Respect your Biological Clock | Erin Gibson
From Our Neurons to Yours
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Change Your Circadian Rhythms
circadian rhythms are tied to light and dark, but most of us don't run on a sunrise to sunset schedule these days. Have things like the standardized 24 hour day and electric lighting everywhere in our lives changed how our circadian rhythms work? Exactly. The advent of industrialization and 24 seven electricity really has in many ways wreak havoc on our biology because now that environmental information is not as useful to us. It's actually been shown that things like shift work are really detrimental and associated with a whole host of pathologies.
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