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.
But if you know that window before your temperature minimum, that four to six hour window, that's the time when if you're viewing a lot of light in your new location, you are going to shift your clock pretty considerably and then you can come back home and have a terrible time.
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Eating, viewing sunlight, and exercising, you don't have to do all three, but some combination of those, in the four to six hours after your temperature minimum, will advance your clock.
Remember, viewing light, exercise, and eating in the four to six hours before your temperature minimum will delay your clock.
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