The #1 Thing That Destroys Your Sleep Quality

You are now listening to the model health show with Sean Stephenson. For more, visit the modelhealthshow.com. Welcome to the model health show. This is fitness and nutrition expert Sean Stephenson, and I'm so grateful for you tuning in with me today. You're about to discover the number one thing that's controlling your sleep quality. You're going to learn how the wrong use of this one thing is destroying the sleep quality for millions of people and how the right use of this one thing will have you sleeping like a blissful baby in no time. To understand how it all works, you first need to understand what your circadian timing system is. Every one of your trillions of nucleated cells have literal clocks in them. Now when you hear the word clock, you might conjure up ideas of an alarm clock or that creepy grandfather clock from Stranger Things. But what is a clock in actuality? What does a clock actually do? Well, a clock is an instrument for measuring or indicating time, and this is precisely what the biological clocks in your cells do. In fact, it's scientifically accurate to say that your trillions of cells contain intrinsic circadian clock machinery, and the ultimate purpose of these clocks is to anticipate when things need to happen. In an outdated perspective of human biology, our cells, our bodies, our survival is believed to merely be reactive to the world around us. But the real, more accurate perspective of human biology affirms that our circadian clocks exist to allow ourselves to anticipate predictable environmental changes rather than merely reacting to them. Our cells, these biological clocks, are predictive machines. And when it comes to survival and to health, anticipation is far more powerful than reaction. Life evolved on a planet with a twenty four hour light dark cycle and life changed dramatically across that cycle. Every day, light transitioned into dark. Feeding transitioned into fasting. Activity transitioned into rest and or hiding in safe quarters. Temperature shifted from warmer to cooler and much more based on this twenty four hour light dark cycle. All of life was attuned to this, and cells that could predict these changes had a survival advantage over cells that waited until the change happened. So our circadian clocks helped us to anticipate when things would happen so that our biology ran far more efficiently. For example, a reactive system says, glucose just entered the bloodstream. Respond. An anticipatory system says, it's morning. Food is likely coming in. Prepare insulin signaling machinery right now so that we're prepared. That difference is enormous metabolically. A reactive system can effectively shut your body down as it's trying to react and figure out what just happened when that food is coming in, while an anticipatory system is already prepared to handle the introduction of food with more ease, grace, and efficiency. So what do all of these biological clocks control and anticipate? The answer is everything about you and …