Circadian Rhythms
In Our Time
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The Social Jetlack
When do we have to know we wen go get up at, say, five? When do you normally get without the alarm? 37, i guess. The social jet like thing is amazing. On average, there's about a two hour difference between somebody in their late teans and somebody in their fifties or sixties. So asking a tean age to get up at seven o'clock in the morning is asking a 50 year old to get up on 5am. That's the difference in the biological timing. You're only really a man when you're asleep, because that's when testastero does it.
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