Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

Can't Sleep? Fix This First (It's Not What You Think) 🌞➡️🌙

29 Oct 2025 · 0 min

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Mona Sharma explains how artificial light at night, especially from screens, suppresses melatonin and disrupts your internal clock. Bright light after dark and dim light during the day trigger cortisol spikes and blood sugar swings. Fix your light exposure before trying anything else for sleep.

Sit under non native light sources at night and you know, sit in pretty much the dark by day and that's going to really, really confuse things. Non native light sources at night. Glucose. Oh my gosh. What you were speaking to of the power of nutrition just we want to jack up your blood sugar and mess with your metabolism.
The screen time at night, the blue light is going to suppress your melatonin. As you said, how it's linked to blood sugar crashes, high cortisol, waking you up.
You know, in my world we talk.
About waking up between 1 and 3am and the impact from all of those things on the circul, not only for your sleep, but on every single organ within your body.