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Hello and welcome to the Get Lean Eat Clean podcast. My name is Brian Gryn. I'm a certified health coach, trainer and author. And this podcast is for a middle-aged men and women looking to optimize their health and get their bodies back to what it once was at 10 to 15 years ago, I will give you simple, actionable items to get long-term sustainable results. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show.
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Alright, welcome to the Get Lean Eat Clean podcast. Today's episode. I'm going to talk about circadian rhythm and how we can use it to optimize our health. This is a topic that I hear a lot about, and I want him to go just in a little bit into detail and then give you some tips on how to use it in your life. So, circadian rhythm is inter is an internally driven cycle that rises and falls during the 24 hours a day. It helps you fall asleep at night and wakes you up in the morning. Different systems of the body follow circadian rhythms that are synchronized with a master clock in the brain. So This master clock is directly influenced by environmental cues, especially light, which is why circadian rhythms are tied to the cycle of day and night.
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Now When properly aligned of circadian. Rhythm can promote consistent and restorative sleep, but when this circadian rhythm is thrown off, it can create significant sleeping problems, actually all processes in our body work on a circadian rhythm, not just our sleep wake cycle. I mean, we have clocks in our, each of our origins that dictate hormone, secretion, insulin sensitivity, metabolic function, nutrient absorption, appetite, glucose metabolism, body temperature, just to name a few. So These processes work optimally when our external cues, things that we are eating, sleeping, exposed to light, et cetera, line up with our internal cues.
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So to maintain optimal health. We want to align our external cues and our internal cues. So they both work harmoniously. Well, one major misalignment that I find is late night eating. It is common to see both elevated glucose levels overnight and high glucose response to a meal. When we eat later in the day, due to this misalignment and lowered insulin sensitivity in the evenings. So we want to give ourselves that minimum of three hour window between our last bite and bedtime, if possible, I would recommend trying early time restricted eating, which would emphasize an eating window within a day time hours to better align our body with our natural circadian.
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Rhythm's for many people, this means consuming your last bite of food before 6:00 PM. And this might not always be possible, but aiming for it a little earlier, I would really help out and be a great goal. Now, if you do have a lighter meal due to work or your schedule, I would recommend continue it to be fairly low carb and focused on whole foods, and then maybe S have smaller portion size later in the day to compensate for this. Now, there is a few other tips to sort of better in train these 24 hour sleep cycles. Seek out sun, early exposure to natural light can really help reinforce our strongest Circadian Q so get out and walk.
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Secondly, Follow a consistent sleep schedule. So Varying your bedtime or morning. Wake up time can really hinder your body's ability to adjust to a stable circadian rhythm. Third Get daily exercise activity during the day can really help support your internal clock and help make it easier to fall asleep at night for Avoid caffeine. I know it's everyone's friend, but I would say Stimulants like, caffeine can keep you awake and throw off the natural balance between sleep and wakefulness. So everyone's a little bit different on this, but if you're having trouble sleeping, I would avoid caffeine in the afternoon, limits your bedtime, excuse me, limit Lite before you go to bed.
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So obviously cell phones, computers turn off all that artificial light Exposure at night, and that can really help us get your circadian rhythm's aligned. I like to see, for example, I liked to not look at my phone at least an hour before bedtime, make that a goal. And lastly, Keep naps short and early in the afternoon. So if you are a napper, don't take them too late in the day and don't make them too long because that'll totally throw off your sleep schedule. So there you have it. Now you're an expert it circadian rhythm and how you can use it to optimize your health and thanks for much for listening and have a great day. Bye.
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