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So while there are a lot of things one can do like cold showers and exercise and forced early hours and dimming the lights etc. when getting out into nature and camping for a couple of nights really getting away from cell phone contact and getting more oriented to the sunrise and sunset as the cues for circadian rhythm um has a longlasting effect on uh circadian rhythms of these hormones and wakefulness.
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And and the level of adventure and and life reset and meaningful experiences that one brings back from that and reset of circadian rhythm is is super significant.
What he found was that just two nights and and the days around those nights of camping in the Colorado mountains um allowed them to reset their circadian rhythms for melatonin which elevates at night kickstart the sleep process as many people know and for cortisol which is why we wake up in the morning the so-called cortisol awakening response you know precedes uh the time we wake up which for you comes at a god awful hour from but um and was able to reset that those cortisol melatonin rhythms which really bookend end uh our days and are and and really establish regularity of circadian rhythm.
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Morning sunlight exposure shifts the cortisol awakening response forward, improving daytime alertness.
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Tracking deep sleep on a wearable accurately reflects EEG-measured slow-wave sleep.
Caffeine has a half-life long enough that consumption after 2pm measurably degrades deep sleep in slow metabolizers.