Ketones and Coffee Podcast with Lorenz
Ketones and Coffee Podcast with Lorenz
Episode 169: Danielle Hamilton ON Unlocking the Power of Light for Blood Sugar Control and Beyond
Hey Guys..In this episode of the Ketones and Coffee Podcast, I welcome returning guest Danielle Hamilton, a functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and expert on blood sugar, insulin resistance, and holistic health. Danielle shares her personal journey overcoming allergies, asthma, sinus infections, and polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) through dietary changes and understanding the role of insulin resistance.
The conversation evolves into an in-depth discussion on how light exposure, particularly blue and red light, affects our body's circadian rhythm, insulin sensitivity, and overall metabolic health. She underscores the importance of aligning eating patterns and light exposure with natural circadian rhythms to improve blood sugar regulation, weight management, and general well-being.
00:16 Meet Danielle Hamilton: Unraveling Blood Sugar Mysteries
01:40 Danielle's Journey: From Health Struggles to Blood Sugar Expert
04:03 The Surprising Role of Light in Metabolic Health
06:02 The Science of Blue Light: Its Impact on Our Health
17:25 Harnessing the Sun: The Ultimate Guide to Vitamin D and Metabolism
27:23 Food, Light, and Metabolism: A New Perspective on Diet
28:40 Deuterium: The Hidden Factor in Our Diet and Health
35:24 Embracing Local and Seasonal Eating for Optimal Health
36:59 Embracing Ancestral Wisdom for Modern Health
37:48 Discovering the Power of Circadian and Quantum Strategies
38:08 Transformative Health Stories: From Fatigue to Freedom
38:32 Harnessing Natural Elements for Energy and Healing
40:19 The Critical Role of Fasting and Meal Timing
40:34 Demystifying Circadian Rhythms for Everyday Wellness
43:37 Leptin: The Master Hormone You Need to Know
45:09 Combatting Leptin and Insulin Resistance with Lifestyle Changes
51:31 The Ultimate Guide to Reducing Blue Light Exposure
59:16 Embracing the Cold: A Surprising Ally for Health
01:03:31 Final Thoughts and Where to Connect for More Insights
To connect with Dani, follow her at:
Website: https://daniellehamiltonhealth.com/
Podcast: https://unlockthesugarshackles.buzzsprout.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH9oPLW019uqEZc_Ftvyn5Q
Blood Sugar Mastery Waitlist: https://www.daniellehamiltonhealth.com/blood-sugar-mastery
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Hey guys, we've got a special episode here for you. This is my interview with Daniel Hamilton. She is an expert on blood sugar, insulin resistance. And holistic health. The conversation evolves into an in-depth discussion on how light exposure, particularly blue light and red light affects our body's circadian rhythm. Incident sensitivity and overall metabolic health. Very at 90 stuff guys. And without further ado, here's my interview with Daniel Hamilton.
Track 1:We have a special guest joining us Danielle Hamilton is a functional Nutritional therapy practitioner. She's an expert in the realm of blood sugar, insulin resistance. And holistic health is a passion for unraveling the complexities of metabolic wellness. Danielle's mission is to guide individuals in uncovering and enhancing their understanding of blood sugar issues, empowering them to reclaim their vibrant health and longevity. Danielle is also the host of the podcast, unlock your sugar shackles where she shares invaluable insights and And actual tips for breaking free from the grips of sugar dependency and reclaiming control over one's health destiny. Daniel Hamilton, welcome to the Keto Think Alpha podcast, or should I say welcome back.
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:Thanks. Yeah. I'm happy to be back. Thanks for having me.
Track 1:You know, um, before we went live, you talked about, uh, you know, from changing your perspective on, you know, blood sugar regulation to the circadian rhythm. I want to talk to you about that later on, but that, um, we, we actually met, uh, back in 2020, and I believe in that was. You know, I told you this before we went live. We recorded this, uh, episode. It was episode 10, and I remember being so grateful for you coming on, but I remember you talking about, you know, suffering from various health issues like, you know, frequent infections, allergies, also had PCOS symptoms, then sort of that aha moment, um, when you understood the role of insulin resistance in PCOS. And I want to start there. Um, insulin resistance is misunderstood. We often hear insulin resistance in diabetes, but it often is the root cause of chronic illness. Um,
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:Mm hmm.
Track 1:well, before that, let's talk about your mission missions driven by your story. So let's talk about your story and how you get here today. Um, tell us about that story, Danielle.
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:Yeah, just to sum up my story, I, I struggled with a lot of allergies, asthma, sinus infections. I had to get my tonsils out when I was 18 after getting strep throat many, many times that year. Um, I was on all these, these medications and getting allergy shots and I was a hot mess and I, I changed my diet. to a paleo diet and ate real food And all those things went away. But then I had a really stressful year and I discovered that I had polycystic ovarian syndrome. I started to get all these hormonal symptoms. And uh, I, I couldn't lose weight. I wasn't getting a menstrual cycle. I had horrible acne and I was so tired all the time and I realized I had PCOS, which, um, my doctor had no, was of no help to me. Just basically told me, uh, you know, I was struggling to lose weight and he's like, well, you have to lose weight and you have to take the pill and there's no cure. And I was like, Whoa, okay.
Track 1:Yeah, I remember
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:advice. Yeah, And, um, and then I, I, I went ahead and, uh, figured it out on my own. I realized, I heard a podcast that said PCOS is the diabetes of the ovaries, and all of a sudden I realized, Oh, I have to pay attention to my blood sugar, my insulin, like all this stuff that I actively avoided learning about because it was confusing and boring. And so, yeah, so that's That's the story that you know, that's the story that I tell all the time because that's my story. But I started to realize there's actually another, there's another piece of that story. And you know, a lot of it has to do with my weight and I struggled with my weight my whole life. I grew up in New York and then I moved to Miami, Florida for grad school. I was in the sun all the time because when you're from New York, you're very obsessed with being tan. It's like a thing that we all have. And so we went, I was like, Oh, I want to be tan. I want to be tan. I want to be tan. And so I was laying out all the time. I was in the sun all the time. I was at the beach all the time. And, uh, I didn't really change anything. I mean, I was, I was actually partying more than I ever had. I was drinking. I was eating terribly yet. I lost weight. Like for the first time in my life, I effortlessly lost weight. And then I moved back to New York and then I started gaining weight. And at that time, that's when I was like, Oh, I have PCOS and all these things. But I was back in New York, like inside. It was gray. It was winter. It was all the things. And then I moved back to Miami again after a year and I wasn't laying out as much. So it took, it took some time, but all this to say that there's also another story happening here on top of the story with the food. And that is a story of light. And. I am realizing that light, after reading tons of studies, and there's tons and tons of studies on this, um, and, and hearing from different teachers of mine that Light is a huge factor when it comes to our metabolism. And the first time I heard this, I'm like, no, it's not. That's weird. This is what, what do you say? Like, I was just like, lots of feelings of like, no, this is too weird. This is too simple. That, that would be crazy. But. Just there's tons of studies saying this and feel free to go dig into the research But in the absence of food blue light Raises blood sugar and insulin. So where's blue light blue lights from the Sun? but also in our in our light bulbs, also in our devices, also our computer screens, our TVs. Also a lot of lights on all these things that we have inside, on the dishwasher, on the microwave, on the, you know, air fryer, there's lights all over. And any white light, if you break it up in a prism, you're going to see the whole rainbow. And it has blue light in it. And blue light If we kind of go back even more to our early history as humans living on this planet, as just as all the plants, all the animals living on this planet, we all evolved living outside. under the sun all day. It was really bright. And then it was really dark at night. There were no lights at night back then, right? Maybe fire. Um, but that's it. So we, we, I don't want to use the word evolved cause I don't want to throw people off for all of human history. Human beings have lived outside in the bright sun and the dark night. Okay. And coincidentally, the light from the sun, there's a wavelength of light. that is blue. That is why our sky is blue. It's actually that exact color. Um, that wavelength of light tells our body to increase cortisol. And that's not a bad thing. We need cortisol. If we have no cortisol, we would be like sleeping or we would be dead, right? So in the morning, the sun comes over the horizon and all of a sudden the amount of blue light in our environment Increases it turns on it's there for the first time it appears And that is supposed to tell our cortisol to slowly rise so if Let's say we're early humans. We're living thousand years ago We live in our cave and all of a sudden we we get woken up because the light comes in our cave, right? We go outside and we see sunrise and as the sun goes up in the sky. So So too does the amount of blue light. So too does our cortisol rhythm, right? And if you've ever seen a salivary cortisol panel, you know that it's supposed to raise gradually sort of peak in the afternoon and then gently taper off at night. So then it's nice and low at night. And that's when melatonin supposed to go up so we can go to sleep, right? So, We, living with the sun, we saw the sun go up, the amount of blue increases, the, it's increasing our cortisol, also increases our blood sugar, our insulin, and then it goes down and then at night, maybe we would light a fire. There's no blue light in fire. So this didn't mess with these, these systems, right? So we, and then, uh, there was like sort of an orange glow. We were still awake and socializing. And then at the end of the night, we see these red embers. Okay. And it was like very dim and we just had that red light at night. And then that was it. Just the light of the moon, which is very, very, very dim, even though it can kind of brighten the sky a little. It's so. super, super dim. So there's no light at night, no blue light at night. And the absence of that blue light will tell our pineal gland to create melatonin. And that, that helps us go to sleep. And we know, I'm sure you've talked about this on your podcast, how important sleep is for our metabolic health, our blood sugar, our insulin. So. Where do things go wrong in our modern world? I'm, I'm sure you can start to see some of the, the, the gaps that we're going to have. So what happens when, before I knew this, when I used to wake up, I used to flip open my phone. I got a bright light in my face, and then I flip on the overhead light. I'm opening the fridge, bright light, bright light, bright light, all this blue light. What is that doing to my cortisol? It's jacking up my cortisol. And how many people do you know who have high morning blood sugar who have this dawn phenomenon. It's spiking their blood sugar, and it doesn't. It has a hard time coming down because we're getting inundated with this light. Now, that is not the only cause of it, but it is a huge, major cause. And coincidentally, one of my clients who struggled with high morning blood sugar. She started the practice of seeing sunrise and standing outside at sunrise. And she's like, I literally watched my blood sugar just come right back down. So it's amazing that, uh, because also red light, we haven't talked about this red light, there's a lot of red light in the sun all day, but especially in the morning, because that blue light is so low. And the red light is so much red light. You can also look this up. Lots of studies showing this red light tells our mitochondria to use glucose faster. So it lowers our blood sugar. So it improves our blood sugar. This is literally why I'm outside right now, by the way. Uh, so I'm getting all these. this light. But, um, so blue light actually raises our blood sugar and red light lowers our blood sugar. So it's important to have the, we don't want to be an absence of blue light because then remember we'd have like no cortisol. That wouldn't be good. We want to have this nice rhythm where, um, Where the cortisol is rising in the day melatonin is rising at night, right? so one of the other factors that sort of comes up in this is No, I'll just I'll stop there for a minute. Let's go back to what I was saying with the With the, throughout the day. So we were opening our phones where, you know, turning on lights. We're using our devices really early. We're not getting outside. So what does our body think? Our body thinks, because we get the, the light comes into our eye and goes to what's called the suprachiasmatic nucleus and the hypothalamus, it's not important, but I just want to throw these things out there because in case someone wants to And that is what will say, Oh. It's this time. So one of the things that's really important is that light is the primary time giver to our body. Our bodies, they can't be doing everything all at once, right? Like it, they need to detoxify, they need to digest, they need to metabolize, they need to do this and that. And the other thing we have a hundred thousand at least tasks every second, our mitochondria need to perform. So we have tons of things to do in our body, right? But. How does the body know what to prioritize when, when to do certain things? So if you look at, if you just look at animals, animals are awake during the day, many of them, the ones who are diurnal, which is the opposite of nocturnal, I didn't know that. So I thought I would define that for people who are like me. So animals. who are diurnal like us, where we're awake during the day, we have behaviors and we do things that we're better at doing during the day. We're better at metabolizing and digesting our food during the day. We're better at solving problems and, you know, running around and having energy during the day. What are we better at doing at night? Detoxifying. Repairing, resting, so we're, we're designed to do certain things better at certain times of the day, right? So keeping all these things in mind, we are better suited to metabolize food, like I mentioned, early in the day when there is light, when there is sunlight in our environment, okay? The sun's going down and we're like, oh, I'm just getting home from work. I'm gonna flip on the lights in my house I'm gonna start dinner and we're eating late and then we have all this light and then we're gonna scroll We're gonna watch Netflix and we have the lights on all night long. So what is this doing to our blood sugar? We have this unnatural amount of blue light When there should be no blue light in our environment, it's telling us, it's telling our bodies. There's a direct message through that suprachiasmatic nucleus that says you must produce cortisol. It's 2 p. m. So at night people have trouble sleeping. They have trouble winding down. They're like, I feel tired, but wired. Why is that? Because the, their environment is telling them that it's like, Four in the
Track 1:Yeah.
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:So it's confusing. So going back to where I said, like the body needs to do certain things at certain times, I like to think about our body, like an airport. And so if we think about it, like, okay, all the flights cannot go and leave at the same time. Everyone needs we need a schedule and we're like this lights going in this lights coming in this one's going out This one's coming in it's organized, right? So the same thing with our body So our hypothalamus is like our control center like the control tower at the airport So the hypothalamus is gonna get that information about the light. It's gonna be like, okay sunrise. Boom I want you to create pregnenolone Pregnenolone could be turned into cortisol. It could be turned into all our sex hormones. So then we have that going Then we see another type of light, uh called uva light and the hypothalamus is like, okay I want you to create thyroid hormones. I want you to create serotonin, which we're going to turn into melatonin later that night I want you to create this and that so it's creating all these things. It's saying which genes to turn on and off So So we are getting all this information like the, just like a control tower from the light in our environment. Primarily that's the number one signaler and the secondary signal is when we eat. So these are the things that we need to be considering when we're talking about overall metabolic health. We need to be thinking about our light environment and we need to be thinking about when we eat also what we eat, but like That's, I feel like people are so focused on the what we eat and maybe they think about when because they, they talk about fasting, but we, and we can go into this later, but I have, uh, you know, based on all of this knowledge, there's a big change that I suggest for people's fasting windows, uh, for most people. So, um, I'm going to stop there. That was a lot of information. I'll let you
Track 1:Yeah, well, that's fascinating. That's, that's very new to me. I've never heard that before. Um, and, uh, when you said just moving to New York alone throughout your circadian rhythm, which resulted to weight gain, that is that, am I getting that right? It's without changing anything, just changing your location.
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:Yeah, changing my location on the planet because I was not getting as much light. And so one of the things that UVB light, like I was tanning all the time and you tan in UVB light, which is the light that, um, one of the wavelengths of light that predominates during summer in tropical regions. And that's the light that makes us produce vitamin D, which also Helps us to sensitize to insulin. It helps the pank tell the pancreas to create insulin. It's anti inflammatory We know it's good for the immune system But vitamin D is a huge piece of the metabolic puzzle that we missed Because, and, and by the way, unfortunately, supplements, I do not recommend, unless it's like a dangerous situation, uh, for the, the average person. If you are taking vitamin D supplements and then you go get your vitamin D tested, that's not your vitamin D. That's how much the supplement just gave you. It's just not the same. And it's actually been linked to autoimmunity thyroid issues. So I don't recommend vitamin D supplements on the whole. If you're listening to this, it's the middle of winter in Canada. And like you did not. prioritize UVB light during the summer and you don't have those sores, maybe there's a gray area there. And, and please, you know, like this is not medical advice. However, what I recommend right now that we're recording this, it's spring in the Northern Hemisphere. And it's the perfect time to be starting your solar callus, which is, um, which is basically like a tan. We want to get all the benefits of the sun without their, the sun's negative effects. And the way we do this is thinking about, we need to consume the sun's light in all of its, in all of its benefit. all the spectrum. So a huge amount of the sun's light is actually infrared light, which is heat, which tells our body to, it helps our mitochondria, you know, like those red light therapy panels, everyone's using. It's like that stuff, right? So it's helping our, our mitochondria create ATP and cellular water, which is really important. We're like, I won't go into that. Um, so when we're considering. Consuming the sun's light trying to get vitamin D If you're very pale and you just go outside at like 12 noon and you're like, oh Danny told me to get vitamin D What's gonna happen? Your skin is probably gonna burn. It's not ready for that. So that's not what I recommend So first things first is morning sunlight morning sunlight uh and I'm specifically talking about at sunrise. You want to get that light in your skin and on your eyes. That's going to set the circadian rhythm. That's going to slowly turn on our cortisol. Like we talked about, it's going to lower your morning fasting blood sugar and it's amazing. And that light is going to Condition your skin to get the harsher UVB light. Then there's another time. So that's sunrise light is when the sun is zero to 10 degrees off the horizon. There's an app that tells you when all these things are in your area. It's called circadian. So you could go to circadian. life and download it. I have no affiliation, just a big fan. Um, so then after that sunrise light, um, then. We want to get UVA light. So UVA is present all the time, all year round, everywhere, but it's very strong during this next window where the sun is 10 to 30 degrees off the horizon. So this UVA light, again, is going to condition our skin to get that UVB light, but it's also going to tell our body to make serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, and endorphins. That's like a lot. Absolutely incredible. So all these people on, you know, depression medications. ADHD medications that can't focus that are on anxiety medications. All of those neurotransmitters will help with all of those things with drive, with focus, with, with, um, with mood. And then the endorphins piece, like, yeah, I'll take some endorphins. That's amazing. Endorphins feel great. And then it also tells our body to make thyroid hormones. How many people do you know have a sluggish thyroid? So You know, that could be that, that metabolism piece of the T3 and T4 being made in the morning sun, that could have also been another piece that was impacted when I moved to New York from Florida because I wasn't outside as much. And I was also all wrapped up. I was also all bundled up. Um, I'm not saying that everyone needs to move to Florida. There's. There's
Track 1:I mean, they should.
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:for me, that's part of my story. Yeah, we can. But, Um, and especially as someone with the darker skin tone, it's very, very important that you are prioritizing all these steps so that we can get UVB light because it, the darker your skin, the more, the more UVB light you need to make your melanin and to make, uh, sorry, to make a vitamin D. And so then after the UVA light, there's UVB light, and that's where we can synthesize vitamin D, but it also helps to improve our metabolism and it helps it can actually help to suppress our appetite. So this is another piece of the puzzle, how I lost weight when I went to Miami. Um, but getting that vitamin D we want to slowly, gradually increase the amount of time that we're outside in this UVB light. Also depending on our skin tone. So there's a scale called the Fitzpatrick scale, and it's like as a one on the scale as someone, let's say like from Ireland, very pale skin freckles does not tan easily. And then someone who's a six on that scale might be someone from, from Africa with very dark skin, like black or dark Brown skin that always has a very deep tan and does not burn. So you find yourself in. wherever you are on the spectrum and you want to just make sure that you're, you're getting the appropriate amount of light so that you build that solar callus, which is a tan. You can't, you can't see it, um, you know, on this video, but I'm very tan right now. Cause I was just in Costa Rica and I've been prioritizing the light out here in Austin. It's like 80 degrees. It's, it's amazing. So I have been outside a lot. I do want to say, I also cover my face. Um, and, but. And I would use sunscreen like a zinc based sunscreen if I had to, but I'm trying to avoid using that by seeking shade when I need to and using clothes to cover up. So that's, and then there's one more part of the sun out of the day that I want to talk about to, to sort of finish out this vitamin D conversation, which again is essential for, for, our blood sugar and our insulin and our immune systems. It actually acts like a hormone. Um, the end of the day, when that blue light has also gone down because it reduces at the end of the day, again, the sun is sort of like a giant red light therapy panel, which is funny because I'm like relating it in modern terms, but that makes sense. So this red light therapy on our skin, when the sun is in the evening. It soothes and heals the skin. So it's super cool to think that the morning sunlight is preconditioning the skin to get this UVB light. Then we get the UVB light. The vitamin D we create is anti inflammatory, which helps. And then we have the soothing soothing aspect of the sun in the evening so that it mitigates the damage of the UVB light. So if we look at the sun at the full spectrum, it makes sense because we as humans lived outside for our whole history and we would have been outside for all these times during the day. And so that's the way the sun is meant to be consumed. That's the way the sun has Such positive benefits for our health beyond the vitamin D, including a lot of those hormones and neurotransmitters I talked about earlier, and there's so many more, I literally would, could
Track 1:Yeah,
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:all day just listing off benefits, nitric oxide, which is helpful for blood sugar, blood pressure. Like there's just so many benefits to the sun's rays that we want to be able to be out there and consuming it in a healthy way, that's not detrimental. So, um, To to our health. So that's the vitamin D piece and we can talk about food timing as well. But um, Does that how does that how's that
Track 1:I'm in the wrong part of the world. Now I thought about it, right? Um, you know,
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:Where do you live?
Track 1:canada up here, up north. So now that I thought about it, you know, when I was in the Philippines, a tropical country, um, you know, I, honestly, it was like last week and I was there for about almost a month. I didn't gain weight. I mean, I wasn't as strict. there, but certainly, you know, keeping on a keto diet, but I wasn't gaining weight. I, uh, I was having off plan meals here and there, and I was, I wasn't so much of, uh, you know, I was relaxing, you know, I was indulging myself with You know, these foods, but I didn't gain anything. Um, I feel like this is such a hack, you know, we're talking about, we're talking about going
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:So there's another
Track 1:go ahead.
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:so there's another reason for that of something crazy that I want to talk about because um, There's a there's another piece of this that Is one of the things, like, just intuitively, if I were to recommend, like, let's say you come to me and you have, like, let's say you have type 2 diabetes, and then you have a twin brother who lives in the Philippines, still living in the Philippines, and you are in, um, Canada, and, and you guys both have type 2 diabetes, does it make sense, just intuitively, basically. For me to recommend the exact same food to you in Canada, it's snowing and cloudy and cold and very dim light. Does it make sense to recommend the exact same diet to you and to him? He lives like closer to the
Track 1:I w I would, but I
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:to me, it just like, and, and think back, okay, now it's not 2024. Think back to like 1800. What food? Would be available, right? So we're so used to our modern grocery stores that we go in and any food is available anytime, but that's, that's. So it is, it's crazy because it's convenient, but it's also harming our health in a big way. And it has a lot to do with a word that I'm going to say and people are going to be like, Oh God, I don't even want to know it. I don't know. The word freaked me out when I first heard it. But the w the reason is because of something called deuterium deuterium. You may have heard it referred something like something in science. Um, deuterium is basically heavy hydrogen. So let me explain, stick with me. It's going to be real easy to understand and it's going to make sense and it's going to be super fascinating. Okay. So all food breaks down to electrons right in our body and has to go through what's called the electron transport chain in order to make ATP and water, which is how we get energy. Right? So, we have to have basically these hydrogens going through this electron transport chain in order to make energy. So, at one step, on this electron transport chain. There's a tiny motor. It's called a nanomotor. And I think of it. I think it must be so cute. It's inside of all our mitochondria, which like we have hundreds or thousands in all of the cells of our body. So we have tons of mitochondria with tons of these little nanomotors, right? The nanomotor can fit One hydrogen and hydrogen, if we remember back to like eighth grade science, is one proton. So it's only got one like little thing in it, right? And, but deuterium has one proton. it's also hydrogen, but it has one proton and one neutron. So think about hydrogen having one basketball and deuterium having two basketballs. So as this hydrogen is going into this nano motor, the one regular hydrogen is totally fine. But the deuterium is too heavy. It's got these two basketballs. It's too big and it F's up these motors and so it's damaging our mitochondria. And so then we don't output the same energy. We struggle with metabolic health. We develop diabetes and a lot of chronic issues. So where is deuterium, right? Where's deuterium? Well, it's in sugar. It's in sugar. And it's also in water. And the closer you get to the equator, the higher the deuterium levels. So the closer you get to Canada and to the poles, the lower the deuterium. So, uh, If you think about it, the, the deuterium is high in things like, think about sugar cane. It, it grew originally in like tropical areas. It needs to grow. Right now I know they grow a lot of sugar cane in Florida, it's like grown in the tropics. Um, it needs a lot of light to be produced. Then things like tropical fruits like bananas and papayas and mangoes and, and pineapples. All the foods that I was indulging in in Costa Rica where they were growing. But I'm not eating them right now in Texas in, in April. It doesn't make sense yet. Then things like grains and unfortunately processed food, vegetable oils. They also contain a lot of deuterium. So this deuterium is in our bodies. It's messing up our mitochondria and our metabolism. And so In the, one of the ways that we excrete deuterium is through infrared light, sweating, and UV light and creating, and creating more what's called cellular water. So basically like grounding, being in the sun. That kind of thing. So think about that, the light, the sweating, the grounding, all of that helps us to get rid of this deuterium. And so if you're in the Philippines or in Costa Rica, where I was, I was sweating. Buckets every day. I was like, I was like, I'm going on a deuterium depleting walk and because like literally just like the I just picture the deuterium just like pouring out of my body because it's and it's more in the water there because you can deplete it more. But if you go to Canada and you eat a banana in the middle of February. It's not biologically appropriate because there's so much deuterium in that banana and then it's cold out. Are you sweating? Are you outside in the sun? No. So you can't deplete it. So it's, it's more damaging for you. And there's another aspect of it when UV light hits our skin, it changes our gut microbiome to be better able to digest simple sugars. So we actually like When I was in Costa Rica, my gut microbiome was changing or your twin fake twin brother in the Philippines Do you have a twin brother of your fake twin brother in the Philippines who's under this UV light could better? Tolerate some of these foods than you up in Canada So this just brings up the idea and if you understood none of that or like didn't Don't care to learn that piece. Just understanding that seasonal and local eating is really going to be, that's what I'm starting to, first off, try to do myself because it's hard. And I have not mastered this yet. So if you're like, Oh my God, Danny, that sounds so hard. Yeah, it is hard. And I'm struggling. So I, you know, I'm going to a farmer's market. I'm looking at what's in season on, on Google. When I walk into places and I'm like, okay, if it could grow, I live in Austin right now. So if it could grow in Austin right now, I'm going to buy it because it makes sense that food is also light. It's also giving us information. So I said that the phone screen and the, the light bulbs at night are confusing our body. Confusion in our body results in what we call chaos, metabolic chaos, and that is, that results in inflammation in our body. I'm going to try to get the table in too much sun now. Okay. Um, but so we don't want to confuse our body. So if I'm eating that banana in Canada in the middle of February. My body is like, Oh, there must be a lot of light outside. And then I go outside and the sky, the sun is like hardly above the horizon. It's super, you know, dark and wintry and it's cold. That's a mismatch. That's a mismatch in the information that my body just got. And that confusion basically is chaos in the mitochondria in the body and it results in inflammation. So. local seasonal eating is going to be highly, highly recommended. And when we talk about ketosis, we talk about, you know, I'm sure you have been as Audi on your show talking about flexing out of ketosis. And one of the best things we could do is for women You know, I love the idea of flexing out of ketosis, especially the week before our cycles, but also seasonally, if we think about like guys, it does make more sense for you to do keto fasting carnivore in Canada all winter long. That makes sense. It makes sense because that's what would be around, right? But when, when, it's summer and even like into the fall, when there's squashes and berries and all these things. It also makes sense to eat those foods. And guess what? You're going to have a better tolerance, meaning glucose tolerance of those foods, because your gut bacteria will have changed grant it. And this is only if you didn't spend all summer indoors. Um, Your gut bacteria will have changed and if you eat the food outside This is another thing like I always put hashtag like eat outside club Because when you eat outside you get the benefit of the Sun all that red light on you and you have better Blood sugar responses to your food. So it's a really just like a really really cool thing
Track 1:it's so important to understand is you're saying, we ha we just have, we have something that can heal us and it's under our nose. Right? All we need to do is follow, above our head Just follow what our ancestors did. You know, waking up with the sun, and then eating foods that are in season. That's,
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:It's not
Track 1:Yeah. I mean, I have a lot of, uh, research to do because these are all new to me, um, and everything that you said, it makes sense and, uh, I'll, I'll have to follow and subscribe to this because there's a lot of information. I mean, where can we find this information? Is it on your website?
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:So, no, it's not on my website yet. I'm starting to talk about this stuff on Instagram and I am in the middle of creating, well, my blood sugar mastery course, that's my signature course. I've run it like 19 times. Um, and I have incorporated this information. Now this is like, the foundational module in Blood Sugar Mastery because the, the wins that my clients are experiencing from all of these circadian and quantum strategies, which is what they're called. Don't let those words scare you. Um, I mean just unthinkable. Unbelievable changes like my client who has just to give you one example my client who has MS We've worked together for a while and she said that after 2 p. m her legs would kind of just like give out and she wasn't able to really walk and You know on a good day. She'd have to be laying down in her bed at five o'clock because her body just kind of gave out. So she started seeing sunrise. She started doing UVA. She started doing a lot of grounding, which is another place we get electrons. So right now my feet are on the bare earth. You can also ground, we can talk about grounding a second, but, um, you get electrons. Remember I said the electron transport chain makes energy. Sunlight also gives us electrons and food gives us electrons. We can get energy from other sources other than food. Isn't that amazing? Like we can use the earth and we can use the sun to get more energy because I know a lot of us with metabolic issues. I, I mean, my number one symptom was I was so tired all the time. I was just so tired. I'm so tired. I'm so tired. And then we'd eat something and then you'd crash after that. Like, I mean, just like I was always tired. That's a great tip for anyone struggling. Um, it's also anti inflammatory, uh, like helps your blood unclog and flow smooth, I mean, just tons tons of benefits, but, um, so she started doing the sunrise, the UVA, the grounding, the, like being outside and she's like, Danny, I can walk like any time I want. She's like, it's five o'clock and I can just. Go for a walk. I can walk for over a mile at five o'clock. And she's like, and it was on a coaching call. And on, at her time, it was like 8 p. m. She's got her red lights on in the background, which we can talk about too. And she's like, I'm fine. She's like, I can be like a normal person, go to bed at like nine or 10 p. m. She's like, I feel totally fine. And she's like, my mood has improved. I'm less snappy. I'm less impatient. I mean, just the amount of, and this is. That's just one person. There's so many people seeing huge changes across the board with this stuff. So I think we're going to start to see more of this soon. Um, but I, I did also want to talk about one of the other things that she's doing, um, that I recommend for everybody is she was, she was fasting. during the morning, like a common thing, like skip breakfast, fasting is good for us, all these things. So when it comes to all this, like the circadian rhythm, which is really like that cortisol and then going down and then the melatonin being low in the day and going up at night, that's really the circadian rhythm, like this timing of all our cells, that word, that, that phrase circadian rhythm is still a little confusing even to me. So I, I am not a scientist, so I like to make stuff in, like, nice and easy to understand terms because I'm not some sort of, like, genius who can just, like, understand these things. And, and, um, I hope that people are just following along and just getting these basics. So this rhythm that we have, this idea that we need to do these things at certain times, that we have these rises in hormones and lowering in hormones at different times of the day, so then everything's working as it should, just like the airport that's running. you know, right on time. That's that circadian rhythm. And what I see people doing is they skip breakfast and then they eat lunch and then they eat dinner and then they're hungry later because they didn't eat all the protein that they should have in the day. And so they eat before bed. And unfortunately, this is like the worst thing you could do. Um, it's like it's we do not want to eat late in the day Because remember I talked about we're better at metabolizing certain times of the day. We are better at metabolizing food earlier in the day and it gradually worsens. So thinking, coming back to like insulin sensitivity, our insulin sensitivity is best earliest in the day and gradually gets worse. So we get more insulin resistant as the day goes on and especially after the sun goes down. I always say when the sun goes down, insulin clocks out. And I see this on my CGM as I could eat a meal with like, let's say half a sweet potato in the morning. My blood sugar hardly moves. If I ate that same meal at dinner or especially like after dark at like seven o'clock, my blood sugar would be up so high for so long. And I don't know, have you seen similar on your CGM?
Track 1:Yeah, you know, it's funny because my wife and I have been doing, um, this food timing thing and we don't eat after 3 p. m. and we don't, and it's worked for her. It's worked for her because she's lost so much weight without changing her diet. And so, you just explained, because I've been looking through, you know, social media or Or Google what's happening because, you know, after 3pm, I thought it's always about like just, oh, your body's, you know, your body's just conserving energy at night. So it wants to conserve energy and whenever possible, especially at night when your metabolism is slow, it's going to store that as fat. I always thought that. And I didn't think that this will be just a part of, you know, circadian rhythm. So, I mean, Uh
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:it actually has to do with that, and that's a good thought, but it actually has to do with another hormone we haven't even talked about yet called leptin. So leptin is a more of a master hormone and it goes even deeper than insulin resistance. And I'm just starting to learn about leptin. I'm actually in a course about it right now. Um, but what I know is that leptin resistance always comes before insulin resistance. Which is wild so you can also have leptin resistance without yet having insulin resistance So what is leptin? We've heard about leptin as like this satiety hormone So like leptin and ghrelin is like the hunger hormone leptin is a satiety hormone But it's that's like not doing it It's like doing it a disservice to just call it that because it's so much more. So leptin is a hormone that is produced in our fat cells. And every night around 12 to 2 AM, it's job is to go up to that control tower in the brain, the hypothalamus and say, Hey, Here's your daily report of how much fat Dani has stored on her body. She's got this much glycogen in her liver. She's got this much body fat. And you know what, we're kind of at an excess of the body fat. So tomorrow, feel free to lower her appetite a little, and feel free to burn that body fat because we have enough of it. So that's leptin's job. Leptin also will communicate to the hypothalamus between meals, which is why snacking is not good for us. It's not good for our insulin. It's also not good for our leptin. So let's say there's another person and. Um, this person has, uh, their leptin is trying to dock to their brain and they say, or let's say this is me and I'm, I'm scrolling on my phone all night, I have all the lights on, I'm like, super anxious, like, you know, having text message arguments and, and my cortisol's up and all these things. And so what's going to happen is the cortisol is going to block. It's going to compete with the leptin for, That space on the hypothalamus to give its report. It's like cortisol is there first, so no more leptin. Leptin can't talk. Same thing with insulin. So when we eat late at night, insulin competes with leptin to tell the brain what the story is. So now when leptin cannot communicate with the hypothalamus, my body is going to assume that I'm starving. It's going to be like, yo, I did not get that information from leptin. And. Uh, I don't think we have any body fat on, we don't have anything stored. I'm getting a zero reading here. So tomorrow I need you to like, please increase her appetite and like even make her anxious. So she goes out and gets food. Like we really need to get food and just make sure we keep, keep using that, that, um, you know, going to get food and raise the appetite. And if she has any body fat, do not burn that because we need to store that because there is a problem here. So. If leptin cannot dock to the hypothalamus, our body will assume we're starving. It will increase our appetite. It will not allow our body to burn body fat. So this is a huge problem because what's going to interfere with that signaling cortisol, high cortisol at night, which comes from lights being on blue lights, our phone usage, dopamine. This is me with the scroll. So I have the light situation figured out. I have my, I have my blue blocking glasses on. I have my red light bulbs. I have my phone screen red, but guess what? I'm still scrolling, getting all that dopamine hit. And unfortunately, sorry guys, non native EMFs. It's like invisible light. The phone is right over my stomach as I'm laying in bed and all those EMFs are And that's messing me up. So, the past two nights, I'm literally on night two. If you guys feel bad about yourselves, don't worry. I, I know all this stuff and I'm still struggling. So, technology is so addictive. Um, I'm on day two. Thank you very much, of no phone in bed. So this is my challenge to myself. And I, per my aura ring,
Track 1:What time? What time
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:last night. I got, uh, I started, um, I just like don't take my phone into bed with me. So, um, and I did read last night. So I turned my phone off around like 830 and went to bed around like 930, 10. So like, like an hour, half an hour before bed. I mean, That's minimum, you know, so but I had a much better sleep last night and I woke up this morning and Over the past couple of days. I'm like, why am I so brain foggy in the morning? Like I just don't feel that energized and I'm like, I'm doing all the things Well, guess what? It was the freaking phone. It was the phone at night derailing my entire progress Um, so I felt my brain was on this morning and yesterday. I'm just like, oh my gosh, it's the phone. So anyway, so the phone, the lights at night, eating too late at night, caffeine too late, all of these things are going to block my body's ability. It's going to block that signal from leptin. All right, I'm getting noise. Do you want me to go inside?
Track 1:I don't.
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:noise? Okay, cool, so So yeah, So fasting I I I recommend in the evening time. That's a great time to fast And so when should we eat breakfast? Well, most of y'all are not going to be hungry for breakfast right away And the way to start getting hungry for breakfast is actually seeing sunrise Because that's gonna trigger all these hormones to turn on and you're gonna have to do it for a couple of weeks before the appetite starts to kick in kicking in. So what I recommend is slowly move your eating window earlier so that you don't have food in your stomach, but like by, by, the time you wake up in the morning and then we're going to see sunrise with naked eyes. That means no glasses, no contacts, no windows. So you can crack a window and look through like the screen of the window, um, or just be outside. Um, and then You want to see that light and then shortly after sunrise within an hour of sunrise Ideally, that's when we want to eat breakfast And that's when we want a really good breakfast lots of protein and healthy fats because that's going to signal Leptin like oh, she's eaten. We're good Like it it helps this whole system to run better. So and then we want to wait to not eat for like four to five hours for our next meal and that's important as
Track 1:So, around what time do you recommend having that first breakfast, that breakfast?
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:Within one hour of sunrise.
Track 1:one hour?
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:So whenever, yeah, whenever sunrise is for you. So again, that's why I like that Circadian app because it tells me when sunrise is here. Right now it's 7 15 in Austin. In Costa Rica it was at 5 50 a. m. So. really different times for eating. But what you'll find is when you wake up consistently and you get that light in your eyes and you, and like, Literally I'll wake up, I'm like, oh God, I'm not gonna want to eat today. And sure enough, I get outside. I'm outside for a couple of minutes, boom, my appetite turns on. I'm like, yes, So it's really It's really cool. But that is really helpful and um, it's been just phenomenal for helping all. these blood sugar things. And then the one thing I didn't talk about yet that would also be helpful for your people and, and for you is how do we make our house livable when the sun goes down? Because it's like, Danny, I need to see things. I can't be in the dark. Like, what are you talking about? I can't just turn off my lights. What are you, what are you crazy? So, Uh, number one, I do not expect you to live like pioneers. Um, this is, this is something that we can do. So if you go on Amazon, I can, you know, I'm happy to send your followers. I have sort of like a little curated little store on Amazon of just some of my favorite stuff. But there are light bulbs that do not have any blue in them. So if you are a person who's like, okay, I'm not going to do this. You can also do red lights. Um, like I have red light bulbs in my house. I have little red, uh, motion lights, red night lights. Red does not disrupt circadian rhythm. It doesn't. Impact our cortisol at all so you can have this red light We don't want that to be the brightest light in the world because the brightness can still impact us But these little lights are great. So for me in my house when the sun goes down I have an orange light bulb and the orange is I feel like a really good sort of intermediate because it mimics the fire. So I talked about that earlier. So it was like a little bit brighter. I can see some of the colors of things like, and it also isn't putting me to sleep too fast because in the winter when the sun goes down at like five o'clock and I turn on red light bulbs, I'm going to be asleep at six. So it's like, how do we, you know, stay up and feel a little bit more alert. So some of those light bulbs that have red light bulbs, No blue and some of the orange light bulbs and even candlelight. Yeah. Candlelight Himalayan salt lamps. These are some ideas of things that how we can set the vibe and it's a, it's a vibe. It's a, it's a cool thing. Um, and then what I do in my bedroom, I have a red light bulb. I have two lamps in my bedroom. I have one with a white light bulb and one with the red light bulb. So if I need that white light, which I almost never use, but if I need that white light bulb. I'll turn that on during the daytime. And then the red one is for nighttime. So just giving you guys ideas of like how to do this for your own house. And, um, then we have, what I do is an hour before bed. That's when I'll use, just the red. So I turn off the orange and that ideally would be when we get off devices. Maybe you can read. I have like a little red, uh, book light from Amazon again. So like these, like a little red book light you can read by candlelight. And so there's things we can do. We don't just have to like go to sleep at 7 p. m. You know, it's not like that, but there's, there's different things we can do to mitigate that. that light at night. And then the other thing is we can turn our screens red. So on an iPhone, if you, uh, if you go to the color filters setting, you could just Google how to turn your phone screen red. And so I have it where I click my home screen button three times and it turns it red. And then I click it again, three times it turns it regular. On an Android, I believe it's the Twilight app you can use. And then there's also Iris software for your computer. And I'm not affiliated with any of these, just a big fan. Uh, Iris software can turn your screen more red. It has like a, sort of like a, a toggle where you can bring it down a little bit or make it super red. And then there's also for TVs, that's a harder one. They do make some TV covers where you can get like an amber or like a red one. But that's where I like to start to think about blue blocking glasses, which I use all the time. My blue blocking glasses, I went from trying to remember to use them to not being able to live without them. So I have. Like you think, okay, my house is red lights and orange lights. No big deal. Why do I need to wear it? Well, the street lights, the neighbor's lights, the like holiday lights, like all these lights, headlights coming in through the window. And so I like to just put on my, my, uh, blue blocking glasses at night. I mean, even some people, I mean, my refrigerator, I did put translucent red tape over the lights, but normal people who have a normal refrigerator, like you open the fridge, there's a light right there. So. We can get these lights in our eyes, and I don't want anyone to be like paranoid about it, but just this idea of like, this is really impacting my circadian rhythm, my ability to sleep, and therefore my insulin sensitivity. If you just want to look at it from that sense, but it's also affecting your leptin, which is more of a master hormone, which is going to tell your body, can I burn this fat or not? Um, so hope that's. Explained enough so that you guys can, uh, can make some
Track 1:Uhm I'm going to take the transcript of this episode right now. And there's all these
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:Mm hmm.
Track 1:Um, we're gonna need that list. I'll link it down in the description box below so you guys can check out the The lights that we're talking about here. Um, i'm gonna have to do this ASAP, you know I'll have to talk to my wife first, but um Um, Yeah. uh, so phone, right? No, no phone at night. Um, you said, you know, I might do the challenge too. You know, if, if I don't do a challenge about the phone, I might not ever do it. So it will have to be a challenge for me. Um, competitive that way. I think I could do it. I'll maybe start with, you know, seven days, see what happens. Right. You know, no phone at night.
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:And, and can I give a piece of advice for that? So, the first piece of advice is, is Set yourself up first with something else to do. Because if you're just like, Okay, I can't be on my phone, like, what am I gonna do? Like what are you gonna do? So start thinking about that first So get some books some physical books not a book on a kindle not any of this stuff So you have to get physical books journals. Um If you're like, oh, maybe i'll just listen to music light a candle. Maybe i'll do some stretching Uh, maybe i'll With my partner, I'll exchange, you know, head massages or skull massages or, or foot rubs or something like that. So getting creative with what you can do in the evening time, um, instead of being on the phone. So reading is an easy one. Um, but instead of being on a screen and, and also I love. Just start with just right before bed. Like when you would normally get in bed and be scrolling. I don't know if that's anybody else here, but like maybe just that time. So it's not like, okay, the sun goes down. Now I can't have a phone. Like, don't make it too hard. Like using James Clear's atomic habits principles. Don't make it too long. Don't make it too hard or else it won't be achievable. So make it achievable at the beginning. And I'm telling you, I just did kind of like the half an hour before bed and saw a marked change in my sleep. in just two days. So we don't have to, you know, shoot for the moon here. We'll just do, do little bits that feel doable for you. Okay.
Track 1:I love that. But I want to ask you though, for people who live in Canada, like me, or in New York, who can't, you know, move to Miami yet, what do you suggest for us without the sun right now? It's, it's, it's overcast. Well, what can we do?
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:Yeah. I'm glad you asked that question. So when there's no UV in your environment, There's probably cold, and the answer lies in embracing the cold. The cold has a lot of benefits. This is something I haven't studied quite as much, because I've been more focused on the sun and stuff, and it hasn't been cold here, so I haven't sort of leaned into that quite as much, but I mean, just for example, when you get cold enough, that's why people are always cold plunging. It builds brown fat, which helps you burn fat and it helps your mitochondria. So, It's, it's sort of like you're using the sun, you're embracing the sun and the heat, or you're embracing the cold. And so I want people to, to understand that no matter what the weather is, that's perfect for your body. Unfortunately, we can't go out in all the weather that exists, but I want to challenge you to get uncomfortable. And you know, I'm sitting outside, I'm starting to sweat. And like, it's. Honestly, if I didn't know all this stuff, I would have probably moved back inside a little while ago, but I'm like, nope, sweating's good. Heat is good. You know, so I'm just kind of like allowing myself to be uncomfortable. So same thing with the cold, stand out in the cold, cold exposure. Um, ladies be careful with your cold exposure. Don't go crazy and please don't be cold plunging like the week before your cycle. And so, you know, what what I recommend is just to what, like you said, you don't have sun there, but you do have the sun and what you want to do is get outside every morning, be in the cold, get your grounding in, and you don't have to ground with your feet. Like if it's too cold, you can just touch any, any living thing that is rooted into the earth. You can touch that. I could literally touch a leaf, touch a blade of grass with my fingers and I'm grounded. So that is powerful because that's, it's just another modality that's free and easy and has huge benefits for people and is, like I said, another great way of getting electrons, which is how our body makes energy. So, Getting outside in whatever weather it is, is going to be what's important for your body. So the only people I'd recommend to move down to like Florida or, you know, Costa Rica are the people who are unwilling to go outside in their current environment. So that's really the challenge is getting outside no matter what the weather is. As long as you are safe, like, please don't, if it's like, you know, 45 degrees below freezing. It's like Danny told me I needed to stand out here and you're getting like frostbite. You know, don't do that. Um, if it's like a thunderstorm and there's lightning in the area, use your head, you know. But otherwise do the best you can, even cracking a window. If that's all you can do, keep the window cracked. You know, you want to get all these rays of light in. You want to get, take breaks throughout the day to just step outside and look at the sky. So your body knows, okay, take a break. It is April 4th. It is, uh, you know, 2. 30 in the afternoon. Got it. Like, you just want to keep syncing your body so it knows what time and date it is so that it knows what
Track 1:Mm hmm. Yeah. So just basically get outside, right? Whatever the weather is that, you know, it's, it's such a hack again. I mean, I gotta, you know, I'm always happy when I see the sun and now I know why, right?
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:Mm hmm.
Track 1:You know, you're syncing with, with, with your rhythm. So, um, you've given us a lot here. Thank you so much for giving us all these tips. I mean, I've never heard this before and, um, I had to scratch all my questions here, so, but I'm so glad that you, uh, you explained this to us because, you know, this is something new to people and if this can heal, um, their underlying condition. With a simple as just getting outside, you know, it's free. You don't have to pay it, pay for it. I mean, that's, that's even better. Right. So, um, thank you once again. And where can people find you and connect with you? That's
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:sure. So, um, I hang out a lot on Instagram. I'm starting to talk about this stuff more there. And you know, what you eat is still important, but I really think that our environment isn't getting enough, you know, airtime. So I think that it's this, this new, really important piece. And, and you mentioned like, this is such a hack, but I feel like these are strategies to heal instead of just being. Trying to hack. so, I'm going to change your wording a little bit on that. But yeah, it's like this deeper healing Um to but yes also like a hack like eating outside with your feet on the ground You get a better blood sugar response like yeah, heck. Yeah Uh, so anyway, my instagram is danielle hamilton health. My podcast is unlock the sugar shackles I also have a youtube danielle hamilton health and I My upcoming program is blood sugar mastery. That's my coaching program. It's going to start may 2024 So I can send you the wait list for that if anyone wants to work together and then i'm also gonna have a I'm, i'm just starting to work on another program called Circadian Strategies for Better Blood Sugar. So, like, the circadian approach to blood sugar. I'm not sure what the name is yet, but, uh, everything I talked about as it relates to our blood sugar, insulin, and leptin levels.
Track 1:Awesome.
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:yeah, lots of fun stuff coming down the
Track 1:we're gonna link everything down in the description box below with, you know, your storefront there, all your favorites, and your website and everything will be down in the description box below so you guys can check that out. I wanna thank you again, Daniel, for, you know, accepting my invitation to come on here. I really appreciate it. Uh, admire your work and, um, uh, please continue to do what you do. You're helping a lot of people here and please talk, talk about this. Um, this is something new that I've never heard anyone talk about before. And, you know, I'm going to really listen to this, you know, look at all the, I'm going to have all the notes and, uh, Probably share this to a lot of people that, you know, I think haven't heard of this before. Um, and, uh, such a, such a gem to, to, uh, to have you on here. So thank you so much.
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:Yeah. Thank you so much for being open to this and I know it's different than our normal You know talks about ketones and things like that. But oh, by the way, I should mention Those of you who do this, I mean, this is the ketones and coffee podcast. So I have to mention Two things about one about ketones one about coffee Have your coffee after breakfast because if not, it's gonna spike the heck out of your cortisol. So For me, my reward for having my breakfast first is that I get a cup of coffee and it's the best. So that's a little swap that I encourage you to try, see how that works for you. And then with ketones and the ketogenic diet, one of the reasons why it's so powerful is because fat, the good kinds of fats that we eat on a keto diet, not vegetable oils, those fats are very deuterium depleted. And it helps us deplete deuterium in our body. And so that's one of the many reasons why it's so helpful. So it's like, it
Track 1:I love it
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:It's just like a different way of looking at it. Right? Like, I think it's so cool. So thank you for being open to this. And I'm glad it sort of like sparked something in you because I have not been this excited to learn about something for a really long time. And I'm just like,
Track 1:I'm happy for you. I'm happy for you. Uh, I thought you. were going to say, quit coffee, but like, whoo.
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:Nope. Don't quit the coffee, Just make sure it's organic.
Track 1:All right. All right. Daniel. Bye bye.
danielle-hamilton_1_04-04-2024_143411:Take care. Bye.
