Posts Tagged sleep

Sleep and Stress Tech Stuff

Over the last several months I have been experimenting with a couple different uses of health technology: sleep monitoring and heart rate variability. Both have given me some really good feedback and insight into my body so I wanted to share those with you. Sleep Monitoring Sleep is huge- maybe the most important variable of […]

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Top 5 Health Tips

I recently gave this list to someone and thought it would be nice to share… Bare 5 Top Health Tips 1. Turn off the lights. After the sun goes down, turn off the bright lights. You don’t have to go to sleep but dim the lights. Lamps and counter lights are fine, as is firelight […]

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Irish Wisdom

“A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.” One of my favorite sayings, capturing Irish wisdom at its most basic level: laughter and good rest are the best cures. I say we take it a step further: instead of thinking of laughter and rest just in terms of cures […]

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Nature’s Sleeping Pill

Trouble falling asleep? Try the longest used, most trusted, powerful and reliable sleeping aid the world has to offer: sunsets. There is a magical power set deep in the warm hues of our majestic sunsets and using them to bookend your day can send your body the signals to start producing melatonin and slow everything […]

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Zzzzzzzzzz

“Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” Going to bed early is good for your health, one of the main reasons why: Melatonin A powerful hormone the body depends on for entraining circadian rhythm in the body. Melatonin gets released from the onset of darkness until about midnight. Artificial […]

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Follow The Sun

Rest Naturally & Connect The sun will guide you. Get up when it gets up, go down when it goes down. For thousands of years, this was the drill. Guided by the sun. Connected to the sun. Reliant on the sun. One with the sun. Then a hundred years ago, a guy named Edison forever […]

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A Post a Day in May

May is going to be my month of blogging catch up. I have so many thoughts, notes, ideas and resources to share I decided to make this month a rapid fire post-a-thon. My goal is to post things related to each of the Bare 5 Elements Monday-Friday and use Saturday and Sunday for miscellaneous things […]

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The Flip Side

So I had an interesting conversation the other day. It started with me being asked the following question: “If you were me, what would you do to feel better and lose some weight?” I had heard a similar question from this person a few times and it was becoming apparent that my suggestions of how […]

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Goals: Bare 5 Style

With the turn of the new year and resolutions flying about, I thought I would share a goal system that I developed recently and found to be quite helpful. It’s relatively simple, based off the Bare Elements and pretty straightforward. The Bare 5 perspective strives to promote health by improving behavior and habits in the […]

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The Bare Elements

The new year brought the desire to give a slightly new spin on the Bare 5 Basics. These five elements are the core principles of the Bare 5 philosophy. Most simply put, these are the broad categories that I think humans need to address in the pursuit of health. I believe the human body has […]

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