I’d wake up after tossing and turning all night feeling like I couldn’t go on. I was exhausted 24/7.
I slept fine up until I started working “swing shift” 3pm to 12am and most times I wouldn’t leave the data center until at least 12:30am.
My work was about 35 to 40 minutes away from where I lived. This means I’d get home at around 1 or 1:15am, sometimes it was 2am before I’d get home.
Servers would break and I’d have to stay late quite often.
This would put me to bed around 2:45 or 3:00 am.
When I got home, I’d watch a little TV to “wind down” (not knowing this was one of the WORST things I could have done).
I’d grab a bite to eat because dinner would have been many hours ago, further disrupting my circadian rhythm (I don’t recommend eating after sunset).
Then I’d take a shower and try to fall asleep, even though I felt wired.
I don’t know about your but there come a time during the night I call “the point of no return”. I’d think to myself “if I can fall asleep in 20 minutes from now, I’ll get 6 hours and I might be able to function on that”.
20 minutes would come and go and then the stress levels would rise.
Then I’d justify getting 5 hours of sleep.
Stress would rise as I continued to look at the clock and calculate my total sleep time based on how quickly I could fall asleep.
At this time I didn’t know about neurotransmitters, sleep cycles, circadian rhythms, mitochondrial biogenesis, cold thermogenesis, grounding, mitochondrial health or anything.
I just knew I was tired all the time and it took all the drive out of my life. I hated it and I hated how I felt all the time.
I was never really a night owl until I started that damn swing shift schedule. After working there for 3 years my circadian rhythms was shot. But I didn’t know it.
I worked there from 1998 to 2001.
During this time I had saved up to take a trip around the world all by myself. I had an “endless Summer” and surfed all over the world for a year.
When I came back a friend of mine gave me a book called “Fit for Life” which really opened my mind up to natural healing and alternative medicine.
I studied and studied. I read research papers (my mom had cancer in 1995 which open my eyes to the medical industrial complex), blogs, listened to thousands of hours of podcasts and radio shows about natural health.
I read more books, joined online communities and went down the proverbial rabbit trail of alternative healing.
It was life changing to say the least.
I stumbled upon mitochondrial health around 2010-2011 when I began studying quantum physics in relationship to the human body and light dark cycles.
I learned about grounding, nnEMF, photons, biophotons, connection to nature, cold thermogenesis, magnetism and how we’re wired for optimal health and sleep.
I struggled with sleep from around 2001 to 2011. Then I learned about sleep restriction therapy, CBT-I, sleep hygiene and I tried them all.
I even tried melatonin and that didn’t work. I felt like I tried everything and nothing was working.
Then around mid 2011 I started learning this more advanced circadian biology information and its relationship to sleep.
This was a game changer because I started doing things correctly. I see a lot of sleep coaches give lip service to certain aspects of CBT-I for example but it’s not working because there’s more going on under the hood of our “quantum biology”.
Sometimes people can’t fall asleep because of anxiety, depression and mood disorders that can be connected to genetic mutations. Sometimes people cannot fall asleep because of pain in their backs or neck.
These have to be corrected from a structural perspective along side doing other lifestyle changes.
Sometimes people have mineral imbalances, parasites, heavy metal toxicities and genetic mutations that can be at the core of insomnia.
The heart of it all is protecting our circadian rhythms before anything else. You can get rid of back pain but still have trouble sleeping because you corrected something that’s not a part of the foundation.
My work is based on correcting the foundation while at the same time correcting food allergies, mineral dysregulations, and more.
Because I was able to fix all of these areas at the same time, I made PROFOUND changes in my health which trickled down to my sleep.
Over the course of about a year and a half, I was able to completely shift my sleep habits. I’m no longer laying awake for 3 or 4 hours a night. I’m not waking up multiple times per night. I’m exhausted by 7pm and go to bed around 9:30 or 10pm.
I fall asleep in about 10 minutes or less and I wake up feeling refreshed and energized.
The difference has been profound.
I’d say life changing.
When you sleep well, everything works better. Your hormones are secreted at the right times in the right levels. Your energy peaks when it’s supposed to. You feel more energetic and positive about your future.
You have more energy to play with your kids and to pursue your goals in life.
The other upside is that you feel healthier too. Proper sleep is the foundation of health.
The changes I made are simple to do but not always easy for people to do. Simple isn’t the same as easy.
The changes are also something you have to do daily, because sleep is a daily event that depends on what you did each day leading up to bedtime.
By “biohacking” the environment I live, work and sleep in I’ve been able to shift my health massively. I do specific things in the morning, during the day and in the evening before bed, that are simple but not easy.
I’ve been studying this type of information since 2012 and my intention is to share everything I know with you in the articles that I write.
I hope you enjoy them and most importantly I hope they offer tips and insights so you can get better deeper sleep each night as well.
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