How to Defeat Jet Lag, Shift Work & Sleeplessness
Huberman Lab
Get 100,000 lux of light before 9 A
The mechanism of setting the circadian clock involves these nerons in your eye that send electrical signals to this clock above the roof of your mouth./nThe system sums, meaning it adds photons. It's a very slow system./nIf you wake up and look at your computer screen briefly, or your phone screen, you will get a photon energy transferred into electrical energy of neurons and be communicated to your circatian clock. However, the signal that it's morning will not have registered with the circatian clock unless you look at it for a hundred minutes or more./nTo get the circadian clock set, you have to go outside and look at bright lights for a hundred thousand lucks.
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