What Time is It? How to Navigate Shift Work, Jet Lag, and Changes to Your Circadian Rhythms with Dr. Greg Potter
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How Do You Control Your Circadian Rhythms?
Young: Circadian rhythms have a few characteristics. They are intrainable, which means that you can speed the map or slow them down. The strongest time cue for the human-to-cading system is the light dark cycle. If we expose ourselves to lots of high intensity short wavelength rich light, then depending on when we get that light, we can move our clocks earlier or later respectively. Young: There's been some very nice work done by people such as Seanstead showing how exercise roughly the same as light shifts it too. Because if you exercise after waking up, then you can shift it late in the day. And then finally, the other tight gabba that's important
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