28. Carrie Bennett: Optimising our Light Environment for Hormone Balance, Weight Loss and Fertility

Carrie Bennett joins me to discuss the effect of our light environment on hormones and fertility, why drinking coffee then fasting till midday is a bad idea, how WiFi and other sources of non-native EMF are harming you, why should see the morning sunrise.

Carrie Bennett is a quantum health practitioner and educator. She is the lead faculty member and on the Board of Advisors for the Quantum Biology Collective, the world’s premier certification for Applied Quantum Biology in clinical practice.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00:48 Carrie’s approach to optimising health

00:03:35 Light environment vs other lifestyle causes of subfertiliy

00:05:20 Daily routines and harms non-native EMF exposures 00:08:47 What is the role of the hormone leptin?

00:11:50 Dr Max’s analogy for leptin resistance

00:12:45 The effect of light on leptin and other hormones

00:14:52 Importance of breakfast and AM light for fertility

00:18:54 Effect of intermittent fasting & AM routine on cortisol, insulin, leptin & weight loss

00:23:05 Disrupting melatonin with artificial light & cortisol

00:26:58 Pregnenolone steal syndrome

00:29:50 The biological harm of non-native electromagnetic fields (EMFs)

00:34:49 Carrie’s practical approach to optimizing hormones

00:39:30 Closing thoughts FURTHER READING

Martin Pall non-native EMF: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Pall+ML&cauthor_id=25879308

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