Andrew Huberman· PhD
Sunlight through cloud cover is still far brighter than bright indoor lights. It may not seem that way but the photon count/energy is far greater.
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Sunlight through cloud cover is still far brighter than bright indoor lights. It may not seem that way but the photon count/energy is far greater.
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even through cloud cover, you're getting more photons than you are indoors and that it's worthwhile.
Even that, even on a cloudy day, the lux intensity of light far exceeds that that you would have from incandescent light or at sort of typical lights inside of a building.
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