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Thursday, 19 October 2006

Body clocks

Hi

Chittisa it seems that you are really in the process of change both physically and mentally and it's freaking you out! Perhaps you're hungry because you are tired and your body needs more energy? I don't have any expertise in this area but I'm watching my kids growing up and am constantly amazed by this process of metamorphosis.

In the newspapers recently there have been articles about some research that shows the Circadian clock ( a kind of biological clock) in teenagers and young adults is set to a pattern of sleeping late at night and waking late in the morning. One article that I read explained that as we move into our twenties, this clock changes and slowly we adapt to sleeping earlier at night and waking earlier in the morning. So it seems Chittisa that you are right on track!

As to advice on how to cope with tiredness and sleepiness, well exercise is meant to help but I'm not really a good role model in this respect! I think you do need to make sure that your life is richer than as you say, just work, food and sleep.

Once again Chittisa I want to compliment you on the vitality of your writing! You immediately get your reader's attention! A suggestion from your last blog:

Where is a girl who sleep late, watch TV. over night? LoL I even thought I got insomnia disease in that time.Sleeping used to be my problem.But they are all the past, never happen again.

Where is the girl who slept late, and watched TV all night long? I even thought that I was suffering from insomnia as I couldn't sleep. But that's all in the past now, never to happen again!

Tricia

Lexis and patterns from today's blog:

to freak someone
out

to have expertise in an area

a process of metamorphosis

The Circadian clock

to be set to a pattern of doing something

to be right on track

the vitality of something

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