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I'm Andrew huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. Today's podcast episode is all about sleep. We're also going to talk about the mirror image of sleep, which is wakefulness. Now, these two phases of our life sleep and wakefulness govern, everything about our mental and physical health. And we're not just going to talk about what's useful about sleep. We're also going to talk about how to get better at sleeping and that will include how to get
better at falling asleep. Timing, your sleep and accessing better sleep quality in doing. So we're also going to discuss how to get more focused and alert in wakefulness. So if you're like most people which includes me, you have some challenges with sleep, at least, every third or fifth night or so and maybe even more often. So we're really going to go tool heavy today and talk about tools that can help you, fall asleep, sleep better, and emerge from sleep, feeling more rested. So what did
Herman's how well we sleep and the quality of our wakeful state turns out, that's governed by two forces. The first force is a chemical Force, it's called adenosine adenosine is a molecule in our nervous system in body that builds up the longer. We are awake. So if you just slept for eight or nine or ten really deep restful hours adenosine is going to be very low in your brain and body. If however you've been awake for
10 15 or more hours a day, nesting levels are going to be much higher adenosine creates a sort of sleep drive or a sleep hunger and a good way to remember this. And think about adenosine is to think about caffeine caffeine for most people, wakes them up. It makes them feel more alert. Caffeine acts as an adenosine antagonist. What that means is that when you ingest caffeine whether or not to coffee or soda or tea, or
Any other form it binds to the adenosine receptor, it sort of parks there just like a car would park in a given parking slot and therefore adenosine can't park in that slot. Now, when caffeine parks in the adenosine receptor slot, nothing really happens. Downstream of that receptor, the receptor can't engage the normal cellular functions of making that cell and you feel sleepy. So the reason caffeine wakes you up is because it blocks the sleepiness.
This receptor it blocks the Sleepy signal and this is why. When that caffeine wears off adenosine will bind to that receptor. Sometimes with even greater, what we call affinity and you feel the crash. You feel especially tired, caffeine has a lot of health benefits. It also for some people can be problematic for Health, it can raise blood pressure Etc. Caffeine increases this molecule. That's a neuromodulator that we call dopamine. We discussed this in episode 1, which tends to make us
Feel-good motivated and give us energy. Because as you may have learned in episode, 1 dopamine is related to another nor modulator called epinephrine, which gives us energy. In fact, epinephrine is made from dopamine. So, let's just take a step back and think about what we're talking about when were talking about sleep, sleepiness. If you've ever pulled an all-nighter, you'll notice something interesting as morning rolls around, you'll suddenly feel an increase in your energy and alertness again, even though adenosine has been
Adding up for entire night. Why is that the reason that is is because there's a second Force, which is governing when you sleep and when you're awake and that force is a so called circadian Force. Circadian. Means about a day or about 24 hours, an inside. All of us is the clock that exists in your brain and my brain and the brain of every animal that were aware of that determines when we want to be sleepy.
And when we want to be awake that block of sleep.
And when it falls within each
24-hour cycle is governed by a number of different things. But the most powerful thing that's governing when you want to be asleep and when you want to be awake is light, and in particular, its governed by sunlight and I can't emphasize enough, how important, and how actionable this relationship is between light. And when you want to sleep,
It's quite simple on the face of it and it's quite simple to resolve. But people tend to make a big mess of this whole circadian literature. Frankly, so let's just break it down from the standpoint of what's going on in your brain and body as you can go through one 24-hour day. Let's start with waking. So, regardless of how well you slept at night or whether or not you were up all night. Most people tend to wake up sometime around when the Sun rises when you wake up in the morning.
When you wake up because a particular hormone called cortisol is released from your adrenal glands, your adrenal glands, sit right above your kidneys, and there's a little pulse of cortisol. There's also a pulse of epinephrine, which is adrenaline from your adrenals and also in your brain and you feel awake. Now that pulse of cortisol and adrenaline, and epinephrine might come from your alarm, clock, it might come from, you naturally, waking up, but it tends to alert your whole system.
Your body that it's time to increase your heart rate. It's time to start tensing. Your muscles. It's time to start moving about. It's very important that that cortisol pulse come early in the day or at least early in your period of wakefulness. When you wake up in the morning and you experience that rise in cortisol, there's a timer that starts going at, these are cellular timers and they are dictated by the relation between different organs in your body that says, tour to your brain and body that in, about 12 to 14.
14 hours a different hormone. This hormone were calling melatonin will be released from your pineal gland. So there's two mechanisms here, a wakefulness signal, and a sleepiness signal, and the wakefulness signal triggers, the onset of the timer for the sleepiness signal.
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okay? So the rhythm of cortisol and melatonin is what we call endogenous. It's happening in us all the time without any external input. In fact, if we
We were in complete darkness, living in a cave with no artificial lights whatsoever. These rhythms of cortisol and melatonin would continue. So if you were in complete darkness, it would happen once per 24 hour cycle, but it would be somewhat later. And later, each day, whereas on Norm, under normal circumstances, what happens is you wake up? And what happens when you wake up, you open your eyes. When you open your eyes, light comes into your eyes.
Now, the way this system works is that you have a particular set of neurons in your either called retinal ganglion cells, when light comes into the eye, there's a particular group of retinal ganglion cells or type of retinal ganglion cells. That perceives a particular type of light and communicates that to this clock, that resides right above the roof of your mouth called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, and the suprachiasmatic nucleus has connections with essentially every cell in organ of your body.
Body. Now it's vitally important that we get light communicated to this Central clock in order to time the cortisol. And melatonin properly. When I say properly, I can say that with confidence because we know based on a lot of evidence that if you don't get your cortisol and melatonin rhythms, right, there are tremendously Broad and bad effects on cardiovascular, health, metabolic effects, learning depression.
Dementia. So let's think about what happens when we do this correctly and how to do it correctly. When we wake up our eyes open. Now, if we're in a dark room there isn't enough light to trigger the correct timing of this cortisol. Melatonin thing is rhythms. You might say well, why won't any light do it? Well, it turns out that these neurons in our eye that set the circadian clock and then allow our circadian clock to set all the clocks of all the cell's
organs and tissues of our body responds best to a particular quality of light and amount of light and those are the qualities of light and amount of light that come from sunlight. So these neurons
what they're really looking for, although they don't have a mind
of their own is the Sun. At what we call, low solar, angle the eye in the nervous system, don't know anything, about sunrises or sunsets. It only knows the quality of
That comes in when the sun is low, in the sky, this system evolved. So that when the sun is low, in the sky, there's a particular contrast between yellows and blues that triggers the activation of these cells. However, if you wake up a few hours after the sunrise, which I tend to most days, personally, you still want to get outside and view sunlight, you don't need the sunlight beaming you directly in the eyes. There's a lot of photons light energy that scattered from sunlight at this time.
But the key is to get that light energy from sunlight, ideally into your eyes. It's critically important that you get outside to get this light, a discussion with a colleague of mine. Dr. Jamie's, I'd sir. Who's in the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a world expert in this. And he tells me that it 50 times less effective to view this sunlight through a window.
Through a car windshield or through a side window of a car, then it is to just get outside with no sunglasses and view light early in the day. Once the sun is overhead, the quality of light shifts, so that you miss this opportunity to time the cortisol pulse and that turns out to be a bad thing to do. You really want to time that cortisol pulse properly? Because we'll get into this a little bit more later, but a late shifted cortisol pulse and
Or 9 p.m. or 8:00 p.m. increase in cortisol is one of the consequences and maybe one of the causes of a lot of anxiety, disorders and depression. So it's kind of a chicken egg thing. We don't know whether or not it's the correlated with it's the cause or the effect but it's a signature of depression and anxiety disorder, bringing that cortisol pulse earlier in your wakeful period. Earlier in your day, has positive benefits ranging from blood pressure to Mental Health,
Etc, not going to list them all off because they're just so many of them. But many, many positive things happen when you are getting the cortisol early in the day far away from your melatonin pulse, okay? So, how long should you be outside? Well, this is going to vary tremendously because some people live in environments where it's very bright. So let's say it's Colorado in the middle of winter. There's a snow field. There's no cloud cover and you walk outside your. There's going to be so much Photon, light energy arriving.
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retina that probably only takes 30 to 60 seconds to trigger the central clock and set your cortisol and melatonin rhythms properly and get everything in lined up nicely. Whereas if you're in Scandinavia and the depths of winter and you wake up at 5 a.m. and the Sun is just barely creeping across the Horizon. Then goes back down again, a few hours later, you probably are not getting enough sunlight in order to set these rhythms, so many people find that they need to use.
Sunlight simulators in the form of particular lights that were designed to simulate sunlight. You could say, well, the lights in my house or my phone are really, really bright, right? Everyone's telling us to stay off our phones at night because they're really bright. But guess what? It turns out that early in the day? Your retina is not very sensitive, which means you
need a lot of
photons. Ideally, coming from sunlight to set these clock mechanisms. So looking at your phone or artificial lights is fine. If you wake up Before Sunrise, but
Not going to work to set these clock mechanisms. So you want to use sunlight if you can't see sunlight because of your environment, then you are going to have to opt for artificial light. And in that case, you're going to want an artificial light that either simulate sunlight or has a lot of blue light. Now, without going off course, here you might be saying, wait, I've heard blue light is bad for me actually, blue light is great for this mechanism during the day. A lot of people say, oh I should be wearing blue blockers throughout the day.
Day. No, that's the exact wrong thing. That should be reserved for late in the evening, because light suppresses melatonin sunlight inhibits. The pineal, it prevents it from releasing melatonin Darkness allows the pineal to release melatonin. So, the pineal is not the gland or the organ of sunlight. It is the gland of darkness. In fact, melatonin can be thought of as a sleepiness signal, that's correlated with Darkness, so get
Each morning try and get outside. I know that can be challenging for people, but anywhere from two to ten minutes of sunlight, exposure is going to work. Well, for most people, if you can't do it every day or you sleep through this period of the early day low solar angle, don't worry about it. The systems in the body. These hormone systems, a neurotransmitter systems that make you awake at certain periods of the day and sleep. At other times are operating by averaging, when you view the brightest light,
Right? Some of you, many of you might be asking what else can help set this Rhythm. Well, turns out, that light is what we call the primary zeit, Gaber the timegiver, but other things can help establish this rhythm of cortisol. Followed by melatonin 12 to 16 hours later as well. The other things besides light our timing of food intake, timing of exercise, as well as various drugs or chemicals.
That one might ingest not illegal drugs, although those will impact circadian mechanisms as well. The other thing is sunset, when the sun is also at low solar angle, low close to the Horizon by viewing sunlight at that time of day in the evening or afternoon, depending on what time of year it is and where you are in the world. These melanopsin cells, these neurons in your eyes signal the central circadian clock, that it's the end of the day. There was a really nice study that showed
And that viewing sunlight around. The time of sunset doesn't have to be just crossing the Horizon, but circus Sunset within an hour or so of Sunset.
Prevents some of the bad effects of light in preventing melatonin release later that same night. So, let me repeat this viewing. Light early in the day, is key viewing light later in the day, when the Sun is setting or around, that time can help protect these mechanisms your brain and body against the negative effects of light later in the day. So let me talk about how you would do that. You'd go view the sunset, or you would go outside in the late afternoon or evening again.
You won't do this through a window at work. That's fine but I'll take 50 times longer. So the best thing to do is just to get outside for a few minutes, anywhere from two to ten minutes, also in the afternoon having those two signals arriving to your central clock that your body, your internal world knows when it's morning and knows when to evening is tremendously powerful, there's always a lot of questions about how long, how much, how do I know if I've had enough? You'll know because your Rhythm will start to fall into some degree of normalcy, you'll start to wake.
A cup at more or less the same time each day, you'll fall asleep more easily at night generally, it takes about two or three days for these systems to align. So if you've not been doing these behaviors, it's going to take a few days but they can have tremendous benefits and sometimes rather quickly on a number of different mental and physical aspects of your health,
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Now, let's talk about the bad effects of light, because light is not supposed to arrive in our system at any time and nowadays, because of screens, in artificial light, we have access to light at times of day and night, that normally, we wouldn't now earlier, I said that you need a lot of light in particular sunlight, to set these clock mechanisms. That's true, but there's a kind of diabolical feature to the way, all this works, which is the longer you've been
In awake, the more sensitive, your retina, and these cells are too light. So that if you've been awake for 10, 12, 14 hours, it becomes very easy for even a small amount of light coming from a screen or from an overhead light to trigger the activation of the clock and make you feel like you want to stay up later, make it harder to fall asleep and disrupt your sleep pattern. Okay? So the simple way to think about this is you want as much light as as safely possible.
Early in the day morning and throughout the day, including blue light and you want as little light coming into your eyes, artificial, or sunlight after say, 8:00 p.m. and certainly, you do not want to get bright light exposure to your eyes between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. And here's why light that arrives to the eyes between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. approximately suppresses, the release of dopamine, this neuromodulator that makes us feel good.
It is sort of an ant endogenous anti-depressant and can inhibit learning and create all sorts of other detrimental effects. It does this through a mechanism for those of you who want to know the neural Pathways that involves light to the eyes, that's then signal to a structure called the habenula. When that habenula gets activated, it's actually called the disappointment nucleus because it actually makes us feel less happy and more disappointed and can lead to certain forms of depression in the wakeful state.
Now if you wake up in the middle the night and you need to use the bathroom or you're on an all-night flight and your, you know, your need to read or whatever it is fine. It's, you know, every once in a while it's not gonna be a problem to get bright light, exposure to your eyes in the middle of the night. But if you think about our lifestyle nowadays and being up late looking at phones, even if you Dim that screen, you're triggering this activation because your retinol sensitivity and the sensitivity of these neurons has gone up late in the day for those of you that are experiencing challenges with mood,
Those of you that have anxiety, learning problems, issues, focusing, the questions, I usually get our, how can I focus better? One of the best ways you can support your mechanisms for good mood mental, health learning, Focus, metabolism, Etc, is to take control of this light, exposure Behavior at night and not get much or any bright light exposure in the middle of the night. These cells in our eye, these neurons that signal the central clock, reside mostly not exclusively but mostly in the bottom half of our rack.
No. And because we have a lens in front of our retina and because of the Optics of lenses that means that these cells are actually viewing our upper visual field. This is probably not coincidental that these cells were essentially designed to detect sunlight which is overhead of course. So if you want to avoid improper activation of these neurons it's better to place lights that you use in the
evening low in your physical environment. So on desktops, or even the floor. If that's if you want to go that way as opposed to overhead lights. So overhead fluorescent lights would be the worst. That would be the worst-case scenario lights that are overhead that are a little bit softer of the sort of yellow or reddish tint would be slightly better. But dim lights that are set low in the room are going to be best because they aren't going to activate these neurons and therefore shift your circadian clock.
But let's talk about what light can do in terms of Shifting Us in healthy ways. So the way the thing about this whole system again as you've got adenosine building up depending on how long you've been awake, and it's making you sleepy and then you've got their circadian mechanisms that are timing your wakefulness and timing when you want to be asleep mainly through cortisol and melatonin but there are a bunch of other things that are Downstream of cortisol. Melatonin. Like we tend to be hungrier during our wakeful period Then late at
Night. Some people like to eat it late at night, but if you're finding that, you can't become a day person or a morning person, shifting your light exposure exercise and food intake. To the daytime will help. Jamie sites are in colleagues. At did a beautiful study showing that if you turn on the lights before waking up, so around 45 minutes to an hour before waking up, even if your eyelids are closed provided you're not under the covers after doing that for a few days.
Increases your total sleep time and shifts forward the time at which you feel sleepy. It makes you want to go to bed earlier each night. Now, in a kind of diabolical way, they did this with teenagers who are notorious for wanting to wake up late and stay up late, and what they found was bright light flashes, just turning on the lights in their environment overhead lights because they're trying to activate the system and that's whether using overhead lights, even through the eyelids. Before these kids woke up then, made those kids naturally want to go.
Go to bed earlier and they ended up sleeping longer. So that's something you could try. You could put your lights on a timer to go on early in the day. Before you wake up, you could open your blind. So that sunlight is coming through again. If you, you know, curl up under the covers, then it's not going to reach these neurons. But it's remarkable. The light can actually penetrate the eyelids activate these neurons and go to the central clock. That study illustrates a really important principle of how you're built which is you have the capacity for what are called
These advances and phase delays. And I don't want to complicate this too much. So the simplest way to think about phase advances in Phase delays, is that if you see light late in the day, and in particular, in the middle of the night, your brain and body for reasons that now, you understand, will think that that's Morning Light. Even though it's not sunlight because you have this, heightened sensitivity, and it will phase delay will delay, your clock. It will essentially make you want to get up late.
Sure and go to sleep later. So the simple way to think about this is if you're having trouble waking up early and feeling alert early in the day, you're going to want to try and get bright light exposure even before waking up because it will advance your clock. It will send its or, like, turning the clock forward. Whereas, if you are having trouble waking up early, you definitely don't want to get too much light, exposure, any light, exposure to your eyes, late in the evening and in the middle of the night because it's just going to delay your clock more and more.
And what you're trying to do is provide them anchors, you're trying to provide them consistent powerful anchors. So that your cortisol, your melatonin, and then everything, that's that Cascades down from that like your metabolism and your ability to learn and your sense of alertness, your dopamine or serotonin, all that stuff is timed regularly. One of the reasons why there's so much you know challenge out there with focus and anxiety. And
Session. There are a lot of reasons for that, but one of the reasons is that people's internal mechanisms aren't anchored to anything. Regular these systems again will average, but if you can provide them, consistent light anchors, early, in the day and in the evening and avoiding light at night, you will be amazed at the tremendous number of positive effects that can come from that at the level of metabolic factors hormones and just general feelings of well-being. And this is why whenever people ask me, what should I take? Which is one of the most
In
questions, I get what supplements should I take what
drugs should I be taking? What things should I be? Taking the first question I always ask them is how was your sleep? And 90% of the time they tell me, they either have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep or they don't feel rested throughout the day. A brief note about naps naps provided that they're less than one ultradian cycle. Pride there, 20 minutes or 30 minutes. Or even an hour can be very beneficial for a lot of people. You don't have to take them, but many people now.
Naturally feel a dip in energy and focus late in the afternoon. In fact, if we were going to look at wakefulness, what we would find is that you get that morning, light exposure, hopefully your cortisol goes up, people start feeling awake, and then around 2:00 or 3:00, or 4:00 in the afternoon. There's a spike in in everything from alertness, to ability, to learn some metabolic factors drop and then it just naturally comes back up and then it tapers off as the night goes on. So, for some of you naps are great, I love taking naps. Some people, they wake up from naps, feeling really?
Ragi that's probably because they're not sleeping as well as they should at night or as long as they should at night. And so they're dropping into REM sleep or deeper forms of sleep in the daytime. And then they wake up and they feel kind of disoriented other people feel great after a nap. So that's another case. We're just like, with caffeine you sort of have to evaluate for yourself.
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checkout. Okay. So naps are going to be good for some people not for others. I personally like to take a nap around 3:00 or 4:00 p.m. but there's a practice that I've adopted in the last five years that I've found to be immensely beneficial that is sort of like napping, but isn't napping. It's a thing that they call Yoga Nidra. Yoga Nidra actually means yoga sleep. And it's a sort of meditation that you listen to meditation. And Yoga Nidra. Scripts have been immensely helpful for me in terms.
Of accelerating the transition to sleep. So they involve taking a few minutes, 10 to 30 minutes or so just like you would for a nap and just listening to a script almost passively and it has you do some particular patterns of breathing and some other kind of body scan like things that can really help people learn to relax not just in that moment but get better at relaxing and turning off thinking in order to fall asleep. When they want to do that at night. In other words, they're always good for you because it's a
Mechanism by which you self-trained your nervous system to go from a state of heightened alertness that you don't want to heighten relaxation that you do want. And so it's really teaching you to hit the brake and that brings us to an, even more important Point perhaps, which is, we've all experienced that we can stay up. If we want to write, if we want to stay up late on New Year's, or we want to push an all-nighter, some people can do that more easily than others, but we're all capable of doing that. But it's very
Very hard to make ourselves fall asleep. And so there's a sort of a symmetry to the way our autonomic nervous system which governs this alertness, calmness thing the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. There's an asymmetry there where we are more easily able to engage wakefulness and driveway columns, we can force ourselves to stay awake. Then we are able to force ourselves to fall asleep. And one of the things that I say over and over again, and I'm going to continue to say over and over again, is it's very hard to control the mind with the mind.
And when you have trouble falling asleep, you need to look to some mechanism that involves the body and all the things I described meditation, hypnosis Yoga Nidra. All involve exhale emphasized breathing certain ways of lying down and controlling the body. We're going to get into breathing in real depth at another time, but all of those involve using the body to control the Mind rather than trying to, you know, wrestle your mind into a certain pattern of relaxation. And when we're having
So controlling the mind. I encourage people to look towards the body, look toward sunlight, avoid sunlight, if and bright light, if that happens to be late at night. So there's a theme that starting to emerge, which is, in order to control this thing that we call the nervous system. We have to look back to some of the things we discussed earlier, like sensation perception etcetera. But we have to ask what can we control? Well, I'm talking about controlling light exposure, controlling your breathing and body non sleep. Depressed or what? I'd Hereafter. We will refer to
Is NSD are non sleep deep rest as a way to reset one's ability to be awake after you emerge from. NSD are so to get some more wakefulness and ability to attend some emotional stability, reset as well as make it better and easier to fall asleep. When you want to go to sleep at night. Now, non sleep deep. Rest does have some research to support it. There's a beautiful study done out of a university in Denmark. I will later provide a link to that
That study that showed that this meditation and Yoga Nidra. Type meditation, allows dopamine and other neuromodulators in an area of the brain called the striatum that's involved in motor planning and motor execution to reset itself. In other words, this NS Dr. Can reset our ability to engage in the world in a way. That's very deliberate. Okay. So what about things that we can and maybe should or should not take in order to control and access better?
Even better wakefulness. There are a couple things that are directly in line with the biology related to falling and staying asleep and directly in line with the biology of wakefulness. There's a whole category of things like stimulants cocaine amphetamine and prescription stimulants that are the prescription ones were designed for the treatment of narcolepsy. Those so things like modafinil or are modafinil that are designed to create wakefulness they are all essentially chemical variants of things that
Increase epinephrine and dopamine. Now, of course, I'm over the standpoint that things like cocaine amphetamine are just across the board bad. They have so many addictive and terrible effects in the proper setting prescribed by the proper professional things, like, modafinil for narcolepsy. Might be appropriate. I know that a lot of people out there, take Adderall, even though they haven't been prescribed outer all in order to increase wakefulness. That is essentially, you know, well, it's illegal.
One but it's also it's abusing the system in the sense that you're pushing back on the adenosine system slightly differently than you do. Caffeine it will make you feel more alert. There tends to be a heavy rebound and they do have an addictive potential. There are also some other effects of those that can be quite bad. But there are some supplements and some things that are safer, certainly safer. And that in cases, where you're doing all the right behaviors, you're exercising and eating correctly and you're still having trouble with sleep. That can be beneficial for
Or falling and staying asleep. Now, I want to be very clear. I am not pushing supplements. I'm just pointing you towards some things that have been shown in peer-reviewed studies to have some benefit. The first one is magnesium. There are many forms of magnesium, but certain forms of magnesium, can have positive effects on sleepiness, and the ability to stay asleep, mainly by way of increasing, neurotransmitters, like Gaba. There are a lot of forms of magnesium out there. But one in particular, is magnesium, three and 8th.
Chario natpe, which you have to check to see if this right is right for you. Check with your doctor. The other thing is theanine, theta0 theta1 NI any theanine 100 to 200 milligrams of theanine. For me, also helps me turn off my mind and fall asleep. Interestingly, the inning is now being introduced to a lot of energy drinks in order to take away the Jitters that are associated with drinking too much caffeine.
Or with some other things that are in the energy drinks. So just a consideration again I'm not here to tell you what to do or not do but just want to arm you with information, the thing about theanine and magnesium is taken together. They do for some people, they can make it them so sleepy and sleep. So deeply that they actually have trouble waking up in the morning. So you have to play with these things and titrate them if you decide to use them again, if you decide to go this route, I would not start by taking supplements, I would start by getting your light viewing Behavior correctly.
And then think about your nutrition and then think about your activity and then think about whether or not you want to supplement, we already talked about melatonin earlier, there's another supplement, they could be quite useful, which is apigenin a pige ni n, which is derivative chamomile, 50 milligrams of apigenin also can augment or support this kind of creation of a sleepiness to help fall asleep and stay asleep. As a important point apigenin is a fairly potent. Esther
Jin inhibitor. So women who want to keep their estrogen levels high or at whatever levels they happen to be at should probably avoid apigenin altogether and men. Take that into consideration as well. Men need estrogen. Also, you don't want to completely eliminate your estrogen that it can create all sorts of bad effects on libido and cognition Etc. So apigenin and some people is going to be a pretty strong estrogen inhibitor. So, keep that in mind. So, thank you so much for your time and attention, and
above all. Thank you for your
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