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Episode 11 — From Stress to Flow — Thriving with Earth's Powerful Rhythm

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Your brain is trying to go to sleep, but your liver clock is just starting its day shift.
Amy and Dr. David Ortega explore circadian rhythms, the science of biological clocks from a 1729 plant experiment to the 2017 Nobel Prize, and how misalignment between our master brain clock and peripheral organ clocks through late-night eating and blue light exposure drives chronic fatigue, obesity, and metabolic disease. They also discuss the ancient history of fasting and seasonal eating as alignment practices.

As heard by us

A calm body-clock primer on why when you eat can matter as much as what you eat.

Episode 11 keeps its focus tight: sleep, hunger, and food timing are tied to the body s internal clocks, then the episode follows that thread into what happens when those rhythms drift.

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You want food timing to help your sleep, not fight it.

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