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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Social Jet Lag Is Ruining Your Health

Your alarm clock screams at you to WAKE UP!!!!

Unfortunately, it’s 5:30 in the morning and your internal body clock is telling you that it’s the middle of the night and that you should be asleep.

1 of 2 things happens.

  1. You throw the alarm clock across the room, go back to sleep, are late for work, get fired, become homeless and generally ruin for life
  2. You crawl out of bed, pour yourself a cup of coffee, light a smoke and choke down a bowl of Fruity Pebbles

According to the research published in the journal Cell, 2/3 of the people who choose option #2 are rewarded with a serious discrepancy between their:

  • Natural Body Clock – which is synchronized to the rotation of the earth (the sun clock)
  • Social Clock – aka alarm clock, work schedule, night life, etc…

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