Metabolic Living™
Light Therapy, Sleep, Movement & Daily Energy
Your Transformation
Go from living in a stress-driven, low-energy lifestyleto implementing light, movement, sleep, and home-environment habits that support metabolic repair, so you can feel grounded, energized, and consistently supported in your healing every day.
About This Course

Dr. Benedicte Lerche MSc PhD
Creator of this course
Who This Course Is For
This course is for people who already eat well and supplement thoughtfully, yet still feel tired, anxious, or stuck. The missing pieces are almost always in daily life — light, sleep, movement, and rhythm — and this course gives you a complete, science-based system for putting those pieces in place.
Why Diet & Supplements Alone Are Not Enough
Food and supplements set the foundation, but they cannot override poor sleep, blue light at night, sedentary days, or constant low-grade stress. The body is built to respond to natural rhythms — light by day, darkness by night, regular movement, and proper recovery — and when those rhythms are missing, even the best diet struggles to deliver real results.
Light as a Metabolic Tool
You’ll learn how natural sunlight, infrared and red light, and the careful avoidance of blue light at night directly influence your thyroid, your hormones, and your mitochondria. I show you simple, practical ways to bring more of the right light into your day and protect yourself from the wrong light at night.
Restoring Deep, Restorative Sleep
Sleep is where your body repairs, balances hormones, and rebuilds energy. I walk you through the daily and evening habits that naturally deepen sleep — without sleeping pills — including light, food timing, temperature, and how to address night-time blood-sugar drops that quietly wake so many people up.
Movement That Builds Metabolism, Not Drains It
You’ll learn why long, intense cardio and chronic “grinding” workouts often backfire by raising stress hormones and lowering thyroid output, and how to use gentle, regular movement — daily walking, light strength work, and play — to genuinely build metabolic capacity over time.
Daily Rhythms & Stress Reduction
Steady meals, regular daylight exposure, calming evenings, and simple breathing practices have a far bigger metabolic effect than most people realise. I show you how to build a daily rhythm that lowers stress hormones and supports thyroid, hormones, and digestion at the same time.
Building Your Daily System
Rather than handing you a rigid schedule, this course helps you design a sustainable daily system that fits your life. You’ll learn how to layer light, food, movement, and rest so that each piece supports the next — and so that healthy habits become automatic instead of effortful.
Bringing It All Together for Steady Energy
By the end of this course, you’ll have a clear, practical framework for living in a way that supports your metabolism every single day. This is the layer that ties diet, hormones, gut, and supplements together — and it is what allows the results from all your other work to finally hold.
Full Curriculum
Course Phases & Modules
1 phases · 9 modules
Light Therepy
The importance of red light in health and recovery
History of Light Therapy
Niels Ryberg Finsen and John Harvey Kellogg were both pioneers in the field of light therapy and recognized the therapeu…
Dr. Ray Peat on Light Therapy
Dr. Peat was very interested in the benefits of sunlight and light therapy. He explained that prolonged darkness can be…
Why Darkness Is Stressful
Getting enough good light every day is very beneficial as it prevents stress and improves thyroid function as well as th…
The Science of Light: Wavelengths and Mitochondria
Light (as well as heat) are waves. Different types of light have different wavelengths. The higher the energy of the lig…
The Benefits of Red and Orange Light
According to Dr. Ray Peat, red and orange light with wavelengths from 600-700 nm has many benefits to the body. The func…
Sunlight and Vitamin D
The protective orange and red (600-700 nm) wavelengths are found in sunlight, and general exposure to sunlight increases…
Light Therapy Lamps: Incandescent and LED
Brooding lights (heat lamps used by farmers to heat baby chickens, pigs, and such) provide the right red and orange wave…
How to Use Light Therapy
When you use lamps or sunlight as light therapy it is important to have as much skin exposed to the light as possible an…
Exercise — Movement Without Depletion
Doctor Peat's view of exercise: why excessive aerobic and strenuous endurance training raise adrenaline and cortisol and block the conversion of T4 to T3, why brief strong movement like weightlifting is far less depleting than long endurance work, why movement should be stimulating and enjoyable rather than punishing, and why you should never exercise on an empty stomach.
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