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Circadian health: Dr. Samer Hattar explains how light exposure affects your sleep, digestion, and exercise

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Is There a Clock That Is Not a Watch?

Most organisms, thas we studied really carefully, have a circadian rhythm. Circadian means approximate an dandis day. So this is your foundation. Your clock has to be aligned with the light dark cycle that give all organisms the time of day. But for us as a human specifically, after all these years of evolution and the importance of this clock, we forgot that we act have a clock that is not a watch. And so we really abused our our clock lot. We started thinking we don't need sleep, or if you sleep long time, you're stupid, or we came up with all these dumb ideas. What we forgot is that that is affecting our foundation, and that

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