Women's Health Australia

Timing is Everything

If you want to understand your circadian rhythm better, it helps to think about The Bachelorette. (Stay with us!) The producers carefully map out each day, scheduling events in a particular order to keep the relationships progressing: from morning date cards to evening rose ceremonies, if interactions don’t occur at the right times, the show wouldn’t make sense – or even function.

Your body is the same, following a sort of script in the form of a daily schedule it’s programmed to want to stick to. “We have. It’s all determined by your circadian rhythm, basically an internal timepiece that affects so much more than just sleep.

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