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164. Why You’re Tired, Cell Danger Response, Caffeine and Your Brain, and Building Energy with Ari Whitten

Ancient Health Podcast

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The Circadian Rhythm and Mitophagy

Every night while we sleep, our cells are designed to clean up the damaged dysfunctional cell parts. This allows us... It's like quality control for our mitochondria. If you're hindering that process of mitophagy from poor circadian rhythm and therefore poor sleep, not enough sleep or poor quality sleep, you are going to accumulate damaged and dysfunctional mitochondria. So most people are ... You could basically damage your cells. Most people are massively suppressing this critically important mitochondrial hormone every night, year after year for decades. That's not even to mention screens and phones and TVs and all that other stuff.

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