The A-Z of Brighter Days, Darker Nights

Here are the best posts to help you enjoy better sleep and energy through circadian and quantum health. Below, find the articles organized by topic:

ACES

Daily rituals for a more resilient you

Resilience Interview on The Quantum Connection Round Table

Anemia

Why not just take a supplement for anemia?

First question for anemia: what is your body doing with the iron you already have?

Who needs a new theory of anemia?

App Recommendations

dminder App Review

One more app suggestion 📲

Autism

Experimental Evidence is Still Lacking🔬

Beginner’s posts

Starting today

Become a circadian health expert at home and in your professional life

Try it at home🕯

Best of 2025

Start with the best

Bilirubin

Your liver, sleep and anemia problems might all be connected

First module: Jaundice (aka high bilirubin in babies) overview

Fifth module: Unconjugated vs conjugated bilirubin, and the signifigance of antioxidant power of the bilverdin-bilirubin cycle

Birth Prep

Why I chose *here* to labor with my baby

Birthing how we live 🌅

Divine assistance for childbirth 🙏

Wisdom from within

Birthing into a living world

5 must-have circadian and quantum features for your birthing space

The Walking Staff: A useful tool in labor to help you get outdoors

Quantum Practitioner Lesson 14: Quantum Labor and Delivery

Blue Blocking Glasses

Do your pets need blue-blockers?

Breastfeeding

Replay: Quantum Breastfeeding Class

Quantum Breastfeeding class announcement

Oversupply

Weaning, circadian-style

Support for tandem breastfeeding

Replay: Quantum Breastfeeding Class

Cancer

Research Thread about Cancer

Epigenetics and light at night🚨

Circadian Babyhood

Q: How do you do the circadian thing with a newborn?

Replay: Circadian Babyhood Workshop

Q: Can blackout curtains cause toddler sleep problems?

PART 4: POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CIRCADIAN RHYTHM

Rhythmicity from the start👶

Support protocol 2: For babies at home

New interview out now on The Responsive Family Sleep Podcast

Morning matters for baby

Circadian Rhythms

MyCircadianApp, nature school, sleep, social media and Sarah Kleiner’s new Substack

3 Podcast Shoutouts about Light, Circadian Rhythms & Family

New Interview: The Circadian Reboot with Pam Killeen & Nikko Kennedy

Circadian regulation starts at conception and matters for life

Chronotype vs circadian rhythm

Nature’s rhythms support perinatal health

Simple steps to experiment with circadian and quantum biology at home

Stabilize, then strengthen

Circadian Health for the Whole Family by Dr. Kelli Ritter - GUEST POST 03

Replay: Circadian Rhythm Workshop for Pregnancy, Birth and Infancy (4+ Hours of Video!)

INTRODUCTION TO THE CIRCADIAN PREGNANCY WORKSHOP

New podcast interviews about circadian biology

How to improve your family's circadian rhythms

Understanding the science of circadian rhythms.

Circadian Locations 🗺

👉Start Here

Improve your genome🧬

Circadian rhythmicity 🏙

What can you do when your ideal (circadian) lifestyle goes up in flames?

Chronotype vs circadian rhythm

Circadian Skincare

Circadian Skincare

Circadian Polyphasic Sleep

Replay: Circadian Polyphasic Sleep for New Parents

Please don’t watch the clock

Can we facilitate this for each other?

Cold Therapy

If heat is good, how can cold also be good?

Cortisol

Cortisol Part I: Stop the anti-cortisol rhetoric

Cortisol Part II: Optimal Rhythm

Cortisol Part III: More than a "Stress Hormone"

Cortisol Part IV: What to do if it goes astray

Dark Sky

Dark Sky Friendly Lighting 🌌

PART 3B: OUTOOR CIRCADIAN ENVIRONMENTS

Are you afraid of the dark?

Star Light, Star Bright

Circadian Community🏘

Depression

The FDA Just Approved the First Postpartum Depression Pill: Implications for the Health of Women and Their Children by Heather Crimson - GUEST POST 02

How far would you go to cure depression?

Digital Workflow Mindset

Replay: Digital Workflows Mindset

Teaching Tuesday: Managing Digital Workflows II

Endocannabaninoids

Circadian endocannabinoids

Optimize your natural birth prep for the possibility of transcendent experiences

3 ways circadian health can contribute to the altered states of transcendental childbirth

Female Fertility

Why Brighter Days and Darker Nights matter for fertility, pregnancy and motherhood

Fertility is a miracle, and a mystery

Summer (now) may be the ideal time to conceive

Practitioner Lesson 07

Practitioner Lesson 05

Practitioner Lesson 03

Practitioner Lesson 01 in The Circadian and Quantum Childbearing Year

[Archived] Lesson 05: Quantum biology and women’s reproductive health

First Trimester

Prioritizing the secret and sacred days of early pregnancy

Practitioner Lesson 10

Fitness

Mamas need special fitness support

Fluoride

More evidence in the fluoridated water debate

Fluoride vs melatonin 🥊

Folate

Folate Part I: Folate and Methylation

Folate Part II: Folate Cofactors

Folate Part III: Fortification and antifolate medications

Folate Part IV: Summer vs Winter Methylation Patterns

Gifts

Holiday gift guide 2024

Nervous System Healing Through Nature

Four free things for you 🍀

Favorite circadian and quantum lifestyle products in 2024

Grounding

Do you have to take off your barefooting shoes to ground?

Homeschool

Quantum home birth and alternative education pathways

Hyperemesis Gravidarum

Circadian and quantum strategies for morning sickness, NVP and HG

Free guide to morning sickness and hyperemesis gravidarum care

Intermittent Fasting

How to do intermittent fasting without wrecking your hormones (and ultimately gaining weight every time you eat a carb)

Iron

Boost iron levels without changing your diet

Boost iron without boosting iron

Jaundice

A quantum lens on newborn jaundice

Explore the Quantum side of Newborn Jaundice

Fourth module: Looking closer at preterm birth as a contributing factor to newborn jaundice

Seventh module: About the protocols

Support protocol 1: Preconception & pregnancy

Support protocol 2: For babies at home

K

Lactation

Strategies for system change from inside and building new systems (case study from lactation consulting)

Leptin

Leptin does more than prevent or reverse obesity

Lighting

PART 3C: INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS

Home Sweet Circadian Home🏡

PART 3A: THE BEST CIRCADIAN NIGHTTIME ENVIRONMENT

Lighting for the circadian lifestyle 🎞

From visual to aesthetic to health, you absorb everlasting benefits when you invest in better light for your growing family

Electric outage and circadian resets

Male Fertility

Practitioner Lesson 08

Practitioner Lesson 06

Practitioner Lesson 04

Practitioner Lesson 02 in The Circadian and Quantum Childbearing Year

Melanin

3 types of tans and what they mean

Melanin discovery rewrites the food chain

Melatonin

Supplemental melatonin: Yay or Nay?

The overlooked reproductive hormone

Replay: The Synergy of Melatonin and Oxytocin

Let's talk about lightbulbs and melatonin💡

We are all different🌅

Your mother gave you your circadian rhythm

Member Meetups

In the quest to optimize everything, you can still lean in to intuition and community

Menstruation and menopause

How circadian rhythms affect your period (And how morning light reversed Rachel’s PMDD)

Importance of the female circadian rhythm

🌚 Simple ways nature might soothe PMS 🌝

💬 Ask your menopause questions here

[Archived] Lesson 05: Quantum biology and women’s reproductive health

Mental Health

What if the keys to understanding and reversing neuroticism, depression and even early mortality lay in the field of quantum biology?

Manic season

A New Paradigm for Mental Disorders

Save a life 🌕

Miscarriage

When the berries don’t ripen

Morning Sickness

Is morning sickness today worse than it was for our great-grandmothers?

Quantum strategies for morning sickness

Newborn Blood Brain Barrier

An overlooked aspect of the newborn blood-brain barrier

Sixth module: The newborn blood-brain barrier and nature's natural protections

NICU

Support protocol 3: For babies in the hospital

My top 3 evidence-based recommendations for supporting a baby in the NICU

Night Shift

Graveyard duty

Worse-than-drunk 🤯

New circadian info for your industry.

Better night shift manifesto

Nutrition

PART 2A: NUTRITIONAL FACTORS THAT SUPPORT CIRCADIAN HEALTH

PART 2B: CIRCADIAN TIMING OF NUTRITIONAL INTAKE

Switching from solar to dietary Vitamin D

Blood glucose, weight loss, nutrition, ketosis, slow living, fertility with Dr. Chesica Jones

Choosing the right (s)words 🧘‍♀️

Shopping for Thanksgiving 🍂

Ordered eating support

Spicy routines in late Spring

Oral Health

New Interview: Quantum Biology and Oral Health on The Rooted Remedies Podcast

Circadian control of dental development in the womb

Postpartum

New Interview: Leap of Health Podcast with Alex Balgood

Circadian-savvy postpartum planning tips

All my best circadian rhythm and sleep tips for new moms

Replay: The Surprising Good News About Sleep Interruptions in Motherhood (Oct. 18, 2023)

Sunlight on your belly: postpartum edition

Preconception

How to give circadian pregnancy support 🤰

Pregnancy Complications

Maternal circadian rhythms and pregnancy outcomes.

The biggest breakthrough in preeclampsia understanding in 50 years

What we think we know 🤔

PART 1: CIRCADIAN HEALTH IN PREGNANCY

Third module: Reducing excessive blood cell turnover by nurturing strong maternal circadian rhythms

5 Pregnancy Challenges where Quantum Strategies Shine

Primitive Reflex Integration

Nikko Kennedy with Amanda Conta Steencken

Prolactin

What do obesity and lactational amenorrhea have in common?

Quantum Biology

Quantum terrain theory

💬 What do you mean when you say quantum?

Does quantum science even matter?

How does circadian & quantum biology weigh in?

Would Einstein have griped about quantum health, too?

Isn’t it amazing how life turns death back into life?

From circadian to quantum

Make your own antioxidant cascade

Quantum Hydration

Simple quantum hydration

Second module: Newborn constipation relief is the first line of support for newborn jaundice

Raw Dairy

Spoiled or clabber?

One Unit of Revolution

Recipes

Perfect Hollandaise Sauce

Research

Translational research vs p-hacking

You are not a statistic 📊

Quick research training

Guided creation of a new evidence based resource for your business

Top 10 research articles of 2024 (so far)

Workshop Replay: Curating your own digital research library

Online research methods for quantum practitioners: find and translate research into your client practice

How do you organize your research and study materials?

Screen Time Strategies

Pragmatic ways to replenish yourself after time on your computer, tablet and smartphone

Crafting your (circadian) workflow - Bonus replay!

Second Trimester

Practitioner Lesson 11 in The Circadian and Quantum Childbearing Year

Sleep

The science of dorveille, or ‘twixt sleepe and wake’

Do you need sleep, or do you need something else?

Sleep less. Nap more. Get better circadian health?

How your body reacts to longer nights 🌙

The data to show mamas need more time in bed than you think!

🪟Good curtains & nightlights for sleep 💤

Summer nap schedule

Let’s talk about sleep!!! 😴 by Vanessa Baldwin - GUEST POST 01

Falling asleep on time

Why don't we sleep when we are tired?😴

Consolidated vs unconsolidated sleep😴

What’s a sleep tip that has stood the test of time for you?

Subscriber Notes

💬 Community chat is open + Live Q&A

Big news! I am becoming a midwife’s birth assistant

From ecosystem to birth and back again

Podcasts and interviews from 2023

Transmitting love in the season of lights

Did you miss me? I just had my 4th baby!

Perinatal Care from Nikko

My Big, Fat Why

Announcement: New Name!

Sunlight

The power of light in maternal health with Dr. Tara Hogan and Nikko Kennedy

10 reasons to bring your baby outside

Sunlight changes DNA

Ozone and sunlight exposure

Switching from solar to dietary Vitamin D

Location and wellness potential

Nurturing baby’s solar callus

U need UV!

❔Poll: How much time do you spend outside?

Endless Summer and Coping with the Midnight Sun

Solar Callus

Cool weather sunbathing🌥

Useful jargon📕

Tell your story: When was the last time enjoyed going camping?

Can your sunlight strategy be “excessive”?

Summer without the AC

Third Trimester

Practitioner Lesson 13 in the Circadian and Quantum Childbearing Year

Practitioner Lesson 12 in The Circadian and Quantum Childbearing Year

Magic of the 3rd Trimester

Thyroid

On the thyroid function optimization and circadian health

4 simple ways to support your thyroid

Ultrasound and Doppler FHR Research

Ultrasound and Doppler FHR research progress report

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Winter Wisdom

Winter Wisdom from the Far North: Thriving in the Dark at 52° Latitude

If heat is good, how can cold also be good?

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Zotero

Massive Research Library Upgrade for Quantum Practitioner Tier