Andrew Huberman· PhD
waking up in the morning is in part the consequence of your body heating up.
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waking up in the morning is in part the consequence of your body heating up.
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And waking up, it also turns out, is related to body temperature. Every time you wake up in the morning, your body is warming up in order to wake you up, and this has an enormous number of hormonal and metabolic and other cascades that are vitally important, not just to what happens while you sleep, but your health and your energy and focus throughout the day.
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