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Your sleep cycles aren't optimized
Your sleep cycles are approximately 75 to 90 minutes each. Factors like stress levels and unstable blood sugar levels can throw off your sleep cycles regardless of how much time you spend in bed.
- Get more sunlight exposure in the morning to help decrease cortisol levels later in the evening.
- Eat a well-balanced diet to keep your blood sugar stable at night.
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Don't mistake the occasional workout for living an active lifestyle.
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Set a timer on your phone to do two minutes of bodyweight exercises every 90 minutes.
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Make sure to eat four to five servings of magnesium-rich foods like spinach, chard, pumpkin...
With chronically elevated stress, your elevated cortisol levels lead to a surge of glucose in order to facilitate the perceived “fight-or-flight” situation you’re living in. Spiking glucose inherently leads to crashes.
Simple breathing exercises can switch off your sympathetic (fi...
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A stressful situation — whether something environmental, or psychological, can trigger a cascade of stress hormones that produce well-orchestrated physiological changes.
This combination of reactions to stress is also known as the "fight-or-flight" response because it evol...
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The fight or flight response (also known as the acute stress response), refers to a physiological reaction that occurs when we are in the presence of something that is mentally or physically terrifying.
- The fight-or-flight response is triggered by the release of ho...
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- Also known as Acute Stress Response, the fight-or-flight response is a physiological reaction when we are mentally or physically terrified.
- A stressful or terrifying situation triggers hormones that prepare our body to stay or either deal with the ...
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