Understanding sunlight for health and healing with Carrie Bennett.

[@kymchessall7853]

All we need to do is tune into the natural rhythms of nature"s energies, frequencies and vibrations. So simple that people just can't believe it's true so they won't even try it. They drug and medicate themselves instead. Those rhythms of frequency are streams of self healing, perpetual self organizing free energy. We only need to flow with those streams of energy and we will be fine. Great stuff ladies, just what this world needs 💜

[@kdixuebw7884bfb]

Carrie is such an excellent teacher. World-changing stuff, delivered so thoroughly and without pretense.

[@wildgeese5707]

Something that is really important that brought me to this talk is the study published on October ‘22 demonstrating that people who had covid 19 have dysfunction in their mitochondria in multiple organ systems: even those who don’t claim to have “long covid”, there were significant changes. The byproducts of energy production were building up and unable to be cleared away. The doctor who went over the study mentioned increased endogenous cellular melatonin production as a potential solution. Thank you for sharing this work, as it is needed for so many 🙏🏻

[@IreneLyon]

Thank you very much for sharing

[@geemoney830]

Perhaps it’s the dysfunctional mitochondria resulting in symptoms of ‘covid’

[@colleenadrian1590]

That was fantastic! I can hardly wait for the next one on mitochondria and EZ water

[@lunkerjunkie]

my feltsense has been trying to teach me this for years, but I haven't taken it seriously because it just seems like a hunch. thanks for clarifying what's happening.

[@healingwithtess7770]

I’m completely obsessed w this conversation….

[@liz.a314]

Thanks for bringing up phone scrolling! Not only is it the blue light but also the EMF emitted which I’ve heard Corey say is actually a form of blue light. So even though I have my screen on red and glasses it still feels detrimental to my system to use my phone at night 😢

[@gingerinthedesertcreations]

I think I like Carrie a lot more than most of the Quantum influencers. She seems like someone who isn't such an aggressive Kool-aid drinker.

[@LeaPramstrahler]

Love these Quantum interviews 🥰

[@words_from_space]

I find the phase response curve of blue light exposure vs sleep onset time to be a really useful concept for illustrating why it's bad to just force yourself to get up early out of nowhere. It looks like a typical bell curve, but imagine it's a hump made of something flexible, kinda like a half-inflated beach ball. Getting blue light/ sunlight on your face asap just before you naturally wake (so like leaping up in the air and landing on the right hand side of the bell curve) will push the hump of the curve to the left, which starts the melatonin production cycle earlier and that will help you gradually get up earlier every day. But suddenly getting up and receiving light hours early (so leaping really high and landing on the left hand side of the bell curve) will actually push the hump of the curve to the right, so your melatonin production cycle starts later, and you will experience a longer phase delay before you are biologically ready for sleep. That is why brute-force discipline methods often result in a backlash effect where the body resists harder the more we try. It's doing what it's supposed to be doing! We're the weirdos bouncing around like beach balls! Another useful aspect of circadian rhythm stabilisation is how just the timing of when we eat can also "set" the body clock within individual cells. Breakfast really is important! Fasting for 16 hours then eating breakfast instructs the cellular body clock (by food, not by light) to start its morning processes. If the light-based brain clock and the food-based cellular clock clash then we get jetlag! Which is why fasting for 16hrs while travelling then eating breakfast according to your new local time is a pretty neat tip. I had not realised there were light receptors in the gut, that is so interesting. Perhaps the two clocks do not just synchronise but may also have ways to reinforce each other when in full flow? The playful river runs deep.

[@mcady1000]

Im curious how light exposure changes as the seasons change, especially for winter and summer. Also do blue light blocking glasses help? I use that while working during the day.

[@sher7822]

Fantastic information, I sent this talk out to my yoga school group. Loved loved it. Thanks so much

[@subsilk1]

Our "higher brain" can be quite a disadvantage when it comes to tuning in to the most natural things there are. How many complicated words it needs to make people believe in the power of the sun. The fire ball that was actually quite essential at creating ALL life on this planet earth lol

[@Anoushkadsouza]

Super powerful insights thankyouu!

[@frogjackethuman781]

I've been introduced to this EMF and light stuff by Irene and because of her I got Iris, the blue light lens for PC and twilight for my phone which does the same thing. It's one of those things that's such a small change that makes such a huge difference! I recommend anyone to try it.

[@keekeejenkins6162]

I'm not sure what kind of phone you have but you don't really need an app you can actually change the phone settings and pick a red hue. I know twilight auto fades the color pending time of day but I rather just keep it on red and save the memory space.

[@frogjackethuman781]

@@keekeejenkins6162 my Android Google pixel 3 does have a night mode, but I can't change the degree of the red hue it's just on or off. Twilight has a setting where you can choose to have it on all the time. But I agree I would rather save phone space if I can, and perhaps other phones can adjust the intensity of the light!

[@laurajanejohnson5095]

Thank you so much to you both for this interview. I have been really struggling and in bed too long. I mean if I was in hospital they wouldn't let me stay in bed this much. I'm up to eat and then I sleep. And then I'm awake at night. Anyway I'm going to do what I can to go outside in the morning or when I wake up. I've heard how important sunlight and grounding are. Let me see if I can put some more emphasis on this getting in the sun every day. What's the worst is I usually feel nauseous and sometimes vomit right after waking up and my blood sugar is usually too low.

[@IreneLyon]

Hey Laura Jane, Seth here with Team Lyon. If getting outside proves to be difficult, just opening a window to let photons in can really help. That might be a way to start bringing in this kind of medicine gradually, and then you could work your way up to getting outside in the morning and evening.

[@LilMsLorelei]

@@IreneLyon Do you have to actually open the window or do you mean just the blinds/curtains? The spectrum of light will still come through the glass, correct?

[@IreneLyon]

@@LilMsLorelei - Actually no, the glass blocks a lot of the spectrum. We want to open the window or go outside :)

[@LilMsLorelei]

@@IreneLyon ah ok, good info!!!

[@marthastettinius1780]

QUESTION Re: LENSES IMPLANTED with CATARACT SURGERY: Carrie, if you see this comment, I love your work and have started changing my light environment. However, at 58 I had cataract surgery in both eyes a few years ago, and Dr. Jack Kruse says in his "Dr. Jack Kruse/ Nourish Vermont 2017" video that the lenses implanted with cataract surgery "BLOCK ALL UV A and UV B light and 50% of blue light." Are there still benefits for me to catch the sunrise and sunset and be outside in the early morning for UV A light? I'm concerned that my brain and body are no longer getting the full spectrum they need, because of these implanted lenses. Thank you.

[@IreneLyon]

Martha Stettinius, Jen here from Team Lyon. I don't think Carrie is answering questions on this thread. You might visit Carrie's site and post your question on one of her channels (www.quantumbiologycollective.org/carrie-bennett).

[@annereynolds4150]

Martha, thanks so much for asking and for sharing what Dr Jack Kruse has said - confirming my wonderings. I’ve been avoiding cataract surgery for quite a while. It just hasn’t felt right to my body and my inner sensing, even tho I’m now ‘one line’ away (in the last eye test) from not being allowed to drive, which would be a seriously big deal for me. I was thinking exactly this question as I listened earlier today. I wonder if you did ask Carrie directly and if there was any helpful answer? There just seems no alternative tho and very little conversation about cataracts.

[@Natalia-jq7hr]

Amazing info. Thank you! I’d love to do the light course but the links for the webinars aren’t working

[@IreneLyon]

Hello, Sophia here from Team Lyon. Thank you for your comment and question. Please take a look at this link and navigate to Carrie's main website to find her paid offerings linktr.ee/Carriebwellness and www.carriebwellness.com/store If you require further assistance, please reach out to Carrie's support inbox.

[@paddybigbook6437]

Hi Irene can you do a video on Autism and Trauma and if there is any connection between the two. I've been doing somatic healing healing years now and some things just won't shift it has led me to getting a late Autism diagnosis at age 37.

[@alyssacurran62]

I had a few questions come up after watching this interview. For catching sunlight in the morning, I know it's ideal to get light in your eyes during the actual sunrise. But if you may not be able to get up that early for whatever reason, is there a certain time frame that is ideal to catch the sunlight (such as before 8am, within one hour of sunrise, etc.)? Also, is there a certain length of time that would be ideal to be in the sun in the morning to get the benefits - 30 sec, 10 min, 1 hr, etc.? Thank you so much and for this valuable information?

[@IreneLyon]

Hi Alyssa, Seth here with Team Lyon. As someone who is not historically an early riser myself, I also rarely catch he sunrise :) I've found though, that I still get tremendous benefit from going out FIRST thing as soon as I awake, whenever that is, for at least 20-30 minutes. I'm not an expert on the circadian rhythm stuff, so you may have to contact Carrie to get a more specific answer.

[@Anna-Maria79]

Thank you so much for this interview ❤🌿🧡 As I understand it we need to expose ourself to sunlight in the morning, in the middle of the day and in the evening. But for how long (minimum time)? It would be very helpful to know 🙏 ❤

[@IreneLyon]

Hi Anna, Seth here with Team Lyon. Even a couple minutes is good. I think ideal would be around 10-15 minutes.

[@andrealoescher]

Thanks so much for this! I loved it! I will start looking into it... What are the glasses Carrie is wearing and what was the screen protection she recommended? Also I would like to know more specifically what would be needed - is it a 15-minute walk early in the morning and another at sunset? Is it just opening the window for a few moments? What would be enough to give the signal to our nervous system? I mean, apart from our daily routines and the moments we go out to work or pick up kids, what do we have to make sure our eyes see and for how long? Thanks

[@IreneLyon]

Hi Andrea, Seth here with Team Lyon. The ideal thing would be 15 minutes or so spent outside at sunrise and sunset. For myself, that is basically impossible because I'm not a morning person, but I've still found no matter when I wake up, if the first thing I do is get some photons in my eyes, it makes a big difference. Just opening a window is good to, but being outside with skin and eyes taking in the sun is ideal. During the day having the windows open as much as possible while indoors is very good though. The screen protection would be any app that dials down the red light coming from your screen. Iris is one that's good for PCs and laptops, and with your iPhone (I'm not familiar with Android but I imagine there's a similar setting) you can do it in the settings under Display & Brightness. Put it such that Night Shift is on all the time. You can also check out all the products she uses here.. linktr.ee/Carriebwellness

[@andrealoescher]

@@IreneLyon Thanks so much, Seth!

[@melaniecrawford995]

Interesting. Irene, you spoke of a talk you shared as an intro for Seth. Would you mind sharing that link? Thanks....

[@IreneLyon]

Hi Melanie, Seth here :) It was this one - kzbin.info/www/bejne/lauplHaFbb51oqc

[@mysticm1543]

How would light affect you psychologically indoors, meaning, which exposure (north, east, south, west) is best for your interior for best health? Personally, I hate light first thing in the morning, it annoys me. It seems to bother me. Light exposure in the afternoon I tolerate better.

[@lenajakobsson1042]

Thank you for this great conversation!

[@IreneLyon]

Hey Lena, Seth here with Team Lyon. Yes, that is very helpful too! Though I wouldn't rule out all the other things we can do to maximize out health as discussed here.

[@LilMsLorelei]

Loved this! Where does halogen light fit in the spectrum? Better than LED but not as desirable as incandescent is my guess? The other thing is what about the function on my computer and phone that allows you to filter out blue light and it turns everything kind of yellow? It’s supposed to be a setting that filters out the blue light. Any ideas if they work or not?

[@hannah617]

Now this is a QUALITY conversation I was a little bit disheartened by the woman you talked to most recently when all she spoke about was supplements. It was soooo not aligned with the body. This is. Carrie is genius.

[@IreneLyon]

Hi Hannah. May I ask what conversation you were talking about?

[@hannah617]

Title is a deep dive into hormonal health. I just feel that it’s not our job to be so overly focused, analytical and micro managing hormones, which takes us too far into our thinking and doing centres of the brain. Thats the reason I love SBSM it goes into what our job is and let’s the body be its own medicine. This conversation felt so much more embodied and really celebrating the bodies ability to co-regulate with nature and boosting life-force energy organically.

[@sofiesoderstrom5402]

Thank you for this ✨🙏🏻❤️ Iam from Sweden and didn’t get which kind of bulb you use in the winter.. Can you link it..? Or write it down here..? Thank you ✨🙏🏻

[@Anna-Maria79]

Hej Sofie 🌼 De nämnde "incandescent light bulb" i videon, vilket jag tolkar som vanlig glödlampa. Gjorde en sökning på Google och det kom upp. Jag tror att en vanlig glödlampa har ett mjukare ljus än t ex en led-lampa. Jag hoppas att jag tolkade det rätt. Mvh Anna 🌿

[@ambern2857]

Is it suggested to use regular or LED edison incandescent light bulbs? Guessing will need more than 60 watts in a lamp with shade for night-time reading.

[@keekeejenkins6162]

Yes, swap out any LED light bulb with an incandescent. They are hard to come by now, though!

[@morkchokolade]

What great information 🙏 i dont understand what light balls Carrie recoments to use in the evening?

[@IreneLyon]

Hello, Sophia from Team Lyon here. I believe she means light bulbs*. Hope this helps!

[@sthetraveler1748]

@carriebwellness4570 why are you no fan of the red bulbs? I just paused video to ask , so maybe you answer but I am curious as that has been a workaround for my family.

[@Daniel-pr4uk]

Thank you for this. May I ask whqt would you say to someone who feels much more tired when exposed to sunlight and much more alert and awake when away from the sun..? It seems like the more sun there is the lower my energy gets. The moment it gets cloudy my energy rises up. It seems i do strongly respond to light but in the exact opposite manner to what's mentioned here. I'd be intetested to hear anything you might have to say about this. Thank you 🙏

[@IreneLyon]

Daniel, Jen here from Team Lyon. It's hard to say for sure what's happening here, and one possibility is that sometimes nervous system dysregulation can make us more sensitive to the sun. When this is the case, exposure to the sun may be overstimulating and send us into freeze (conservation physiology) which would make you more tired. Less light might lead to less stimulation/activation, which could lead to less freeze and more access to energy. It's also possible that your system has associations with dark and light based on your history. In either case, these experiences would likely shift as nervous system regulation and capacity grow.

[@sisterclare1]

What happens when you do go outside and let the sun shine in your eyes but end up with a headache? Not sure if having multiple chemical sensitivities has anything to do with it. I have been going outside a few times everyday, including sunrise, to get some sun on me. Now it feels like bad allergies or eye strain, can't tell. I love the sun but just having problems with the eyes. Today I am not going outside to see if there is a difference. Love this video! I usually get a headache from being on the computer, and that is every day. Can only be on it for 2 hours top at a time. Rarely on it after 4 p.m.

[@IreneLyon]

Hi Joyce, Seth here with Team Lyon. I'm not sure, there could be a few things happening. One - don't look directly at the sun. If you are doing that, that is likely the cause. Just take in light in general, in a diffuse way. If you're not doing that there could be other reasons. One - if this is a new practice, it could be pushing a detox response which is producing the symptoms. It could just be your eyes aren't used to that much light so soon, and your capacity is expanding, but it's stretching your limits right now, and producing strain - like building a muscle. OR there, could be something in the environment that you are allergic to, but this seems less likely. Keep playing with it and see how it goes :)

[@sisterclare1]

@@IreneLyon New question here. I have been following what you said above, and pretty sure it is a detox but mild. Now lately I have been going outside when the sun comes up for that wonderful exposure to the sun but cannot stay out because of a heavy smell of fabric softener in the air. Really nauseating but I go inside and wait for a good half hour or so and then go outside. Do I still get the energy that comes from the sun at that time? Thanks. I try to outside a few times during the day to let the sun shine on me.

[@IreneLyon]

@@sisterclare1 - Yes, first light has some extra benefits but not if it's unpleasant due to smells. Get out when you can. Even from inside, you can open the shades, let the light in to kickstart the day. I'm Mara with Team Lyon.

[@juliannehildebrand2101]

I loved this information. Thank you both. I’m curious to know the impact of firelight (from a fire pit) after sunset. Thank you.

[@sethlyon4064]

Hi Julianne, Seth here with team Lyon. As far as we know there are no negative effects at all from firelight at dark. Which makes sense! So often when thinking about what is innately good for us and what isn't I like to use the 'caveman test' - just ask - would a primitive human 100,000 years ago have had access to this? would they have done this? If yes, it's likely good for you (excluding certain things like warfare :)

[@oksanakaido8437]

Firelight is considered "red light" which has lots of good effects. Look up red light for health, lots of research on that going on right now.

[@Diana-mu9vd]

If there’s no Sun where you live in winter months wouldn’t tanning beds that help produce vitamin D be fine?

[@IreneLyon]

Hi Diana. Great question. No, unfortunately, a tanning bed does not have the full spectrum of light to provide Vitamin D synthesis. Tanning beds only contain UVB light and because of the one level of light, it can be less 'healthy' because you are not getting a nice balance of the other spectrums of light (which is what Carrie talks about in this video). I live in a northern climate here in Vancouver, BC., and I maintain D levels by storing as much as I can in the spring/summer/fall months that provide D (use the DMinder App to know when you can get Vitamin D in your area), also eating foods that are dense in Vitamin D and good saturated fat (just google those sources, but fatty fish, butter, animal fat, dairy, etc.). It is also important to note that being outside even in winter/fall months daily an if not multiple times a day is important for our health (even when no D can be produced), so the more we can be in natural light, and even have our skin exposed to "cloudy" sunlight, the better. Another note about Vitamin D and synthesizing it internally: Our systems don't make effectively when we don't have enough cholesterol in our system, and oddly, it is LDL (touted as the "bad" cholesterol) that helps us provide Vitamin D internally when we are expose to Sun that is above 30 degrees. I also recommend the more recent interview I did with Carrie Bennett that talks about improving our mitochondrial health via other practices like grounding, movement, cold exposure, and mitigating non-native EMFs (cell phone use; blue tooth), etc. Here's that link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/paDGiHymiZaii6s Take care and hopefully this offers some info! Irene PS - If you do choose a Vitamin D Supplement, I recommend finding a natural source (i.e not synthetic). The supplement I recommend is via Touchstone Essentials: irenelyon.thegoodinside.com/shop/product/supergreens-d Note: I am affiliated with this company, so if you do use this link, I get a small commission, but I do suggest looking up why natural Vit D supplementation is important.

[@deberebor]

Dear Ms. Bennett, I need you to write a book. Thanks.

[@JohnSlack89]

I have been unable to find any sources that agree that bacteria can emit uv light. Where is this coming from? This seems like a bogus claim.

[@IreneLyon]

Hey John, Seth here with Team Lyon. I'm also not familiar with that concept. Can you please point to where that was said in the video? If that's what she said, it would be best to contact Carrie directly to clarify. [e-mail]

[@JohnSlack89]

@@IreneLyon hello! Thank you very much for your response. Please the timestamp 35:39 of this video for where that claim was made. I appreciate that you care about the validity of the arguments. I did want to also say that a possibily more critical piece of information that I think was miscommunicated in this video is that sunrise only has low energy wavelengths (like and near infrared) with no UV. As I understand solar radiation and our atmosphere's attenuation of it, UVA rays are able to penetrate the atmosphere at all angles of the sun in the sky. UVB can only penetrate at higher angles (which is why vitamin D can only be made at certain times of day at certain times of the year). Thanks again.

[@carriebwellness]

​@John Slack Hi John!! Great questions! UVA only can penetrate once the sun is 10 degrees above the horizon. UVB can at 30 degres.

[@carriebwellness]

​@John Slack also, Roland Van Wjyk is a biophoton research who delves deep into how all cells (including prokaryotic) emit low frequency UV light. The research you'll want to dive into is biophotonic emissions. Please let me know if you have any other questions!

[@JohnSlack89]

@@carriebwellness the information about sun angle and UVA/UVB would be super interesting and helpful to confirm - what study or set of calculations are you referencing? Those values are not what I have heard in the past. Regarding biophotonic emissions, I will definitely look into it, but upon first glance, it looks like there's just a 2005 paper about this topic from that author. At least from the abstract, no mechanism was proposed. Do you know *how* it's proposed that photons are emitted beyond normal black body radiation due to our temperature (which would be infrared, not visible and certainly not UV)