Understanding Sleep Hormones and Productivity

The new part is this irregularity that seems to happen

for people during, for their sleep schedule,

specifically an irregularity in their melatonin and cortisol production.

So all of this is predicated on when does your body make melatonin?

So if you're an early bird, your body makes melatonin earlier in the night,

starting at around eight o'clock in the evening.

It makes you want to go to bed around 9.30.

Yeah, question. So melatonin is a hormone.

It is. That helps us sleep.

It's produced inside of your body that actually helps you sleep.

It guides, it tells your body when it's bedtime,

which is a little bit different than the adenosine, which makes you feel sleepy.

I guess people listening now would be asking themselves,

why does it matter to know my chronotype? As it relates to my productivity,

the way I live my life, my relationships, whatever matters to me, why does it matter?

Because I can show you, based on your chronotype, the perfect time of day to do almost any activity.

So if you know when your body is doing certain things,

when it has melatonin or when it has cortisol or adrenaline or all these other things,

if you know the schedule, you can actually just change your activity

to when your body is naturally producing the hormone,

and then you do the hormone better.