The Wellness Mama Podcast

Light and Leptin: Understanding These For Hormones, Fertility and Health With Sarah Kleiner

• Katie Wells/Sarah Kleiner • Episode 999

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Episode Highlights With Sarah

  • Light and leptin and how these interplay with each other
  • The importance of leptin and what it is
  • All of our hormones are circadian 
  • How to support these hormones naturally
  • Leptin wasn’t even discovered and studied until 1994 and why we still don’t hear much about it even thought it is so important
  • How this interplays with thyroid health and why this is important 
  • What it means when leptin is low or high
  • The mitochondrial aspect of these hormones and how light environment impacts this
  • How much our light environment affects almost every aspect of health
  • Most important factors we can shift in our light environment
  • What to know about UV light and how much of each type of light we need
  • What red and infrared light at sunrise and sunset do for hormones and mitochondria
  • Why hunger in the morning is a good thing and important to have
  • Red light therapy panels don’t have far infrared light and it is available in the sun daily! 
  • If our mitochondria think we are in danger, even if we have the perfect diet, they can down-regulate to keep us safe and how to signal safety
  • Her own amazing fertility journey and how these factors helped even when IVF failed
  • Thyroid specific advice for supporting the thyroid and tapering off meds
  • How a leptin reset can help and how to do it
  • Strategies for timing food and carbs with the sun to get nourishment without gaining weight
  • Her best tips for leptin reset and getting all these things into range
  • Perimenopause and how light and leptin come into play

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Katie Wells

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