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​Light: The Fundamental Nutrient For Life

5/6/2024

 
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Essential takeaways:
  • Biologically, we have evolved to fuel our function with natural light.
  • Our mitochondria utilize the sun’s nourishing spectrum to stimulate efficient production of ATP
  • and fight inflammation.
  • Nature is constantly telling a story through the day’s changing light, which our body translates
  • into biological action.
  • In order to create a functional lifestyle and achieve optimal health, we must understand and
  • center our actions around the sun.

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​Shed Light On Your Function

4/30/2024

 
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Essential takeaways:
  • The healing power of natural light is almost limitless, but modern cultural norms have created an environment with limited access to natural light. This has been replaced with harmful artificial light.
  • Natural light has incredible health benefits including improvements in sleep, metabolic efficiency and vitamin D production.
  • Direct exposure to the sun is the easiest way to harness the healing power of natural light but must be done consciously as not to have negative effects.
  • If exposure to the sun is not possible, there are a number of field tested and approved products that can provide the same positive health benefits.

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​Get Grounded!

4/29/2024

 
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What if I told you the most powerful functional health hack is right below your feet?
What if I told you it was completely free?

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Understanding Blue Light

4/23/2024

 
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Light is critical to shaping life.

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​Blue Light And Your Circadian Rhythm

4/22/2024

 
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Whether we realize it or not, all life is inherently organized around the daily and seasonal rhythms of natural light.

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The Fieldlab Method: Stress

4/17/2024

 
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Essential takeaways:
  • Stress has become the normal way of life and with that, so has dysfunction.
  • The effects of stress are detrimental to our health at every level. Achieving optimal function is only possible through careful creation of a stress eliminating/mitigating ecosystem.
  • Using the Fieldlab method as a guide, we can observe the areas of our function—nourish, move, reflect, defend—and properly connect them to our life to create health.
  • There are a number of high impact lifestyle changes that can be made, which provide a practical defense against the dangers of stress.

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​The Power Of The Sunrise

4/15/2024

 
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“Every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!”
– Eric Jerome Dickey

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Red Light Therapy: Common Questions

9/19/2022

 
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We want to make sure you have all the information before your first Red Light Therapy session. Below are some of the most frequently asked questions and the answers.

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Add Red Light Therapy To Your Wellness Routine

9/15/2022

 
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When considering the habits and practices that comprise a "healthy lifestyle,” most immediately think of healthy eating, adequate physical activity, plenty of sleep, avoidance of environmental toxins, etc. But, living in a way that supports optimal health also requires conscious consideration of another, very important factor—one we don’t typically consider—light!

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What is Photobiomodulation?(aka Red Light Therapy)

8/31/2022

 
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It is safe to say that light is fundamental to human health! We have talked about impact of blue light on your health but what about red light and infrared light? Here is a quick overview of what red light is and the benefits it has on human health.

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