Living in Rhythm to Harness Circadian Health
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Why Learn to Sleep Well now?
You can get the sleep you need to perform well every day.
When we don’t get the sleep we need, it carries over to impair our performance on the job at work and at home. Learn sleep skills so that you can rely on being at the top of your game with both cognitive and physical performance. You’ll notice the improvement, and so will your boss and co-workers.
You can feel emotionally calm and happy.
Research shows that poor sleep impacts not only our performance, but also our mood and ability to emotionally connect with others. This is where having sleep skills pays off in a better mood, and better relationships with your loved ones. This can be positively life-changing!
Dr. Catherine Darley
Dr. Catherine Darley is a pioneering internationally recognized expert in the use of natural, behavioral, and lifestyle medicine for the treatment of sleep disorders. After decades of patient care, she is bringing this know-how to you in these Skilled Sleeper courses. Dr. Darley’s interest in founding Naturopathic Sleep Medicine arises from the belief that since sleep is so basic and essential to health, it makes sense to use the most effective natural therapies to help people obtain the sleep they need.
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The Living in Rhythm to Harness Circadian Health Course
Module 1: Benefits of Living in Rhythm
Our modern lifestyle in the built environment is vastly different from how people have lived throughout history. We are embedded in the natural world, and our health depends on cues from that environment. Compared to the natural light-dark signals provided by the sun, electric light is muted, at only 1/100 the light. We will start with a look at the time cues people have historically been exposed to, and the positive health effects of being synchronized with the environment. Then we’ll connect with our own experiences, and assess what health conditions we may be experiencing due to circadian mis-alignment. Lastly, capture your baseline so we can build from there.
Module 2: Influences of Light and Darkness
Module 3: Daily Time Cues
There are also 24-hour patterns at every level of the body, from our cells on up to our organs. Optimally, we want all these to be operating in synchrony. However, they can get misaligned, so they are not functioning together as needed for optimal health. At this level of our circadian system the main time cues are meal times, temperature, and even exercise times. Learn about these additional levels of your circadian system, and how to align them for optimal function. We will step-by-step create your custom lifestyle routine that will strengthen your circadian system as a foundation of health.
Are you a morning lark, night owl, or neither? This is an important consideration, and one that is sometimes overlooked in health recommendations. You may have heard of the benefits of getting early (ie ‘The 5am Club’), but this isn’t true for night owls. Let’s identify your chronotype or internal clock, and leverage it to strategically schedule your activities at the right time for you. This can make all the difference, as our performance will be best at the right time of day. We’ll also consider strategies to shift your body clock if need be, understanding there’s value to people being on different schedules.
Module 5: Changes Across the Lifespan
With aging we see the circadian system become less pronounced. Core body temperature and melatonin secretion patterns become muted, along with many other rhythms. Chronotype also changes over the lifespan by swinging significantly later during the teen years, then gradually shifting earlier over the following decades so that seniors are more often morning types. Understanding these physiological changes will help design the optimal lifestyle for yourself at different ages, and for your loved ones. This is where we continue to build a lifestyle where you are both Living In Rhythm with the earth, and with your own body, aligning them together for optimal health.
Module 6: Relevance for Health and Disease
Chronic disease is on the rise around the world. Part of it may be that we’ve stepped away from the natural world into the built environment. Many of the most common diseases have connection to the circadian system. For one, melatonin has actions beyond sleep, acting as a powerful antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, neuroprotectant and mitochondrial support. Melatonin is strongly suppressed by artificial light at night, and chronically low levels may contribute to disease. We will talk here about those most common disorders, and what is known of the circadian connection. Circadian medicine is part of a holistic treatment approach.
Module 7: Living in Rhythm
The idea of Living In Rhythm with the earth is a new idea for many people, but yet it really is an old idea that is re-emerging. Over the next decade this awareness will grow, but you can benefit from this information now. It’s a lifestyle practice that boosts physical and mental health by synchronizing your circadian system with the environment, and also synchronizes the many levels of your circadian system together. Human beings are embedded in the rhythms of the Earth, synchronizing with it strengthens our health, performance and wellbeing. Learn to make this a lasting lifestyle. You will be glad you started now!
What Students Say
“Dr. Darley's Women's Health course was wonderful! She provided so many tips for me and my babies sleep in a clear and engaging way.”
- A.E., Women’s Sleep Health student
"It is really good content. Just doing the strategies to improve my bedroom made a difference.”
- D.A., Skilled Sleeper student
So many people don’t have the skills they need to truly sleep well. Let’s change that, starting today. Invest $295 in getting the sleep you need to be your best self.
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