Did You Know:
Your bodies' Circadian Rhythms (sleep cycles) is set at birth?
This means that sleep will always be most natural in your time zone of birth. If there is a big time difference between where you live and where you were born, you may need to take very specific steps to ensure proper sleep.
You body enters a physical repair cycle between 10:30pm and 2:30am and a neurological repair (mental repair) between 2:30 and 6:30am?
If you are getting to bed consistently late or waking up consistently early, you are losing out on critical hours or repair which CAN NOT be made up by sleep in because the hormone production is not supporting the repair outside of those time windows.
Friday, August 3, 2007
Sleep Problems? Circaidian Rhythem
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2 comments:
At birth? Really? This is fascinating, but I've never read this anywhere before.
It's a bit hard for me to believe that the body never fully adjusts to a new time zone; is there research to back this up? This would imply that people never fully recover from jet lag...
Hello Brad,
Thanks for your question.
In fact, it is well documented that sleep cycles in most individuals never do fully re-set leaving a constant chronic state of impaired sleep recovery. Some holistic practitioners will actually recommend their athletes return to their native time zone during off-season to maximize recovery. Some people adapt to the changes in time zones quickly, some never fully adapt at all. The effects, of course, will vary by individual from mild to extreme.
You can learn more at
"The Body Clock Guide to Better Health" (Smolensky and Lamberg)
Thanks!
Jim
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