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Dr. Samer Hattar

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294 total appearances

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Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

So having all these could allow you to do even more actually at the end than less.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

And that's the exciting part of it.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

So it's very simple as we've talked yesterday.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

So imagine you're in the outside with no industrial light.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

If your body thinks you're in early evening and you see a bright light, what does this tell you?

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

Oh, wait, this is not early evening yet.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

It's still early afternoon or late afternoon.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

So I have to delay my clock to go back to late afternoon.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

So if you get light early in the evening, it delays your clock.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

So what does- Meaning that makes you want to go to sleep later.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

Yes, it delays your clock.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

So later in the night, later in your night-

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

And actually, it just happens that in humans, you get a temperature in the deer later in the night, low temperature in your body.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

After that, lights start advancing your clock.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

Yeah, because then your body thinks, oh, it's seven o'clock, so it'll advance your clock by one to two hours.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

Absolutely.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

But you have to remember the light, right?

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

So let's, now that we explained it very simply, let's take a very simple example, right?

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

New York to Italy.

Huberman Lab
Essentials: Timing Light for Better Sleep, Energy & Mood | Dr. Samer Hattar

That's a simple example.