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Podcast: The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Episode: What's a Circadian Rhythm and Why it Matters // SPARTAN HEALTH
Description: There are a million ways you can be tempted to squeeze a few more minutes or hours out of your day, but if you want to stay healthy, you should remember one thing: you can't cheat sleep. If you do, you may throw off what's called - your circadian rhythm. Circadian Rhythm is also called your sleep/wake cycle and it's the physical, mental, and behavioral changes that follow a 24- hour or daily cycle in your body. One of the chemical or hormone mechanisms that is central to your circadian rhythm (aka, sleep-wake cycle) is melatonin...