Blue Light Blocking Glasses & The Light Diet w/ Ra Optics founder & CEO, Matt Maruca

2023-09-28

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Today's guest on The Red Light Report has been a long time coming and a conversation that I have been candidly been looking forward to. For years and years, I have been following Matt Maruca; initially, indirectly through other podcasts with the likes of Ben Greenfield, Dr. Jack Kruse and Luke Storey and then more directly as I repeatedly heard his story and listened him speak so articulately and passionately about how light has impacted his life, literally inside and out. He is wise well beyond his years and our conversation in today's episode is brimming with energy, vibrations and information that is sure to resonate with you to your core.

Matt is the founder and CEO of Ra Optics, a blue light blocking glasses company that teaches about the essential role that light plays in health and develops advanced light therapy-based products. He founded Ra Optics after a decade-long personal health journey that ultimately led him to light. The discovery that we are ultimately beings of light has led him to a profound interest in the nature of consciousness and existence itself.

In this episode, Matt details his fascinating health journey that led him to founding Ra Optics, he educates us all on how blue-light blocking glasses impacts virtually all aspects of health, why clear lenses do not block blue light, why and when to wear yellow-tinted lenses and orange-/red-tinted lenses, and, a topic he is very wholehearted about, his journey with honing his inner light and why he values that aspect of health over all others. Of course, we talk about much, much more as well!

This was easily one of my favorite conversations to date and I know Matt and I could have easily continued for another couple of hours. I have no doubt we will sometime in the near future, as he is so well-versed in light and health and is equally impassioned to share his knowledge with anyone interested in energetically optimizing their health. As always, learn lots and light up your health!

Key points:

Matt's journey getting into blue-light blocking: (2:41)
There's more to health than food: (8:06)
Starting his own company: (12:58)
Lenses, blocking the correct light, and bringing awareness: 20:06
Light spectra: 24:41
Clear lenses don't block blue light: 26:32
Lens tinting: 31:13
How important light is in general: 33:08
Being scientifically driven: 36:12
Wearing colored lenses in public: 40:59
Changing the norm and cultural shifts: 44:59
The awareness is growing: 47:18
Health changes he noticed after using blue light blocking glasses: 50:33
Blue light is an "offender" in the environment: 56:00
The real competition is sleeping pills and melatonin: 1:00:41
Personal anecdotes: 1:02:16
Increasing athletic performance: 1:10:44
Sleep metrics and HRV: 1:12:07
Spirituality and inner light: 1:13:30
Owning a company and feeling lonely: 1:17:10
Showing up in any way you can: 1:23:32
Overcoming victimhood: 1:27:13
Laziness and overworking: 1:29:03
Overall health and wellbeing: 1:35:01
We are all vibrations: 1:39:28
Eat with the sun: 1:44:57
Timing your blue light-blocking glasses: 1:53:43
Unhealthy light: 1:59:19
Countering blue light from screens: 2:07:52
Windows block infrared light: 2:10:37
Fluorescent light and mercury: 2:14:46