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Listen
to Your
Body
Clock
Hundreds of biological ack before Edison’s
lightbulb—not to
timekeepers live deep inside mention 24/7 online
your organs, tissues, and Bshopping and friends
texting at 2 a.m.—humans rose
cells, governing your sleep, with the sun, worked until dusk,
appetite, behavior, and more. then fell into bed when the sky
grew dark. That’s how nature
Here’s how to manage
designed our bodies to function
your circadian rhythm so best: The body’s master clock (a
it will work best for you. cluster of cells in the brain that
regulates nearly every bodily
BY LESLIE GOLDMAN function) is ruled by the 24-hour
ILLUSTRATIONS BY VICKI TURNER cycle of sunlight and darkness.
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