Dr. Mike Pierce

Now, once you have a goal towards something, if someone's like, hey, I want to train for blank or whatever, or I want to put more muscle on now, now we can get specific and then move towards training routines.

But I think the first thing I tell people is like, whatever you love to do to move your body, go do that and go do it over and over.

So here's what I noticed that go back to like, we'll say a hundred plus years ago, right?

When the sun was setting, the rays of the sunset coming in your eyes began to tell your body that it was time to wind down and we're getting ready for bed.

And then what we would do is we would have a fire, very low ambient light that would give off light.

Now we have so much overhead lighting all the time that right before we're going to bed, we have overhead lighting.

We're brushing our teeth.

It's always bright daylights.

And your brain never knows that it's nighttime.

So then you go lay in bed and your brain is like, oh, is it supposed to be going to bed now?

And we're never priming our body for bed.

So one of the things I would say is if you can get outside and catch the sunset.

Like get the sunset rays in your eyes.

Number one.

And then what our rule of thumb, we try to follow.

We're not perfect, but we try to follow is once the sun goes down, so does all the overhead lights.

Now we just use lamps.

We use ambient lights.

We use red lights, make the atmosphere.

help your body know we're getting ready for bedtime.