Andrew Huberman· PhD
Get outside while it’s cloudy. You’ll need a bit longer out of doors, but it’s that daylight not the contrast on the days you can’t see the contrast.
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Get outside while it’s cloudy. You’ll need a bit longer out of doors, but it’s that daylight not the contrast on the days you can’t see the contrast.
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1MX (!) more effective than artificial lights. You don’t have to see the sun…it’s the sunLIGHT (which permeates cloud cover), that matters.
the short wavelength light that comes through cloud cover is sufficient as long as you spend a bit of time out there.
If you can't see sunlight, because it's the thick cloud cover of say a, you know, you're in the UK and it's it's winter, then artificial lights, especially blue lights, would be very beneficial to you.
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