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.
It's also actively suppressed, at least in some species and we think at least partially in humans, by the tonic release-- that means the ongoing release, around the clock-- of a hormone called melatonin. Later in life-- in fact, after puberty-- melatonin will be secreted only in the dark phase of each night and around the time that one goes to sleep. But in children and in particular in children prior to puberty, melatonin is released more or less constantly.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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But I should point out that one of the reasons why children don't go into puberty until a particular age is that young children tend to have chronically high indogenous melatonin, and that is healthy to keep them out of puberty until it's the right time for puberty to happen.