The Body's Energy Calendar

How our body's hormonal clock affects our energy?

When the day's fatigue settles upon you, and after a full day of work and exposure to the outside world, you return home, you feel the energy that morning brought slowly diminishing. The environment, people, and external factors you've come into contact with throughout the day leave a residue on the body. Therefore, at the end of the day, the body begins to prepare itself for rest.

At this transition moment, some people develop simple rituals to cleanse and relax the body. Taking a warm shower, allowing water to flow over the body without engaging in any cleaning process, can be a way to leave the day's burden behind. This moment is like a silent signal reminding the body that rest time is approaching.

As night progresses and the hours approach around 10–11, melatonin, one of the serotonin derivatives, begins to rise. With the increase in melatonin, the brain initiates the transition process to sleep. Simultaneously, this hormone exerts a suppressive effect on many systems secreted in the body, slowing down the rhythm of vital processes such as heart rate and liver functions, and preparing the organism for sleep.

After a good and deep sleep, typically after 4–7 hours of rest, a completely different process begins in the body with the dawn. Interestingly, births and deaths often coincide with these hours. Although the reason is not always clear, this time frame is like a threshold of intense biological transitions.

As morning begins to form, one of the first hormones to come into play is cortisol. Aldosterone and thyroid hormones then quickly become active. This hormonal activity sends a strong message to the organism: It's time to wake up, it's time to get moving. All cells and tissues prepare to respond to this call.

To understand time, humans have invented calendars. Gregorian calendars, Hijri calendars, time systems of different cultures... However, the body's own calendar is rewritten every day. Viewed from a surgeon's perspective, the organism transforms in dimension every night; in the morning, it awakens not so much to a new day as to a new life.

The body that falls asleep late at night prepares to wake up in the early morning hours under the influence of its internal circadian rhythm. The adrenal glands start working, hormones come into play, and the system gets moving. The day's most potent chemical and physiological supports are provided at these hours. However, this stage often passes unnoticed.

In mornings that are woken up late, these supportive hormones secreted to help the body get going gradually lose their effect. When one wakes up around noon, it feels like the majority of the day's energy has already been spent. Just like missing the beginning of the year, the moment of commencement in the body's own calendar is also missed.

Yet, nature offers a new chance every day. For those who can sleep early in the evening and greet the morning as if waking to a new year, the body fills with enthusiasm, energy, and hope. It is possible to catch this rhythm not once a year, but every day.

Being able to notice the powerful and vibrant process that your inner physician initiates each morning to prepare you for the day can make the day brighter, more enjoyable, and more meaningful. Living in harmony with this internal calendar is reflected not only in individual energy but also in one's outlook on life.

A more hopeful, more balanced, and more peaceful life begins with listening to the body's rhythm. Every day is an invitation to reread this silent but powerful calendar.