#39 Dangers of Blue Light Exposure and Chronic Sleep Deprivation at the Biohacker's Live Show

Siim Land (0:05)

I think we all become so accustom to the illumination of modern life that we tend to forget how much big of an impact it has on our physiology.

Close your curtains, hide your kids.

Blue light monster, it's here. It's common knowledge amongst biohackers and functional health practitioners that blue light exposure in the evening is gonna disrupt your circadian rhythms and it's gonna decrease your sleep quality. But how seriously they take it and how bad it really is, that's a whole other story. Welcome to the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast. I'm your host Siim Land. And in this episode, we're not gonna actually be on the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast because it's a special episode. Instead, we're gonna hop on the Biohacker's Live Show hosted by my dear friends from the Biohacker's Summit and Biohacker's Center from Finland. We're gonna start doing these weekly live streams with different guests from the field of biohacking, human optimization and overall awesomeness.

Teemu Arina (1:17)

So I have this imaginary audience. I feel like some dictator.

Siim Land (1:23)

You can definitely expect more of these different voices on this podcast. And I just wanted to share, I just wanted to get the message out there and to use my podcast as to bring more awareness about the Biohacker's Live Show as well.

Olli Sovijärvi (1:37)

Like 95% of the patients I meet don't sleep enough.

Siim Land (1:42)

For this particular episode, I only hopped on for a few minutes and I made this short little video clip.

But you can expect me to be on there for the entire show in the next live stream. This live stream is gonna be with Daniel Pardi, who is the CEO of Human.OS.

Daniel Pardi (1:57)

Now 15% of the population is sort of extreme owls, meaning that they stay up extra late and 15% of the population is extreme larks, meaning they get up really early and they wake up, they're ready to go. They also fall asleep by like, you know, eight or nine.

Siim Land (2:12)

But other than that, I'm gonna let the other hosts of the Biohacker's Live Show, Teemu Arina and Olli Sovijärvi, walk you through this special episode of the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast. Body Mind Empowerment.

Daniel Pardi (2:24)

Get stronger, faster, smarter, quicker, friendlier, more helpful, more driven.

Siim Land (2:30)

Everything the body needs.

Daniel Pardi (2:31)

Control your mind.

Teemu Arina (2:35)

Welcome to the Biohacker's Live Show. My name is Teemu Arina. I'm your host today. I'm sitting here in the Biohacker's studios together with Dr. Olli Sovijärvi. Welcome.

Olli Sovijärvi (2:46)

Thank you, Teemu.

Teemu Arina (2:48)

Awesome. Awesome to have you here.

How was your day? What did you have for breakfast?

Olli Sovijärvi (2:52)

Nothing.

Teemu Arina (2:53)

Nothing? I guess nothing is a pretty typical answer nowadays for a lot of biohackers.

Olli Sovijärvi (2:59)

Well, I had a good perfect fatty coffee with Jum collagen, but not until noon. So I usually fast.

Teemu Arina (3:08)

Yeah. I'd be fasting as well. Fasting is pretty trendy as well. So that's what's up.

This is our first live show in English, pretty much. We did a Finnish version last week. So we welcome all of you. Also, our Finnish audience that has been invited, as well as our English audience. And this is part of our series to kind of combine more kind of humoristic and lively talk show with biohacking topics and serious research and serious guests. So today, our guest is going to be Dan Pardi. He's a sleep researcher. I'm going to tell about him in a moment. But if you are watching this live, you can join in by using the hashtag biohackerslive. So biohackerslive. That's what you can use on Twitter and Instagram.

On Facebook and YouTube, you can follow Biohacker Summit. And also on our YouTube channel, you can find us on this live stream. And the show notes for this recording are going to be at biohack.to.

You're going to find all the stuff that we talk about there. We're going to be updating it right after the stream.

Today's guest who's coming in is Dan Pardi. I'm going to run first a little intro about him. Let's see.

So, Dan Pardi is someone who I have wanted to interview for quite some time. I've been in contact with him. I tried to get him to the Biohacker Summit. He's been busy building Human.OS that leverages novel behavior models to promote healthy, health fluency, skill development, and lifestyle insights to help people master their health practice. He's not just a CEO, he's a sleep researcher, and he has done research with the Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Department at Stanford, and the Department of Neurology and Endocrinology at Leiden University in the Netherlands, where he investigates how lifestyle factors like sleep influence, decision-making, cognitive performance, and metabolism. I have to say that some of the podcasts that I've been listening online, Dan's has been one of my seriously biggest favorites. So with that, I'm gonna get Dan in. Let's get Dan live.