Most people think sweating in a hot sauna is the ultimate detox.
It’s actually not.
In a standard sauna, you are breathing in vaporised tap water chemicals, baking your hair follicles and overheating your brain.
This is the better choice👇
The dual-zone hot detox bath. It liquefies deeply stored waste without sauna damage.
Here is the protocol:
+ Filter your bath water to remove chlorine and heavy metals
+ Heat water to 104-110°F to trigger deep tissue sweating
+ Add 1L raw milk (or simply the amount you want) + 3 tbsp raw apple cider vinegar + 1-2 handful sea salt
+ Put an ice-cold wet cloth on your head to protect your brain and hair
+ Wipe sweat away immediately after stepping out to prevent reabsorption (don't shower afterwards)
Many people are now aware of the health effects of specific color spectrums of light
Isolated blue light = eye strain
Infrared light = therapeutic
Fewer people are aware that how bright your light environment is has an arguably even greater impact
Light brightness is measured in units called lux
Indoor light from an open window typically ranges from 1000-5000 lux, while in the center of the room it can be as dim as 25-50 lux
Indoor artificial light typically ranges from 50-500+ lux
In comparison outdoor light ranges from around 1000 lux on a cloudy day to as high as 120,000 lux in direct sunlight
This means light outside in the sun can be a full 120x brighter than indoor light!
Bright light is what entrains your circadian rhythm, it creates the morning spike in cortisol, dopamine, and glutamate that wakes you up and starts the process of synthesizing melatonin that will be release 12 hours later when you go to bed
Most people completely invert their circadian rhythm by leaving the lights turned off all day keeping their home dim until the sun sets, then turning on every light in the house
This tells your body it's noon instead of midnight and completely suppresses melatonin release
Jam 10 pagi udah nyari cemilan.
Jam 2 siang nyari minuman manis.
Jam 10 malam buka kulkas lagi. 😭
Sejak rutin makan ini, rasa pengen ngemil
berkurang lumayan banyak.
Kenyangnya lebih lama dari yang gue kira. 🫣✨
When someone claims that a tan is a sign of skin or DNA damage, remind them that this entire narrative has its roots in eugenics and scientific racism, not objective circadian biology
The early dermatology and photobiology frameworks that demonized tanning were developed during an era when darker skin tones were pathologized, not understood
“Sun damage” became a term that conveniently upheld the pseudoscientific belief that pale skin was biologically superior, a view promoted by eugenicists who associated light skin with purity and intelligence
So, when they parrot the idea that melanin production equals damage, ask them why they’re defending a framework built on racist pseudoscience rather than updated circadian photobiology
Melanin is NOT a damage response
It’s an adaptive and photoprotective system that presents the following benefits:
1. Powerful antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals and maintains redox balance
2. Natural anti-venom that binds and neutralizes toxic compounds, including heavy metals
3. Anti-tumor agent that suppresses abnormal cell proliferation through redox and immune modulation
4. Biological nnEMF shield that dissipates excess electromagnetic stress at the cellular level
5. Detoxifying polymer that chelates and eliminates environmental toxins and heavy metals
6. Photoprotective barrier which is nature’s built-in sunscreen that adapts to UV exposure from full spectrum sunlight
7. Lipid peroxidation defender that prevents oxidative damage to cellular membranes and fats
8. Broad spectrum anti-viral that inhibits viral replication via photochemical and immune pathways
9. Anti-microbial shield that resists bacterial and fungal invasion through oxidative control
10. Neuroprotective agent that safeguards neurons from oxidative and excitotoxic stress
And so much more
God and nature infused those benefits into melanin by design. A tan is your body training under full spectrum sunlight
It’s an adaptation. That’s why it’s found throughout the entire natural world, especially in human beings, through three forms (neuromelanin, eumelanin, pheomelanin)
I’ll tie your mainstream dermatologist into a Gordian knot by forcing the question they won’t want to answer
Whose interests does this “damage” narrative actually serve?
I’ll tell you this
It doesn’t fucking serve the people
For all the new followers
Good luck trying to get sunglasses, contact lenses, sunscreen, tanning beds, closed glass windows, and LASIK surgery past me
I will shoot that shit down in a heartbeat
Plenty of education available in my Highlights section. You can also search your desired subject on my profile
If you’re PALE, it’s in your best interest to:
A) Sunbathe in the AM first between sunrise and ~ 9/10 AM for at least 30 minutes
The longer, the better
Most of your bare skin exposed
No sunglasses, contact lenses, sunscreen, makeup, being behind closed windows
This serves to prime your skin for midday UV light via red and infrared light wavelengths which produces:
• Collagen
• Elastin
• Hyaluronic acid
• Filaggrin
• Urocanic acid
All five of which have protective effects on the skin barrier, some or all of them also serving to moisturize the skin
It is preparation for your skin to give you an opportunity to build melanin during midday, which is Mother Nature’s most effective sunscreen
B) Microdose midday sunlight between 11 AM - 3 PM and gradually build your melanin
The goal here is to avoid burns while getting your skin in the game since you’re pale
For this demographic, 5-10 minutes is enough at first, but the amount of time will vary depending on you
Know thyself here
If you burn after 10 minutes of midday bare skin exposure, dial it back to 5-7 minutes or until you find an amount of time where you don’t burn
Rest assured that the morning sunbathing will give you more leverage to spend more time sunbathing
The keystone pillar here is CONSISTENCY
You show up daily and repeat the same process, while gradually increasing the amount of midday sunbathing because you’ve gradually built more melanin on your interior and exterior
That’s how you build a tan, in much the same way you gain strength through resistance training by warming up, lifting appropriately, recovering, and doing the same thing day in and day out using the principle of progressive overload
There’s no fucking magic trick here
It’s about understanding the basics of circadian biology, the solar cycle, the UV index, and progressive overload
There are four important caveats:
These are mandatory to follow if you’re to get the most out of this work and your potential to tan
1) Strictly food after sunset which disrupts the circadian clocks of the skin, which can make you more susceptible to burns during the day
2) Block toxic artificial light strictly after sunset through circadian friendly lighting, dark lensed blue blockers, basic layer of clothing to cover the skin. Make it as dark as possible
3) Be asleep before 10 PM in a dark and cool room environment to get the most of your sleep cycles and REM/deep sleep which is where the skin regenerates itself
4) Strict avoidance of anything that artificially manipulates the full light spectrum from the sun (sunscreen, sunglasses, makeup, contact lenses, sunlight through glass windows)
And for all of you who point to the subject of vegetable oils, my stance is the following:
Limit them, but don’t believe that you have to eliminate them strictly to see tanning benefits without burning
Light trumps nutrition in this discussion because it is a more fundamental biological input
I have verified this with MANY people, both on and off this platform. The results speak for themselves
There’s a reason human beings look more attractive with a tan
The modern dermatology claim that a tan is simply a marker of skin and DNA damage is foolish, short sighted, and a perfect example of why their philosophy repeatedly collapses under its own weight
Modern dermatology reduces this adaptive process to a pathology. They insist a tan equals DNA damage, as if your body has no evolved mechanisms to handle and benefit from solar input
It’s almost as if centralized practitioners suffer from amnesia when it comes to subjects like evolutionary and circadian biology
This view is not only myopic, it completely ignores systems and first principles thinking
It assumes sunlight is nothing but a carcinogen, ignoring its role in circadian alignment, Vitamin D3 synthesis, nitric oxide release, immune regulation, and even direct antimicrobial effects on the skin
The irony is that people instinctively know better when they’re not fed this reductive garbage from the centralized paradigm and their PR campaigns
Across cultures and throughout history, a tan has symbolized vitality, fertility, and beauty
“But what about cultures that perceived a tan as a negative outcome?”
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Let’s look at pre-industrial societies (Europe, Asia, and the Middle East)
In agrarian societies, most people worked outdoors under the sun. A tan was seen as a marker of peasantry, manual labor, and low status. Pale skin, by contrast, signaled wealth, privilege, and a life of leisure indoors
In 18th and 19th century Europe, aristocrats prided themselves on pale, untouched skin. Women even used lead based powders and parasols to maintain pallor
In China and Japan from ancient through the early 20th century, fair skin symbolized nobility and beauty. The phrase “fair skin covers a hundred flaws” is a Chinese proverb illustrating how deeply this preference ran
In India, lighter skin tones became associated with higher castes, while darker skin was linked to lower social status. This was later reinforced by colonial influence
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Think about the colonial and industrial era from the 16th to 19th century
European colonialism spread the association of light skin with superiority worldwide. Colonizers portrayed darker skin as “inferior,” tying tanning and pigmentation to servitude or “uncivilized” status
At the same time, during the Industrial Revolution, elites had more access to indoor lifestyles, so pale skin remained a mark of wealth and refinement
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Now let’s consider the 20th century flip in the West
It changed rapidly in the early 1900s
Coco Chanel popularized tanning in the 1920s after being photographed bronzed on the Riviera
Suddenly, a tan symbolized leisure, affluence, and cosmopolitan living. To have a tan now meant you weren’t stuck in a factory.. you were traveling, yachting, or vacationing
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Today’s landscape is mixed
In the West, tans are still broadly associated with attractiveness, vitality, and fitness.. though dermatology keeps hammering the “damage” narrative
In much of Asia (Korea, Japan, China, India), pale skin is still prized, with billion dollar skin whitening industries reinforcing old class-based ideals
In Africa and the Caribbean, lighter skin tones are often socially privileged, another residue of colonial hierarchy
Cultures that viewed tans as inferior were typically agrarian or class stratified societies where sun exposure was unavoidable for the working poor
Pale skin equaled wealth and protection from labor. It wasn’t until industrialization and modern leisure culture that the West reframed tanning into a beauty ideal
Both sides miss the deeper point
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I have a different perspective
Get people aligned with the light and dark cycle properly first, with no dietary intervention
Let the POMC system regulate their appetite accordingly via the appetite suppressant peptide hormones produced, while also having red and infrared light from the sun lower their blood sugar
Block the artificial light which is independently jacking up their cortisol, blood glucose, and insulin
People would have a much easier time with this strategy rather than hopping on the diet hamster wheel
Of course, nutrition is important
I’m not discounting it
But I am placing light and circadian biology at the top of the hierarchy for good reason