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How your body can wake you before the alarm

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Your body genuinely hates being startled awake, so it builds up preemptive chemical buffers. If you maintain a strict schedule, your internal clock begins releasing wakefulness compounds an hour before the alarm is set to go off. It is an evolutionary defense mechanism against the brutal shock of a buzzing plastic box.

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