Bryan Johnson· Author
Avoid blue light because it raises your cortisol and resting heart rate.
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Avoid blue light because it raises your cortisol and resting heart rate.
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So I actually have some blue light that I can shine in my eyes to get my cortisol levels up, synthetic way, not naturally. But whatever you do, try to get some light early in the morning
the blue light in fact is is waking our body up it's giving you know the Circadian mechanism of it's morning time let's release cortisol
I woke up this morning, bright light exposure first thing in the morning, reset my circadian rhythm, elicit the cortisol response, right? Get that serotonin, inhibit melatonin.
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