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Bright light from electronic devices

Bright light from electronic devices

You can get bright light from electronic devices early in the day but it's not enough. You need photons from sunlight

  • If you live in Scandinavia, or in the depths of winter, don't buy an expensive daytime simulator, get one of these led light boxes for drawing they're very inexpensive in comparison;
  • put that on your desk and just look at that thing for a few minutes in the morning. It's not as good, but better than being in the darkness; then when the sun's out getting outside.
  • in winter, you want to go through every bit of effort to double or triple the amount of time that you're spending outside in the morning, so instead of 10 minutes make it 30 minutes.

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The main role of dopamine

The main role of dopamine

Dopamine's main role in the brain and body is to drive motivation, craving, and pursuit.

It is not the molecule of pleasure, it is the molecule of drive. It is life force.

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Temperature and the cortisol pulse

Temperature and the cortisol pulse

  • If you're waking up naturally, without an alarm, that means that your temperature is starting to rise at that time that's why you wake up.
  • that temperature increase triggers that cortisol release now and that's why some people wake up right before their alarm clock it's this cortiso...

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Having a good sleep

Having a good sleep

  • You should try and get really good sleep 80% of the time (80% of the nights  of your life)
  • Sleep is the fundamental practice or part of our 24-hour cycle; if you don't get it on a consistent basis, you are down-regulating your ability to do everythin...

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Keeping a cool sleeping temperature in the room

Keeping a cool sleeping temperature in the room

Sometime around 2-3 PM, you're going to hit your temperature maximum: you might feel a  little sleepy at that time but that's actually the time in which your gut your all your systems are kind of revving at the maximum capacity.

Then it's going to start to drop

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Cold water

Cold water

The goal is to increase body temperature in order to be awake and to decrease the body temperature in order to be asleep.

Exercising will increase body temperature, somewhat paradoxically getting into a cold shower or cold water is going to increase it.

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Effect of natural light early in the day

Effect of natural light early in the day

  • it modulates the timing of the cortisol pulse: once every 24 hours, you're going to get a boost in cortisol. It's a healthy boost, it sets your temperature rhythm in motion, and it sets your level of alertness, focus, and mood.
  • you want that cortisol pulse to...

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Caffeine and exercise

Caffeine and exercise

They both clear out the adenosine from our bodies.

Delay the intake of caffeine by 60 to 90  minutes after waking, and allow the adenosine to be cleared out of your system (it's not only cleared out In sleep, it's also cleared out in that kind of sleepy sta...

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Natural light exposure

Natural light exposure

Try and get some natural light in your eyes within an hour of waking up.

If you wake up before the sun, turn on bright lights and then get sunlight in your eyes once it comes out.

If there are clouds, there are still more photons of light energy coming through them t...

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