Innate Intelligence: Your Amazing Superpower Part 8: Innate Intelligence and Your Circadian Rhythm
Your body is incredible—and it’s no accident. You have an inner wisdom, called innate intelligence, that helps your body know exactly what to do to keep you alive, balanced, and thriving. Innate intelligence is what runs your body behind the scenes. You don’t have to think about breathing, healing a cut, digesting food, or keeping your heart beating—it’s all handled automatically by this built-in intelligence.
This blog series explores 10 key ways your innate intelligence works in your body:
Homeostasis
Autonomic Nervous System (ANS)
Neuroplasticity
Epigenetics
Cellular Function
Regeneration and Repair
Immune System
Circadian Rhythm
Proprioception (Body Awareness and Balance)
Digestive System and Hormone Regulation
Today, we’re diving into Part 8: Circadian Rhythm, and how your innate intelligence uses your internal body clock to keep you feeling energized, focused, and well.
Part 8: How Innate Intelligence Guides Your Circadian Rhythm
Your circadian rhythm is like a built-in clock that runs in the background of your brain, helping your body stay on a 24-hour cycle. This clock controls your sleep-wake cycle, hormone levels, body temperature, digestion, and even how your brain functions during different times of the day. But it’s not just a mechanical process—it’s guided by your innate intelligence.
Innate intelligence uses signals from the environment, like light and darkness, to help your body know when it’s time to wake up, be active, wind down, and rest. For example, when sunlight hits your eyes in the morning, your brain gets the signal to lower melatonin (the sleep hormone) and increase cortisol (a hormone that helps you feel alert). At night, when it gets dark, your innate intelligence flips the switch, slowing you down and helping you prepare for rest and repair.
It’s constantly adjusting—like when you travel to a new time zone or stay up late—and trying to keep you in rhythm with the world around you. This internal timing system is brilliant. It doesn’t just help you feel awake or sleepy; it actually helps coordinate healing, digestion, hormone release, and immune responses at the right times of day and night. Your innate intelligence is always working behind the scenes to keep this rhythm in sync, so your whole body can function at its best.
Why This Matters for Your Health
Your circadian rhythm affects nearly everything—your energy, your focus, your immune system, your digestion, your mood, and your ability to recover and heal.
When your circadian rhythm is in balance, you feel better. You sleep more deeply. You wake up more refreshed. Your body repairs itself at night. Your brain works better during the day. And your hormones stay in a healthier flow.
But when this rhythm gets off—like when you stay up too late, stare at screens at night, or skip meals—it confuses your body. That confusion can lead to fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, poor sleep, and even a weaker immune system.
Your innate intelligence relies on this rhythm to work at its best. So protecting and honoring your circadian rhythm means you’re supporting your body’s natural intelligence and helping it do what it was designed to do—keep you healthy and thriving.
How Chiropractic Helps Innate Intelligence and Your Circadian Rhythm
Chiropractic care helps keep your nervous system functioning at its best. And since your nervous system is what coordinates your circadian rhythm, getting adjusted can help your body better regulate its natural daily cycles.
When there’s stress, tension, or subluxations in the spine, it can interfere with the way your brain and body communicate. This can throw off the timing of hormone release, sleep cycles, and even how your body responds to light and darkness. Chiropractic adjustments help restore proper communication between the brain and the body, allowing your innate intelligence to better guide your internal clock.
Many patients report sleeping better and feeling more balanced after chiropractic care—and that’s no accident. Your body wants to be in rhythm. Chiropractic helps remove the interference so your innate intelligence can take over and do its job with greater ease.
Stay tuned for Part 9: Proprioception (Body Awareness and Balance) where we’ll explore how innate intelligence helps you stay grounded, balanced, and in touch with your body.
At Wellness Within Chiropractic, we proudly serve Hoschton, Braselton, and all of Jackson County, GA with natural, holistic chiropractic care. Dr. Carrillo and our team are dedicated to helping you move better, feel stronger, and support your long-term wellness. If you’re searching for a trusted chiropractor near you, schedule an appointment today and discover the benefits of chiropractic care for your health and lifestyle.