A speaker shares what finally worked for their sleep: a dark, cool bedroom and hot shower before bed to drop body temperature, a strict sleep schedule with alarms, morning sunlight, and tracking heart rate variability to monitor nervous system health.
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When your sleep is off, everything is off. And for me personally, it's the hardest cuz you know, I can control what I put in my mouth. Yeah. I can push myself to go to the gym. The harder I try and control my sleep, the worse it gets. Yeah. So I've had to change my relationship. What have you done that's helped it? The biggest things I've done is changing my sleeping environment. Dark, cold, taking a hot shower before bed so that I know that I'mā my body temperature's gonna drop to help going to bed at the same time every night, setting alarm to make sure I'm going to bed at the same time. As well as waking up at the same time, trying to get outside as much as I can just to get sunlight in my eyes. And can I tell you that it's perfect? No. Is it a lot better? Yes. And again, know your numbers. I've been following my HRV, my heart rate variability, which is a wonderful indicator of your autonomic nervous system.