{"id":66019,"date":"2026-06-19T19:25:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66019"},"modified":"2026-06-19T19:25:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T09:25:42","slug":"dr-andrew-huberman-on-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66019","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Andrew Huberman On Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dr_Andrew_Huberman.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Andrew Huberman On Lights\" width=\"518\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dr_Andrew_Huberman.jpg 518w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dr_Andrew_Huberman-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Andrew Huberman just confirmed a \u201cwild conspiracy theory\u201d about incandescent lights and LED bulbs.<\/p>\n<p>The long wavelengths found in incandescents increase your metabolism and \u201ccharge your mitochondria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, the LED bulbs that most of you have in your house are \u201ccausing disruptions in mitochondrial function.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DR. ANDREW HUBERMAN: \u201cYour mitochondria function better, you increase ATP production, your metabolism increases in the presence of red light, long wavelength light to the skin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShine long wavelength light on somebody, watch blood glucose levels in a blood glucose test, and it\u2019s blunted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, the LED lights that are commonly used now\u2026 that short wavelength light, in the absence of long wavelength light, has been shown to damage the mitochondria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis used to be considered crazy. This was like chemtrail crazy, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut now we\u2019re starting to see from animal studies and human studies, from Glenn Jeffreys and others, that people\u2019s vision gets better when they get in front of an incandescent bulb once a day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they get sunlight, which also has long-wavelength light, your vision improves because of improvements in mitochondria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration quietly pushed incandescents out of the market through aggressive energy regulations.<\/p>\n<p>But you can still find them online today if you look hard enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Andrew Huberman just confirmed a \u201cwild conspiracy theory\u201d about incandescent lights and LED bulbs. The long wavelengths found in incandescents increase your metabolism and \u201ccharge your mitochondria.\u201d Conversely, the LED bulbs that most of you have in your house are \u201ccausing disruptions in mitochondrial function.\u201d DR. ANDREW HUBERMAN: \u201cYour mitochondria function better, you increase &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66019\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr. Andrew Huberman On Lights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66021,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66019\/revisions\/66021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}