Andrew Huberman· PhD
Early day retinal sensitivity is low so you’ll want the sunlight.
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Early day retinal sensitivity is low so you’ll want the sunlight.
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UV index is low when sun is low in sky. Blink as needed never forced stare at the sun.
If you look outside in the morning and you see some sunlight, if you see some sunlight throughout the day, you would do yourself a great favor to try and chase some of that sunlight and get into that sunlight to expose your eyes and your skin to that sunlight as much as you safely can.
try and get as much light in your eyes, ideally from sunlight early in the day. And, by the way, if you're worried about cataract, that's a serious concern. After all, I have an appointment in ophthalmology. Cataract, macular degeneration. But guess what, the chair of ophthalmology from Stanford when he came on the podcast verified this. When the sun is low in the sky, you're not really at risk of that. So when the sun is overhead and you're like beaming in your eyes, like trying to get, yeah, it's a problem, but we're talking about viewing low solar angle sunlight in the morning and in the evening. And if there's clouds, do it anyway. In fact, do it longer.
that's why I'm always telling people to get sunlight in their eyes early in the day which by the way when the sun is low in the Sky low solar angle sunlight the UV index tends to be very low okay so you are at the lowest possible risk of getting burned of getting any kind of mutations to your skin that doesn't mean you should overdo it
know that some sunlight in your eyes especially in the morning and in the evening when the Sun is setting it's going to be very beneficial
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