How to Wake Up Refreshed Every Morning – Inadequate Sleep – Dr.Berg on Melatonin and Sleep | DrEricBergDC

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so I want to show you how to feel refreshed when you wake up in the

morning now I’m curious how do you feel when you wake up in the morning are you

refreshed are you grouchy are you irritable

are you exhausted are you just a little bit tired go ahead and comment in this

section down below and I’m gonna read all the comments I’m really curious so

the best way or indication of whether you really rest it or not I’m not just

talking about sleeping I’m talking about really resting and feeling rejuvenated

is how you feel when you wake up in the morning as well as how you feel through

the entire day so the real key and most important factor of sleeping is the

sleep hormone called melatonin now melatonin is a hormone that is triggered

by darkness okay so when it’s dark at night and there’s less light going in

through the eye and into the brain you’re gonna trigger the pineal gland to

convert serotonin into melatonin make you tired help you sleep during the day

when it’s light out or if you have light in the room that’s going to go through

the eye into the retina into the brain and turn off melatonin now melatonin is

vitally important for your immune system and this also explains why when people

don’t sleep that well they get sick so the less sleep you have less melatonin

you have the greater the risk of getting infections having heart problems and

many other diseases now the other thing to know is that melatonin is a very

powerful antioxidant so having enough melatonin can actually help your body

from free radical damage and it can potentially help extend your life now

the problem with taking melatonin is a supplement which I don’t recommend is

that you’re taking a hormone and then over time your body just produces less

it will compensate so I don’t like the option of taking melatonin as a sleep

aid at all now here’s another big problem with melatonin as you age your

melatonin decreases and this is why when you get older you just can’t sleep as

long and this then increases your risk for other

the problems also melatonin is a powerful anti-inflammatory so when you

don’t sleep you tend to be more stiff you have more pain more inflammation

when is the best time to go to bed well ideally when it gets dark out but you

know that usually doesn’t happen but I would recommend between 10 and 11

o’clock p.m. that would be the best time to go to bed ideally you have certain

hormone waves too called circadian wave static that come up and down and they

run about every 90 minutes and so you want to catch the wave between 10:00 and

11:00 and sometimes when you stay up especially after 12:00 midnight it might

be more difficult to get to sleep because you have your second wind which

basically means that you’re working against these waves and sometimes you

have to wait and catch the way before you can actually get into a deeper sleep

so I noticed a lot of times people are tired around let’s say 9:00 9:30 or even

10:00 and they push themselves they’re watching TV and then all of a sudden

they wake up and now they they’re awake for maybe 90 minutes this is why that

occurs so right now let’s talk about all the things that you can do to enhance

melatonin in your body number one when you go to bed keep the lights off what

happens when people go to bed they have all these lights going on they have

their cell phone they might have that laptop they might have the TV going on

we want to start to shut down some of these lights and have more dark go into

the retina so just realize the less lights you have in the room the better

okay so lights out would be number one number two fluoride just so happens that

fluoride interferes with the pineal gland it can even create problems with

calcium buildup calcification so get a good water filter to filter this out

I’ll put a link down below for some recommendations for water filters I’ve

done some videos on that but tap water usually has the fluoride in it and as a

side note you might just find that your skin will be so much better especially

if you have acne number three glycine okay is an amino acid that has a really

good effect on serotonin and it can increase serotonin

you would take one to two grams before bed okay that could help you as well

number four reducing your blue light I’m talking about the blue light on your

computer screen on your TV screen blue light can reduce melatonin so you can

get in various sunglasses that filter out blue light but another way to do

this is just to get the free apps that you can download on your computer to

filter out the blue light and you’ll notice that be less I string alright

number five you want to get sun exposure and vitamin D during the day because

what happens is melatonin in the Sun and vitamin D work kind of like opposing

each other so what we want to do during the day is we want to turn off melatonin

so it can recharge and at night we want to turn it on so we don’t want to

necessarily live in the darkness so the combination of Sun vitamin D and

melatonin at night because it’s stimulated by darkness is a very good

way to help to turn off this little switch that you have going on because

what happens if you just don’t get enough Sun or vitamin D then melatonin

doesn’t seem to work at night effectively number six obviously we want

to reduce stress as much as possible you want to somehow change your environment

go for a long walks in the park and just get away from stress because stress will

also shut down at melatonin will actually cortisol will shut down

melatonin and that’s the stress hormone and of course caffeine will interrupt

the natural production of melatonin as well alcohol now what’s interesting with

this next one is that not only does darkness stimulate melatonin but cold

will have a stimulatory effect amount of tonin so if your temperatures cooler

okay in your room you’ll stimulate melatonin so I like to keep the

temperature roughly about 68 degrees I actually like sleeping when it’s a

little bit colder and lastly and most importantly we’re going to talk about

EMS for a little bit okay electromagnetic frequencies let me just

go to this next board right here this is a very important topic so what is this

EMF well it stands for electro mad netic fields so this pertains to the

amount of certain types of frequencies or energies that are around your space

okay and what we’re going to be talking about is around your body now I don’t

want to get too much into the woods in this video but I do want to talk about a

very important space where you actually spend 1/3 of your life which is in bed

in relationship to EMFs because you may find with what I’m about to tell you

that this could be the big reason why you are not sleeping one of the things

that you can do is you can get a device I have quite a few and these are EMF

devices and they can pick up different frequencies on this one it has magnetic

fields and it has electrical fields okay so that’s we’re going to be focusing on

with this video we also have radio fields right here that would be like the

cell phone signals that are coming off I’m not going to get into that at this

point but I want to talk about electrical fields and magnetic fields

and I think the best way to explain this is a water hose okay so if you turn on

the water hose you have this current or this pressure of water that’s going

through the hose right and it’s spraying out so this would be equivalent to

plugging in an electrical cord into the wall and then turning on the light okay

we have the on switch we have the electrical current going through and

then we have the light right here so this is going to generate electrical

fields as well as magnetic fields now if I turn off this part right here so

there’s no more water coming out that would be equivalent to turning off the

light and you may then think that the electrical fields and the magnetic

fields will just completely go away but they don’t and you still have voltage or

pressure in that line all you did is you turn off the light at this end it’s

still plugged into the wall over here same thing with water hose if we turn

off right here we still have pressure in this line okay why because it’s still

turned on over here so let’s take a look at your bed right here okay so you’re

sleeping in your bed if your nightstand and you have your light right here this

light is plugged into the socket you might have your alarm clock right here

you might even have you cellphone sitting right here which we’ll

talk about in a second so you turn off the light but guess what

it still plugged in and you’re still gonna have electrical fields and even

magnetic fields that can extend six to eight feet from the socket now if you

don’t believe me just get one of these devices and go ahead and measure it okay

so first I’m gonna do is I’m going to turn it to electrical fields okay so I’m

gonna go to the smart board right here not too bad eh so electrical fields

aren’t bad let’s go magnetic biga big magnetic

fields so I have to stand like this far away so I’ll have to try that next time

I try to write on the board right so I wouldn’t want to be hanging out at this

level for too long okay so let’s let’s take a look at the radio frequencies now

this is not really you can see it’s a little bit but let’s take a look at my

cell phone so I’m holding this here’s my cell phone okay now I’m gonna click on

wake up the email look at that there’s a lot of frequencies coming off that

phone right now right so can you imagine holding this to your head everyone does

it all that long so you want to keep this away from your head and use your

speakerphone there’s other things you can do as well but do not do this with

here with your head okay don’t touch this thing in fact when you bought the

phone you even sign something for them to tell you not to do that okay look at

this on this light that’s electrical field

let’s check magnetic fields not too bad so we’re gonna check a light that’s off

magnetic fields are low let’s go to electrical fields look at that

that’s crazy it’s off why is that because there’s still voltage in the

wire there’s pressure it’s just not turned down at this level this is why we

want to disconnect the cord at the bottom don’t look into the light right I

mean even this far away you can see that it’s quite high it should be 0.5

Electrical is really high see the wire is really high

now I’m gonna unplug this light hey there’s nothing now so you can see when

you go to sleep you want to unplug that or put a switch down here to turn it off

the goal is to reduce the amount of electrical magnetic frequencies around

your body at night since you spend so much time you know in your life sleeping

we want to reduce EMFs why because it decreases the production of melatonin

from the pineal gland in fact it could decrease your stage for sleep your deep

delta-wave sleep so even though you’re sleeping you’re not resting so there’s

some very very simple things you can do okay you can just unplug these devices

to your light and your alarm clock and just get a battery clock okay or you can

spend four dollars and get one of these on/off switches that you plug into the

outlet then you can plug in the cord into these and turn off the power where

the outlet is and that will cut down on the EMF considerably another thing you

really want to make sure you do is to take your cell phone and either put it

on the other side of the room or put it on airplane mode because this cell phone

is emitting a lot of unfriendly energy to your brain to the heart to your cells

let’s keep it really simple number one turn your cell phone to airplane mode

number two unplug the cords from the outlets close to your bed or get one of

those little switches that you can turn it off at this level right here now you

may find if you get a tester that the cables in the wall are a problem

I’m not gonna go that deep in this video but I suggest that you do get one of

these devices to measure those fields and then you can really see the one I’m

going to recommend is the Trifield EMF meter model tf2 I’m not affiliated with

the company I don’t get any Commission’s but this is one of the better ones

because you can measure all sorts of things around your house I will do a

video on your computer space that’s another area that we need to talk about

because the power cables the surge protector underneath the computer the

battery backup the lights the printer all of this will be giving off a lot of

unfriendly energy that can make you very tired it can affect the heart it can

even cause arrhythmias and a lot of other problems next one get a

battery-operated clock okay instead of a plug in you’re gonna find that that

little action will actually reduce the EMF if you have a waterbed get rid of it

the electrical heater in that waterbed creates a big problem with your body if

you have heating pads that’s another big problem because the electrical fields

that are created from that are very bad especially if you’re sleeping with one

on your back all night long so it may help your back pain but then create back

pain by creating this electrical field and then electric blanket really bad

because it puts a whole field around your entire body not very healthy

now some people are really sensitive the EMF some people are not but I’m just

talking about the long-term effects that it can create on your body especially

with your sleep cycles alright guys kind of rather a long video but I think it’s

a very important one thanks for watching

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