Circadian rhythm

So know that if you take it once and you're like, that didn't work for me, oftentimes you maybe need to take a stronger version or you need to just take it longer.

The third thing, what controls the circadian rhythm? So we've got three parts of the brain, the pineal gland, the hypothalamus, and the pituitary.

These are the parts of the brain that control sleep.

These are also the parts of the brain that don't have any protective barrier.

This way it gives my body a time to rest.

It follows my circadian rhythm of digestion.

So I front load carbohydrates in the morning because I am more active in the morning.

My melatonin levels are going down.

It's like a fourth of one millimeter, okay? It's just like really, really tiny.

You got two of them and they're like a pair and they control the clock in the body, okay? They control the circadian rhythms of the body.

And their main hormone that helps with this is called melatonin, okay? So melatonin triggers this whole process.

And the most powerful controlling factor over this structure right here is light okay and dark cycles and so the real problem with our sleep is that we live in an abundance of artificial light okay so first of all our light is artificial fluorescent lights and also we have too much light mean light is 24 hours like if you live in the city or in your house you can keep the lights on and we pretty much have the lights on all day as we're by our computers right we go places there's the lights on in these rooms and then of course you might be watching tv with the lights on and all that light inhibits this melatonin okay so melatonin is triggered by darkness So that's one thing you need to know.

It's that nice yellow-orange flame.

And you can feel infrared by heat.

Now, the second most powerful stimulus for that little nucleus that helps your circadian rhythms would be exercise.

Consistent, regular exercise.

So why do the darker months affect us? Have you ever wondered why you might feel different during fall and winter? Well, part of the answer can simply be less exposure to daylight.

Our bodies have an internal clock known as our circadian rhythm.

Your circadian rhythm helps regulate things like when you feel awake, when you feel sleepy, and many of the natural rhythms happening inside your body throughout the day.

And one of the strongest signals that helps set that clock is light.

Morning light basically sends your brain a message that says, good morning, it's daytime, we're open for business.

The goal is simply to tell your body, we're awake, we're moving, and the day has started.

Another thing that's important is what we do at the end of the day.

If you're trying to support your circadian rhythm, what you do at night matters too.

That's why they eat dinner at 9, 10 p.m. And that's why they have their siestas.

So their circadian rhythms are all messed up.

Whereas people in Poland, their circadian rhythms aren't.

So it's a modern manufactured ecosystem of conditions of existence that allow us to mess up our circadian rhythm and our sleep cycles.

So in my opinion, we're designed to go to bed three hours after sunset, no matter what season.

There's plenty of arguments about this.

So the sleep doctors say to circadian rhythms, what we ought to have is standard time around the year because it should get dark when it's time to go to bed and it should be bright in the morning.

That's the ideal for the human circadian rhythm.

Absolutely.

It's all right.

Well, we're talking about circadian rhythm and like your morning.

I've got rhythm.

Getting your morning settled in and looking for peace all day.

Yeah, of course.

It's your rhythm.

It's a 24-hour clock, so it's all day long, your circadian rhythm.

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