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What Your Bedtime Says About You with Professor Matt Walker

The Checkup with Doctor Mike

CHAPTER

The Different Types of Sleep

There are at least nine different genes that will dictate your morningness versus eveningness preference in terms of being a sleeper. Your chronotype as to when you want to go to bed and wake up is not your fault, it's not your choice. We could go to bed whenever we really wanted to and whenever we really desired to wake up rather than when society forces us to do so.

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