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>>ivank+(OP)
I searched the authors posting for the word "exercise" and found it appears zero times.

I'm all about minute optimizations, but not until you've exhausted the big, basic ones.

Your (insert issue here) is not interesting at all unless it manifests itself in the presence of regular walking, weekly resistance training and a decent cardio routine.[1]

Do all of those things and your (issue) is still extant ? Well, now we've got something interesting to talk about...

[1] Also known as, basic, functional human output.

>>rsync+gw1
Exactly. All of that, plus basic sleep hygiene. If you are complaining about sleep and energy levels, and yet you haven't been following sleep hygiene rules religiously for at least 6 weeks, then you're just fooling yourself.

These are easy to implement, they are proven medically, and they have tons of other benefits for heart health etc.

>>DenisM+CG1
It's easy to say things are "easy to implement" when you don't have SAD.

How are you supposed to exercise if you're already suffering from SAD? How much of the perceived benefit from walking comes from sunlight exposure? What about climes where there are extended overcast periods with no direct sunlight for weeks at a time?

Any claim of "you can't do X until you did Y first" is of little value to people who have adequate motivation or resources to do X but not to do Y. Maybe doing X will make it easier to do Y later.

In fact, this is the exact approach I took; one of my motivations for starting an automation startup years ago was better lighting for myself, and that better lighting later made it easier to exercise more, start swimming regularly, etc.