SLEEP: How Understanding Your Body’s Clock Can Revolutionize Your Health
The Next Big Idea
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Do You Have a 24-Hour Circadian Clock?
We evolved to an environment where we worked outside every day. We woke up to the rising sun and we did not have serious society-wide sleep problems. So organisms separated by evolutionary divergence, what 600 million years ago, still share the same basic clock properties. It's a good illustration that the possession of some sort of 24-hour circadian clock is almost a signature for life.
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