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The Best Sleep Podcast Ever: Everything You Need To Know About Sleeping Better, Hacking Sleep, Sleep Cycles, Insomnia, Sleep Apnea & More

Ben Greenfield Life

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The Origins of Teenagers Wanting a Different Sleep Schedule Than Their Parents

I think our society just as a whole has really lost touch with the circadian rhythm and covid has made it even worse. There's a natural process where teenagers sort of disentangle from their parents circadian rhythm thought to be an evolutionary biology thing. That's why there's this proclivity for a teenager to become more of a night owl. Most school systems have it all flipped so the teenagers start their day the earliest and the younger kids start it later you know they should really flip it aroundIt's a simple public health thing that they could do okay got it? I don't seem to think they struggle a lot with circadian rhythmicity issues nor delayed sleep-based syndrome but they are

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