Mar 7, 2018
Rick Gold joins host Kevin Cottrell today to discuss circadian
based health & wellness. Rick is a Functional Wellness
practitioner from South Florida with a passion for helping educate,
treat and heal patients.
Rick is a certified FDN & Functional Wellness Practitioner and
is well-versed in the concepts of functional medicine.
Working with clients locally in South Florida and around the
world, Rick helps his clients identify and eliminate many of the
underlying causes of their symptoms, with a specialization in gut
health and circadian rhythms.
Prior to his career in health & wellness, Rick worked for Wall
Street firms as a financial adviser, institutional trader, and
hedge fund recruiter. So, how did someone working for Wall
Street end up as a Functional Wellness Practitioner?
For most of his adult life, Rick suffered from 24/7/365
allergies, frequent colds and sinus infections, indigestion,
heartburn, GERD, stomach and joint pain. He was able to
find temporary relief using conventional medicine
doctors, but the conventional medicine route never identified or
fixed the underlying causes of his health issues.
Rick used functional lab testing and lifestyle changes to vastly
improve his health. Dietary and other lifestyle modifications
essentially reversed most of his health challenges which are now a
distant memory.
Additional research, references, and
recommended reading from Rick Gold
Here are some more (in addition to what I’ve linked to in the
text throughout this building block) circadian rhythm, blue
light/ALAN studies, sunlight, and nnEMF research articles, and
videos for you to learn more (mind you this is just a SMALL
sampling of the THOUSANDS of studies out there on these
topics. The research is so definitive it makes one wonder why
it isn’t more mainstream!):
- Blue light, ALAN, Sunlight, and Melatonin
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- (Study) Evening
use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian
timing, and next-morning alertness – “These results
demonstrate that evening exposure to an LE-eBook phase-delays the
circadian clock, acutely suppresses melatonin, and has important
implications for understanding the impact of such technologies on
sleep, performance, health, and safety.”
- (Article) How
light affects human melatonin levels – Florida Atlantic
University. “Researchers are finding that exposure to
bright nocturnal light decreases the human body's production of
melatonin. A decrease in melatonin production has been linked to
higher rates of certain cancers, such as breast cancer in women and
prostate cancer in men.”
- (Video) The
end of night: potential impact on cancer incidence –
Russel J. Reiter, PhD
- (Study) Light
at night and breast cancer risk: results from a population-based
case–control study in Connecticut, USA “The results from
this study suggest a potential increased risk of breast cancer
associated with domestic exposure to LAN (Light at Night).”
- (Video) – The
impact of screens on sleep – Dr. Daniel Siegel
- (Study) Nocturnal
light pollution and underexposure to daytime sunlight -
Complementary mechanisms of circadian disruption and related
diseases – “Nighttime use of personal computers, mobile
phones, electronic tablets, televisions, and the like--now epidemic
in adolescents and adults and highly prevalent in pre-school and
school-aged children--is a new source of ALAN. However, ALAN
exposure occurs concomitantly with almost complete absence of
daytime sunlight, whose blue-violet (446-484 nm λ) spectrum
synchronizes the CTS and whose UV-B (290-315 nm λ) spectrum
stimulates vitamin D synthesis. ““The observed elevated
incidence of medical conditions the two are alleged to influence
through many complementary bioprocesses of cells, tissues, and
organs led us to examine effects of the totality of the artificial
light environment in which humans reside today. Never have
chronobiologic or epidemiologic investigations comprehensively
researched the potentially deleterious consequences of the
combination of suppressed vitamin D plus melatonin synthesis due to
life in today's man-made artificial light environment, which in our
opinion is long overdue.”
- (Study) Avoidance
of sun exposure is a risk factor for all-cause mortality –
“The results of this study provide observational evidence that
avoiding sun exposure is a risk factor for all-cause mortality.
Following sun exposure advice that is very restrictive in countries
with low solar intensity might in fact be harmful to women's
health.”
- (Study) Blue
light hazard – “Blue light can induce formation of
toxic reactive oxygen species that cause photochemical damage,
leading to the death by apoptosis first of critical retinal pigment
epithelial (RPE) cells and then photoreceptors. This slow process,
in which damage accumulates over a lifetime, has been implicated in
the pathogenesis of retinal degenerative diseases such as
age-related macular degeneration (AMD).”
- (Study) Blue
Light Induces Mitochondrial DNA Damage and Free Radical Production
in Epithelial Cells – “We conclude that visible light
can cause cell dysfunction through the action of reactive oxygen
species on DNA and that this may contribute to cellular aging,
age-related pathologies, and tumorigenesis.”
- (Study) Bright light exposure reduces TH-positive dopamine
neurons- Implications of light pollution in Parkinson's disease
epidemiology – “Remarkably, in preliminary analysis that
accounted for population density, the age and race adjusted
Parkinson's disease prevalence significantly correlated with
average satellite-observed sky light pollution.”
- (Study) Daily,
seasonal, and latitudinal variations in solar ultraviolet A and B
radiation in relation to vitamin D production and risk for skin
cancer – “The best way to obtain a given dose of
vitamin D with minimal carcinogenic risk is through a non-burning
exposure in the middle of the day, rather than in the afternoon or
morning.”
- (Study) Environmental
Light Exposure Is Associated with Increased Body Mass in
Children – “The findings identify that light exposure
may be a contributor to the obesogenic environment during early
childhood.”
- (Article) Study
of fruit fly 'brain in a jar' reveals mechanics of jet
lag – “He explained that a single light pulse cues
the biological clock of the fruit fly brain to
shift two hours ahead of its original schedule through a process
the researchers call "phase retuning."
- Circadian Rhythms
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- (Video) The
clock in our genes and in every cell of your body | Joseph
Takahashi | TEDxSMU 2013 – Great Ted Talk that teaches you
about circadian biology.
- (Article) Circadian
rhythm and human health – Joan E. Roberts, Fordham
University “Humans evolved being exposed to different spectra
of light in the morning, the late afternoon and evening. So it
should not be surprising that human physiology is profoundly
affected by the daily and seasonal changes in the visible light
spectrum. Exposure to the appropriate spectrum of light during the
day and evening enhances human health and wellbeing, immune
response and productivity. However, exposure to light sources that
do not match the natural solar spectrum to the time of day or
evening, is hazardous to human health. The reason visible light has
such a powerful effect on human health is that light exposure
through the eye modifies circadian rhythm.”
- (Article) Around
the Clock – “The circadian clock influences far more
than daily habits, according to a few decades of research. Obesity,
diabetes, cardiovascular disease, liver disease, cancer, and
depression have all been linked to malfunctions of the internal
timekeeping scheme. Almost every cell in a living organism, it
turns out, sees daily fluctuations in levels of genes and proteins,
and when these fluctuations are dampened or stopped, things can go
awry.”
- (Study) Circadian
stage-dependent inhibition of human breast cancer metabolism and
growth by the nocturnal melatonin signal: consequences of its
disruption by light at night in rats and women. “This
biological mechanism (ALAN) may partially explain the higher risk
of breast and other cancers in women working rotating night shifts
and possibly others who also experience prolonged exposure to light
at night.”
- (Article) From
Fertility To Mood, Sunlight Found To Affect Human
Biology – NYT article from 1981! “Dr. Richard
J. Wurtman - 'we are all unwitting subjects of a long-term
experiment on the effects of artificial lighting on health. Until
much more is known, we should design indoor lighting to resemble as
closely as possible what the sun provides.''
- (Study) A
functional circadian clock is required for proper insulin secretion
by human pancreatic islet cells – (Think diabetes!)
- (Study) Adverse
metabolic consequences in humans of prolonged sleep restriction
combined with circadian disruption. – “Thus, in
humans, prolonged sleep restriction with concurrent circadian
disruption alters metabolism and could increase the risk of obesity
and diabetes.”
- (Study) Circadian
Clock Control of Liver Metabolic Functions – “A wide
variety of processes throughout the entire gastrointestinal tract
and notably the liver appear to be under circadian control. These
include various metabolic functions such as nutrient uptake,
processing, and detoxification, which align organ function to cycle
with nutrient supply and demand. Remarkably, genetic or
environmental disruption of the circadian clock can cause metabolic
diseases or exacerbate pathological states.”
- (Audio) BBC
talk on circadian rhythms and their
importance.
- (Study) Circadian
clocks, obesity and cardiometabolic
function – “Disrupting this process through mutations
in the core clock genes or by interfering with the environmental
zeitgebers that entrain the clock appear to modulate the function
of cells and tissues, leading to an increased risk for
cardiometabolic disease.”
- (Study) Circadian
rhythm-related genes - implication in autoimmunity and type 1
diabetes – “The hypothesis that circadian genes are
involved in type 1 diabetes is reinforced by findings that the
immune system undergoes circadian variation and that several
autoimmune diseases are associated with circadian genes. Recent
findings in the non-obese diabetic mouse model pinpoint to specific
mechanisms controlling type 1 diabetes by the clock-related gene
Arntl2 in the immune system.”
- (Study) Endogenous
circadian system and circadian misalignment impact glucose
tolerance via separate mechanisms in humans – “We
demonstrate that the circadian system importantly contributes to
the reduced glucose tolerance observed in the evening compared with
the morning. Separately, circadian misalignment reduces glucose
tolerance, providing a mechanism to help explain the increased
diabetes risk in shift workers”
- (Study) Gut
Clock - Implication Of Circadian Rhythms In The Gastrointestinal
Tract – “Motor and secretory activity, as well as the
rhythm of cell proliferation in the GIT (Gastrointestinal Tract)
and liver, are subject to many circadian rhythms, mediated by
autonomic cells and some enterohormones (gastrin, ghrelin and
somatostatin). Disruption of circadian physiology, due to sleep
disturbance or shift work, may result in various gastrointestinal
diseases, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), gastroesophageal
reflux disease (GERD) or peptic ulcer disease. In addition,
circadian disruption accelerates aging, and promotes tumorigenesis
in the liver and GIT.”
- (Study) Keeping
circadian time with hormones – “Circadian deregulation of
hormonal rhythms may participate in internal desynchronization and
associated increase in metabolic risks.”
- (Study) Thyroid
hormone and seasonal regulation of
reproduction – “In mammals, the eyes are the
only photoreceptor involved in photoperiodic time perception and
nocturnal melatonin secretion provides an endocrine signal of
photoperiod to the PT to regulate TSH (Thyroid Stimulating
Hormone).”
- (Study) Exposure
to Room Light before Bedtime Suppresses Melatonin Onset and
Shortens Melatonin Duration in Humans – “These
findings indicate that room light exerts a profound suppressive
effect on melatonin levels and shortens the body's internal
representation of night duration. Hence, chronically exposing
oneself to electrical lighting in the late evening disrupts
melatonin signaling and could therefore potentially impact sleep,
thermoregulation, blood pressure, and glucose homeostasis.”
- (Article) UCI
study finds jet lag-like sleep disruptions spur Alzheimer’s memory,
learning loss – “Chemical changes in brain cells
caused by disturbances in the body’s day-night cycle may be a key
underlying cause of the learning and memory loss associated with
Alzheimer’s disease, according to a University of California,
Irvine study.”
- nnEMF (Non-Native Electromagnetic Fields)
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- (Article) Stress
from Current And Radiation – This is a transcript of a
lecture given by journalist Wolfgang Maes in Los Angeles,
California in 1990. Wolfgang suffered from EHS and tells his
story and how he fixed his surroundings and his health by lowering
his night time exposure to nnEMF.
- (Video) Electromagnetic
Fields and DNA Damage: Dr. Jerry Phillips – In this video,
Dr. Phillips discusses how nnEMFs damage your DNA, but he also
tackles the topic of conflicting research between the independent
science and the industry-funded science. By the way this
video is from 2012, before Dr. Martin Pall’s work in 2013 that
actually FOUND the non-thermal mechanism by which nnEMF disrupts
cellular function.
- (Article) Cell
Phone Radiation Boosts Cancer Rates in Animals – “The
cell phone cancer controversy will never be the same again.
The U.S. National
Toxicology Program (NTP) is expected to issue a public
announcement that cell phone radiation presents a cancer risk for
humans. The move comes soon after its recently completed study
showed statistically significant increases in cancer among rats
that had been exposed to GSM or CDMA signals for two-years.”
- (Video) Dr.
Martin Pall – How Wi-Fi & other EMFs Cause Biological
Harm – Amazing talk by Dr. Pall where he goes in depth and
breaks down the non-thermal biological effects of Wi-Fi.
- (Documentary) – Resonance
Beings of Frequency – An eye-opening documentary that will
teach you a tremendous amount about the dangers of
nnEMF.
- (Study) – Genetic
Analysis of Circadian Responses to Low Frequency Electromagnetic
Fields in Drosophila melanogaster – “Our results are
therefore not consistent with the classical Trp triad-mediated RPM
and suggest that CRYs act as blue-light/EMF sensors depending on
trans-acting factors that are present in particular cellular
environments.” Translation – nnEMF is perceived as light by
sensory proteins in your body and that can mess with your circadian
biology.
- (Study) - Is
it Blue Light or Increased Electromagnetic Fields which Affects the
Circadian Rhythm in People who Use Smartphones at
Night – “Furthermore, previous reports have indicated
a significant association between exposure to RF-EMFs of mobile or
cordless phones and sleep problems (2, 3).
The 2nd shortcoming of this paper comes from ignoring this point
that electromagnetic fields may affect the level of plasma
melatonin (4, 5).”
- (Study) Critical
time delay of the pineal melatonin rhythm in humans due to weak
electromagnetic exposure. –“The results show that
significant melatonin interruption and changes to
the circadian rhythm occur due to the perturbation of
chemical reaction rates, as also reported in previous studies. The
results also show the influence of the mRNA degradation rate on
the circadian rhythm's critical time delay or maturation time.
The results support the hypothesis that exposure to weak EMFs via
melatonin disruption can adversely affect human health.”
- (Study) Why
are living things sensitive to weak magnetic
fields? – “This implies that weak
magnetic field interactions may have a chronodisruptive
basis, homologous to the more familiar effects on the biological
clock arising from sleep deprivation, phase-shift employment and
light at night. It is conceivable that the widespread sensitivity
of biological systems to weak ELF magnetic fields is
vestigially derived from this diurnal geomagnetic effect.”
- (Article) - 'Radiogenetics'
seeks to remotely control cells and genes – “The new
system, dubbed radiogenetics, uses a signal, in this case
low-frequency radio waves or a magnetic field, to heat or move
ferritin particles. They, in turn, prompt the opening of TRPV1,
which is situated in the membrane surrounding the cell. Calcium
ions then travel through the channel, switching on a synthetic
piece of DNA the scientists developed to turn on the production of
a downstream gene, which in this study was the insulin
gene.”Translation – Scientists are actively using nnEMFs
NON-THERMAL effects on cells to develop therapies for
diabetes. How can anyone read this and deny the non-thermal
effects of nnEMF??
- (Documentary) – Searching
for a Golden Cage – A short and informative film that
documents the plight of people who suffer from EHS.
- (Documentary) – Take
Back Your Power – A must-watch documentary that
illuminates the dangers of electric company-installed smart meters
on homes and in apartment buildings.
- (Study) – Access
to electricity is linked to reduced sleep – “New
research comparing traditional hunter-gatherer living conditions to
a more modern setting shows that access to artificial light and
electricity has shortened the amount of sleep humans get each
night.”
- (Study) Mitochondrial
calcium overload is a key determinant in heart failure –
This study in particular does not mention nnEMF as a cause of heart
failure, but if you remember Dr. Martin Pall’s work that showed how
nnEMF causes excess calcium in the cell, and you see how this study
links excess calcium in the cell to heart failure, it’s easy to
connect the dots! Heart attacks kill a staggering number of
Americans every year. Might nnEMF be a hidden cause that no
one is considering? Food for thought.
- (Study) Effects
of the Effect of Ultra High Frequency Mobile Phone Radiation on
Human Health – “The results of this study and
International Commission of Non Ionization Radiation Protection
(ICNIRP) reports showed the people who spend more than 50 minutes a
day using a cell phone could have early dementia or other thermal
damage due to the burning of glucose in the brain.”
- (Study) Cancer
incidence vs. FM radio transmitter density – “The
findings present strong support to the earlier presented hypothesis
that body-resonant broadcasting radiation emitted by horizontally
polarized main FM transmitters has an immune-disturbing
effect. “
- (Article)
Diabetes and Electro sensitivity – This article raises the
possibility that diabetes is caused by nnEMF.
- (Article) Wireless
technology – studies on health effects, lawsuits & court
rulings. – This is a fantastic resource that links to a
tremendous treasure trove of research and other evidence of the
harm that nnEMF causes to human health.
- (Article) New
research links cell phones to health issues in
children – “For years, we’ve heard of a possible link
between cell phone use and cancer. Now, this week, researchers in
Baltimore say the evidence is clear, and children are
more at risk.” This is crucial to watch and read if you
have children.
- (Study) Schumann
resonance is found in the earth and in the human brain –
Think about that. Our brains resonate at the same frequency
as the natural frequency emitted by the earth that gets charged by
lightening. With no nnEMFs this is how we are supposed to
resonate. nnEMFs disturb this natural resonance and we pay
the price with our health.
- (Video) Magda
Havas talks at NIEHS May 9, 2016 on electro smog and electro
hypersensitivity – She shows what nnEMFs do to our blood
under a microscope, and shows how reducing nnEMFs helped several MS
patients.
- (Article) The
pulsed microwave radar tower and the cell – the role of
calcium – This one is definitely more for the science geeks, but it
goes into great detail about how nnEMF affects the calcium in and
around our cells.
- (Article) Mobile
Phones are cooking men’s sperm – “Study finds sperm
levels of men who kept their phones in their pocket during the day
were quite seriously affected in 47 per cent of cases“
- (Article) Wireless
devices & wildlife – This is a fascinating and
well-referenced article that depicts the effects of Wi-Fi on
animals and plants. It discusses key studies done on bees
that show how Wi-Fi is causing colony collapse disorder.
- (Article) nnEMF
research collection – And finally, a massive collection of
research on nnEMF that includes a link to 2300 studies done by the
US Navy showing the biological impacts of nnEMF!
- (Study) Prenatal
Exposure to weak magnetic fields leads to childhood
asthma – “Li's study is the first prospective
epidemiological study ever carried out on any group exposed to any
type of electromagnetic fields (EMFs). The mothers' magnetic field
exposures were measured during the first or second trimester and
the health of their children —a total of 626 boys and girls— was
followed for the next 13 years. Li sees a clear dose-response:
Every 1 mG increase in median magnetic field exposure during
pregnancy led to a 15% increase in asthma in the offspring. The
trend is highly significant.”
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