Benefits of Sunlight 20-30 mins Upon Rising
If you’ve been following me for a while, you know I preach getting full-spectrum sunlight within 20-30 mins of waking.To help boost our Cortisol Awakening Response or “CAR” for short. When full-spectrum light hits our eyes when we wake up, our central nervous system produces a boat load of cortisol from our adrenal glands.
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Cortisol is known as our “stress” hormone but it also has many other benefits (pictured).This rapid spike of cortisol...