An explosion in new research shows how a host of problems can be helped with better zzz’s, reports the Star Tribune.
The research is also changing the role of doctors who study sleep. More and more, they find themselves advocating for an understanding of “circadian diversity,” the variance in the natural sleeping patterns that are hard-wired into our DNA and develop as we age. People who tend to sleep in instead of bounding out of bed at the crack of dawn aren’t lazy, sleep doctors argue — they just have a circadian clock that’s naturally set later.
