Hi, Dr. Sandy here. In this lesson, we're exploring why you're not napping or blame your electronic paraphernalia. Even if you're very grown up and never have it in bed with you. It still could be disrupting your sleep. Meet your night fairly. Melatonin is tasked with getting you ready for bed, which involves a lot more than brushing your teeth, putting your PJs on and turning off the lights.
As the shadows grow longer, and the light begins to fade. The body dispatches your night family to draw the curtains and pumpkin mint on your pillow. metabolically speaking, the day shift is knocking off and the night shift is coming on duty. I won't bore you With all the details, but the night shift is responsible for burning fat. Well, the day shift concentrates on storing this stuff. Now you can appreciate that burning fat requires a completely different set of skills to storing fat.
And so to keep things running smoothly, the body employs a day shift and a night shift. Melatonin is not the foreman bossing around the work crews but he is responsible for letting these guys know the sun has set helping you transition from awake to sleepy to asleep. But as hormones go Melatonin is a bit of a wuss. In fact, he is petrified of bright light. So when the lights are on Inside these little hole known as the pineal gland, now in bygone days when the sun set the only source of light was the glow coming from the fire light. So, melatonin learn to live with it in the glow of the orange 10 fire light.
Melatonin was happy to rush around getting the body ready for bed. But the only time we resort to fire light these days, is if you're trying to light the fire in someone and make a little whoopee or the power goes up. The lights of today aren't soft and fuzzy. They're bright. Technology has allowed us to take the computer to bed but just because You can doesn't mean you should. The bright lights flashing on the screen of your tablet iPad smartphone tend to scare him off.
He's technophobe. Since you really do need melatonin to pull down the covers and tuck you into bed. If you want a good night's sleep, be sensitive to the old fashioned gent. power down or dim the device in the hour or so before bed. And for heaven's sake, don't time stamp with it. spend the money, get a real clock.
The other big dream stealer caffeine. Join me in the next lesson as we found out how a cup of joe causes your Gremlin. Both pain And pleasure