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    ARE TEENS ACTUALLY LAZY?

    Jun 23, 2020 4 minutes

    Why do adolescents find an early start such a big deal? Well, in short, it’s because it is a big deal for them. If you ask an adolescent to get up at 6am, whether it’s to deliver papers or get to school on time, you’re putting the same pressure on their bodies as if you asked a younger child, or adult, to rise much earlier – at, say, 4am. Their bodies are better suited to being fast asleep.

    We know this from studies of melatonin levels. Melatonin is the darkness hormone that the body makes most profusely during the middle of the night. When you compare melatonin levels in adolescents with those in people of other ages, the peak of this hormone occurs later in

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