Half a Step Back: Fix Sleep by Stopping the Fight | MyN1X
- Nov 25
- 2 min read
Why Your Biology Isn’t Broken — It’s Interfered With
My wife wasn’t wrong when she said we’re all a little out of sorts. I thought I could out-hustle it. I was wrong.
4 hours 56 minutes of sleep. Zero slow-wave. HRV in the dirt. Still trying to lead, train, be a husband, be a dad. I wasn’t broken — I was just misaligned. And the harder I pushed, the worse it got.
Real progress didn’t come from another single magic supplement alone, another alarm clock, or another motivational rant. It came from the smallest, most counter-intuitive move I’ve ever made:
I took half a step back. (#HASB)
Not surrender. Not quitting. Just enough space to stop tampering with the machine and let biology do what it’s been trying to do for 10,000 years.
Your body still expects:
Dark nights
Bright mornings
Stress that ends
Food that follows the sun
Sleep that actually repairs
Modern life can often violate every single one of those rules — then blames you for feeling off.
So, I stopped blaming myself and started auditing the environment instead.
My half step back looked like this:
Killing blue light after 20:00
Timing magnesium and glycinate exactly the way Dr. O showed me
Moving carbs to the back half of the day
Treating caffeine like a tactical tool instead of a lifestyle
Letting the body pull what it needs instead of forcing what I thought it needed
Less than 30 days later: 7 hours 9 minutes of deep, unbroken sleep. HRV up over 40%. Quiet mind when my eyes open. No fog. No grogginess.
The same protocol that pulled me out of the aisle now lives in the YGLIR Night Reset bundle.
And here’s the part that still gets me:
Every $54.24 recurring bottle funds one complete veteran Sleep Kit through Elpis Alliance.Your half step back becomes another veteran’s full step forward.
If you’re out of sorts — or know someone who is — start here:
Read the raw story and see the actual data → https://www.elpisalliance.org/post/we-ve-all-been-out-of-sorts
Grab Dr. O’s dead-simple 10-second checklist (the one that started everything for me). It is sent to you by simply emailing askchief@elpisalliance.org. I will email it to you.
Or take the free Sleep Readiness Quiz right now:👉 https://tally.so/r/VLLoxy
You don’t have to overhaul your life overnight. You just have to stop pushing long enough to let the machine recalibrate.
Half a step back today.
Full stride tomorrow.
Who’s next?
— Court Veteran | Elpis Alliance | MyN1X Shop
P.S. Yes, the bundle is veteran-built, NSF-certified, and boringly effective. But the mission is what actually matters: one subscription = one vet gets the same shot I did. Link in bio or hit the blog post above.
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