What does sleeping late and bio rhythms have to do with acne?

Let me ask you a question.

What do you think, can staying up late give you acne? I mean regularly staying up until wee-hours and waking up around noon.

I think it can, and here's why.

I recently read an interesting article about the biological rhythms that control our bodies. Some examples of these rhythms are:

• The stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol are naturally released into the bloodstream during the early morning hours to promote physical activity.
• The liver is more active during the night than it is during the day.
• Most digestive enzymes are secreted during the day.
• The happiness-producing brain hormone serotonin is produced in response to natural daylight.
• The sleep-inducing hormone melatonin is secreted in response to the darkness of night.

It's been estimated there are over 1000 such biological rhythms that operate and control your body.

The various individual timers or body clocks are linked to a master clock. The master clock coordinates the individual clocks and makes sure every activity in the body is carried out according to its master plan. This master plan is nothing but body ’s constant effort to maintain perfect equilibrium or balance.

That master clock checks its time on the nature's most influential cycle, known as the circadian rhythm. That's really just a fancy term for the normal day and night cycle.

Here's an interesting quote from the article that shows the importance of this:

"The increasing and decreasing levels of melatonin and serotonin indicate to the cells whether it is dark or light outside and whether they should be more active or slow down their activities. This intricate mechanism ensures that all physical functions are synchronized with the rhythmic changes that occur in the natural environment. This is known as 'entrainment.' The health of each cell in the body depends, therefore, on the degree to which we allow the body to be in synchrony and harmony with the cycles of day and night.

Any deviation from the circadian rhythm causes abnormal secretions of the hormones melatonin and serotonin. This hormonal imbalance, in turn, leads to erratic biological rhythms, which can subsequently disrupt the harmonious functioning of the entire organism, including the digestion of food, cell metabolism and overall hormonal balance.

Suddenly, we may feel 'out of sync' or shaky and become susceptible to developing an illness, which could include a simple head cold, headache, depression or even a cancerous tumor. The pineal gland controls reproduction, sleep and motor activity, blood pressure, the immune system, the pituitary and thyroid glands, cellular growth, body temperature, and many other vital functions. All of these depend on the regular melatonin cycle which, yet again, is controlled by our body ’s ability to be in synchrony with nature ’s rhythms."

The Wonders Of Our Biological Rhythm by Andreas Moritz

If you've been reading my emails, website and books you know I'm a fierce advocate of getting clear by improving your health, bringing your body back to that mysterious 'balance' and living in harmony with nature and the way nature made us.

It's by far the easiest, cheapest and the most effective way to get clear. It requires no supplements or doing any weird stuff - like stuffing plastic pipes into your but (which should be exit only) and flooding it with water, or drinking a cup of olive oil and lemon juice mixture and calling it healthy.

Obeying these biological rhythms are a perfect example of the kind of things I'd suggest you do to cure acne.

From a personal experience I can tell you these rhythms are very important to your health, well-being and acne.

Just as an example, I'm much, much happier, more productive and positive on the days I wake up early. On the days I sleep late I feel lazy and lethargic the whole day. I get hardly anything done and negative thoughts creep into my mind all the time.

That's a perfect example of what acne comes down to. You can either live a healthy life and be rewarded with happiness and clear skin. Or you can wreck your health and get a handful of misery and a face full of pimples.

That, my friend, is a universal law. It applies always and you cannot escape it.

Back to acne and biological rhythms. I remember an email I received from a person on the Clear Skin Coaching Program. He mentioned to me that he gets acne every time he stays up late for two or more days in a row. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Think about how this relates to your acne. I suggest keeping a simple journal to which you mark at what time you go to bed and wake up, how do you feel during the day and how does your skin look like.

Simply going to bed and waking up early may not be enough to get you clear, but it definitely helps with acne. And if you don't, well you are making curing acne so much more difficult.

Have you noticed whether staying awake too late affects your acne? Or if you've strayed too far away from any other bio rhythms.

Please share your experiences so we can all learn more.

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Seems true  Not rated yet
I guess going to bed late does make acne worser ..when I wake up in the morning it seems less inflamed ...by the time I go to bed its soo red and inflamed ...

Wow you're right-acne is worse when I'm a night owl  Not rated yet
Hi. I think I just made a major connection, so thank you for this article.

I had been taking a popular acne treatment (Vilantae) and was having good ...

Definitely!  Not rated yet
I have experienced myself that when I go to bed early and wake up early, I have very clear & clear skin with very less or no oil at all on my face. The ...