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Yeah, I think for the typical person, you know, really kind of reregulating your sleep and trying to get, you know, a good night's sleep in which you fall asleep, stay asleep, wake up at a set time every morning is going to be pretty crucial.
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what we know from the Circadian Health literature is that everybody strive again that strive nobody's perfect but strive to get to sleep at more or less the same time each night and wake up at more or less the same time each morning this turns out to be really important for regulating mood and mental health and indeed for improving your overall levels of sleep getting the optimal amounts of slow wave sleep AK deep sleep and rapid eye movement sleep and what we know is that ideally you're going to get to sleep within plus or minus 1 hour of your regular sleep time
when I say regularity I mean when you go to bed and when you wake up if you keep that consistent that is the third piece of the the four macros that's regularity I go to bed at the same time I wake up at the same time plus minus how much so I would say plus or minus you know 30 minutes you kind of that's your wiggle room
the regularity is very interesting going to sleep more or less five nights a week at least going to sleep more or less at the same time every night plus or minus an hour it's fine on the weekends
having a distinct bedtime — a distinct time when you go to sleep and a distinct time when you wake up having a consistent circadian rhythm really helps with Sleep Quality and I find that if I vary that even by 20 or 30 minutes which definitely is hard sometimes in our lives My Sleep Quality suffers
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.