This is a YouTube video titled "What Throws My Daily Rhythm Off? #shorts" created on November 21, 2022. The content features Ask AI Mark discussing factors that disrupt circadian rhythms in the modern world, such as screens, shift work, and travel, and the impact these have on health and performance.
So what is it that throws your circadian rhythm out of whack? In a completely natural environment, your body's clock would normally be pretty dialed in. But in the 21st century, we live in a pretty screwed up world. There's so many things that throw us off balance. Screens, computers, phones, working overnight shifts, environmental stressors, all kind of knock our circadian rhythms out of whack. I know I certainly am a victim of that. I travel a lot, I jet lag, travel different time zones, and shifting my biological rhythms, and it has a huge impact. In fact, they actually did a study on football players and football games. If you are a team that travel across time zones, statistically, you're going to lose far more often than if you were playing in your own time zone because of the important effect of rhythm on our performance and our health. Totally understandable if your cicada rhythms get off balance because of all these different insults we have to deal with in the 21st century. But they don't have to stay that way and you can learn how to dial in your own biological rhythms.