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27 May 2019
Can’t go out like a light? Sleep loss could be due to light sensitivity before bedStuart O’Sullivan/Getty
By Clare WilsonYou may have heard that bright lighting in the evenings can disrupt your sleep. But it turns out some of us are more sensitive to this effect than others. A new study suggests people’s threshold for their body clock hormones being disturbed by late-night light can vary by more than fifty-fold.
“For some people, a dim reading light might as well be daylight, and for others it might as well be darkness,” says Sean Cain at Monash University …
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