Moment 168: STOP Doing THIS! It's Killing Your Sleep!: The Fitness Scientist

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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You might have heard the phrase ‘circadian rhythm’ a lot but never really understood what it meant. In this moment, world-renowned human performance expert, Kristen Holmes gives a simple break down of this rhythm and its massive impacts. Kirsten says that the circadian rhythm is basically physical, mental and behavioral changes that happen over a 24 hour cycle. All of these changes are controlled by a master clock in your brain regulating every cell in your body through chemical signals. Disrupting this rhythm can cause massive health consequence such as cancer, metabolic and cardiovascular disease, as well as mental health issues. The main cause of disruption is from light which confuses the brain’s master clock, this means that you often have to fight aspects of modern life and make sure you protect your sleep by controlling your home environment Listen to the full episode here - Apple- https://g2ul0.app.link/cN1kzWoXLKb Spotify- https://g2ul0.app.link/kO45FhmXLKb Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Kristen: https://www.instagram.com/kristen_holmes2126/?hl=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.7	what is a circadian rhythm as if you're explaining it to a 10 year old?
0:32.8	Yeah, so it's basically physical, mental, and behavioral changes
0:39.2	that happen over a 24-hour cycle.
0:43.0	Okay, so here's my read on it and correct me if I'm wrong.
0:48.0	There's a clock in my head.
0:52.0	Yes, the super-cizomatic nucleus. Yeah. Is the is the master clock. Okay, which is somewhere in my body. It's in the it's in the
1:01.1	hypotheticalness. So it's in my brain.
1:03.2	And this clock regulates every cell in my body.
1:06.1	Cell, tissue, organ.
1:08.5	Okay.
1:09.9	And it releases, it controls the release of a chemical which makes those cells, organs, every part of my body, do stuff.
1:19.0	Yeah, so it is your hypothetical, so the superchize mag nucleus is responds to light and it responds to darkness
1:26.9	Okay, so that's like the most pronounced entrainment cue for this master clock and it then tells it sends signals to
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