Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanojia

Because if your solution is making a problem, then you're kind of like, you're winning over here, you're losing over here.

But if you

let go of your solution, then the original problem kind of comes back.

So let's understand why nighttime anxiety is worse, okay?

So this is going to be a more neuroscience-heavy lecture.

If you guys are having trouble following, please let me know, okay?

So the first thing that we're going to talk about is circadian rhythm.

So when we... So this is a paper about night shift work.

But the first thing that I want to show you all is we have this hormone called cortisol, okay?

And this is the normal level.

This is the normal curve for cortisol throughout our body.

So cortisol is at an all-time low at midnight.

It spikes in the morning, and then it decreases throughout the day, and then it's low at night, okay?

This is about night shift workers, but it sort of relates to anxiety.

So we're going to talk about this for a second.

So what does cortisol do?

Actually, it's maybe about 25 hours, but 24-hour biological clock.

So our body is not the same at every hour of the day.

And one of the key things that changes is cortisol.

So we saw that cortisol curve, right, where it