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as morning rolls around, you'll suddenly feel an increase in your energy and alertness again, even though adenosine has been building up for the entire night. Now, why is that? The reason that is is because there's a second force which is governing when you sleep and when you're awake, and that force is a so-called circadian force
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why because your Cadian Rhythm has come to the rescue and it's now starting its upswing and it lessens the distance between those two and you feel a little bit more alert
that shows me that your Cadian Rhythm doesn't care about how much adenosine is in your brain it's just going to keep going up and down up and down every 24 hours and your Denine level doesn't really care much about your Cadian Rhythm it's going to just build and build and build the longer and longer that you're awake
but also your Cadian rhythm is now on its awesome upswing and when those two things align when you've dissipated and jettisoned all of that sleep pressure and your Cadian rhythm is starting to rise now that's the time when you would naturally wake up
It's >> pretty incredible. I mean, also some of it with outdoor stuff is that uh just when you can see again, you know, it's like you've been going by headlamp for so long and typically by that point your headlamp is kind of dying. You just don't see that well and then the sun comes up and you're like, "Thank God."
10 minutes of bright outdoor light within the first hour of waking anchors the circadian phase and improves sleep onset that night.
Morning sunlight exposure shifts the cortisol awakening response forward, improving daytime alertness.
Long-term morning sunlight reduces age-related macular degeneration risk.
Sleep regularity predicts all-cause mortality more strongly than sleep duration.
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.