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The body clock and sleep

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Sleep and the Circadian Rhythm

In a five year training most medical students will maybe have one or two lectures on sleep, barely anything on sicadian rhythms. The data now is very, very clear for pclar, that's the drug forf kind of strokes, and yooducing reducing blood pressure. And some very interesting studies showed that if you take before you go to bed, as opposed to first thing in the morning, then you can almost half the chances of a stroke and heart attack. So we've got to imbed itin with our medical training. We're working against this deep biology.

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