The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
The first critical period is the one that we've been talking about up until now. Things like morning sunlight viewing, caffeine 90 to 120 minutes after waking, exercise, and so on. We can call that critical period one and it really encompasses the time from which you wake up until about three hours after waking.
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But the main tool of delaying caffeine 90 to 120 minutes after waking has immediate effects, but it also sets in motion a cascade or domino falls that lead to better sleep and more wakefulness the next night and the next day and so on and so forth.
Like I actually think if people just got the first hour of their day more active and energized, bright light, exercise, caffeine if you're me and Lord knows I'm grateful that caffeine exists in the first hour of the day or first hours if you can't manage that because of schedule and then the last hour of the day was strongly parasympathetic. I mean everything would get better without having to think a ton about exactly how you're doing that because on a given day you just do what you can