"Doing This for 5 Minutes Every Morning Improves Mood, Sleep, & Alertness" - Andrew Huberman
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Viewing early morning sunlight is essential for regulating your body's circadian rhythm, which is key to maintaining healthy sleep patterns. Low solar angle sun is the optimal stimulus for brightness-sensing cells in our eyes known as the intrinsically photosensitive melanopsin retinal ganglion cells.
In this video, Andrew covers:
- Why viewing morning sunlight improves sleep
- The optimal time of day to view morning sunlight
- Whether or not you can wear glasses when viewing morning sunlight
- How viewing evening sunlight circa sunset protects against the adverse effects of late-night blue light exposure
- What to do if it's cloudy when you wake up
- Whether or not light bulbs or light pads can mimic morning sunlight
- What to do if you wake up before the sun comes up
- How to spike cortisol in the morning by 50%
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Circadian rhythm News
- High-intensity exercise in the evening may be associated with greater reductions of the hunger stimulating hormones
- Time-restricted eating prevented obesity and metabolic syndrome in mice with mutations in genes regulating the circadian clocks.
- Caffeine that was given to people 3 hours before normal bedtime caused a 40-minute shift in the body's internal clock.
- After exposure to daytime bright light (6.5 hours), evening use of a tablet for two hours did not affect sleep in healthy young students.
- Acid Suspends the Circadian Clock in Hypoxia through Inhibition of mTOR. - PubMed - NCBI
