Master Your Sleep & Be More Alert When Awake

It's impossible to overstate how important getting good sleep is for mental, cognitive, and performance health. If you get direct morning sunlight 30-60 minutes after you wake up, helps you fall asleep and stay asleep at night, while optimizing cortisol and adenosine production. You can increase alertness by waking up in the morning, increasing you... See more

In order to optimize sleep and wakefulness - even if you're tired - we need to set the deck in a way that lets your body monitor its autonomic timing and set its circadian rhythm. Eat a light breakfast and exercise a little (it doesn't have to be intense).

It's important to get enough sleep, get good quality sleep, and let your body experience all the phases of sleep (such as slow-wave, and REM) in order to optimize metabolic circuits. It's good for your health to sleep and wake at roughly the same time, expose yourself to bright light in the morning, and dim light at night.

I describe the mechanisms by which different wavelengths of light impact the cells, tissues and organs of the human body, and how specifically timed light exposure of specific wavelengths can be used to improve sleep, enhance alertness, modulate hormone levels, and improve mood. I also explain the use of ultraviolet and infrared phototherapies to r... See more