infections, allergies, also hadPCOS symptoms, then sort of that

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aha moment, um, when youunderstood the role of insulin
resistance in PCOS.
And I want to start there.
Um, insulin resistance ismisunderstood.
We often hear insulin resistancein diabetes, but it often is the
root cause of chronic illness.
Um,

danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-20 (02:22):
Mm hmm.

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well, before that, let's talk about your mission
missions driven by your story.
So let's talk about your storyand how you get here today.
Um, tell us about that story,Danielle.

danielle-hamilton_1_04-04 (02:35):
Yeah, just to sum up my story, I, I
struggled with a lot ofallergies, asthma, sinus
infections.
I had to get my tonsils out whenI was 18 after getting strep
throat many, many times thatyear.
Um, I was on all these, thesemedications and getting allergy
shots and I was a hot mess andI, I changed my diet.

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to a paleo diet and ate realfood And all those things went
away.
But then I had a reallystressful year and I discovered
that I had polycystic ovariansyndrome.
I started to get all thesehormonal symptoms.
And uh, I, I couldn't loseweight.
I wasn't getting a menstrualcycle.

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I had horrible acne and I was sotired all the time and I
realized I had PCOS, which, um,my doctor had no, was of no help
to me.
Just basically told me, uh, youknow, I was struggling to lose
weight and he's like, well, youhave to lose weight and you have
to take the pill and there's nocure.
And I was like, Whoa, okay.

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Yeah, I remember

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advice.
Yeah, And, um, and then I, I, Iwent ahead and, uh, figured it
out on my own.
I realized, I heard a podcastthat said PCOS is the diabetes
of the ovaries, and all of asudden I realized, Oh, I have to
pay attention to my blood sugar,my insulin, like all this stuff
that I actively avoided learningabout because it was confusing

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and boring.
And so, yeah, so that's That'sthe story that you know, that's
the story that I tell all thetime because that's my story.
But I started to realize there'sactually another, there's
another piece of that story.
And you know, a lot of it has todo with my weight and I
struggled with my weight mywhole life.

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I grew up in New York and then Imoved to Miami, Florida for grad
school.
I was in the sun all the timebecause when you're from New
York, you're very obsessed withbeing tan.
It's like a thing that we allhave.
And so we went, I was like, Oh,I want to be tan.
I want to be tan.
I want to be tan.
And so I was laying out all thetime.
I was in the sun all the time.

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I was at the beach all the time.
And, uh, I didn't really changeanything.
I mean, I was, I was actuallypartying more than I ever had.
I was drinking.
I was eating terribly yet.
I lost weight.
Like for the first time in mylife, I effortlessly lost
weight.
And then I moved back to NewYork and then I started gaining

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weight.
And at that time, that's when Iwas like, Oh, I have PCOS and
all these things.
But I was back in New York, likeinside.
It was gray.
It was winter.
It was all the things.
And then I moved back to Miamiagain after a year and I wasn't
laying out as much.
So it took, it took some time,but all this to say that there's

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also another story happeninghere on top of the story with
the food.
And that is a story of light.
And.
I am realizing that light, afterreading tons of studies, and
there's tons and tons of studieson this, um, and, and hearing
from different teachers of minethat Light is a huge factor when

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it comes to our metabolism.
And the first time I heard this,I'm like, no, it's not.
That's weird.
This is what, what do you say?
Like, I was just like, lots offeelings of like, no, this is
too weird.
This is too simple.
That, that would be crazy.
But.
Just there's tons of studiessaying this and feel free to go
dig into the research But in theabsence of food blue light

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Raises blood sugar and insulin.
So where's blue light bluelights from the Sun?
but also in our in our lightbulbs, also in our devices, also
our computer screens, our TVs.
Also a lot of lights on allthese things that we have
inside, on the dishwasher, onthe microwave, on the, you know,

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air fryer, there's lights allover.
And any white light, if youbreak it up in a prism, you're
going to see the whole rainbow.
And it has blue light in it.
And blue light If we kind of goback even more to our early
history as humans living on thisplanet, as just as all the

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plants, all the animals livingon this planet, we all evolved
living outside.
under the sun all day.
It was really bright.
And then it was really dark atnight.
There were no lights at nightback then, right?
Maybe fire.
Um, but that's it.
So we, we, I don't want to usethe word evolved cause I don't

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want to throw people off for allof human history.
Human beings have lived outsidein the bright sun and the dark
night.
Okay.
And coincidentally, the lightfrom the sun, there's a
wavelength of light.
that is blue.
That is why our sky is blue.
It's actually that exact color.

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Um, that wavelength of lighttells our body to increase
cortisol.
And that's not a bad thing.
We need cortisol.
If we have no cortisol, we wouldbe like sleeping or we would be
dead, right?
So in the morning, the sun comesover the horizon and all of a
sudden the amount of blue lightin our environment Increases it

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turns on it's there for thefirst time it appears And that
is supposed to tell our cortisolto slowly rise so if Let's say
we're early humans.
We're living thousand years agoWe live in our cave and all of a
sudden we we get woken upbecause the light comes in our

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cave, right?
We go outside and we see sunriseand as the sun goes up in the
sky.
So So too does the amount ofblue light.
So too does our cortisol rhythm,right?
And if you've ever seen asalivary cortisol panel, you
know that it's supposed to raisegradually sort of peak in the
afternoon and then gently taperoff at night.

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So then it's nice and low atnight.
And that's when melatoninsupposed to go up so we can go
to sleep, right?
So, We, living with the sun, wesaw the sun go up, the amount of
blue increases, the, it'sincreasing our cortisol, also
increases our blood sugar, ourinsulin, and then it goes down
and then at night, maybe wewould light a fire.

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There's no blue light in fire.
So this didn't mess with these,these systems, right?
So we, and then, uh, there waslike sort of an orange glow.
We were still awake andsocializing.
And then at the end of thenight, we see these red embers.
Okay.
And it was like very dim and wejust had that red light at
night.
And then that was it.

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Just the light of the moon,which is very, very, very dim,
even though it can kind ofbrighten the sky a little.
It's so.
super, super dim.
So there's no light at night, noblue light at night.
And the absence of that bluelight will tell our pineal gland
to create melatonin.
And that, that helps us go tosleep.
And we know, I'm sure you'vetalked about this on your

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podcast, how important sleep isfor our metabolic health, our
blood sugar, our insulin.
So.
Where do things go wrong in ourmodern world?
I'm, I'm sure you can start tosee some of the, the, the gaps
that we're going to have.
So what happens when, before Iknew this, when I used to wake

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up, I used to flip open myphone.
I got a bright light in my face,and then I flip on the overhead
light.
I'm opening the fridge, brightlight, bright light, bright
light, all this blue light.
What is that doing to mycortisol?
It's jacking up my cortisol.
And how many people do you knowwho have high morning blood
sugar who have this dawnphenomenon.

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It's spiking their blood sugar,and it doesn't.
It has a hard time coming downbecause we're getting inundated
with this light.
Now, that is not the only causeof it, but it is a huge, major
cause.
And coincidentally, one of myclients who struggled with high
morning blood sugar.
She started the practice ofseeing sunrise and standing

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outside at sunrise.
And she's like, I literallywatched my blood sugar just come
right back down.
So it's amazing that, uh,because also red light, we
haven't talked about this redlight, there's a lot of red
light in the sun all day, butespecially in the morning,
because that blue light is solow.
And the red light is so much redlight.

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You can also look this up.
Lots of studies showing this redlight tells our mitochondria to
use glucose faster.
So it lowers our blood sugar.
So it improves our blood sugar.
This is literally why I'moutside right now, by the way.
Uh, so I'm getting all these.
this light.
But, um, so blue light actuallyraises our blood sugar and red

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light lowers our blood sugar.
So it's important to have the,we don't want to be an absence
of blue light because thenremember we'd have like no
cortisol.
That wouldn't be good.
We want to have this nice rhythmwhere, um, Where the cortisol is
rising in the day melatonin isrising at night, right?

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so one of the other factors thatsort of comes up in this is No,
I'll just I'll stop there for aminute.
Let's go back to what I wassaying with the With the,
throughout the day.
So we were opening our phoneswhere, you know, turning on
lights.
We're using our devices reallyearly.

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We're not getting outside.
So what does our body think?
Our body thinks, because we getthe, the light comes into our
eye and goes to what's calledthe suprachiasmatic nucleus and
the hypothalamus, it's notimportant, but I just want to
throw these things out therebecause in case someone wants to
And that is what will say, Oh.

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It's this time.
So one of the things that'sreally important is that light
is the primary time giver to ourbody.
Our bodies, they can't be doingeverything all at once, right?
Like it, they need to detoxify,they need to digest, they need
to metabolize, they need to dothis and that.
And the other thing we have ahundred thousand at least tasks

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every second, our mitochondrianeed to perform.
So we have tons of things to doin our body, right?
But.
How does the body know what toprioritize when, when to do
certain things?
So if you look at, if you justlook at animals, animals are
awake during the day, many ofthem, the ones who are diurnal,
which is the opposite ofnocturnal, I didn't know that.

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So I thought I would define thatfor people who are like me.
So animals.
who are diurnal like us, wherewe're awake during the day, we
have behaviors and we do thingsthat we're better at doing
during the day.
We're better at metabolizing anddigesting our food during the
day.
We're better at solving problemsand, you know, running around

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and having energy during theday.
What are we better at doing atnight?
Detoxifying.
Repairing, resting, so we're,we're designed to do certain
things better at certain timesof the day, right?
So keeping all these things inmind, we are better suited to
metabolize food, like Imentioned, early in the day when

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there is light, when there issunlight in our environment,
okay?
The sun's going down and we'relike, oh, I'm just getting home
from work.
I'm gonna flip on the lights inmy house I'm gonna start dinner
and we're eating late and thenwe have all this light and then
we're gonna scroll We're gonnawatch Netflix and we have the

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lights on all night long.
So what is this doing to ourblood sugar?
We have this unnatural amount ofblue light When there should be
no blue light in ourenvironment, it's telling us,
it's telling our bodies.
There's a direct message throughthat suprachiasmatic nucleus
that says you must producecortisol.

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It's 2 p.
m.
So at night people have troublesleeping.
They have trouble winding down.
They're like, I feel tired, butwired.
Why is that?
Because the, their environmentis telling them that it's like,
Four in the

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Yeah.

So it's confusing.
So going back to where I said,like the body needs to do
certain things at certain times,I like to think about our body,
like an airport.
And so if we think about it,like, okay, all the flights
cannot go and leave at the sametime.
Everyone needs we need aschedule and we're like this
lights going in this lightscoming in this one's going out

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This one's coming in it'sorganized, right?
So the same thing with our bodySo our hypothalamus is like our
control center like the controltower at the airport So the
hypothalamus is gonna get thatinformation about the light.
It's gonna be like, okaysunrise.
Boom I want you to createpregnenolone Pregnenolone could

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be turned into cortisol.
It could be turned into all oursex hormones.
So then we have that going Thenwe see another type of light, uh
called uva light and thehypothalamus is like, okay I
want you to create thyroidhormones.
I want you to create serotonin,which we're going to turn into
melatonin later that night Iwant you to create this and that

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so it's creating all thesethings.
It's saying which genes to turnon and off So So we are getting
all this information like the,just like a control tower from
the light in our environment.
Primarily that's the number onesignaler and the secondary
signal is when we eat.
So these are the things that weneed to be considering when

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we're talking about overallmetabolic health.
We need to be thinking about ourlight environment and we need to
be thinking about when we eatalso what we eat, but like
That's, I feel like people areso focused on the what we eat
and maybe they think about whenbecause they, they talk about
fasting, but we, and we can gointo this later, but I have, uh,

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you know, based on all of thisknowledge, there's a big change
that I suggest for people'sfasting windows, uh, for most
people.
So, um, I'm going to stop there.
That was a lot of information.
I'll let you

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Yeah, well, that's fascinating.
That's, that's very new to me.
I've never heard that before.
Um, and, uh, when you said justmoving to New York alone
throughout your circadianrhythm, which resulted to weight
gain, that is that, am I gettingthat right?
It's without changing anything,just changing your location.

Yeah, changing my location on the
planet because I was not gettingas much light.
And so one of the things thatUVB light, like I was tanning
all the time and you tan in UVBlight, which is the light that,
um, one of the wavelengths oflight that predominates during
summer in tropical regions.
And that's the light that makesus produce vitamin D, which also

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Helps us to sensitize toinsulin.
It helps the pank tell thepancreas to create insulin.
It's anti inflammatory We knowit's good for the immune system
But vitamin D is a huge piece ofthe metabolic puzzle that we
missed Because, and, and by theway, unfortunately, supplements,
I do not recommend, unless it'slike a dangerous situation, uh,

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for the, the average person.
If you are taking vitamin Dsupplements and then you go get
your vitamin D tested, that'snot your vitamin D.
That's how much the supplementjust gave you.
It's just not the same.
And it's actually been linked toautoimmunity thyroid issues.
So I don't recommend vitamin Dsupplements on the whole.
If you're listening to this,it's the middle of winter in

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Canada.
And like you did not.
prioritize UVB light during thesummer and you don't have those
sores, maybe there's a gray areathere.
And, and please, you know, likethis is not medical advice.
However, what I recommend rightnow that we're recording this,
it's spring in the NorthernHemisphere.
And it's the perfect time to bestarting your solar callus,

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which is, um, which is basicallylike a tan.
We want to get all the benefitsof the sun without their, the
sun's negative effects.
And the way we do this isthinking about, we need to
consume the sun's light in allof its, in all of its benefit.
all the spectrum.
So a huge amount of the sun'slight is actually infrared

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light, which is heat, whichtells our body to, it helps our
mitochondria, you know, likethose red light therapy panels,
everyone's using.
It's like that stuff, right?
So it's helping our, ourmitochondria create ATP and
cellular water, which is reallyimportant.
We're like, I won't go intothat.
Um, so when we're considering.
Consuming the sun's light tryingto get vitamin D If you're very

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pale and you just go outside atlike 12 noon and you're like, oh
Danny told me to get vitamin DWhat's gonna happen?
Your skin is probably gonnaburn.
It's not ready for that.
So that's not what I recommendSo first things first is morning
sunlight morning sunlight uh andI'm specifically talking about
at sunrise.

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You want to get that light inyour skin and on your eyes.
That's going to set thecircadian rhythm.
That's going to slowly turn onour cortisol.
Like we talked about, it's goingto lower your morning fasting
blood sugar and it's amazing.
And that light is going toCondition your skin to get the
harsher UVB light.

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Then there's another time.
So that's sunrise light is whenthe sun is zero to 10 degrees
off the horizon.
There's an app that tells youwhen all these things are in
your area.
It's called circadian.
So you could go to circadian.
life and download it.
I have no affiliation, just abig fan.
Um, so then after that sunriselight, um, then.

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We want to get UVA light.
So UVA is present all the time,all year round, everywhere, but
it's very strong during thisnext window where the sun is 10
to 30 degrees off the horizon.
So this UVA light, again, isgoing to condition our skin to
get that UVB light, but it'salso going to tell our body to

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make serotonin, dopamine,norepinephrine, and endorphins.
That's like a lot.
Absolutely incredible.
So all these people on, youknow, depression medications.
ADHD medications that can'tfocus that are on anxiety
medications.
All of those neurotransmitterswill help with all of those

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things with drive, with focus,with, with, um, with mood.
And then the endorphins piece,like, yeah, I'll take some
endorphins.
That's amazing.
Endorphins feel great.
And then it also tells our bodyto make thyroid hormones.
How many people do you know havea sluggish thyroid?
So You know, that could be that,that metabolism piece of the T3

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and T4 being made in the morningsun, that could have also been
another piece that was impactedwhen I moved to New York from
Florida because I wasn't outsideas much.
And I was also all wrapped up.
I was also all bundled up.
Um, I'm not saying that everyoneneeds to move to Florida.
There's.
There's

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I mean, they should.

for me, that's part of my story.
Yeah, we can.
But, Um, and especially assomeone with the darker skin
tone, it's very, very importantthat you are prioritizing all
these steps so that we can getUVB light because it, the darker
your skin, the more, the moreUVB light you need to make your

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melanin and to make, uh, sorry,to make a vitamin D.
And so then after the UVA light,there's UVB light, and that's
where we can synthesize vitaminD, but it also helps to improve
our metabolism and it helps itcan actually help to suppress
our appetite.
So this is another piece of thepuzzle, how I lost weight when I

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went to Miami.
Um, but getting that vitamin Dwe want to slowly, gradually
increase the amount of time thatwe're outside in this UVB light.
Also depending on our skin tone.
So there's a scale called theFitzpatrick scale, and it's like
as a one on the scale assomeone, let's say like from
Ireland, very pale skin frecklesdoes not tan easily.

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And then someone who's a six onthat scale might be someone
from, from Africa with very darkskin, like black or dark Brown
skin that always has a very deeptan and does not burn.
So you find yourself in.
wherever you are on the spectrumand you want to just make sure
that you're, you're getting theappropriate amount of light so

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that you build that solarcallus, which is a tan.
You can't, you can't see it, um,you know, on this video, but I'm
very tan right now.
Cause I was just in Costa Ricaand I've been prioritizing the
light out here in Austin.
It's like 80 degrees.
It's, it's amazing.
So I have been outside a lot.
I do want to say, I also covermy face.
Um, and, but.

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And I would use sunscreen like azinc based sunscreen if I had
to, but I'm trying to avoidusing that by seeking shade when
I need to and using clothes tocover up.
So that's, and then there's onemore part of the sun out of the
day that I want to talk aboutto, to sort of finish out this
vitamin D conversation, whichagain is essential for, for, our

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blood sugar and our insulin andour immune systems.
It actually acts like a hormone.
Um, the end of the day, whenthat blue light has also gone
down because it reduces at theend of the day, again, the sun
is sort of like a giant redlight therapy panel, which is
funny because I'm like relatingit in modern terms, but that

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makes sense.
So this red light therapy on ourskin, when the sun is in the
evening.
It soothes and heals the skin.
So it's super cool to think thatthe morning sunlight is
preconditioning the skin to getthis UVB light.
Then we get the UVB light.

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The vitamin D we create is antiinflammatory, which helps.
And then we have the soothingsoothing aspect of the sun in
the evening so that it mitigatesthe damage of the UVB light.
So if we look at the sun at thefull spectrum, it makes sense
because we as humans livedoutside for our whole history

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and we would have been outsidefor all these times during the
day.
And so that's the way the sun ismeant to be consumed.
That's the way the sun has Suchpositive benefits for our health
beyond the vitamin D, includinga lot of those hormones and
neurotransmitters I talked aboutearlier, and there's so many
more, I literally would, could

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Yeah,

all day just listing off benefits,
nitric oxide, which is helpfulfor blood sugar, blood pressure.
Like there's just so manybenefits to the sun's rays that
we want to be able to be outthere and consuming it in a
healthy way, that's notdetrimental.
So, um, To to our health.
So that's the vitamin D pieceand we can talk about food

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timing as well.
But um, Does that how does thathow's that

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I'm in the wrong part of the world.
Now I thought about it, right?
Um, you know,

Where do you live?

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canada up here, up north.
So now that I thought about it,you know, when I was in the
Philippines, a tropical country,um, you know, I, honestly, it
was like last week and I wasthere for about almost a month.
I didn't gain weight.
I mean, I wasn't as strict.
there, but certainly, you know,keeping on a keto diet, but I

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wasn't gaining weight.
I, uh, I was having off planmeals here and there, and I was,
I wasn't so much of, uh, youknow, I was relaxing, you know,
I was indulging myself with Youknow, these foods, but I didn't
gain anything.
Um, I feel like this is such ahack, you know, we're talking
about, we're talking about going

So there's another

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go ahead.

so there's another reason for that
of something crazy that I wantto talk about because um,
There's a there's another pieceof this that Is one of the
things, like, just intuitively,if I were to recommend, like,
let's say you come to me and youhave, like, let's say you have

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type 2 diabetes, and then youhave a twin brother who lives in
the Philippines, still living inthe Philippines, and you are in,
um, Canada, and, and you guysboth have type 2 diabetes, does
it make sense, just intuitively,basically.
For me to recommend the exactsame food to you in Canada, it's

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snowing and cloudy and cold andvery dim light.
Does it make sense to recommendthe exact same diet to you and
to him?
He lives like closer to the

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I w I would, but I

to me, it just like, and, and think
back, okay, now it's not 2024.
Think back to like 1800.
What food?
Would be available, right?
So we're so used to our moderngrocery stores that we go in and
any food is available anytime,but that's, that's.

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So it is, it's crazy becauseit's convenient, but it's also
harming our health in a big way.
And it has a lot to do with aword that I'm going to say and
people are going to be like, OhGod, I don't even want to know
it.
I don't know.
The word freaked me out when Ifirst heard it.
But the w the reason is becauseof something called deuterium
deuterium.
You may have heard it referredsomething like something in

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science.
Um, deuterium is basically heavyhydrogen.
So let me explain, stick withme.
It's going to be real easy tounderstand and it's going to
make sense and it's going to besuper fascinating.
Okay.
So all food breaks down toelectrons right in our body and
has to go through what's calledthe electron transport chain in

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order to make ATP and water,which is how we get energy.
Right?
So, we have to have basicallythese hydrogens going through
this electron transport chain inorder to make energy.
So, at one step, on thiselectron transport chain.
There's a tiny motor.
It's called a nanomotor.

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And I think of it.
I think it must be so cute.
It's inside of all ourmitochondria, which like we have
hundreds or thousands in all ofthe cells of our body.
So we have tons of mitochondriawith tons of these little
nanomotors, right?
The nanomotor can fit Onehydrogen and hydrogen, if we
remember back to like eighthgrade science, is one proton.

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So it's only got one like littlething in it, right?
And, but deuterium has oneproton.
it's also hydrogen, but it hasone proton and one neutron.
So think about hydrogen havingone basketball and deuterium
having two basketballs.
So as this hydrogen is goinginto this nano motor, the one

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regular hydrogen is totallyfine.
But the deuterium is too heavy.
It's got these two basketballs.
It's too big and it F's up thesemotors and so it's damaging our
mitochondria.
And so then we don't output thesame energy.
We struggle with metabolichealth.
We develop diabetes and a lot ofchronic issues.

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So where is deuterium, right?
Where's deuterium?
Well, it's in sugar.
It's in sugar.
And it's also in water.
And the closer you get to theequator, the higher the
deuterium levels.
So the closer you get to Canadaand to the poles, the lower the
deuterium.
So, uh, If you think about it,the, the deuterium is high in

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things like, think about sugarcane.
It, it grew originally in liketropical areas.
It needs to grow.
Right now I know they grow a lotof sugar cane in Florida, it's
like grown in the tropics.
Um, it needs a lot of light tobe produced.
Then things like tropical fruitslike bananas and papayas and
mangoes and, and pineapples.

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All the foods that I wasindulging in in Costa Rica where
they were growing.
But I'm not eating them rightnow in Texas in, in April.
It doesn't make sense yet.
Then things like grains andunfortunately processed food,
vegetable oils.
They also contain a lot ofdeuterium.
So this deuterium is in ourbodies.

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It's messing up our mitochondriaand our metabolism.
And so In the, one of the waysthat we excrete deuterium is
through infrared light,sweating, and UV light and
creating, and creating morewhat's called cellular water.
So basically like grounding,being in the sun.

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That kind of thing.
So think about that, the light,the sweating, the grounding, all
of that helps us to get rid ofthis deuterium.
And so if you're in thePhilippines or in Costa Rica,
where I was, I was sweating.
Buckets every day.
I was like, I was like, I'mgoing on a deuterium depleting

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walk and because like literallyjust like the I just picture the
deuterium just like pouring outof my body because it's and it's
more in the water there becauseyou can deplete it more.
But if you go to Canada and youeat a banana in the middle of
February.
It's not biologicallyappropriate because there's so

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much deuterium in that bananaand then it's cold out.
Are you sweating?
Are you outside in the sun?
No.
So you can't deplete it.
So it's, it's more damaging foryou.
And there's another aspect of itwhen UV light hits our skin, it
changes our gut microbiome to bebetter able to digest simple

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sugars.
So we actually like When I wasin Costa Rica, my gut microbiome
was changing or your twin faketwin brother in the Philippines
Do you have a twin brother ofyour fake twin brother in the
Philippines who's under this UVlight could better?
Tolerate some of these foodsthan you up in Canada So this

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just brings up the idea and ifyou understood none of that or
like didn't Don't care to learnthat piece.
Just understanding that seasonaland local eating is really going
to be, that's what I'm startingto, first off, try to do myself
because it's hard.
And I have not mastered thisyet.
So if you're like, Oh my God,Danny, that sounds so hard.

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Yeah, it is hard.
And I'm struggling.
So I, you know, I'm going to afarmer's market.
I'm looking at what's in seasonon, on Google.
When I walk into places and I'mlike, okay, if it could grow, I
live in Austin right now.
So if it could grow in Austinright now, I'm going to buy it
because it makes sense that foodis also light.

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It's also giving us information.
So I said that the phone screenand the, the light bulbs at
night are confusing our body.
Confusion in our body results inwhat we call chaos, metabolic
chaos, and that is, that resultsin inflammation in our body.
I'm going to try to get thetable in too much sun now.
Okay.

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Um, but so we don't want toconfuse our body.
So if I'm eating that banana inCanada in the middle of
February.
My body is like, Oh, there mustbe a lot of light outside.
And then I go outside and thesky, the sun is like hardly
above the horizon.
It's super, you know, dark andwintry and it's cold.

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That's a mismatch.
That's a mismatch in theinformation that my body just
got.
And that confusion basically ischaos in the mitochondria in the
body and it results ininflammation.
So.
local seasonal eating is goingto be highly, highly
recommended.
And when we talk about ketosis,we talk about, you know, I'm

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sure you have been as Audi onyour show talking about flexing
out of ketosis.
And one of the best things wecould do is for women You know,
I love the idea of flexing outof ketosis, especially the week
before our cycles, but alsoseasonally, if we think about
like guys, it does make moresense for you to do keto fasting

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carnivore in Canada all winterlong.
That makes sense.
It makes sense because that'swhat would be around, right?
But when, when, it's summer andeven like into the fall, when
there's squashes and berries andall these things.
It also makes sense to eat thosefoods.

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And guess what?
You're going to have a bettertolerance, meaning glucose
tolerance of those foods,because your gut bacteria will
have changed grant it.
And this is only if you didn'tspend all summer indoors.
Um, Your gut bacteria will havechanged and if you eat the food
outside This is another thinglike I always put hashtag like

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eat outside club Because whenyou eat outside you get the
benefit of the Sun all that redlight on you and you have better
Blood sugar responses to yourfood.
So it's a really just like areally really cool thing

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it's so important to understand is you're saying, we
ha we just have, we havesomething that can heal us and
it's under our nose.
Right?
All we need to do is follow,above our head Just follow what
our ancestors did.
You know, waking up with thesun, and then eating foods that
are in season.

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That's,

danielle-hamilton_1_04-04- (37:20):
It's not

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Yeah.
I mean, I have a lot of, uh,research to do because these are
all new to me, um, andeverything that you said, it
makes sense and, uh, I'll, I'llhave to follow and subscribe to
this because there's a lot ofinformation.
I mean, where can we find thisinformation?
Is it on your website?

So, no, it's not on my website yet.
I'm starting to talk about thisstuff on Instagram and I am in
the middle of creating, well, myblood sugar mastery course,
that's my signature course.
I've run it like 19 times.
Um, and I have incorporated thisinformation.
Now this is like, thefoundational module in Blood
Sugar Mastery because the, thewins that my clients are

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experiencing from all of thesecircadian and quantum
strategies, which is whatthey're called.
Don't let those words scare you.
Um, I mean just unthinkable.
Unbelievable changes like myclient who has just to give you
one example my client who has MSWe've worked together for a

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while and she said that after 2p.
m her legs would kind of justlike give out and she wasn't
able to really walk and You knowon a good day.
She'd have to be laying down inher bed at five o'clock because
her body just kind of gave out.
So she started seeing sunrise.
She started doing UVA.
She started doing a lot ofgrounding, which is another

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place we get electrons.
So right now my feet are on thebare earth.
You can also ground, we can talkabout grounding a second, but,
um, you get electrons.
Remember I said the electrontransport chain makes energy.
Sunlight also gives us electronsand food gives us electrons.
We can get energy from othersources other than food.
Isn't that amazing?
Like we can use the earth and wecan use the sun to get more

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energy because I know a lot ofus with metabolic issues.
I, I mean, my number one symptomwas I was so tired all the time.
I was just so tired.
I'm so tired.
I'm so tired.
And then we'd eat something andthen you'd crash after that.
Like, I mean, just like I wasalways tired.
That's a great tip for anyonestruggling.
Um, it's also anti inflammatory,uh, like helps your blood unclog

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and flow smooth, I mean, justtons tons of benefits, but, um,
so she started doing thesunrise, the UVA, the grounding,
the, like being outside andshe's like, Danny, I can walk
like any time I want.
She's like, it's five o'clockand I can just.
Go for a walk.
I can walk for over a mile atfive o'clock.

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And she's like, and it was on acoaching call.
And on, at her time, it was like8 p.
m.
She's got her red lights on inthe background, which we can
talk about too.
And she's like, I'm fine.
She's like, I can be like anormal person, go to bed at like
nine or 10 p.
m.
She's like, I feel totally fine.
And she's like, my mood hasimproved.
I'm less snappy.
I'm less impatient.

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I mean, just the amount of, andthis is.
That's just one person.
There's so many people seeinghuge changes across the board
with this stuff.
So I think we're going to startto see more of this soon.
Um, but I, I did also want totalk about one of the other
things that she's doing, um,that I recommend for everybody
is she was, she was fasting.

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during the morning, like acommon thing, like skip
breakfast, fasting is good forus, all these things.
So when it comes to all this,like the circadian rhythm, which
is really like that cortisol andthen going down and then the
melatonin being low in the dayand going up at night, that's
really the circadian rhythm,like this timing of all our
cells, that word, that, thatphrase circadian rhythm is still

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a little confusing even to me.
So I, I am not a scientist, so Ilike to make stuff in, like,
nice and easy to understandterms because I'm not some sort
of, like, genius who can just,like, understand these things.
And, and, um, I hope that peopleare just following along and
just getting these basics.
So this rhythm that we have,this idea that we need to do
these things at certain times,that we have these rises in

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hormones and lowering inhormones at different times of
the day, so then everything'sworking as it should, just like
the airport that's running.
you know, right on time.
That's that circadian rhythm.
And what I see people doing isthey skip breakfast and then
they eat lunch and then they eatdinner and then they're hungry
later because they didn't eatall the protein that they should

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have in the day.
And so they eat before bed.
And unfortunately, this is likethe worst thing you could do.
Um, it's like it's we do notwant to eat late in the day
Because remember I talked aboutwe're better at metabolizing
certain times of the day.
We are better at metabolizingfood earlier in the day and it

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gradually worsens.
So thinking, coming back to likeinsulin sensitivity, our insulin
sensitivity is best earliest inthe day and gradually gets
worse.
So we get more insulin resistantas the day goes on and
especially after the sun goesdown.
I always say when the sun goesdown, insulin clocks out.

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And I see this on my CGM as Icould eat a meal with like,
let's say half a sweet potato inthe morning.
My blood sugar hardly moves.
If I ate that same meal atdinner or especially like after
dark at like seven o'clock, myblood sugar would be up so high
for so long.
And I don't know, have you seensimilar on your CGM?

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Yeah, you know, it's funny because my wife and I have
been doing, um, this food timingthing and we don't eat after 3
p.
m.
and we don't, and it's workedfor her.
It's worked for her becauseshe's lost so much weight
without changing her diet.
And so, you just explained,because I've been looking
through, you know, social mediaor Or Google what's happening

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because, you know, after 3pm, Ithought it's always about like
just, oh, your body's, you know,your body's just conserving
energy at night.
So it wants to conserve energyand whenever possible,
especially at night when yourmetabolism is slow, it's going
to store that as fat.
I always thought that.
And I didn't think that thiswill be just a part of, you

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know, circadian rhythm.
So, I mean, Uh

it actually has to do with that,
and that's a good thought, butit actually has to do with
another hormone we haven't eventalked about yet called leptin.
So leptin is a more of a masterhormone and it goes even deeper
than insulin resistance.
And I'm just starting to learnabout leptin.
I'm actually in a course aboutit right now.
Um, but what I know is thatleptin resistance always comes

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before insulin resistance.
Which is wild so you can alsohave leptin resistance without
yet having insulin resistance Sowhat is leptin?
We've heard about leptin as likethis satiety hormone So like
leptin and ghrelin is like thehunger hormone leptin is a
satiety hormone But it's that'slike not doing it It's like

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doing it a disservice to justcall it that because it's so
much more.
So leptin is a hormone that isproduced in our fat cells.
And every night around 12 to 2AM, it's job is to go up to that
control tower in the brain, thehypothalamus and say, Hey,
Here's your daily report of howmuch fat Dani has stored on her

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body.
She's got this much glycogen inher liver.
She's got this much body fat.
And you know what, we're kind ofat an excess of the body fat.
So tomorrow, feel free to lowerher appetite a little, and feel
free to burn that body fatbecause we have enough of it.
So that's leptin's job.
Leptin also will communicate tothe hypothalamus between meals,

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which is why snacking is notgood for us.
It's not good for our insulin.
It's also not good for ourleptin.
So let's say there's anotherperson and.
Um, this person has, uh, theirleptin is trying to dock to
their brain and they say, orlet's say this is me and I'm,

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I'm scrolling on my phone allnight, I have all the lights on,
I'm like, super anxious, like,you know, having text message
arguments and, and my cortisol'sup and all these things.
And so what's going to happen isthe cortisol is going to block.
It's going to compete with theleptin for, That space on the

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hypothalamus to give its report.
It's like cortisol is therefirst, so no more leptin.
Leptin can't talk.
Same thing with insulin.
So when we eat late at night,insulin competes with leptin to
tell the brain what the storyis.
So now when leptin cannotcommunicate with the
hypothalamus, my body is goingto assume that I'm starving.

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It's going to be like, yo, I didnot get that information from
leptin.
And.
Uh, I don't think we have anybody fat on, we don't have
anything stored.
I'm getting a zero reading here.
So tomorrow I need you to like,please increase her appetite and
like even make her anxious.
So she goes out and gets food.
Like we really need to get foodand just make sure we keep, keep

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using that, that, um, you know,going to get food and raise the
appetite.
And if she has any body fat, donot burn that because we need to
store that because there is aproblem here.
So.
If leptin cannot dock to thehypothalamus, our body will
assume we're starving.
It will increase our appetite.

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It will not allow our body toburn body fat.
So this is a huge problembecause what's going to
interfere with that signalingcortisol, high cortisol at
night, which comes from lightsbeing on blue lights, our phone
usage, dopamine.
This is me with the scroll.
So I have the light situationfigured out.
I have my, I have my blueblocking glasses on.

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I have my red light bulbs.
I have my phone screen red, butguess what?
I'm still scrolling, getting allthat dopamine hit.
And unfortunately, sorry guys,non native EMFs.
It's like invisible light.
The phone is right over mystomach as I'm laying in bed and
all those EMFs are And that'smessing me up.

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So, the past two nights, I'mliterally on night two.
If you guys feel bad aboutyourselves, don't worry.
I, I know all this stuff and I'mstill struggling.
So, technology is so addictive.
Um, I'm on day two.
Thank you very much, of no phonein bed.
So this is my challenge tomyself.
And I, per my aura ring,

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What time?
What time

last night.
I got, uh, I started, um, I justlike don't take my phone into
bed with me.
So, um, and I did read lastnight.
So I turned my phone off aroundlike 830 and went to bed around
like 930, 10.
So like, like an hour, half anhour before bed.
I mean, That's minimum, youknow, so but I had a much better

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sleep last night and I woke upthis morning and Over the past
couple of days.
I'm like, why am I so brainfoggy in the morning?
Like I just don't feel thatenergized and I'm like, I'm
doing all the things Well, guesswhat?
It was the freaking phone.
It was the phone at nightderailing my entire progress Um,
so I felt my brain was on thismorning and yesterday.

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I'm just like, oh my gosh, it'sthe phone.
So anyway, so the phone, thelights at night, eating too late
at night, caffeine too late, allof these things are going to
block my body's ability.
It's going to block that signalfrom leptin.
All right, I'm getting noise.
Do you want me to go inside?

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I don't.

noise?
Okay, cool, so So yeah, Sofasting I I I recommend in the
evening time.
That's a great time to fast Andso when should we eat breakfast?
Well, most of y'all are notgoing to be hungry for breakfast
right away And the way to startgetting hungry for breakfast is
actually seeing sunrise Becausethat's gonna trigger all these

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hormones to turn on and you'regonna have to do it for a couple
of weeks before the appetitestarts to kick in kicking in.
So what I recommend is slowlymove your eating window earlier
so that you don't have food inyour stomach, but like by, by,
the time you wake up in themorning and then we're going to
see sunrise with naked eyes.

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That means no glasses, nocontacts, no windows.
So you can crack a window andlook through like the screen of
the window, um, or just beoutside.
Um, and then You want to seethat light and then shortly
after sunrise within an hour ofsunrise Ideally, that's when we
want to eat breakfast And that'swhen we want a really good

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breakfast lots of protein andhealthy fats because that's
going to signal Leptin like oh,she's eaten.
We're good Like it it helps thiswhole system to run better.
So and then we want to wait tonot eat for like four to five
hours for our next meal andthat's important as

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So, around what time do you recommend having that first
breakfast, that breakfast?

Within one hour of sunrise.

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one hour?

So whenever, yeah, whenever sunrise
is for you.
So again, that's why I like thatCircadian app because it tells
me when sunrise is here.
Right now it's 7 15 in Austin.
In Costa Rica it was at 5 50 a.
m.
So.
really different times foreating.
But what you'll find is when youwake up consistently and you get

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that light in your eyes and you,and like, Literally I'll wake
up, I'm like, oh God, I'm notgonna want to eat today.
And sure enough, I get outside.
I'm outside for a couple ofminutes, boom, my appetite turns
on.
I'm like, yes, So it's reallyIt's really cool.
But that is really helpful andum, it's been just phenomenal

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for helping all.
these blood sugar things.
And then the one thing I didn'ttalk about yet that would also
be helpful for your people and,and for you is how do we make
our house livable when the sungoes down?
Because it's like, Danny, I needto see things.

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I can't be in the dark.
Like, what are you talkingabout?
I can't just turn off my lights.
What are you, what are youcrazy?
So, Uh, number one, I do notexpect you to live like
pioneers.
Um, this is, this is somethingthat we can do.
So if you go on Amazon, I can,you know, I'm happy to send your
followers.
I have sort of like a littlecurated little store on Amazon

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of just some of my favoritestuff.
But there are light bulbs thatdo not have any blue in them.
So if you are a person who'slike, okay, I'm not going to do
this.
You can also do red lights.
Um, like I have red light bulbsin my house.
I have little red, uh, motionlights, red night lights.
Red does not disrupt circadianrhythm.

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It doesn't.
Impact our cortisol at all soyou can have this red light We
don't want that to be thebrightest light in the world
because the brightness can stillimpact us But these little
lights are great.
So for me in my house when thesun goes down I have an orange
light bulb and the orange is Ifeel like a really good sort of

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intermediate because it mimicsthe fire.
So I talked about that earlier.
So it was like a little bitbrighter.
I can see some of the colors ofthings like, and it also isn't
putting me to sleep too fastbecause in the winter when the
sun goes down at like fiveo'clock and I turn on red light
bulbs, I'm going to be asleep atsix.
So it's like, how do we, youknow, stay up and feel a little

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bit more alert.
So some of those light bulbsthat have red light bulbs, No
blue and some of the orangelight bulbs and even
candlelight.
Yeah.
Candlelight Himalayan saltlamps.
These are some ideas of thingsthat how we can set the vibe and
it's a, it's a vibe.
It's a, it's a cool thing.
Um, and then what I do in mybedroom, I have a red light

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bulb.
I have two lamps in my bedroom.
I have one with a white lightbulb and one with the red light
bulb.
So if I need that white light,which I almost never use, but if
I need that white light bulb.
I'll turn that on during thedaytime.
And then the red one is fornighttime.
So just giving you guys ideas oflike how to do this for your own
house.
And, um, then we have, what I dois an hour before bed.

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That's when I'll use, just thered.
So I turn off the orange andthat ideally would be when we
get off devices.
Maybe you can read.
I have like a little red, uh,book light from Amazon again.
So like these, like a little redbook light you can read by
candlelight.
And so there's things we can do.
We don't just have to like go tosleep at 7 p.

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m.
You know, it's not like that,but there's, there's different
things we can do to mitigatethat.
that light at night.
And then the other thing is wecan turn our screens red.
So on an iPhone, if you, uh, ifyou go to the color filters
setting, you could just Googlehow to turn your phone screen
red.
And so I have it where I clickmy home screen button three

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times and it turns it red.
And then I click it again, threetimes it turns it regular.
On an Android, I believe it'sthe Twilight app you can use.
And then there's also Irissoftware for your computer.
And I'm not affiliated with anyof these, just a big fan.
Uh, Iris software can turn yourscreen more red.

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It has like a, sort of like a, atoggle where you can bring it
down a little bit or make itsuper red.
And then there's also for TVs,that's a harder one.
They do make some TV coverswhere you can get like an amber
or like a red one.
But that's where I like to startto think about blue blocking

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glasses, which I use all thetime.
My blue blocking glasses, I wentfrom trying to remember to use
them to not being able to livewithout them.
So I have.
Like you think, okay, my houseis red lights and orange lights.
No big deal.
Why do I need to wear it?
Well, the street lights, theneighbor's lights, the like
holiday lights, like all theselights, headlights coming in

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through the window.
And so I like to just put on my,my, uh, blue blocking glasses at
night.
I mean, even some people, Imean, my refrigerator, I did put
translucent red tape over thelights, but normal people who
have a normal refrigerator, likeyou open the fridge, there's a
light right there.
So.
We can get these lights in oureyes, and I don't want anyone to

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be like paranoid about it, butjust this idea of like, this is
really impacting my circadianrhythm, my ability to sleep, and
therefore my insulinsensitivity.
If you just want to look at itfrom that sense, but it's also
affecting your leptin, which ismore of a master hormone, which
is going to tell your body, canI burn this fat or not?

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Um, so hope that's.
Explained enough so that youguys can, uh, can make some

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Uhm I'm going to take the transcript of this episode
right now.
And there's all these

Mm hmm.

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Um, we're gonna need that list.
I'll link it down in thedescription box below so you
guys can check out the Thelights that we're talking about
here.
Um, i'm gonna have to do thisASAP, you know I'll have to talk
to my wife first, but um Um,Yeah.
uh, so phone, right?
No, no phone at night.
Um, you said, you know, I mightdo the challenge too.

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You know, if, if I don't do achallenge about the phone, I
might not ever do it.
So it will have to be achallenge for me.
Um, competitive that way.
I think I could do it.
I'll maybe start with, you know,seven days, see what happens.
Right.
You know, no phone at night.

And, and can I give a piece of advice
for that?
So, the first piece of adviceis, is Set yourself up first
with something else to do.
Because if you're just like,Okay, I can't be on my phone,
like, what am I gonna do?
Like what are you gonna do?
So start thinking about thatfirst So get some books some

(57:54):
physical books not a book on akindle not any of this stuff So
you have to get physical booksjournals.
Um If you're like, oh, maybei'll just listen to music light
a candle.
Maybe i'll do some stretchingUh, maybe i'll With my partner,
I'll exchange, you know, headmassages or skull massages or,
or foot rubs or something likethat.

(58:15):
So getting creative with whatyou can do in the evening time,
um, instead of being on thephone.
So reading is an easy one.
Um, but instead of being on ascreen and, and also I love.
Just start with just rightbefore bed.
Like when you would normally getin bed and be scrolling.
I don't know if that's anybodyelse here, but like maybe just

(58:37):
that time.
So it's not like, okay, the sungoes down.
Now I can't have a phone.
Like, don't make it too hard.
Like using James Clear's atomichabits principles.
Don't make it too long.
Don't make it too hard or elseit won't be achievable.
So make it achievable at thebeginning.
And I'm telling you, I just didkind of like the half an hour
before bed and saw a markedchange in my sleep.

(58:57):
in just two days.
So we don't have to, you know,shoot for the moon here.
We'll just do, do little bitsthat feel doable for you.
Okay.

Track 1 (59:06):
I love that.
But I want to ask you though,for people who live in Canada,
like me, or in New York, whocan't, you know, move to Miami
yet, what do you suggest for uswithout the sun right now?
It's, it's, it's overcast.
Well, what can we do?

Yeah.
I'm glad you asked thatquestion.
So when there's no UV in yourenvironment, There's probably
cold, and the answer lies inembracing the cold.
The cold has a lot of benefits.
This is something I haven'tstudied quite as much, because
I've been more focused on thesun and stuff, and it hasn't

(59:44):
been cold here, so I haven'tsort of leaned into that quite
as much, but I mean, just forexample, when you get cold
enough, that's why people arealways cold plunging.
It builds brown fat, which helpsyou burn fat and it helps your
mitochondria.
So, It's, it's sort of likeyou're using the sun, you're
embracing the sun and the heat,or you're embracing the cold.

(01:00:07):
And so I want people to, tounderstand that no matter what
the weather is, that's perfectfor your body.
Unfortunately, we can't go outin all the weather that exists,
but I want to challenge you toget uncomfortable.
And you know, I'm sittingoutside, I'm starting to sweat.

(01:00:28):
And like, it's.
Honestly, if I didn't know allthis stuff, I would have
probably moved back inside alittle while ago, but I'm like,
nope, sweating's good.
Heat is good.
You know, so I'm just kind oflike allowing myself to be
uncomfortable.
So same thing with the cold,stand out in the cold, cold
exposure.
Um, ladies be careful with yourcold exposure.

(01:00:49):
Don't go crazy and please don'tbe cold plunging like the week
before your cycle.
And so, you know, what what Irecommend is just to what, like
you said, you don't have sunthere, but you do have the sun
and what you want to do is getoutside every morning, be in the
cold, get your grounding in, andyou don't have to ground with

(01:01:12):
your feet.
Like if it's too cold, you canjust touch any, any living thing
that is rooted into the earth.
You can touch that.
I could literally touch a leaf,touch a blade of grass with my
fingers and I'm grounded.
So that is powerful becausethat's, it's just another
modality that's free and easyand has huge benefits for people

(01:01:35):
and is, like I said, anothergreat way of getting electrons,
which is how our body makesenergy.
So, Getting outside in whateverweather it is, is going to be
what's important for your body.
So the only people I'd recommendto move down to like Florida or,
you know, Costa Rica are thepeople who are unwilling to go

(01:01:57):
outside in their currentenvironment.
So that's really the challengeis getting outside no matter
what the weather is.
As long as you are safe, like,please don't, if it's like, you
know, 45 degrees below freezing.
It's like Danny told me I neededto stand out here and you're
getting like frostbite.
You know, don't do that.
Um, if it's like a thunderstormand there's lightning in the

(01:02:18):
area, use your head, you know.
But otherwise do the best youcan, even cracking a window.
If that's all you can do, keepthe window cracked.
You know, you want to get allthese rays of light in.
You want to get, take breaksthroughout the day to just step
outside and look at the sky.
So your body knows, okay, take abreak.
It is April 4th.
It is, uh, you know, 2.

(01:02:40):
30 in the afternoon.
Got it.
Like, you just want to keepsyncing your body so it knows
what time and date it is so thatit knows what

Track 1 (01:02:48):
Mm hmm.
Yeah.
So just basically get outside,right?
Whatever the weather is that,you know, it's, it's such a hack
again.
I mean, I gotta, you know, I'malways happy when I see the sun
and now I know why, right?

danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-20 (01:03:02):
Mm hmm.

Track 1 (01:03:02):
You know, you're syncing with, with, with your
rhythm.
So, um, you've given us a lothere.
Thank you so much for giving usall these tips.
I mean, I've never heard thisbefore and, um, I had to scratch
all my questions here, so, butI'm so glad that you, uh, you
explained this to us because,you know, this is something new

(01:03:23):
to people and if this can heal,um, their underlying condition.
With a simple as just gettingoutside, you know, it's free.
You don't have to pay it, payfor it.
I mean, that's, that's evenbetter.
Right.
So, um, thank you once again.
And where can people find youand connect with you?
That's

danielle-hamilton_1_04-04 (01:03:43):
sure.
So, um, I hang out a lot onInstagram.
I'm starting to talk about thisstuff more there.
And you know, what you eat isstill important, but I really
think that our environment isn'tgetting enough, you know,
airtime.
So I think that it's this, thisnew, really important piece.
And, and you mentioned like,this is such a hack, but I feel
like these are strategies toheal instead of just being.

(01:04:07):
Trying to hack.
so, I'm going to change yourwording a little bit on that.
But yeah, it's like this deeperhealing Um to but yes also like
a hack like eating outside withyour feet on the ground You get
a better blood sugar responselike yeah, heck.
Yeah Uh, so anyway, my instagramis danielle hamilton health.
My podcast is unlock the sugarshackles I also have a youtube

(01:04:30):
danielle hamilton health and IMy upcoming program is blood
sugar mastery.
That's my coaching program.
It's going to start may 2024 SoI can send you the wait list for
that if anyone wants to worktogether and then i'm also gonna
have a I'm, i'm just starting towork on another program called

(01:04:51):
Circadian Strategies for BetterBlood Sugar.
So, like, the circadian approachto blood sugar.
I'm not sure what the name isyet, but, uh, everything I
talked about as it relates toour blood sugar, insulin, and
leptin levels.

Track 1 (01:05:04):
Awesome.

yeah, lots of fun stuff coming down
the

Track 1 (01:05:07):
we're gonna link everything down in the
description box below with, youknow, your storefront there, all
your favorites, and your websiteand everything will be down in
the description box below so youguys can check that out.
I wanna thank you again, Daniel,for, you know, accepting my
invitation to come on here.
I really appreciate it.
Uh, admire your work and, um,uh, please continue to do what

(01:05:29):
you do.
You're helping a lot of peoplehere and please talk, talk about
this.
Um, this is something new thatI've never heard anyone talk
about before.
And, you know, I'm going toreally listen to this, you know,
look at all the, I'm going tohave all the notes and, uh,
Probably share this to a lot ofpeople that, you know, I think
haven't heard of this before.

(01:05:50):
Um, and, uh, such a, such a gemto, to, uh, to have you on here.
So thank you so much.

Yeah.
Thank you so much for being opento this and I know it's
different than our normal Youknow talks about ketones and
things like that.
But oh, by the way, I shouldmention Those of you who do
this, I mean, this is theketones and coffee podcast.
So I have to mention Two thingsabout one about ketones one
about coffee Have your coffeeafter breakfast because if not,

(01:06:17):
it's gonna spike the heck out ofyour cortisol.
So For me, my reward for havingmy breakfast first is that I get
a cup of coffee and it's thebest.
So that's a little swap that Iencourage you to try, see how
that works for you.
And then with ketones and theketogenic diet, one of the
reasons why it's so powerful isbecause fat, the good kinds of

(01:06:41):
fats that we eat on a keto diet,not vegetable oils, those fats
are very deuterium depleted.
And it helps us depletedeuterium in our body.
And so that's one of the manyreasons why it's so helpful.
So it's like, it

Track 1 (01:06:54):
I love it

danielle-hamilton_1_04-04- (01:06:55):
It's just like a different way of
looking at it.
Right?
Like, I think it's so cool.
So thank you for being open tothis.
And I'm glad it sort of likesparked something in you because
I have not been this excited tolearn about something for a
really long time.
And I'm just like,

Track 1 (01:07:10):
I'm happy for you.
I'm happy for you.
Uh, I thought you.
were going to say, quit coffee,but like, whoo.

Nope.
Don't quit the coffee, Just makesure it's organic.

Track 1 (01:07:22):
All right.
All right.
Daniel.
Bye bye.

danielle-hamilton_1_04-04- (01:07:25):
Take care.
Bye.

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