You say our bodies are a symphony of clocks. Now, what happens if the conductor goes missing?

Are most of us living out of rhythm without even realizing it?

Most of us are definitely living out of rhythm. So we wake up tired, we're going to bed late, we're eating at off times, we're stressed.

I mean, basically,

you would look at our culture and say, gosh, nobody is really living in rhythm. And the biggest

thing that is throwing our conductor off rhythm is artificial light at night. So having that

electric around us when it should be dark is really disrupting our eyes, which is sending the wrong signal

to the conductor, which actually lives in the brain. So within the brain, we have this cluster of

10 to 20,000 neurons. And when the light comes into the eyes, then signals what you're calling

the conductor in the brain. Then we get the release

ultimately of melatonin from the pineal gland, which then goes to all of the different cells in the

body and synchronizes all of our clocks. So every night, we are essentially being pulled back into

that natural rhythm. But like you said, a conductor can go missing or it can be disrupted

in some way. Or it has to go to a party. Things happen. Yes, there's social jet lag, all kinds of things.

I would also assume that natural light is very different than artificial light. Yes. Or is your brain

going to interpret them differently or what happens there? You know, how would you hack this? Like I was just in Ecuador for 11, 12 days with the Amazon indigenous tribes. I kid you not. That's amazing. And as we're going through this, I'm realizing that was actually a really interesting experiment about circadian rhythm. they it's Ecuador it's right at the

equator their days don't change and so it becomes light every morning at six it gets dark every

night at six because of that they go to bed at six o'clock at night and they get up around two in the

morning right which is wild to me the women get up around two because they do all this work for the men.

That was also wild for me. I was like, this is interesting. And the men kind of start around three or four o'clock in the morning.

Everything is dictated by natural light, you know. So what happens when things get disrupted with this light is can we do it if we, let's say,

are living in Iceland and it's winter?

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