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    Specifically, exposure to light at night can throw your circadian rhythm out of whack, which raises the risk of inflammation. This increases the odds you’ll develop a host of different diseases.

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    And with the longer nights and shorter amounts of daylight we're experiencing, odds are, your circadian rhythm is out of whack. At this point, you're likely ready to try anything, and if you haven ...

  4. How Circadian Rhythm Disorders Can Affect Your Sleep - AOL

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    All of these are examples of circadian rhythm disorders, which are problems with the alignment between your sleep-wake cycle and your responsibilities for the day—like going to work or school ...

  5. Circadian rhythm - Wikipedia

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    The sleep–wake rhythm may, in these circumstances, become out of phase with other circadian or ultradian rhythms such as metabolic, hormonal, CNS electrical, or neurotransmitter rhythms. [ 51 ] Recent research has influenced the design of spacecraft environments, as systems that mimic the light–dark cycle have been found to be highly ...

  6. Delayed sleep phase disorder - Wikipedia

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    Delayed sleep phase disorder (DSPD), more often known as delayed sleep phase syndrome and also as delayed sleep–wake phase disorder, is the delaying of a person's circadian rhythm (biological clock) compared to those of societal norms.

  7. Photoentrainment (chronobiology) - Wikipedia

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    Jet lag occurs when one’s circadian rhythm is out of sync with the environment, and this is usually caused by travel across time zones. People with jet lag experience symptoms such as fatigue, insomnia, headaches, etc. Light therapy has been hypothesized to help mitigate these symptoms.

  8. Doctors Say This Viral "Sleep Rule" Actually Works - AOL

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    “There’s a lot of data that says the light disrupts the circadian rhythm and delays sleep onset,” says Dr. Sunderram. “It also inhibits melatonin, which is required for sleep onset.”

  9. Circadian rhythm sleep disorder - Wikipedia

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    A circadian rhythm is an entrainable, endogenous, biological activity that has a period of roughly twenty-four hours. This internal time-keeping mechanism is centralized in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of humans, and allows for the internal physiological mechanisms underlying sleep and alertness to become synchronized to external environmental cues, like the light-dark cycle. [3]