Let's go for it.

Now, I'm a, I'm a sports dietician, right? Light is not my area of expertise, but what I did in my total nerd hole [chuckles] of trying to understand red light therapy was speak to a lot of experts in this space and read...

I read a lot of research.

Our current modern environment is set up where we are inside under LEDs all day, and we know that that is not good for us.

So just generally from a light and a health perspective, we need to be outside in the sun, not necessarily outside getting burnt, but outside, say, in the morning, uh, at dawn when the sun's coming up, and also sort of dusk when the sun is setting.

It's a great time to be outside and having the sun hit our skin because the sun is the complete spectrum of light.

Okay? It has all of the wavelengths in it.

And so would you say it's primarily-- it should be primarily used as a recovery device as opposed to beforehand?

And so Taryn, what, what size of a rock is, [laughs] what size of a rock is red light therapy? Like, we know that sleep is a big rock, right? And so how would you classify this, and where would you stick it in as part of the process if you wanted to move forward with something like red light therapy?

Yeah.

It's a really good question.

It is not something that is a magic bullet, like EJ said.

You have to have all of the other foundations in place first before even looking at layering it in 'cause it's not gonna fix a four-hour sleep night.

It's not gonna fix poor nutrition.

It's not gonna fix a poor training program.

[laughs]

So Taren, for triathletes, you know, what would you say are the health implications of being overweight or underweight, and how does that affect our swimming, biking and running?

Yeah, it depends what we're talking about overweight and, and, and underweight, right? Are we talking about, like, clinical overweight, obesity, that sort of thing? The health implications there, we know that the more body fat you have on to that point where we're in an unhealthy weight range, you know, you're higher risk of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, high blood pressure, diabetes, that sort of metabolic disorder type of thing.

So we don't necessarily want to be there.

And then underweight has similar, you know, health consequences as well.

We run the risk of underfueling, being in low energy availability, being sick all the time, getting stress injuries.

And so there is this kind of nice middle ground where we, we do want to sit, but it doesn't mean that there's people outside of that scope of the spectrum as well.

Because you see athletes that are, you know, potentially overweight or carrying a bit too much body fat, and they're healthy, and that's just their body type.

Yeah.