The Relationship Between Sleep and Circadian Rhythms

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The circadian rhythm that we focus on is like a master clock it lives in kind of the deep and the super kiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus in the brain. All of our cells have rhythms all of our organs including ones involved in kind of reproductive function certainly the case that those may be tied together It's not something that we think about in the context at least i don't uh in in sleep and it really it's interesting because it speaks to this as a sleep medicine provider.

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