Podcast #1,016: Unlock Higher Sleep and Well being by Harnessing Your Circadian Rhythm

You most likely know your physique follows a circadian rhythm, and possibly consider it as primarily regulating your sleep/wake cycle, which it actually does. However your physique’s inside clock additionally regulates many different bodily, psychological, and behavioral modifications that happen each 24 hours, and dealing along with your circadian rhythm, somewhat than towards it, can increase your well being and happiness.

Right here to unpack how to take action is Russell Foster, a professor of circadian neuroscience and the writer of Life Time: Your Physique Clock and Its Important Roles in Good Well being and Sleep. Within the first a part of our dialog, we talk about some science and background on circadian rhythm and its connection to mild publicity. We then flip to the sensible implications of getting an inside clock, together with whether or not it’s worthwhile to fear about viewing blue mild at night time, the numerous psychological and bodily harms that may accrue from working the night time shift and what might be achieved to mitigate them, what influences your chronotype and whether or not you’re a morning lark or an evening owl, whether or not you have to be involved for those who’re waking up in the midst of the night time, why you get up to pee within the night time, the perfect occasions of day to train, and the way the circadian rhythm can affect when you must take remedy.

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