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Article: Rise and shine // Night owls, larks can change their sleeping patterns
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 31, 1997
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Getting a good night's sleep - or a good day's sleep, if you
prefer - is more easily accomplished when you're in sync with your
body's internal clock.
Body temperature, exposure to light and what a person eats all
affect how that clock - known as circadian rhythm - runs.
While many of us use an alarm clock to awaken, research shows
that when our bodies are allowed to run unencumbered by clocks, an
internal gauge keeps us up and puts us to bed at certain times.
"Researchers have placed people in caves and allowed them to
free-run as far as time," says sleep specialist Sarah Mosko, director
of the Sleep Disorders Center at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange,
Calif. "Subjects who had no access ...