🧠 1. Morning Sunlight in Your Eyes
What it does: Regulates circadian rhythm, boosts mood, improves sleep.
Why it works: Natural light triggers serotonin and melatonin balance.
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2. Melatonin
- Natural hormone that regulates your body’s circadian rhythm or sleep-wake cycle. Levels of the hormone increase in the evening when it’s dark to promote sleep & decrease in the morning when it’s light to promote wakefulness.
- Getting adequate ...
Your body needs dark too
While we are starting to pay attention to how important sleep is, the need for dark is still mostly ignored.
Being exposed to regular patterns of light and dark regulates our circadian rhythm. Disruption of this rhythm may increase the risk of developing some health conditions includin...
The Circadian Rhythm
It is impacted by three main factors:
- Light: probably the most significant pace setter of the circadian rhythm. Staring into a bright light for 30 minutes or so can often reset your circadian rhythm regardless of what time of day it is.
- The time of day
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