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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 state of early morning). The other thing that clears it out - is exercise.
The longer we are awake the longer the buildup of something called adenosine in the brain and body; adenosine turns on the parasympathetic nervous system and suppresses the sympathetic nervous system. When we sleep adenosine is pushed back down. Caffeine effectively, thr
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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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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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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.
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You can get bright light from electronic devices early in the day but it's not enough. You need photons from sunlight
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Caffeine works primarily by blocking the action of a chemical called adenosine, which slows down our neural activity, allowing us to relax, rest, and sleep.
By interfering with it, caffeine cuts the brake lines of the brain’s alertness system. Eventually, if we don’t allow our body to relax...
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