01/04/2019
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There is a reason we can’t sleep well at night. The reason we wake up tired, even though we got plenty of sleep and the reason we’re harming our health at night is because we’re stopping our body’s natural production of melatonin.
The hormone Melatonin is released from our pineal gland shortly after sunset and is responsible for many of the benefits we get from sleep.
Melatonin is a potent anti-cancer agent, helps us fall asleep quickly each night and reduces inflammation and supports our immune system while we sleep.
Melatonin and it’s opposite, cortisol, are produced in our body based on the light and dark cycles of the earth. The light and dark are actual biological signals to our body and brain that give us the information we use to determine what hormones to produce based on the time of day. . This is called our circadian rhythm and humans have based their life and health on this rhythm in sync with our planet for millions of years.
Melatonin is thought to help us fall asleep and supports our body in recover and repair during sleep. Cortisol helps wake us up and keep us alert during the day. We do not want to reverse these cycles or produce one of the hormones all the time while suppressing the other. When we expose ourselves to light at night, we destroy our melatonin. Our bodies need to be in darkness to produce melatonin. . Light at night signals to our body that its daytime. This signal shuts off our production of melatonin. Now we have lost the benefits of melatonin, we have trouble falling asleep, we wake up tired and groggy, we don’t perform well at work the next day and we lose patience more easily. We’ve also just increased our risk for cancer.
Studies have shown that women who work at night are at an increased risk of breast cancer and men who work at night are at an increased risk of prostate cancer. These are just the only cancers we have so far studied and exposure to light at night is the most likely cause of this. We’re disrupting our natural circadian rhythm.
