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The body clock and sleep

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Do You Have a Problem With Your Sleep as You Get Older?

There's an interesting, sort of an exception to that rule, isn't there? The north sea workers that if you can get enough light during the night on an oil rig lit with blazing searchlights, and then go to bed in a place that has no windows. Some wonderful studies by josephine a rent at the university of surrey,. she showed that actually, peopleon o on the rigs, will switch sleeping during the day in windowless metal boxes out on the platform at night. And they really resent the fact that theyare now not able to have fun with their family and friends because their body clock is completely shifted due to work.

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