Hey Finley, today is an EXCITING day.
Why is that?
Because you’ve just started your journey through our highly-acclaimed email series: 9 Ancestral Energy Enhancers.
Best of all, it’s entirely free for you to consume. All you have to do is watch your inbox for each email in the series.
Today, we’re starting with Ancestral Energy Enhancer #1: Sleep.
You already know that sleep is important, but how important is it?
Here are a few of the top reasons we help our Tribe (you) optimize their sleep when struggling with energy:
- Reduced fatigue: When you sleep, your body repairs and restores itself, helping to reduce physical and mental fatigue you experience throughout the day. Once you do this, you’ll notice that you wake up feeling refreshed and energized, ready to take on the day.
- Increased physical endurance: Good quality sleep helps to improve physical endurance by allowing your body to repair and restore muscles, reduce inflammation, and optimize energy metabolism. All of these can lead to an increase in your overall energy levels.
- Balanced hormones: Sleep plays a huge role in regulating hormones such as cortisol, insulin, and growth hormone. When you’re sleeping well, these hormones stay balanced and help improve energy levels while also reducing feelings of fatigue and exhaustion.
So, now that you understand a few benefits of optimizing your sleep, here are our top recommendations for improving your sleep:
📱 Reduce blue light exposure before bed: Exposure after sunset disrupts our native sleep/wake cycle through the unnatural suppression of melatonin, yet 9 out of 10 Americans use electronics before bed. Some even use electronics in bed. If you’re indoors, light a few candles or use red lights / Himalayan salt lamps. Native light sources just feel better after sunset than regular lighting (our bodies always know). If you must use electronics at night, always keep a pair of blue light blockers nearby—the best $10 investment in most people's lives!
🛏️ Go to bed and wake up at the same time every day: This is critical for your body to fall into a natural sleep/wake cycle as well. Once you get into this rhythm, you can deepen this practice even further by exposing your body and eyes to the morning sun (bonus points for walking barefoot in the soil or grass!) The morning sun on your retinas stimulates a cascade of hormonal processes that optimize the circadian rhythm.
🌑 Make your bedroom as dark as possible: At bedtime, your room should be pitch black. We recommend the use of blackout curtains and blackout blinds. This means no battery lights, no night lights, no alarm clock lights, nothing! Eliminate any extra light you can and enjoy the benefits of a great night of sleep.
So there you have it, a few of our tips and tricks for optimizing energy via sleep!
But guess what, this isn’t all we have to share about optimizing your sleep…
Our Tribe Support team would love to give you customized support based on your specific needs.
Best of all, they are just one click away…
The link below will auto-populate an email for you that will get this conversation started. And, since you’re already a part of our tribe, it’s free of charge!
⇒ Yes, send me tips about sleep and energy!
Talk soon,
The Ancestral Supplements Tribe
