Episode 131: Sleep Science
The Science of Everything Podcast
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Sleep and the Circadian Cycles of the Sun
Humans naturally live in sunlight. Exposure to the sun helps to reset and synchronize your cicadian drive. Some people have cicadian clocks such that they prefer to er go to bed earlier and wake up earlier. Others prefer to go to bed later and wake up later. And this actually happens through a variety of mechanisms, but one mechanism is these special light sensitive retinal ganglion cells in the retina.
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