Andrew Huberman· PhD
Bright light mornings, dim dark nights set the stage for health.
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Bright light mornings, dim dark nights set the stage for health.
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Having those two signals arriving to your central clock that your body, your internal world knows when it's morning and knows when it's evening is tremendously powerful.
I think most of the time the light environment may play a role and once as you as we've talked about this is a long-term effect of light once you get into a rhythm it's hard to break out of that rhythm because if you start sleeping late and waking up late you're not getting the morning sunlight
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.