E7 - How to use & avoid light to optimize health with Samer Hattar - Show notes

Link to Samer’s episode on the Hubermanlab Podcast:
Dr. Samer Hattar: Timing Light, Food, & Exercise for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Huberman Lab #43	
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUu3f0ETMJQ

Papers that Samer and I refer to:
Part 1:
Restricted feeding uncouples circadian oscillators in peripheral tissues from the central pacemaker in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (Damiola et al. 2000)
	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC317100/

External light activates hair follicle stem cells through eyes via an ipRGC–SCN–sympathetic neural pathway (Fan et al. 2018)	
	https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1719548115

The effects of extended photoperiod and warmth on hair growth in ponies and horses at different times of year (O’Brien et al. 2020)
	https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0227115

The influence of bright and dim light on substrate metabolism, energy expenditure and thermoregulation in insulin-resistant individuals depends on time of day (Harmsen et al. 2022)
	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00125-021-05643-9

Diurnal Blood Pressure Variations Are Associated with Changes in Distal–Proximal Skin Temperature Gradient (Kräuchi et al. 2012)
	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/07420528.2012.719961


High Sensitivity of Human Melatonin, Alertness, Thermoregulation, and Heart Rate to Short Wavelength Light (Cajochen et al. 2005)
	https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/90/3/1311/2836588


Brain regions that receive light information, 53 brain regions are responsive in a nocturnal mice:
	Feature Detection by Retinal Ganglion Cells (Kerschensteiner 2022)
		https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.wustl.edu/dist/d/1277/files/2022/04/KerschensteinerD-AnnuRevVisSci-2022.pdf

Entrainment of the Human Circadian Clock to the Natural Light-Dark Cycle (Wright et al. 2013)
	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982213007641?via%3Dihub

Depressed Patients Hospitalized in Southeast-Facing Rooms Are Discharged Earlier than Patients in Northwest-Facing Rooms (Gbyl et al. 2016)
	https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/477249

Divergent outer retinal circuits drive image and non-image visual behaviors (Beier et al. 2022)
	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124722007926

Red light can change the state of the melanopsin photo pigment:
	Melanopsin Tristability for Sustained and Broadband Phototransduction (Emanuel & Do 2015)
		https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627315001002


Samer Hattar on Social Media:
Twitter: @SamerHattar
NIH-Homepage: 
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/research/research-conducted-at-nimh/principal-investigators/samer-hattar